What Selfdesk does

74 features, sorted by area. Each one says what it means for you and what your members notice. What Selfdesk cannot do is at the end.

Find the space

Through your link, your space page, your space code or the search in the app.

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In detail

  • Your own link to your space
  • A space code for anyone who installs the app first
  • Search by name or town once you publish, with logo and address in each hit
  • Your own landing page with your own words
  • Open to Google once you publish

What it means

For you: A page at selfdesk.app/s/your-space, even without a website of your own.

For your members: Sees plans, areas and rooms before joining.

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Your space page

Photos, amenities, directions and prices on one page you can link to.

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In detail

  • One sentence about you and your own text
  • Up to twelve photos
  • Amenities to tick
  • Access, hours and directions
  • Up to six frequent questions
  • House rules, for example about pets, quiet and calls
  • Every plan with its term and the ways to pay you offer
  • Credits and add-ons below the plans, for information
  • Free desks for the next days
  • Visits arranged by email
  • A way back to your website in the page header
  • Legal notice and privacy information from your legal details, naming only what you use

What it means

For you: You write the page in the app or in the browser; plans, credits, add-ons and rooms come from your settings.

For your members: Sees photos, hours and prices before joining, and books from there.

An address of your space's own

Your space at your-short-name.selfdesk.me, with space page, sign-in and booking.

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In detail

  • Every space has an address made from its short name; with an own domain, that one counts
  • Members and guests sign in there, book and see their invoices
  • Sign in with a code by email, Google or Apple
  • Fixed links for your website, start page either space page or sign-in
  • Short name changes separately from the name, the old address keeps working
  • Emails to members and guests link to your address
  • Your legal notice and privacy information at the bottom of every page

What it means

For you: A link on your website leads straight to signing in or booking, under your name. Costs nothing extra.

For your members: Books at their space's address, not at selfdesk.app.

Your space's address and links for your website

Own domain

Your space page at your address, for example www.your-space.com.

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In detail

  • Domain with and without www, or a subdomain
  • DNS records to copy, checked by itself
  • Selfdesk takes care of certificate and redirect
  • Your legal notice at /impressum, your privacy information at /datenschutz
  • Old links and posters lead to the domain

What it means

For you: One or two DNS records at your provider, then Selfdesk names your address everywhere. Costs nothing extra.

For your members: Finds you at the address on your sign.

Your own domain for the space page

Questions on the space page

Whoever looks at your space page writes to you through “Ask …”, without an account.

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In detail

  • Window at the bottom right of your space page, also on your own domain
  • “Ask about this” at a plan, a room and the day ticket, the offer is attached to the question
  • Questions arrive in your inbox, marked as prospect
  • If the prospect has left the page, your reply goes by email; replies to it come to your address
  • If the prospect becomes a member, the conversation moves to their account
  • Switch next to the public page, off by default

What it means

For you: The question before the first visit arrives where your members' messages are.

For your members: Asks beforehand whether a desk is free, without an email program and without an account.

Allow questions on the space page

Sign up for a plan

The member signs up; you approve.

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In detail

  • Choose a plan
  • Accept the space's terms, price list and right of withdrawal, all three sent by email
  • Enter a billing address
  • Add a payment method
  • Book before the start, from the first day of the contract
  • Pay per day until the start, also afterwards
  • The review page and both contract emails state the rule until the start, such as "day by day, €25.00 per day you come"

What it means

For you: No paper, no signature, nothing to retype. Which version of the terms applied is stored with a date.

For your members: Five minutes on a phone, without asking you.

Choosing a contract

Confirm a contract

New contracts cross your desk.

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In detail

  • Open contracts on your start screen
  • Every open contract at a glance
  • Confirm or decline
  • The reason goes to the member
  • Unlock the doors in the same step, preselected by area and plan, each one can be unticked
  • Approve automatically per plan, from the start for the plan without base fee

What it means

For you: You decide who gets in. Only what you set that way is confirmed at once.

For your members: Sees the contract is waiting for confirmation and how long your space usually takes, and hears back.

Review and confirm new contracts

Invite

The link to your space page or a personal invitation by email; the member does the rest.

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In detail

  • One link for everyone or one invitation per person
  • Preset plan and desk, with the personal invitation
  • The team gets its own invitation, with a role and without a plan

What it means

For you: You never retype someone else's data.

For your members: Creates the account and billing address themselves.

Invite a member

Moving from your old solution

Upload your member list as a file, or add people by hand.

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In detail

  • Map the columns yourself, foreign plan names to your plans
  • Cobot member export and anny subscription export are recognised
  • Trial, pause, cancellation and “paid until” from anny in the preview
  • Without a file, enter name, email, plan and desk by hand, on the phone too
  • A plan per row
  • A fixed desk per row
  • Doors per row, also afterwards
  • Own price, add-ons and a note per row; the invitation shows the agreed price
  • Member list as CSV with prices, add-ons and invitations not yet accepted
  • Preview, and the import can be undone
  • Invitation by email or as a link to pass on
  • Invite everyone at once, with a note of your own and a preview of the mail
  • Automatic reminder after 3 and 10 days, can be switched off
  • Works with any account, Apple with a hidden address too
  • Link to an account afterwards
  • Move the start or withdraw the contract until it has begun

What it means

For you: From Cobot, from anny, from Excel, or from a list you kept by hand.

For your members: Gets an invitation and finds their contract prepared.

Import members

What Selfdesk cannot do

So you know before the trial, not after. If you need any of it, tell us.

Lock systems other than Nuki

Salto, Tapkey, Kiwi, chip and fob systems are not connected.

Selfdesk opens the door only through a Nuki Smart Lock. If you have another system, it keeps running next to Selfdesk, and you manage access there.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

DATEV and other bookkeeping tools

Lexware Office and sevDesk are connected, nothing else.

For everything else there is the accountant export, each month the invoices and receipts as PDF and a list as CSV, and the accounting inbox, which gets every new invoice and receipt as a PDF, for example an accounting firm's document inbox. Every member invoice Selfdesk issues is an e-invoice in the ZUGFeRD format; receipts for guests and kiosk receipts are not. Selfdesk does not produce a DATEV booking batch or XRechnung for authorities.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

One contract for several locations

A contract applies in one space.

Several spaces side by side work, each with its own plans and billing, and a member uses one account for all of them. A pass that is valid at several locations does not exist.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

Hourly and half-day prices for desks

Desks are priced per day or in a monthly plan.

You cannot set a price per hour or per half day for desks. Rooms have a price per hour.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

Day rate for rooms

Rooms are priced per hour.

A price for the whole day or a daily cap does not exist. Catering and equipment per person run through a room's extras.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

Guests paying by invoice

Guests without an account pay by card when they book.

A guest who books a room or a day ticket pays by card when booking and gets the receipt by email. With a company name, address and optionally a VAT ID it becomes a full invoice attached to the email, once the space has entered its tax number or VAT ID. Paying later by bank transfer is not possible for guests.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

Buying credit on invoice

Members buy ten-day passes and other credit in the app by card.

A member buys credit such as a ten-day pass in the app and pays by card, even if the space otherwise offers bank transfer. Buying on invoice, i.e. buying now and transferring later, is not possible. At the space, the operator can sell credit directly.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

Minimum terms and notice periods

Contracts end at the end of the month, without notice.

A minimum term or a longer notice period cannot be set. A temporary special price with an end date exists, but it binds no one.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

Showing net prices

Prices are shown gross, with the net amount small next to them.

There is no switch that shows net prices as the main figure, for company customers for example.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

Tax-exempt rentals and several tax rates

Desk, room and base fee have one rate per space.

You set once whether your space charges 19 %, 7 % or, as a small business, no VAT. Tax-exempt revenue, such as renting out an office under § 4 No. 12 UStG, and different rates for desk and room are not possible. Only kiosk products and room extras have their own rate.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

Deposit

A deposit cannot be managed.

Add-ons run monthly, there is no one-off item such as a deposit, and Selfdesk keeps no deposit account. If you ask for a deposit, you agree and book it outside Selfdesk.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

Calendar sync

Bookings go into the calendar by subscription, not the other way round.

Members subscribe to their bookings, you to the occupancy of each room, in Google Calendar, Apple Calendar or Outlook. There is no way back. An event in Google or Outlook does not block a room in Selfdesk, and nobody books a room as a resource in Google or Outlook.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

Events, community chat and noticeboard

Not part of Selfdesk.

Events with registration or ticket sales cannot be created. Members write to you through the messages in the app, but Selfdesk has no chat among members and no noticeboard.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

Door access only during the booked time

Yes for room bookings, not for a member's key.

Whoever books a room, guest or member, opens the room's doors only during the booked time and a quarter of an hour before and after. A key you grant a member opens at any time, on days without a booking too; it cannot be limited to certain hours.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

Allowance per week

Plans count days per month.

A plan can include a number of days per month, but not per week, such as two days a week. The same goes for the cap a member sets for a person they take along, it counts per calendar month.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

Offices as a rental of their own

Selfdesk knows desks, areas and rooms, but not offices.

An office someone rents by the month is set up as a plan, for example with a fixed desk, and you give access to the office door. An office lease with a term, notice period or service charges cannot be set up.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

Guest booking in English

Guests without an account book in German.

The booking form, emails and receipt for guests without an account exist in German only, for rooms and day tickets alike. Members switch their app to English.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

The app at your address

The Selfdesk app does not open your address.

At your address members and guests use Selfdesk in the browser. The app only knows selfdesk.app, so the sign-in link from the email, invitations and the stickers on the desks still lead into the app via selfdesk.app. The Google and Apple sign-in window says Selfdesk, not your space. In the App Store and on Google Play the app is called Selfdesk; there is no app with your name in the store.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

One invoice for everything in a month

Base price, usage and kiosk come as separate invoices.

The month-end run issues up to three invoices per member, each for one period – the base price for the next month in advance, last month's usage and the kiosk purchases. Separate because an invoice names one service period and because kiosk purchases are booked differently from the rent. A combined invoice for everything does not exist.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

Kiosk sales at the counter

Members buy kiosk items themselves.

You do not book a kiosk item for someone, and people without an account buy nothing through Selfdesk. Members buy in the app or in the browser; you cancel a mistaken purchase until it is invoiced. There is no till for cash sales.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

Cancellation deadline of its own for rooms

Members cancel up to the day before; there is no deadline per room.

A booking, a paid room included, is free to cancel within an hour of being made and up to the day before, for guests until the booking starts. A deadline of its own per room, such as 48 hours ahead, cannot be set. After that your team cancels.

We will get in touch if it becomes available.

Questions?

Call us. We'll show you Selfdesk on the phone.

On the phone we go through your questions and show what Selfdesk would look like in your space.

0431 30149444

Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm (German time)

A question before you start? Write to us: hilfe@selfdesk.app