Cloudbooking vs desk.ly
Cloudbooking
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desk.ly
desk.lySide by side
| Figure | Cloudbooking | desk.ly |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | £8.25/mo | €1.65/mo |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 8 |
| Spec score · Desk Booking Software | 8.8 (#2) | 9.2 (#1) |
| Spec score · Flexible Workspace Management Software | 8.7 (#3) | 9.1 (#2) |
| Analytics | Cloudbooking reports real-time desk, room and visitor events to help organizations evaluate space utilization. | Dashboards, trends and heatmaps report occupancy, home-office share, location use and resource utilisation over time. |
| Desk booking | The service provides desk reservations with interactive floor plans, QR-code booking and colleague-location features. | Users can see available desks and colleagues on office plans and reserve a workspace with a few clicks. |
| Documentation | The support page directs existing customers to a knowledgebase containing starter guides and a service-ticket link. | The help centre is organised into user FAQs, administrator FAQs and general questions, while API documentation is hosted separately on ReadMe. |
| Headquarters | The stated main trading address is 4th Floor, 49 St. James’s Street, London SW1A 1AH, United Kingdom. | Osnabrück, Germany |
| Integrations | The system integrates with Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft 365, Outlook, and Google Workspace, with two-way calendar synchronization described for Exchange and Google calendars. | desk.ly advertises integrations with more than 250 systems, including Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Personio and Workday. |
| Meeting room booking | Users can reserve and manage meeting rooms through the web, mobile app, Outlook and calendar integrations. | Meeting-room reservations support catering and synchronisation with Outlook or Google Calendar. |
| Mobile app | The CBMobile Android app supports searching locations and booking, editing or cancelling rooms, desks and parking spaces, with SSO and non-SSO login. | The native iOS and Android app supports booking desks, meeting rooms, and parking spaces from a phone. |
| Rating on G2 | 4.3 out of 5 from 30 reviews. | 4.8 out of 5 from 23 reviews |
| Security | The pricing page says Enterprise includes advanced system rules and roles, SSO, and Active Directory; it also describes the software as cloud-based and security and compliance oriented. | The pricing comparison marks every plan GDPR compliant and ISO/IEC 27001 certified. |
| Support | The pricing page lists customer support on all plans and admin access and training on all plans, with staff training on SMB and Enterprise. | Terms provide email support Monday through Friday from 09:00 to 17:00 CET, excluding Lower Saxony public holidays. |
| System requirements | The opened official pages describe web, mobile, tablet, kiosk and room-display access but publish no detailed hardware or operating-system requirements. | The web service requires only a browser and internet connection and states that no special hardware, server or client software is needed. |
| Visitor management | Visitor workflows include pre-registration, approval controls, identity checks, health-and-safety questions, badge printing and host notifications. | Visitors can be booked for workstations, meeting rooms or parking spaces and receive preparation or welcome information. |
| What it does | Cloudbooking is a cloud workplace-management platform for booking and managing desks, meeting rooms, visitors and other workplace resources. | desk.ly is a workplace-management platform for hybrid work that books desks, meeting rooms and parking spaces and analyses office utilisation. |
Plans
Cloudbooking
- Micro£99 a year
- Micro£99 a month
- SMB£299 a year
- SMB£299 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
desk.ly
- FreeFree
- FreemiumFree
- Corporate€1.65 a month
- Enterprise€2.75 a month
- Floorplan design service€39, paid once
- Digital meeting room signs€119, paid once
- Custom set-up service€499, paid once
- Enterprise PlusPriced on request
In their own words
Cloudbooking
Cloudbooking has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
desk.ly
desk.ly is a workplace management platform for booking desks, meeting rooms, and parking spaces in hybrid workplaces. Its booking analytics show office occupancy and space use, helping organisations identify opportunities to adjust how their offices are used. Visitors can also have workstations, meeting rooms, or parking spaces booked for their visits. The desk.ly Connect add-on tracks actual workplace usage, automates check-in, and provides utilisation insights without costly hardware investments.
The service is available through a browser and requires an internet connection, but no special software, hardware, or servers. Native iOS and Android apps support bookings from a phone. The site advertises more than 250 integrations, including Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and Google Calendar; Enterprise Plus adds HRIS integrations, calendar synchronisation, and a RESTful API. Plans include a free option for up to 15 users, Corporate at €1.65/user/mo, and Enterprise at €2.75/user/mo. Enterprise Plus has custom pricing.