RoomKeeper vs Smartway2 Room Panel

RoomKeeper - Book Meeting Rooms Instantly is an exceptional app for displaying meeting room availability. It has been designed with a focus on simplicity, yet it's rich in features, making it the optimal iPad app for managing room accessibility. RoomKeeper offers everything you would expect from a room booking app. Simply mount it by the door to streamline your room availability management. List of notable RoomKeeper features: - Themes: The logo and colors of various elements can be easily customized to suit your preferences. - Large Occupation Information in Suggestive Colors: Displays the room’s name and the time, making it easily visible at a glance. - Notices About Upcoming or Current Meetings: Shows the meeting's title, organizer, and time range. - Countdown: Combines adjacent events and counts down to the first available time slot. - Easy Quick Books: Features large quick booking buttons indicating the target duration, simplifying the booking process. - Future Quick Books: Enables booking for the next available slot immediately after the current meeting ends, without the need to cancel or wait. - Cancelling Meetings: This feature is accessible from the main and calendar screens, with customizable restrictions on canceling to ending events, quick books only, or it can be disabled entirely. - Handy Timeline: A visual timeline at the bottom of the main view summarizes the duration of upcoming events. - Intuitive Calendar: Includes comprehensive details of upcoming events such as the organizer, title, and a full list of attendees. - Reachability Checking: Ensures up-to-date room status by checking internet connectivity, with the option to set a specific URL for reachability verification. - Rich Setup Options: Offers a variety of settings including quick booking timing, cancellation restrictions, future booking limitations, timeline visibility, calendar view preferences, default organizer name, and much more. - Flexibility: RoomKeeper supports both landscape and portrait modes. Configuration is straightforward. The RoomKeeper app integrates with the iOS system calendar, making it compatible with any calendar service (Microsoft365™, Gmail™, Exchange™, iCloud™, and others). Simply set your target calendar as the default in the system settings (it's recommended to configure only the target calendar on the device). All calendar synchronization is handled reliably by the system. Additionally, you can specify a web URL for reachability checks to avoid outdated event information.

*This app is a companion to Smartway2's solutions for existing users* The Smartway2 Room Panel app for iOS offers a wealth of information including current availability, details of next booking and scrollable timeline showing current business day and as far into the future as you wish. It’s so easy to create a new reservation. A quick tap of either the Use Now button or an available period on the time line will immediately present the reservation form defaulted to your specified start time. You may then adjust the required duration and add a meeting title if you desire. On saving your reservation, Smartway2 will ask you to identify yourself using either password authentication, a QR Code scan or interaction with your Bluetooth device. Anonymous booking is also available should you allow it. . Disclaimers Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.