RESOURCE BOOKING SYSTEM FOR MICROSOFT 365
Catering & services booking
Streamline how catering, seating & other services are requested & provisioned.
Overview
Advanced resource booking
Office-based meetings often call for additional services such as catering, AV equipment, seating layouts, visitor passes, parking, etc.
Our workspace and resource booking system builds on Microsoft 365 to save everyone time, create a great impression and prevent waste.
It can also be managed by your facilities team, without burdening your IT department.
BENEFITS
Add service requests to your Microsoft 365 workspace bookings
Order catering & additional services from Microsoft 365
- Let FM tailor and manage their service options without IT team involvement
- Automatically append request request forms to native Outlook & Teams room bookings
- Set policies that use existing Microsoft Groups.
Make complex bookings in under 2 minutes
- Forms make it easy to select the services, resources & equipment on offer
- Select catering options & service times
- Provide cost codes
- Note allergens & accessibility needs
- Arrange visitor badges, parking spaces, etc.
- Get reminders & easily amend requests to prevent waste.
Streamline service provisioning
- Manage catering requests into a single portal
- Easily swap out choices
- Apply policies (e.g., auto-approve PA & manager requests, block last-minute catering)
- Keep track of costs & avoid waste
- Understand trends: Least popular catering choice? Busiest location?, etc.
Schedule a chat & demo
FEATURES
What to look for in a resource booking system
Easily tailor the resources & services you want to deliver
Route service requests to the relevant teams
Support advanced catering orders, service timings, allergens etc.
Apply policies to auto-accept or intercept requests
Offer different services according to time/location
Track amendments & cancellations & change orders to avoid waste
Reporting on service request trends
Able to attribute cost-centres to requests
A portal for viewing & managing all catering requests by day & week
Add request forms to existing Microsoft 365 room bookings.
RESOURCES
Resource booking systems for Microsoft 365
What our customers have to say about us
What our customers have to say
“Essential has transformed our workspaces and car parks into intuitive, easily navigated interactive maps, making it simple for our people to select and book their ideal places when scheduling their office days.”
Ryan Arif Workplace Improvement Lead HRD & Facilities, Ageas
What our customers have to say
“Being able to pre-book a desk close to colleagues is a game-changer for our team’s productivity, especially as we are about to be working in an unfamiliar temporary space whilst we refurb our Poole office.”
Chris Egan, Infrastructure Project Manager, Merlin Entertainments ltd
What our customers have to say
“It’s now quicker and easier for hosts to register visitors in advance and provide all the relevant information, such as whether the visitor needs escorting. Managing visitor arrivals has also been streamlined with services that include self-service check-in kiosks and automated notifications to hosts.”
Jane Jennings, Business System Analyst, Supply Chain and FM, NATS
What our customers have to say
“Working with Essential we have been able to make Microsoft Outlook the single portal via which we can book everything required for visitors to NATS’ offices. At the same time as scheduling a visit in Outlook calendar we can request meeting rooms, seating layouts, AV equipment, catering, Wifi codes, security arrangements, and so on.”
