Product Updates

Remote Working Status

In today’s mix of office and remote work, team managers struggle to know when their remote employees are available to collaborate without wasting office space.

Often, employees book desks or rooms they won’t use just to show they’re around. This causes two problems: it gives false information about office use and stops others from using those spaces.

Our new Remote Working Status feature solves this. It lets employees easily check in, and show they’re available to collaborate from anywhere. This way, facility managers can see who’s around without using up office resources.

*Available on the Kadence web & Mobile app integrations. 

Workplace Announcements Improvements

We wanted to improve the user experience and help you find a better way to help you manage your announcements inbox. With this small improvement, we’ve made it possible for you to select multiple announcements at once, mark as read or delete!

Public API – Room Booking and Check-in

Imagine a world where booking a meeting room was a time-consuming hassle, with employees struggling to find available spaces and often double-booking rooms, leading to frustration and wasted productivity. This new Public API for Room Booking and checking in, integrates with any method your company prefers, whether it’s Badging, Access control or over your companies WIFI.

With this powerful solution, office workers can now effortlessly reserve and check into meeting rooms on-the-go, boosting efficiency, eliminating conflicts, and transforming the workplace into a hub of seamless collaboration.

*Available on the Kadence web & Mobile app integrations.  

Know which building your Starred Colleague is working from

Currently from the starred colleague’s widget on the Homepage Dashboard, you can tell which office your colleagues are going to (and if they are going to a different office than yours).

This improvement now caters better for companies that have multiple offices, instantly showing users if their Starred Colleagues are going to a different office that isn’t their preferred office.

*Available on the Kadence web app & iOS.  

Ability to Search for Buildings

For non-Liquid space customers, users can now search for any buildings they want to make a booking in.

*Available on the Kadence web app.  

New Space-type : Private Office

In one of our latest releases, we shipped Additional Space-Types enabling users to book Private pods, Lockers, and Parking Spaces. Now, users will be able to add Private Offices to their floorplans too.

*Available on the Kadence web & Mobile app.  

Add your location when Raising a Ticket

We wanted to improve the user experience for our Ticketing feature to provide more accurate data for your IT or Facility Managers.

Now, when raising a ticket, users can add their location information to let the recipient know exactly where the problem is.

*Available on the Kadence web app.  

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

This improvement notifies the user that someone wants to ‘star’ them so that they are aware and can approve or ignore it.

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-minute 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.