Booking a desk in Slack

Quick answer

Where: In Slack. Slack books desks only: parking, meeting rooms, repeating bookings, dog bookings and booking for others are done in the web app (app.deskfound.com).

Type /book in any Slack message box and press Enter. Choose a location, date and desk, then click Book desk. A confirmation arrives in your Deskfound messages.

Step by step

1. Type /book and press Enter. You can also click Book a desk on Deskfound's Home tab in Slack.
2. Select a location. It starts on your primary office.
3. Select an area, or leave it on All areas.
4. Select a timeslot: All day, Morning (AM) or Afternoon (PM). This only appears if your office allows half days.
5. Select a date.
6. Select an available desk. Only desks that are free for that date and timeslot are listed.
7. Click Book desk.

If the office has a floor plan, it appears in the window so you can see where desks are. If there's more than one, use Change floorplan.

See who's coming in first

Click See bookings to see who's booked at that office over the next 7 days. Click Back to return to booking.

If you already have a booking that day

Deskfound asks Replace booking?. Click Replace to move to the new desk, or Back to keep your existing one.

Good to know

• Slack's date picker lets you choose any date, but Deskfound tells you straight away if a date can't be booked, for example if it's in the past or too far ahead.
• If an office has more than 100 free desks, only the first 100 are listed. Pick an area to narrow the list.
• Repeating bookings and booking for someone else are only available in the web app.
• Bookings made in Slack appear on the web booking page straight away, and the other way round.