Updates

Live on the Microsoft Marketplace

Booking Planner has been live on the Microsoft Marketplace since 25 September 2026, with the full feature surface available on every tier today. This page tracks what’s shipped, how licensing works, and what’s queued next.

Shipped today

Every page on this site describes a feature that’s live today. The headlines:

  • Interactive floor plans with real-time availability (green / red / blue / grey).
  • Three time slots (Morning 9-1, Afternoon 1-5, Full Day 9-5) and a 3-month advance booking window.
  • List view alternative for users who prefer structured data over a visual plan.
  • Meeting room and hot-desk booking in a single interface.
  • Multi-location support with filters for building, floor, and room type.
  • Bookmarkable URLs for every floor and room.
  • Calendar integration: .ics download on every booking, plus automatic Outlook event creation.
  • QR check-in for desks, driving trustworthy utilisation data.
  • Services Module (Catering, AV) bundled with meeting room bookings, with status tracking.
  • Role-based permissions (Assistant, Reception) backed by Azure AD security groups.
  • On-behalf bookings with Group Calendar Integration routing into a shared M365 Group or Shared Mailbox calendar.
  • Visitor Management foundation: data models, services layer, and SharePoint list structure for external, internal, and contractor visitors.
  • Admin panel with utilisation metrics, floor-plan drawing tools (polygons), drag-and-drop desk editor, and booking rules.
  • Surfaces: SharePoint pages, Microsoft Teams tabs, Outlook web and desktop, Microsoft 365 home.

Tier gating

Booking Planner doesn’t gate any feature by tier yet — Free, Standard, and Enterprise all get the full feature surface above. Tier-based feature gating is on the roadmap; see the pricing page for how the tiers differ today (licensing and support, not features). Pilots that convert to Standard or Enterprise inside the trial window get the goodwill 30-day extension on their first billing period.

On the build queue, in customer-priority order

Shipped 25 September 2026: the Microsoft Marketplace listing. Standard and Enterprise pricing is live at £3.80 and £6.83 per user per month, and the 30-day Enterprise trial, starting once an administrator approves the JFDI Licensing permission in the SharePoint admin centre, applies automatically on every fresh install.

These are the most-requested items still in flight, in roughly the order they keep coming up. Public so customers can see what’s next and tell us when something they need isn’t on the list.

Recurring bookings

Book the same desk every Tuesday and Wednesday for the rest of the quarter, in one action. Cancel the recurrence with one action. Frequent customer ask; coming in the v2 wave.

Two-way Outlook calendar sync

Today the sync is one-way (a booking creates an Outlook event). Two-way sync (Outlook event changes flowing back to the SharePoint booking) is in the v2 plan, alongside expanded Outlook plugin features (room photos, filtering, guest pre-registration inside Outlook).

Visitor Management UI completion

The data and services foundation is built today. The reception kiosk for streamlined check-in, the host dashboard showing expected visitors, the auto-registration from Outlook calendar invites with welcome emails, and the QR-code-based touchless arrival flow ship progressively over the coming releases.

Auto-visitor registration from Outlook

External attendees on Outlook calendar invites automatically extracted via Microsoft Graph and pre-registered in the visitor management system. Welcome emails generated with arrival details and meeting room location. Issue tracked as Must-Have for Phase 2.

Car-park bay booking surface

Several customers model car-park bays as “rooms with a single seat”, which works. A dedicated car-park surface with bay-specific rules (electric charging, accessible bays, monthly versus daily) is on the v2 candidate list if customer demand confirms it.

Have a request not on this list? Contact us and tell us what would help. Customer requests are how this list gets re-ordered.

Ready to put your office on a floor plan?

Booking Planner is available free on the Microsoft Marketplace, with a 30-day Enterprise licence included so you can try every feature.

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