Coworking Management Software...Help!

[Chana]

Help, please! We have outgrown our current (cobbled together)
coworking space management system.

I am struggling to find new management software (room reservations,
member accts, merchant account processing, QB compatible). What is
working for you? Which software does your coworking space use? Has
anyone tried Cobot?

Your suggestions, advice and time will be greatly appreciated.

Chana
Mayor of Connect113

[Mark Gilbreath]

Hey Chana

Please consider LiquidSpace (www.liquidspace.com) - we are a location aware mobile & web enabled room booking and check-in solution for your existing members.  LiquidSpace is also a location aware platform that can be used to extend your reach to new users - depending on your business interests this could be include guests (eg mobile workers) visiting your hood in need of a great space, for an hour, or new potential members looking to call Connect113 home.

We have just launched LiquidSpace on the West Coast but would love to connect with you directly to better understand your needs.

Best

Mark

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[Samir Madi]

I'm having the same trouble here.
Already tried do check some CyberCafé, LAN Houses or Hotspot managers,
but nothing fits to my coworking office requirements (Room
reservations, billing, POS, Hotspot manager for example...)

For me... Cobot is just too trivial.
If someone can share here any other solutions used in your cowokirg
spaces....

PS: we should start an opensource project to develop one....

[Enrico Icardi]

No need to start a coworking managing opensource project

http://wiki.coworking.info/w/page/31359618/NadineProject

I think the idea comes from Office Nomads and surroundings.

ciaociao,

Enrico
http://www.shareddesks.net

[Jacob Sayles]

Yes, Nadine comes out of Office Nomads.  We stopped promoting it because most people want a turn-key solution that is polished and ready to go and Cobot is by far a better choice for that.  Nadine works for us but you still need a tech person and most spaces that have tech experts are rolling their own software.  Cobot is nice out of the box and works great even for non technical people.  There is also a full API for extending the functionality so if you wanted to add features it would be easy and those add-ons can all be open source and shared.

I got really excited about the idea of an open source project between spaces but found most folks just wanted a free solution and were not interested in contributing software muscle.  I lost interest in overcoming this and stopped championing the project.  

Jacob

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[FeNudelman]

Hi fellow coworkers!

I have been reading a lot about coworking spaces management softwares
and there are not many options available.

Well, I would like to share with you that soon enough Pto de Contato,
the coworking space in São Paulo (Brazil), will contribute to this
community.

We are developing a software to help handle the coworkers, plans,
conference rooms, billing, database and many of the day-to-day aspects
of running a coworking space.

The software is almost ready and we are in the process of testing and
as soon as it is fully functional we will translate it into English.

If anyone is interested in knowing the software, please get in touch
and we can exchange some ideas. We can provide you a testing password
so you can take a tour and check the features. The only problem is
that so far it is in Portuguese.

Stay tuned for the updates we will be posting here.

cheers!

Fernanda Nudelman Trugilho
Pto de Contato - São Paulo - Brazil
www.ptodecontato.com.br

On 4 jun, 15:53, Jacob Sayles <ja...@officenomads.com> wrote:
> Yes, Nadine comes out of Office Nomads.  We stopped promoting it because
> most people want a turn-key solution that is polished and ready to go and
> Cobot is by far a better choice for that.  Nadine works for us but you still
> need a tech person and most spaces that have tech experts are rolling their
> own software.  Cobot is nice out of the box and works great even for non
> technical people.  There is also a full API for extending the functionality
> so if you wanted to add features it would be easy and those add-ons can all
> be open source and shared.
>
> I got really excited about the idea of an open source project between spaces
> but found most folks just wanted a free solution and were not interested in
> contributing software muscle.  I lost interest in overcoming this and
> stopped championing the project.
>
> Jacob
>
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[Alexander Lang]

Hi Samir,

could you elaborate on why cobot is too trivial for you? Anything
specific that you are missing? (I'm the programmer)

Cheers,
Alex

On Jun 4, 12:24 am, Samir Madi <samir.m...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Jacob Sayles]

Fernanda,

I invite you to share your project by creating a page on the wiki.  We created a Projects section right on the main page for just such a thing.  And it's not limited to software projects either if anyone else has projects they would like to share.  

Jacob

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[Niki]

I'm looking for some software that doesn't take a programmer to implement. I do really well with Office (LOL), but beyond that... My center is more for entrepreneurs -- not the computer type -- we work with health and wellness programs, one of our member sells business books, another is a massage therapist, etc. I need a program that doesn't require a computer guru. Suggestions?

Thanks, Niki

[TCS]

Cobot.me sound about right

Chad

On 2011-10-02, at 6:10 PM, Niki <na...@thessbi.com> wrote:

I'm looking for some software that doesn't take a programmer to implement. I do really well with Office (LOL), but beyond that... My center is more for entrepreneurs -- not the computer type -- we work with health and wellness programs, one of our member sells business books, another is a massage therapist, etc. I need a program that doesn't require a computer guru. Suggestions?

Thanks, Niki

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[Jonathan Markwell]

We use http://chargify.com at The Skiff to process around 70
transactions a month. We've been using it for the last 6 months and
are very happy to be free of PayPal's constraints.

http://recurly.com, or http://spreedly.com might be a better fit for others.

We're still looking for a good solution on the meeting rooms front.
We've tried some services like http://bookingbug.com but they all seem
to massively overcomplicate things. At the moment we use a combination
of http://wufoo.com forms and Google Calendar but it's dependent on a
few manual steps.

Best,

Jon

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[Troy Wilson]

We have a similar service http://merchantguy.com to accept payments. If you are interested to find out more about it please feel free to contact me. 

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[Cristina Santamarina]

Olá,

Tentei Cobot? Está terminado e tambem está disponível em Português (mas Brasileiro). Eu trabalho em cobot, então tentei a cobot.me o escreve-me se estás interessado em falar.

On Wednesday, January 16, 2013 11:16:22 PM UTC+1, Abhay Schweitzer wrote:

Fernanda,

Se voces ja terminarao o software (imagino que sim ja que faz 1.5 anos que voces postou), seria possível eu testar? Estou montando um espaço cowork nos EUA. Pode ser em português ou inglês. 

Segue o meu email: ab...@techne-us.com

Obrigado. 

[antoine van den broek]

We are using Cobot at Mutinerie in Paris and we are pretty happy with it.

[Adrian Palacios]

You could try Nexudus Spaces (http://coworking.nexudus.com) too. Loads of input from the spaces using it and we are always happy to take new ideas on board.

Adrian.

[Minna Van | TheNetworkHub.ca]

We got frustrated ourselves and didn't want to deal with lumped in directories.

We created our own API system to handle booking, mail service, phone service and members.

We wanted our own brand, not go offsite to some one else's site. Talked to a few people in coworking spaces in BC (where we are at) and so we built it - we're sharing with only limited folks due to the amount of activities that each space generates per hour.

Drop me a note Chana, we'll see what your volume is before I can share.

It is free for use but we'll have to charge you when a credit card transaction takes place.

[Troy Wilson]

We offer credit card processing and API system that is compatible with most. 

Let me know if you have any questions. 

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[Jacob Sayles]

Hey Petr!  I'm the guy behind Nadine so I can answer any questions you have about that.  I'd suggest joining the list we have if you are interested in running it.  As for other options, the other ones I know about are all hosted products.  Are you specifically interested in running something on your own hardware?  

Jacob

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On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Petr Cervenka <cerw...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi 

I am Petr and we just about to start Cowrking Space in Perth, AUstralia, I am coder my self, and looking for software which can help us out I have found https://github.com/nadineproject/nadine so far and looking for more options, be great if you can share some of your experience. 

Thank you

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[Matt Farley]

Hi Chana,

Figured I'd chime in here as well. My name is Matt, and I'm one of the cofounders of Dovetail - a new member management and community engagement application we're building specifically for coworking space managers. Dovetail is intended to help coworking space managers spend less time with data and more time with people, because that's what coworking is really all about - the people. So one of our app's core functions will be the ability to integrate with a variety of accounting, billing / invoicing, CRM, email marketing and scheduling applications that space managers use every day. So you'll input data once in Dovetail, and the changes get pushed to all of your other apps. We're also going to build in analytics to measure stuff like peak usage times, member churn rate, monthly sales reports, and other useful metrics (because data helps you make informed decisions about the current state of things at your space), and in app social tools like chat channels, forums and direct messaging that can be used by your coworkers daily to stay connected to each other and build community.

There's still LOTS of work to be done before we're ready to launch version one of the app, but we're really excited about the opportunity to service the global coworking community - as coworking is something that our team is passionate about. So right now, we've got a basic splash page up that gives some general descriptions of features and a screen shot (high fidelity mockup at this point) of one of the app screens. You can check it out at http://dovetail.io. We're going to be adding a blog and more in-depth explanations of features in the next couple of weeks. In terms of actual product development, we've worked through the interface design and solidified the feature set of our MVP. We've got high fidelity mockups of most of the core feature set done, and we've been coding the application for the past 2 weeks.

We hope to be ready for beta testing by the end of August or first week of September. And we'd love to get as much feedback as possible during the beta test phase. After all, the whole idea is to make space management easier for you, so the more testers we get on board, the more feedback we can get, which will help us make informed decisions on where we need to improve the product before public release - and what the product roadmap looks like after. You can sign up to beta test the app on our website. And if you have any questions about the app, please feel free to post them here, or send an email to he...@dovetail.io

Cheers!

On Thursday, June 6, 2013 7:43:52 AM UTC-7, Carme Z. wrote:

Hi Chana,

We are the developers of  Openbravo for Coworking spaces management solution, a comprehensive cloud-based solution to manage the complete coworking space operations from member relationship and sales through to operations and finances. As I don't want to seem too commercial, I invite you to judge it by yourself ;-)

Here is our website link: http://www.openbravo.com/coworking

Demo Center: http://www.openbravo.com/resources/demo/center

We're also delivering a couple of webinars so you're invited to join us is you want to know more: See our event's calendar

Please let me know if there is anything else I can help with.

Best regards,

Carme.

[Kabir Ahmed]

Liquid space is interesting. We are working on a new coworking site in london. Would be good to have a look at your solution.

Thanks
Kabir

[Kabir Ahmed]

Fernando
How is your English version coming along?
I'm interested to learn more about your solution. We are launching a coworking site very soon and are looking at solutions currently.
Thanks
Kabir

[Cristina Santamarina]

Hi Kabir, 

If you want to use an app that works in English, Cobot does. Let me know if I can be of help (I work at Cobot).

Cheers,

Cristina Santamarina

Cobot & Coworking Wiki

[Miroslav Miroslavov]

I will add one more platform for managing coworking spaces called OfficeR&D. It has very advanced space management tool as well as the members management, billings, bookings and even business intelligence for coworking spaces.

[j...@meshworkapp.com]

Hey everyone! I’ve met some of you at GCUC this past May in LA, but for those of you who I don’t know, my name is Jen Anderson, until recently the operations manager at Thrive in Denver, and as of two weeks ago, in charge of Customer Success at Meshwork. I’ve read a lot of people’s comments about the software they’ve used to run their space so I thought I’d share my story….

When I saw Meshwork I basically told the founders to hire me because I knew they were on to something amazing and I really wanted to help share the software with other managers/owners so they could run their spaces more efficiently and effectively. When it comes down to it, the most important value add to me is that Meshwork will save the managers so much time because of the ease of use for both members and admins.

Meshwork is a robust and yet simple coworking software management platform. Our focus is on connecting the community while creating a software that really makes running a coworking space much easier.

I would love to walk you through it if you have interest.

Jennifer Anderson

Customer Success

cell: 716.397.8233 | j...@meshworkapp.com

[Space Guru]

Hi Kabir, 

We are looking to launch a new coworking site in Upper West side NY. Any suggestions on what to look out for? Maybe we are looking for a colloboration?