Meetingsbooker.com

Booking meeting spaces for companies and venues

Meetingsbooker.com is a web platform that brings together venues that want to sell meeting rooms and companies that need external spaces. It covers meeting rooms, flexible workspaces and group accommodation, and the company says it lists about 150,000 spaces in 149 countries.

For venues

A venue can sell its conference and meeting rooms online through its own website. Before going live, the Meetingsbooker team helps configure the system to match the venue's meetings product, including venue details, rooms, equipment, refreshments and accommodation. The platform lets a venue add several sites to its account, and it handles enquiries that go out to several venues at once. Its older materials say customers were invoiced in euros.

For companies

A company account is described as a single hub for managing external meetings. The company lists these controls:

• Booking approvals and maximum spend policies set by the company
• Self-service access for teams that follows the rules the company decides
• Built-in contact tracing, to show who works where, in person and virtually
• Several ways to pay: expensing it, charging a corporate card or using monthly invoicing
• Real-time data in place of manual spreadsheets
• A safe space calculator for social distancing, with venues providing cleaning and sanitising

The pitch to businesses is aimed at companies that realise remote working does not suit everyone, are considering reducing their office space, or need professional places for teams to meet and work. The platform also makes it possible to create a private network of flexible workspaces.

Cities and venues on offer

Its pages offer rooms and event spaces in many places, including London, Manchester, Leeds, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow, New York, San Francisco, Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as near Heathrow Airport. It also reports that employees can find savings of 18 per cent.