Booking & Reservations

(Joan and Robin are cross-listed; their vendor detail lives in CAT-05 and CAT-19 respectively.)

Category note: This category covers space-centric standalone booking tools — rooms and desks as bookable inventory, priced per space, member- or public-facing. It sits between two neighbors: your coworking platform (CAT-11) already does booking with billing and membership attached, and the hybrid-workplace platforms (CAT-19) do people-centric booking where a corporate employer is the buyer. A standalone tool earns its place in three cases: (1) you're running without a full platform (the lean-stack pattern — see CAT-25; tour scheduling specifically lives there under Calendly); (2) you're selling meeting rooms or event space to the public with payment attached; (3) you're managing a corporate tenant's internal booking inside your space. The boundary is blurring from the platform side too — several CAT-11 platforms now sell their booking module standalone (Archie's room booking runs $8-12/room/mo without the rest of the suite). Booking panels — the hardware on the door — are CAT-05.

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Vendors

Vendor	Origin	Markets Served	Segment	Notes
Skedda	Australia origin / United States (Boston HQ)	Global (12,000+ customers)	SMB-Mid	The category anchor: rules-driven space booking with unlimited users, public booking pages and Stripe payments — explicitly markets to coworking.
Whatspot	Czech Republic	Global	SMB	QR-on-the-door booking with per-spot pricing and no-show auto-release — purpose-built for small, high-turnover shared spaces.
Clearooms	United Kingdom	Global	SMB	The affordable rooms-and-desks option: $15/room/mo, no minimums or setup fees; deliberately simple.
Roomzilla	United States	Global	SMB-Mid	Long-running meeting-room booking with door displays; markets to coworking; straightforward per-room model.
SuperSaaS	Netherlands (Amsterdam)	Global	SMB	The budget veteran: highly configurable multi-resource scheduling priced by booking volume, with payment collection — dated UI, unbeatable price.
Joan (cross-listed)	Slovenia	Global	SMB-Mid	E-paper booking panels + software; syncs Google/M365 and integrates with Nexudus. Full detail in CAT-05.
Robin (cross-listed)	United States (Boston)	Global	Enterprise	Enterprise hybrid-workplace platform (quote-based, corporate buyer). Full detail in CAT-19.

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Vendor Detail

Skedda

• Origin: Australia origin (founded Melbourne, 2013) / United States (Boston HQ)
• Markets served: Global (12,000+ customers)
• Segment: SMB-Mid
• Notes: The standalone-booking anchor and the tool that explicitly markets itself as coworking software for operators who don't want a full platform. Strengths map to the operator use cases: a deep rules engine (booking windows, buffers, approvals, per-user access), interactive floor plans, check-ins with auto-release of no-shows, two-way Microsoft 365/Google Calendar sync — and public booking pages with Stripe payments, which covers selling rooms to non-members. Pricing watch-out: tiers are counted per bookable "space" (every room, desk, or parking spot counts), so costs jump as inventory grows; the once-prominent free tier has receded and published tiers now start around $249/mo (current pricing unconfirmed).
• Website: skedda.com
• Pricing model: Tiered by number of bookable spaces, unlimited users; published tiers from ~$249/mo (e.g. 45 spaces ~$349/mo); current tiers unconfirmed.
• Key integrations: Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace (two-way sync); Stripe (paid public bookings); SAML SSO on higher tiers; Zapier.
• Compliance / certs: GDPR; SSO/SAML; further certs unconfirmed.
• Research status: Researched

Whatspot

• Origin: Czech Republic
• Markets served: Global
• Segment: SMB
• Notes: Built for exactly the small, high-turnover shared-space environment bigger platforms overcomplicate: a QR code on each door lets anyone scan, check availability and book in two taps — no app rollout, no training. Check-ins auto-release no-show bookings; approval workflows gate who books what; covers rooms, desks and parking spots. Repeatedly cited for coworking and shared offices under ~100 people. The trade is depth: light on analytics, floor plans and enterprise admin.
• Website: whatspot.app
• Pricing model: Per-spot subscription with a free tier for small usage (current tiers unconfirmed).
• Key integrations: Google/Outlook calendars; QR-based booking flow; mobile-first.
• Compliance / certs: GDPR (EU); further unconfirmed.
• Research status: Researched

Clearooms

• Origin: United Kingdom
• Markets served: Global
• Segment: SMB
• Notes: The affordable, deliberately simple rooms-and-desks option: setup in minutes (name office, upload floor plan, add rooms/desks, invite users), live room-status displays with booking from the door panel, auto-release of no-shows, privacy modes for confidential meetings, and Azure AD/Google/Outlook sync. Monthly pricing with no minimum terms, setup costs or cancellation fees. Reviewer caveats to pass on: can feel too basic for larger or complex setups, occasional slow load times, and calendar integration doesn't extend beyond Google/Outlook.
• Website: clearooms.com
• Pricing model: From ~$15/room/mo for meeting rooms; desks priced separately; monthly, no minimums.
• Key integrations: Google Calendar, Outlook, Azure AD; room display panels.
• Compliance / certs: GDPR (UK); further unconfirmed.
• Research status: Researched

Roomzilla

• Origin: United States
• Markets served: Global
• Segment: SMB-Mid
• Notes: A long-running meeting-room booking tool that markets to coworking spaces alongside offices and labs: web and tablet door displays, calendar sync, waitlists, check-ins, and utilization reporting on a straightforward per-room model. Differentiation is thinner than Skedda's rules engine or Whatspot's QR flow — its case is maturity and simplicity for room-centric (rather than desk-centric) spaces.
• Website: roomzilla.net
• Pricing model: Per-room subscription (current tiers unconfirmed); free trial.
• Key integrations: Google/Outlook calendar sync; tablet door displays.
• Compliance / certs: Unconfirmed.
• Research status: Researched

SuperSaaS

• Origin: Netherlands (Amsterdam)
• Markets served: Global
• Segment: SMB
• Notes: The budget veteran of online scheduling: extremely configurable multi-resource booking (rooms, desks, equipment, classes) priced by booking volume rather than per space or per user — which makes it the cheapest credible option for venues and community-oriented spaces with variable usage. Supports paid bookings (Stripe/PayPal), custom booking forms and access rules. The honest trade: a dated interface and a configure-it-yourself philosophy; it rewards operators willing to tinker.
• Website: supersaas.com
• Pricing model: Volume-based tiers from free (limited) to ~$8-46/mo; pay for booking capacity, not spaces or users.
• Key integrations: Stripe/PayPal (paid bookings); Google Calendar sync; Zapier; webhooks/API.
• Compliance / certs: GDPR (EU/Netherlands).
• Research status: Researched