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Skedda

COLLAB
Velocity6.3

Desk booking growing an org-level control layer for multi-site workplace teams.

workplace-managementdesk-bookingmulti-venue-analyticsvisitor-managementbooking-rules
Current state
Skedda's recent releases split cleanly in two: rule granularity in the booking engine (day-specific approvals, hour-precision booking windows, per-day priority access) and physical-space operations (tablet room terminals, bookable add-ons, issue reporting, visitor CSV import and richer visit exports). The Organization Hub, added in late July, aggregates utilization, bookings, and check-in rates across every venue in one view. Visitor management and reporting are both getting export-grade detail rather than headline features.
Where it's heading
The product is moving up from a single-venue booking tool toward the operations layer for a portfolio of offices — cross-venue analytics, per-team priority rules, and terminals that work without an account all point at customers managing many sites and mostly non-logged-in occupants. Each new data-producing feature (visits, add-ons, issues, check-ins) has been followed by the reporting surface to read it back, which is how the Organization Hub got something worth aggregating.
Prediction
Expect the Organization Hub to widen past utilization into the visitor, add-on, and issue data Skedda now collects, and for its setup to move from an account-manager request into self-serve configuration.

Recent moves

  1. 15d ago

    Improved visit exports, now with custom field data

    Visit exports split into a per-visit summary and a per-visitor breakdown, both carrying custom fields captured at invite and check-in time and respecting active filters. It turns visitor management from a front-desk feature into a reportable data source, matching the analytics push elsewhere.

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  2. 19d ago

    Compare utilization across all your venues

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    The Organization Hub pulls utilization, bookings, and check-in rates for every venue into one view, with weekday and time-series breakdowns and aggregate-or-compare toggles. It is the first surface in Skedda that treats a customer's whole property portfolio as the unit of analysis rather than a single venue.

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  3. 1mo ago

    Approval rules, now day-specific.

    Approval rules can now be scoped to specific weekdays, so review kicks in only on busy office days and everything else books straight through. Part of the steady work making booking policy match how hybrid weeks actually vary.

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  4. 1mo ago

    Booking windows, down to the hour

    Advance-notice booking windows accept hours as well as days, enabling short-notice drop-in desks and late release of unclaimed spaces. A precision increase on the same rule engine the day-specific approvals extend.

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  5. 1mo ago

    Tablet Room Actions

    Skedda tablets became interactive terminals: walk-up booking, check-in, and ending a meeting early, all without logging in. It extends the product to occupants who never open the app, which is also where the check-in data feeding the new cross-venue analytics comes from.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Booking Add-Ons Now Available

    Bookings can carry add-ons — equipment and amenities linked to specific spaces, with stock limits and tag-based visibility, surfaced in approval emails. A meaningful widening of what a booking record contains, though it stays inside the existing booking flow.

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