Clustermarket vs. Skedda

It is well suited to lab bookings

It is really well suited for managing either desks and meeting rooms, or resources. It was really important for us that equipment could be included as bookable items because we can then track who has them - where and when. The self-service nature of bookings allows everyone to manage their own time.

• They have merged two labs into one for me
• They have added more labs for me as my institution has them locked
• They have told me how i am unable to change bulk access times and have to go into each person to change

• the clear and accurate map of the space
• different filters (grid, day, map) for different users
• being able to build a questionnaire within the booking form
• giving people easy access to log-in
• the amount of control you can have over what your users see

• Visibility on inventory
• Instructor being able to edit equipment added by others
• Maintenance repeat booking being able to edit separate dates

• Only one account can be setup as the overall owner of the system with control to adjust key settings. It would be good if more than one owner could be assigned to spread out the workload, without the need to for a shared account.

great system, flexible, fast and supportive

It is fairly limited for our targeted use which i know is not its main function.

For a non-tech person, it isn't clear to me how to create and use tags. Some instruction/training would be useful.

Incentivized

The response time is extremely quick and the video responses are great to refer back to.

Incentivized

For a non tech person more training on the in-depth functionality would be appreciated and useful.

Incentivized

Clustermarket was all that was available to us at the time and I believe there is still nothing more suitable other than Microsoft bookings but I prefer Clustermarket.

Skedda is much more comprehensive than these products and has infinitely more controls and options than Survey Monkey or Google Surveys. It would be difficult to implement either platform for the scale of reservations and scheduling we are currently using Skedda for and would make saving user information much more time-consuming for the staff of our organization.

Incentivized

• Combines all our labs for ease
• Simplifies booking

• we have been able to increase the amount of people using the spaces - from 20 companies a week, to up to 30 because we gave people the power to book
• employees don't have to keep checking emails from people asking about availability - users can just see this for themselves so this saved us a lot of time and workload