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Add a desk booking system to a website

  • 12-04-2021 09:24AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    Hi, does anyone have experience with adding a desk booking system to a fairly basic (non-WordPress), PHP driven website?

    It's for a small-ish, free to use reading room, used by people who are not staff/users already, so the room booking system in Outlook will not work.


    The next tranche of restrictions will mean that 3 desks can be used, rising to 16 as we open up fully.


    Currently, each desk can be booked for a morning or afternoon session, and there should be a possibility to book multiple sessions.


    A confirmation email should go to the person booking the desk, as well as the staff so they can update a spreadsheet.


    I suppose an online calendar to see usage would be useful as well.


    I did come across GetJoan, and was in email contact with them, but I haven't heard from them in about a week or so. Need to get this in place for May!



    Apologies if this is the wrong forum for this query, and mods, please feel free to move to a more appropriate area!


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,271 ✭✭✭Buford T Justice


    Would something like MeetEasier be suitable?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,793 ✭✭✭✭maccored


    https://sourceforge.net/projects/mrbs/

    set that up on the same server and just link to it


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    Thanks for those suggestions!


    MeetEasier looks good - but needs Office 365, which we don't have (still use Office 2013)


    MRBS looks like it might be a runner though.


    Thanks a million, and I'll report back when it's up & running.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 1,356 ✭✭✭Speedsie
    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    Hi, as promised I've come back with the solution I went with in the end.

    It's SuperSaaS (https://www.supersaas.com/).


    Does exactly what we require, and will be very easy to upgrade the available desk slots when things open up in the future.


    Speeds.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 janamacon


    Nice way to solve this. I definitely can see how this can be used in the future.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2 janamacon


    There are many different ways how you can add it to your website, like installing a plugin, developing a custom code, or just add a link to another website. The easiest technique is to link to an external website, albeit this does not constitute full integration. This is method which I am using as well, because it's easy and efficient. For this purpose, https://unspot.com/en/ is a very good choice. It has all the necessary tools to book the room that you need, and so you can have a schedule with other members of the company.



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