Envoy Desks vs Humly Workplace

Envoy Desks is a workplace reservation system for booking desks, rooms, and parking. Employees can reserve desks by the hour, day, or week in the Envoy app, while administrators can book for them. Admins can label desks as hot, permanent, or unavailable, assign amenities, and arrange team neighborhoods by function or project. Interactive maps show where desks are located and available. Booking data provides real-time and historical usage, attendance patterns, and onsite trends. Missed check-ins can automatically release desks or rooms, with reminders to free spaces. Listed integrations include Google Calendar, Microsoft Outlook, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Zapier. The product runs on web, iOS, and Android, and includes meeting-room booking, check-in, floor-plan views, single sign-on, badge printing, host notifications, preregistration, visitor photo capture, ID scanning, kiosk check-in, and emergency tools. Pricing is listed from $362/mo (annual); a Standard plan is $5 a month, billed annually per bookable resource, excluding the platform fee.

Humly Workplace combines room and desk booking, resource management, wayfinding, workplace analytics, and visitor workflows. People can reserve rooms, desks, parking spots, lockers, phone booths, equipment, and other shared resources from Android or iOS phones, laptops, room displays, booking devices, or QR codes. Real-time status covers rooms, desks, and resources; sensors and smart rules can release bookings when someone does not show up. Employees can request catering, room supplies, and other workplace services during meeting booking. Humly Sense combines IoT and workplace signals to report utilization, air quality, peak times, and underused spaces. Listed integrations include Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Microsoft Places, Appspace, Nexudus, Q-SYS, Xyte, Disruptive Technologies, Haltian, TOPdesk, and Comeen, with an open API for additional systems. Humly states that data is hosted in Germany and the Netherlands, with local storage for highly regulated industries. Pricing is on request.