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title: Checking in to your booking
description: Confirm you've arrived so your desk isn't released
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# Checking in to your booking

## Confirm you've arrived so your desk isn't released

## Quick answer

**Where:** In the **web app** ([app.deskfound.com](https://app.deskfound.com)), in Slack (from your 7am reminder or Deskfound's Home tab), or by scanning the desk's QR code.

Checking in tells your team you've actually arrived. On the day of your booking, click **Check in** next to today's booking in the left sidebar of the booking page. You can also check in from Slack or by scanning your desk's QR code.

## Ways to check in

- **Web app:** on the booking page, find your booking under **Today** in the left sidebar and click **Check in**. On a phone, tap **My bookings** first.
- **Slack:** if your admin has turned on Slack check-in, your morning reminder and the Deskfound **Home** tab in Slack both have a **Check in** button.
- **QR code:** scan the label on your booked desk with your phone's camera and tap **Check in**.

Once you're checked in, the button changes to **Checked in**, and a green check mark appears next to your name on the booking grid.

## Rules

- You can only check in on the day of the booking.
- Whoever made the booking for you, or an admin, can also check you in.

## What happens if you don't check in

Some offices release desks that nobody checks in to, so other people can use them. If your office does, your admin has set a cutoff time, for example 10am. A booking that isn't checked in by then is cancelled automatically and the desk becomes free again.

- Afternoon (PM) bookings aren't released by a morning cutoff, because they haven't started yet.
- Bookings made after the cutoff time on the same day aren't released.
- Guest bookings are never released.
- You won't get a message when a booking is released. It simply disappears from your list.

Admins: see *Location settings explained* to set or remove a cutoff time.

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