How to automate coworking reservations without sending anything twice
Event triggers versus scheduled triggers, why automation rules need an idempotency key, and how to keep a rule that fires nightly from emailing the same member ten times.
Guides
Guides
How booking actually works inside a space that runs on it, written from the system that does it.
Inside Boris
What actually happens after a booking is confirmed
A confirmed booking triggers a dozen side effects — door access, WiFi, invoicing, legal filing. Here is why the dangerous failure is the step that was never attempted.
How to build QR check-in without becoming an archive of passports
Self check-in by QR sounds simple until you handle identity documents. The hard part is not collecting them — it is destroying them on time.
Running the space
Availability rules that survive contact with a real week
Opening hours, one-off closures and recurring blocks are three different things. Modelling them as one is why availability drifts out of sync with reality.
How to prevent double bookings in a coworking space
Why double bookings happen in coworking spaces, why back-to-back reservations are not conflicts, and the four checks a booking has to survive before it is accepted.
Hybrid office desk booking: rules, capacity and rollout guide
How to introduce desk booking in a hybrid office with clear capacity, booking windows, fixed desks, shared areas and measurable rollout rules.
Managing coworking memberships without losing track of what people already paid for
A membership is an entitlement, a booking is a consumption of it. Keeping those separate is what makes included hours, renewals and cancellations tractable.
Legal and compliance
Filing guests with the authorities in Spain and Italy, automatically
Spain and Italy require guest data shortly after arrival; Italy shortens the deadline for stays under 24 hours. See what this demands of booking software.
Tourist tax: the rules that make it harder than a multiplication
Per person per night sounds simple. Age thresholds, night caps, exemptions and who is liable are what turn tourist tax into a recurring source of wrong numbers.
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