Envoy Desks vs Skedda

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.

Skedda is space-booking and scheduling software for desks, meeting and conference rooms, collaborative spaces, and facilities. People can view availability and book from an interactive map shaped to a location’s floor plan. Administrators can set rules for eligibility, booking windows and timing, quotas, buffers, cancellations, check-ins, and approval requests. Two-way calendar sync is available with Microsoft 365, Outlook, and Google. Listed integrations include Zoom, Webex, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Workspace, Okta, Zapier, Stripe, and webhooks. Skedda offers iOS and Android apps, along with white-labeled progressive web apps installable on Windows, macOS, and mobile devices. It supports SAML 2.0 single sign-on and says it is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant, with data encrypted in transit using TLS 1.2 or later. Paid plans start at $99 a month, billed annually, for Starter in EMEA and APAC. There is no free plan, but a free trial is available.