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Catering & facilities booking system

Resource booking system for Microsoft 365 enterprises

Streamline how your workplace resources and services are requested and provisioned.

Meeting room, catering & facilities booking

Request everything in one place

Meetings often call for additional facilities such as catering, cleaning, AV equipment, seating layouts, visitor passes, parking, etc.

By streamlining the process of booking and provisioning ancillary resources and services you can save time for everyone, create a great impression for visitors and prevent waste.

Our workspace and resource booking system helps meeting organisers and service providers alike by:

  • Making it easy to make, & service, resource requests
  • Automatically routing requests to the relevant people (both internal & external)
  • Letting you tailor exactly the resources & services you wish to make available
  • Applying role based policies for automatically accepting (or intercepting) requests
  • Making different resources & services available according to room/location/timing
  • Tracking amendments & cancellations to avoid waste

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Enterprise level resource & service booking solution for the modern workplace.

Easy Meeting Room & Facilities Booking

Save time & effort for your workforce

Order additional services in under 2 minutes and at the same time as booking a meeting in Microsoft Outlook calendar.

Quickly locate your optimal workspace and then request any additional services from an intuitive form:

  • Select catering choices & service timings
  • Choose different seating layouts
  • Request AV equipment & teleconferencing services
  • Arrange visitor badges, parking spaces & more.

Easily amend requests​

Meeting organisers can view a list all their requests in one place, making it easy to make any changes.​  Meeting reminders are emailed to enable any changes, such as a reduction in visitor numbers.

Any changes are automatically sent to service providers, helping avoid waste (such as over-catering).

Keep track of costs​

Any costs associated with services (such as catering) are automatically totalled as you go.​

Users of the system can  also be prompted to supply any necessary cost centre information (e.g., from a drop-down menu).​

Add meeting requests later

Sometimes it’s handy to secure a meeting room and think about the catering etc. you’ll need later.

Not a problem.  Just click on a link in a confirmation email (or view a list of all your meeting requests via an optional Outlook add-in) and you can add new requests and make amendments to existing ones.

Handle recurring meetings

You have a recurring meeting and just need to cancel one instance? ​ Again, it’s not a problem. ​​

Simply cancel the order using Outlook Calendar and any automatically ancillary resource orders are automatically cancelled.​

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Streamline service provision

Make it easy to respond to meeting & facilities requests

Ensure service and resource requests are automatically sent to the relevant service provider:  Seating layouts & equipment requests to the porter, visitor details to reception/security staff, catering requests to the hospitality team, and so on.

Streamline the process further by automatically processing requests according to policies you set. For example, you might only auto-accept orders for executive meeting rooms from PAs and directors.

TESTIMONIAL

“To help with the rollout of our socially distanced desk booking service, Essential provided us with Colart-branded ‘how to’ videos.  This, along with interactive floor-plans that reflect our company look and feel, will help our workforce quickly transition to a new way of using our workspace”

Claudio Toledo, Head of Project Management

Cope with complex service requests

Order forms can easily be tailored to reflect all the different catering options, special requests and services you want to offer.

This includes the ability to request a series of different service times (coffees on arrival, break, lunch and afternoon refreshments).

Forms can be vary based on individual meeting rooms, locations – even country – to reflect the different services available.  You can also route requests to different service providers, e.g., an external caterer at smaller offices and an internal catering team at HQ.​

Create automatic policies

Define policies to govern how requests are handled:

  • Make catering orders subject to 2 working day’s notice
  • Automatically substitute afternoon menu items if a breakfast meeting is moved to the afternoon
  • Only allow certain facilities dependent on role & make anything else subject to approval

For example, you might only auto-accept orders for executive meeting rooms from PAs and directors.

Track & cross charge costs​

An array of reports are available or can be customised to meet your specific resource management needs.​

All service request can be made subject to the provision of a suitable cost code, which can be used as the basis of internal charge-back.​

Tailor to reflect the services you offer​

A wizard lets you create order forms for virtually any service including catering, service times, AV equipment, table arrangements, visitor passes, parking & a range of other internal or external services.​

A running total and cost-centre information lets you automatically charge requests.​

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