Product Updates

Kadence AI

Seamlessly integrated with Microsoft Teams and Slack, Kadence AI enables you to discover where your team are sitting or when they’re going into the office. Book desks, rooms, lockers, private pods and parking spaces for you and others, as well as enable you to amend your bookings.

Kadence AI is a natural language interface helping you feel like you have your very own assistant on a daily basis. Simply ask Kadence AI what you need, and consider it done!

*Available on the Kadence web & Mobile app integrations. 

Room Booking Comparison Dashboard

The current booking process is inflexible, only allowing you to book a specific room at a set time. While the live office shows availability for individual rooms, it doesn’t provide a comprehensive view.

Now with Kadence, you’ll see a calendar comparison feature allowing you to compare, and choose the most suitable rooms that meet your needs.

*Available on the Kadence web app  

Room Booking Service Accounts

A number of multi-tenant customers have ‘non-standard’ directory setups making it impossible for their users in Kadence to book rooms. 

With this new addition to Kadence, these users can quickly set up a Rooms Service account without having to rely on calendar access to underlying Microsoft or Google calendars.

For the first time, you will now be able to find, compare, and book rooms. Add catering to your room booking. Choose the amenities you need and see all of your room usage data inside Kadence. 

Disable User Check-in/Only allow check-ins via Public API

Preventing users from checking in ‘manually’ over the web app or mobile apps, even when they’re not in the office, now it’s possible is frustrating. It skews your usage data, and it doesn’t contribute to a thriving office environment.

With this new improvement, you can disable manual check-ins by only allowing check-ins via your door access system, wifi setup, or any other method you have in place to ensure that users can only check in once they’re in the building. 

Set up Kadence for longer in advance

Currently, you can only see your booking plan for the next 8 days, which can make it difficult to know your plans further in advance.

Now with this improvement, you can add more days to your schedule enabling you to see what’s coming up beyond 8 days, and plan further in advance so you’re teammates can stay in the loop. 

Notify users of Starred Colleague ‘Follow’ Requests

Adding a tooltip to the ‘Allow access on the following days’ label to provide more information on how assigned users work so users can make more informed decisions when configuring access.

Priority Booking – allow ‘book on day’

This encompasses two changes;

1. The ability to set 0 day(s) as an option (currently we are restricted to a minimum of 1 day).
2. The ability to select a time of day to which the space becomes available for booking in 15 min increments. (We currently only support midnight).

Add a ‘one-time booking’ to Booking Filter Types

This improvement adds a “1-Time booking” option to a booking type filter.

Add a ‘Team’ field to the Directory CSV download

Thid improvement adds a ‘Team’ field to the Directory CSV download.

Edit Space = Change the description for ‘Blocked’ spaces

The slight improvement involves rewording the description of the toggle on the edit space screen to disable bookings for that particular space.

Instant Messenger – Add the Floor name to the Starred Colleagues notifications

Add a “Floor” into the starred colleague notifications to match all of the ‘other’ notifications, letting users know ‘where’ in a building their colleague is, not just the building, neighborhood and space.

Maintain the filters on the bookings page

Before, after you selected your booking choices, and went through to the check-in screen, but scrolled back to make a change, the filters disappeared resulting in having to fill out your choices again. Now, Kadence keeps the same filters on the booking page selected, so if you have to go back to the bookings page after actioning a check-in, you don’t need to fill everything out again.

Show ‘Turn on’ modal for basic/advanced parking

This improvement prevents confusion by displaying a ‘turn on’ modal when any building has basic parking enabled or when global advanced parking is already turned on.

Additional Space Types

Lockers, pods, and parking spaces have now been added as bookable space types to the Kadence platform. All of these new space types can be configured in all the same ways you could with desks in the past. Create a neighborhood of lockers, repeat a booking for a parking spot, and set maximum booking durations for private pods are some of the things you’re now able to do. The scale of autonomy you now have with space management is endless enabling users to manage their spaces in all of the ways they want to.

*Available on the Kadence web app  

Booking Credits

You can now restrict access to spaces that are in high demand to enable fair, and equal bookings across your organization. By implementing a transactional credit system users can only make bookings for these high-demand spaces when they have enough credits remaining to do so.

*Available on the Kadence web app  

Portuguese

Add the ability for users to select Portuguese as their language within Kadence.

Starred Colleagues – Request to follow (iOS)

Gives users the ability to ‘Request to Follow’ colleagues on mobile and mirrors the functionality that was added on iOS.

Show Room bookings on the homepage dashboard

On the Homepage Dashboard, only organizers see their room bookings. This improvement will also list room bookings on the Homepage for attendees/participants.

Assigned Desk Settings

Adding a tooltip to the ‘Allow access on the following days’ label to provide more information on how assigned users work so users can make more informed decisions when configuring access.

Add an empty state to the ‘Who’s in’ modal

On the Homepage Dashboard, when the user clicks on the office activity chart, a modal is displayed to show users ‘who is in’ during the week. When no one is in we need to display an empty state.

Reorder the ‘Starred Colleagues’ setting options (Allow, Request, Disable)

Reorder the setting options for ‘Starred Colleagues’ so that they appear in the following order:

1. Disable
2. Allow users to accept/ignore star requests
3. Allow anyone to star anyone

Assign desks without automatically making bookings

Allow desks to be restricted to one or more individuals without having perpetual bookings made.

Adjust the scale on ‘Team office use trends’

Within Kadence Insights, the “Team office use trends” graph is fixed to show 100% on the Y axis. This change makes the height of the Y-axis dynamic based on the content that is being displayed (rounded to the nearest 25%). e.g. the trend line hits a maximum of 40% – the Y-axis will be set at 50%.

Allow users to add hyperlinks to announcements

An upgrade to our newly released Workplace Announcement feature now enables users to add hyper links for anything they like.

Allow users to collapse neighborhoods

Give users the ability to collapse and expand all neighbourhoods on a floor plan.