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Web app or Slack: what you can do where

Which tasks work in Slack, and which are only in the Deskfound web app

Quick answer

Deskfound has two places to use it. The web app at app.deskfound.com does everything. Slack is for quick desk booking: booking a desk, seeing and cancelling your bookings, checking in and seeing who's in. Everything else, including parking, meeting rooms and all admin settings, is web app only.

What you can do in Slack

  • Book a desk: type /book, or use Book a desk on Deskfound's Home tab or in Slack's shortcuts menu. You can choose the office, area, date, half day (if your office allows it) and desk.
  • See and cancel your bookings: type /bookings for your next 7 days.
  • Check in: from your 7am Slack reminder or the Home tab, if your admin has turned on Slack check-in.
  • See who's in: on Deskfound's Home tab, or See bookings in the /book window.
  • Get reminders and office updates: booking reminders, daily and weekly office messages, and booking notifications in your office's channel.
  • Vote in lunch polls posted in your office's channel.
  • Invite team members (admins): Invite Team Members on Deskfound's Home tab.

Web app only

These can't be done in Slack. Use app.deskfound.com on a computer or your phone's browser.

  • Reserving parking.
  • Booking meeting rooms.
  • Repeating bookings (every week).
  • Booking a desk for someone else or for a guest.
  • Dog bookings.
  • Favourite desks, the office info panel and weather.
  • Viewing and creating office events.
  • Adding food places and sending lunch polls.
  • Reports and your booking history.
  • Your personal settings, including reminder preferences and connecting Google Calendar.
  • Everything admins set up: offices, desks, areas, floor plans, desk types, resources, parking stalls, meeting rooms, Slack and Google connections, users, invitations from the Users page, roles, approvals and email domains.
  • Billing and plans (account owner only).

On your phone

Use the Slack mobile app for /book, /bookings and the Home tab. For everything else, open app.deskfound.com in your phone's browser; you can add it to your home screen. There's no Deskfound app in the App Store or Google Play.

Bookings stay in sync

A desk booked in Slack appears in the web app straight away, and the other way round. You can cancel it in either place.