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Booking Planner is coming to the Microsoft commercial marketplace. Pilot today with the full Enterprise surface; install on your tenant when the listing goes live.
Use Cases
How different teams use Booking Planner
Different teams come to Booking Planner for different reasons, but the answer they want is the same: where can I sit, what is free, and how do I claim it. The patterns below are the ones we see in our pilot tenancies, grouped by the team that runs them. The product is the same across all of them; only the data, the floor plan, and the policy differ.
Teams that flex between office and home
Hybrid teams need a low-friction way to claim a desk for the days they are in. Booking Planner is the lowest-friction option that still gives facilities the data they need.
Daily desk booking
Hot-deskers pick from three time slots (AM 9-1, PM 1-5, Full Day 9-5). Personal bookings are highlighted in blue on the plan so users always know where they are working.
Neighbourhood working
Teams that prefer to sit together can claim a zone. Multi-location filtering keeps things tidy for organisations with more than one office; the URL deep-links straight to the right floor or room.
Teams that flex between office and home
Hybrid teams need a low-friction way to claim a desk for the days they are in. Booking Planner is the lowest-friction option that still gives facilities the data they need.
Daily desk booking
Hot-deskers pick from three time slots (AM 9-1, PM 1-5, Full Day 9-5). Personal bookings are highlighted in blue on the plan so users always know where they are working.
Neighbourhood working
Teams that prefer to sit together can claim a zone. Multi-location filtering keeps things tidy for organisations with more than one office; the URL deep-links straight to the right floor or room.
What the patterns have in common
Every team in this list is solving the same problem in their own way today. A spreadsheet on a shared drive. A Teams message at 8:30 in the morning. A reception clipboard. An Outlook calendar that only the EA can read. They work, sort of, until someone wants a number that nobody is keeping.
Booking Planner stands in for all of those at once. The bookings, the floor-plan definitions, the services, and the visitor records live in SharePoint lists you already govern; the web part is the surface, not the system of record. Removing it later leaves the data exactly where it was.