What changes when you book rooms across multiple buildings

Single-building scheduling and multi-building scheduling are not the same product. Here is what changes, and what we learned building both.

Single-building tools stretched to a portfolio is the most common workplace platform failure. The cracks show up in the data model, the admin model, and the timezone math.

Contents

  • The myth of one product
  • The data model is the punchline
  • Per-building admins
  • Cross-building search
  • Timezones and conflict math
  • Screens, wayfinding, emergency
  • A buyer's note