Use JOAN’s free Slack integration to book your meeting rooms

Joan is a great solution if you have a bunch of meeting rooms that you and your colleagues continually fight for. Take a Joan device and magnet-slap it on the wall, connect your G-Suite, Office 365 or Exchange account and you’re done.

Whenever somebody barges in and tries to commandeer your room from you, you can point to the device and go STFU.

We improved the room status experience with Joan (it’s a UX horror story to check if a room is booked) so it made sense to figure out if there was a way to improve how people book rooms.

Thanks to the fact that Slack is awesome, everybody (not just geeks) are using it these days, which enables companies to build their business processes around chat (and chatbots). So it made perfect sense to integrate Joan with Slack.

So now you can Slack Joan:

Me: Get me a room at 15:00.
Joan: Room “the Brain” booked at 15:00.

What if you do not have any Joan devices but want to upgrade your Slack experience? Well, you could use our free Slack integration.

The steps you need to take are:

• open an account on the Joan Portal
• select “In the cloud hosting” and enter credit card data (Psst, don’t tell anyone but the integration is free to use as we only bill for hosted devices)

Selecting on-premises allows you to register without entering CC data.

• link your calendar (Google and Microsoft supported)
• enable Joan Labs

Select Joan Labs tab

• link to your Slack

Enable Slack

Now go tell your coworkers that they can message Joan and book your meeting rooms through Slack.

Get full access to the Slack integration here!

We’ll keep more articles like this coming. And some behind the scenes as well!