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.
Through your link, your space page, your space code or the search in the app.
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.
Join your coworking spaceYour space page
Photos, amenities, directions and prices on one page you can link to.
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.
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 websiteIn 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 pageWhoever looks at your space page writes to you through “Ask …”, without an account.
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 pageIn 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 contractIn 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 contractsThe link to your space page or a personal invitation by email; the member does the rest.
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 memberUpload your member list as a file, or add people by hand.
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 membersIn detail
- Free desks per day
- An area instead of a desk where places are unnumbered
- Free cancellation within an hour, or before the day
- In the app several days at once, on the same seat
- In the app moved to another day while cancelling would still be free
What it means
For you: No message to you needed. How far ahead people can book is up to you.
For your members: Sees which day of the month this is and what another one would cost.
Book a deskFixed desk from the contract start
Whoever bridges day by day until the start already sees the future fixed desk.
In detail
- Card ‘Your fixed desk: … from …’ on the home screen, in the app also on the booking tab and under My plan
- It shows while the contract with the desk has not started yet
- From the start day the fixed desk's own card takes over
- On assignment an email ‘Your fixed desk: … from …’; the plan-change email names it once it is set
What it means
For you: You do not need to write to the member beforehand, the desk is in their app.
For your members: Knows before the start which desk is theirs from when, and does not need to book it.
In detail
- A price per room, discount and free hours per plan
- Move a booking instead of rebooking
- Once a booking is running, the member shortens or cancels only in the first hour after making it; extending works at any time, your team can always change it
- Guests book without an account, within your guest hours
- Guests extend right after, with their details carried over and a separate payment
- Guests search by number of people and see photo, area and equipment; rooms that are too small cannot be chosen
What it means
For you: The price is set on the room, the plan says how much of it is included. Day guests pay the room's price.
For your members: On plans with a day allowance, free hours and discount apply only on days with a desk; a room-only day costs the full room price.
Book a roomDrinks, food or equipment with the room, with a price and a deadline.
In detail
- Price per person, per booking, per item or per hour
- Tax rate per extra, 7 % for food, 19 % for drinks
- Lead time per extra, fixed after that and charged even on cancellation
- Guests pay for room and extras in one go, members add them afterwards
- One Orders page with the total per day
What it means
For you: What you need to buy or order from the café is listed per day. Ordering is done by hand.
For your members: Adds extras to the booking after booking the room; they go on the monthly invoice. The plan discount applies to the room only.
Create extras for room bookingsIn detail
- Pick a day, the guest takes a desk on site
- Released per area, with a daily maximum if you like
- The guest picks the area only if you want that
- Up to six days in one purchase, each at the day price, cancellation per day until it starts
- Up to ten people in one purchase, names of the others optional, cancellation per person
- Paid by card, door through the link in the email
- You open the receipt at the guest in the day plan and under Invoices and receipts
- If you like, bookable online only until a set time the day before
- A walk-in guest books for today through your QR code, with no cut-off and no request
- An optional line to you when booking, you read it in the email and the day plan
- Whoever later creates an account with the same address finds the booking in their billing
- On the booked day the guest sees the free desks and claims the one they sit at, also from the desk’s QR code
What it means
For you: The price is the day price of your plan without contract. Day guests appear by name in the day plan once they have paid. You show the QR code for a walk-in guest on the web or in the app.
For your members: A day guest needs no account. Whoever comes more often signs up and pays monthly.
Day tickets for guestsWhoever books a desk for a day online waits for your yes.
In detail
- The guest's card is only put on hold, it is charged with your yes
- Answer by the start of the first day, with a reminder one hour before
- Without an answer the hold is released and the guest gets an email
- Deselect single days, only the rest is charged
- Email with a link to the request, plus a notification in the app
- The first answer counts when there are several of you
- From three answers on, the guest sees how quickly you usually reply
What it means
For you: You see name, days and arrival time and answer on the web or in the app. It does not apply to the walk-in guest, who books through your QR code.
For your members: Before sending, the guest reads that their card is only put on hold and charged after your yes. They can withdraw an open request at any time.
Answer a day guest's requestIn detail
- One code for rooms, one for day tickets
- Runs on the website from your space details and on any address you add
- Guests choose inside the frame and pay by card through Stripe, the payment service you connect your account to once
What it means
For you: You copy the code on the web or in the app under Share and paste it into your site. Further addresses are added on the web.
For your members: Guests need no account for it.
Sell rooms online to guestsIn detail
- Daily, weekly or monthly
- Ends at the booking window
- Taken dates are skipped, never overbooked
- Also in a zone with free seating: one seat per date while one is free
- Single dates can be taken out or moved to another seat
What it means
For you: Who is holding how much is in a list of its own — desks and rooms together, in the app and on the web. Any series can be ended from there.
For your members: Sees which dates will be skipped and what the series costs before booking.
Create a seriesBookings appear in your own calendar and stay up to date there.
In detail
- Private link per person and space, read-only
- Desk days all day, room bookings with times
- Cancelled bookings disappear at the next refresh
- For you, an occupancy calendar per room, only “Booked”, no names
- Create a new link or delete it, the old one stops working at once
What it means
For you: A room's occupancy sits in your calendar next to your own events. Who booked stays in Selfdesk only.
For your members: One link, added to the calendar once. How fast a change arrives is up to the calendar, up to a day with Google.
Subscribe to your bookings in your own calendarIn detail
- Scan the QR sticker on the desk
- Or tap it in the app
- Counts towards the allowance
What it means
For you: You see who is in without keeping a list.
For your members: One scan, done. Fixed desks skip it.
Scan the QR code on a deskSomeone calls or stands at the counter without a phone; you book in their file.
In detail
- Book a desk or a seat in a zone for a member
- Cancel a booking in the member's name, or move it to another day, room or time
- Checking in is the booking for today
- The same rules and price as their own booking
- The activity log shows who in the team booked it
What it means
For you: Works with the front desk role too, without access to billing and setup.
For your members: Gets the confirmation as if they had booked it themselves.
Book or check in for a memberIn detail
- Bookings and cancellations, a series as one entry
- Kiosk purchases
- Door attempts, including the failed ones
- Contract, invoices, payments, credit
What it means
For you: The list answers "when was that charged?", not you.
For your members: Sees only their own entries, filtered by area. New ones show up as a hint at the top; the list does not jump.
See your recent activityThrough Nuki smart locks, electronic locks on the inside of the door, both ways.
In detail
- Open and lock
- No surcharge per door
- The lock button only appears when the door is open
What it means
For you: No key board, no handover, no keys being copied.
For your members: Opens from the start screen without hunting through the app.
Check in and unlock doorsIn detail
- Grant doors per member, at the door for many at once
- A new door asks who may enter
- Email to the member with their first key
- Areas behind a door: a hint when booking without a key
- A room booking opens the room's doors at the booked time, without a key too
- Members see from when each door opens, or that access is not set up yet
- Revoking takes effect at once
- Ends with the contract on its own
What it means
For you: Whoever leaves loses access the moment the contract ends.
For your members: Only sees the doors that are open to them.
Add doors and set accessFor spaces without a smart lock — the code arrives at 7 am on the booked day.
In detail
- One fixed code for the whole space
- By email at 7 am on the booked day, for members and guests
- On the home screen and the booking page only on that day
- A fixed desk always sees it, without a daily email
- Never on the public space page
What it means
For you: Nobody calls in the morning because they are standing at the box.
For your members: Has the code when they need it.
Set up access without an app doorIn detail
- After 30 days the name is removed; door, time and outcome stay without a person
- Opened per door, not per person
- Stays when someone leaves the space
- Not meant as attendance tracking
What it means
For you: Enough to settle an incident, too little to watch anyone.
For your members: The retention period is in the space's privacy notice.
Door log: 30 days, not an attendance recordIn detail
- Pick the product, see the price with VAT, confirm
- Several at once
- Take it back yourself for a few seconds right after buying, one item at a time
- Open items add up until month end
- Its own kiosk invoice each month
What it means
For you: No till, no tally sheet, no cash.
For your members: Buys without a wallet, sees their open items at any time, each purchase on its own, and gets a kiosk invoice at the end of the month.
Using the kioskIn detail
- Price and VAT rate per product
- Its own invoice each month
What it means
For you: One invoice can carry several VAT rates. Kiosk is billed separately from rent, because a member deducts the rent as a business expense and the snacks not.
For your members: Gets the kiosk invoice as its own document.
Add products and change pricesView kiosk purchases and cancel mistaken ones
The purchases of the last few days with member, product, amount and time. A wrong item is struck with one confirmation.
In detail
- Purchases of the last 3, 7 or 30 days
- The name leads to the member file
- Cancel with a confirmation, until the line is invoiced
- Also with the front desk role; purchases already collected are refunded by an admin or the owner only
What it means
For you: Whoever stands at the counter strikes a mistaken purchase themselves, without seeing products or billing.
For your members: Does not pay the struck item; it drops off the kiosk invoice.
Cancel or refund a purchaseIn detail
- An allowance with a price per extra day
- A fixed desk as part of the plan
- Order and visibility
- Duplicate a plan with all its terms, without its members
- Gross prices; the VAT rate belongs to the space
What it means
For you: 19 %, 7 %, or none at all under the small-business rule — nowhere hard-wired.
For your members: Sees prices exactly as they appear on the invoice.
Create a planIn detail
- A card holding days or an amount
- The expiry date is shown before the purchase
- A reminder before it runs out
What it means
For you: Card holders are the core business at many spaces, not a footnote.
For your members: Sees a date as a date, not as “valid for 30 days”.
Create a credit cardIn detail
- Monthly or one-off
- Per member
- Runs through the normal invoice
What it means
For you: No second contract and no invoice written by hand.
For your members: Sees the item on the same invoice.
Create an add-onIn detail
- The member invites the person themselves, by link, code or email
- Everyone has their own account, their own door and their own bookings
- Without permission only what the allowance covers; with permission on the member's invoice, optionally with a monthly budget
- Limits per person for days and room hours
- With every day included, one seat per day; a paid extra day on a taken day, on the member's invoice, for co-users only with permission
- Set on the plan how many may come along, with a fixed desk too
- The group counts once in the Selfdesk price
What it means
For you: No second contract, no arrangement by hand, and the member list shows who uses whose contract.
For your members: Takes a colleague along, pays alone and ends it whenever they like.
Manage co-usersIn detail
- The price sits on the member, not on the plan
- Derived from the plan they hold
- Everyone else keeps their price
What it means
For you: The friend's rate for your first tenant, without creating a shadow plan.
For your members: Notices nothing but the amount.
Prices come from the planA price applies from a billing month, retroactively or in the future.
In detail
- Correct a typo, for past months too, without anyone having to agree
- New prices from a future month, the old one applies until then
- Per change for everyone, for everyone who agrees, or for new members only
- Before saving, it says what stays billed and what is recalculated
- Change or withdraw planned prices until their month has started
- Members see announced prices for their plan and their rooms in the app and on the web, not only by email
What it means
For you: You correct a price on the plan itself, without a second plan and without moving anyone.
For your members: Sees an announced price with its date before it applies.
Plan a price changeIn detail
- Price per billing month at a glance
- Every entry with version, person, reason and number of invoices
- Individual agreements and renamings in the same history
What it means
For you: When a member asks why they paid more in August, the answer is there.
Change a priceWhoever does not agree to a new price keeps paying the previous one.
In detail
- Per price change, who has not agreed yet and what they keep paying
- Remind one member or everyone at once
- Charge a member the new price from next month
- Ask for agreement to the price list version in force after the fact
What it means
For you: Nobody is locked out because a price changes.
For your members: Keeps booking and opening the door, even without agreeing.
Collect agreement to new pricesIn detail
- A preview per member before the run
- Rent, kiosk and platform fee as separate documents
- Invoice numbers run through
- Automatic on the 1st to 5th of the month if you like, with an email afterwards
What it means
For you: You start it yourself or let it run at your time; a month is never billed twice.
For your members: Gets the invoice by email and in the app.
Start the month-end runEach invoice shows whether it has been issued, emailed and collected.
In detail
- Selfdesk retries passing errors itself, and never sends anything to Lexware Office or sevDesk twice
- With "Needs you", the reason and the buttons that work then
- One summary email instead of one per invoice
- A history per invoice with the raw text to copy
What it means
For you: You see which invoice is stuck and why, instead of hearing it from a member.
For your members: Sees an invoice once it has a number, and gets it by email.
Invoices are delivered after they are createdEvery member invoice is a PDF with an embedded XML file in the ZUGFeRD format.
In detail
- Profile EN 16931, the PDF looks as before
- Lines with their VAT rate, several rates on one kiosk invoice
- Small businesses under § 19 UStG with the exemption reason
- Cancellation invoice as an invoice correction pointing to the invoice
- IBAN for transfers, no IBAN when Stripe collects
- The member's or company's VAT ID when it is on the invoicing address
- Order number or cost centre on the billing address: printed on every invoice and in the e-invoice
- A sample invoice with your details before the first monthly run
- Needs a VAT ID or tax number in the legal details
What it means
For you: Your company members' accounting reads the invoice in instead of typing it up. If you invoice through Lexware Office or sevDesk, that program decides.
For your members: Gets an invoice their own accounting software can read in.
Invoices are e-invoices (ZUGFeRD)Direct debit and card through Stripe, the payment service you connect your account to once.
In detail
- Paid out straight to your account
- Stripe account prefilled from your legal details; Stripe only asks for the rest
- A list up front of what Stripe asks for your legal form
- Apple Pay and Google Pay
- We never touch the money
- Stripe's fee per payment at cost, with a monthly statement
What it means
For you: No separate contract with a payment provider, and no cut of your membership fees. Stripe's fee per payment is passed on without markup.
For your members: Adds a payment method once.
Connect StripeIn detail
- Switched on per space, alone or next to card and direct debit
- If you take card or direct debit only, a company can ask for transfer at sign-up; you confirm it per member
- You mark transfers that arrived as paid on the invoice
- The kiosk is still charged
What it means
For you: You match the incoming payments on your account yourselves. Selfdesk does not see them.
For your members: Transfers the rent after the invoice. The kiosk still needs a card or direct debit.
Switch to bank transferOnce the money is there, you record it on the invoice.
In detail
- With the day the money arrived
- Undo it if you made a typo
- In the audit log and in the export for your accountant
- Not while Stripe is collecting
What it means
For you: You still match the bank statement yourselves; the result then shows on the invoice.
For your members: Sees "Paid on …" on the invoice.
Mark an invoice as paidMembers scan the invoice with their banking app instead of typing the IBAN.
In detail
- EPC-standard QR code next to the IBAN, on the PDF and on the web
- Holds recipient, IBAN, amount and the invoice number as reference
- In the app, copy IBAN and reference instead of scanning
- No code when the invoice is collected or already paid
What it means
For you: Payments arrive with the invoice number as reference. Needs an IBAN and account holder in your legal details.
For your members: Scans the code or copies IBAN and reference into the banking app.
Pay an invoice by bank transferIn detail
- Failed collections
- Try again
- Write to the member
What it means
For you: You do not have to keep track of who has not paid.
For your members: Gets a reminder before you have to get in touch.
Handle open itemsIn detail
- No export, no retyping
- When something is stuck, reason and history are on the invoice
- Can be chosen right when creating the space
What it means
For you: Lexware Office and sevDesk are connected, DATEV is not. Lexware Office offers the interface from version XL.
Connect Lexware OfficeIn detail
- Invoice number and PDF from sevDesk
- Selfdesk creates missing customers
- Draft first, then finalised, never twice
In detail
- Invoices as PDFs
- Kiosk and guest receipts in the same archive
- An overview as CSV
- Any month you like
What it means
For you: All your raw data without asking us — one of the five yardsticks you can hold us to.
Export documents for your accountantEvery new invoice and receipt goes to your bookkeeping as a PDF.
In detail
- Invoices, guest and kiosk receipts, cancellations included
- From the moment you enter it, nothing older
- Send a test, last mail and last error shown at the setting
- Also with Lexware Office or sevDesk
What it means
For you: Your accountant has every document without you forwarding anything at month end.
Send invoices and receipts to your accountantIn detail
- All invoices as PDFs
- Kiosk receipts separately
- A year or a month as a ZIP with a CSV list
- Change the billing address themselves
- Next month as expected so far, desk and rooms apart
What it means
For you: No more emails asking you to resend the invoice from March.
For your members: Downloads them at any time, even after leaving, as long as the space uses Selfdesk. Once the space is deleted, they can no longer be opened in Selfdesk. Whoever needs one asks the operator, who gets them from Selfdesk as a ZIP on request.
View your invoices and billingEvery invoice says which price list it was calculated by.
In detail
- Plan and room with version and date below the totals
- Individual prices as “Calculated by agreement”
- In the closing text for Lexware Office and sevDesk
- Positions are recorded when the invoice is created and never recalculated
What it means
For you: If someone asks about a price, the invoice says which prices applied.
For your members: Sees which prices applied to the invoice.
Issued invoices are frozenIn detail
- The current plan with the allowance used
- A change takes effect on the first of the month
- Contract history
What it means
For you: A switch creates no work and no hand-made part-month.
For your members: Sees beforehand what the new plan costs and when it starts.
Change your planIn detail
- Cancellation at the end of the month
- Confirmation by email
- Access ends with the contract
What it means
For you: You hear about it at once and have nothing to close by hand. Your own Selfdesk subscription is under “Trial and Selfdesk subscription”.
For your members: No letter of cancellation, no deadline to hunt for.
Cancel your membershipThe withdrawal button German law requires, for every space.
In detail
- Page “Withdraw from contract” without signing in, also at your own domain
- Confirmation of receipt by email with date and time
- Email to you with every detail and the matching contract
- In the member area next to “Cancel”, with name, email and contract filled in
- A “Withdrawals” list for you to link, process (contract ends, amount with compensation) or reject, with an email to the person
What it means
For you: You meet § 356a BGB without building a page yourself; whether a withdrawal takes effect is your decision.
For your members: Withdraws with name and email address, without being asked twice, and has the receipt in writing.
Withdraw from your contractIn detail
- The contract as a PDF
- The accepted version of the terms, with a date
- Right-of-withdrawal notice
What it means
For you: You can show which version somebody accepted.
For your members: Has their paperwork without asking.
Find your contract documentsIn detail
- Today and any other day
- Who has checked in
- Free places
What it means
For you: You answer “is anything free tomorrow” in two seconds.
Look at one day's occupancyIn detail
- Pick a period
- Cancelled ones included
- CSV download
What it means
For you: For the tax return, for your landlord, for your own spreadsheet.
Export bookingsMember list as CSV
All members with plan and term in one file.
In detail
- Active, upcoming and past members
- Name, email, plan, start, end, fixed desk
- A code from your email first
What it means
For you: For your own records, and so you take your members along if you stop using Selfdesk.
In detail
- Revenue per month, split into desks and rooms
- A forecast of occupancy, a look back at past months
- Contracts ending in 30, 60 or 90 days
What it means
For you: Metrics you cannot find are one of the most common complaints about the big providers.
Read revenue and occupancyIn detail
- New contracts and cancellations
- Bookings and cancellations
- Change log
Messages between member and space
Members write to you in the app, about an invoice, a booking, a door, a payment, their plan, credit or the kiosk.
In detail
- One inbox for all admins, with Open, In progress and Done
- The invoice, booking, door, payment, plan, credit or kiosk purchase is attached to the message, with its details
- Forward errors of the app to Selfdesk, without the member's name
- Write yourselves: from the member's page or right at a payment, an invoice or an application
- Notification on the phone, email only for unread messages
- Can be switched off, members then see your email address
What it means
For you: The question about an invoice arrives with invoice number and amount, not as a WhatsApp without context.
For your members: Asks right at the invoice and sees whether someone is on it.
Answer messages from membersGroup message to several members
One notice to all active members, everyone with credit or everyone with an open application, by email and in the app.
In detail
- Selfdesk works out the groups, individuals can be deselected
- One entry in the inbox with reads and replies, no conversation per person
- Every reply becomes its own conversation, the others do not read along
- Email to everyone in the space's name, replies to the email go to you
- After cancelling the subscription with a prepared text
What it means
For you: The heating is off, and everyone knows without you copying addresses into an email program.
Write a group message to several membersIn detail
- Areas such as “open plan” or “back room”
- Desks one by one or many at once, numbered with a prefix per area (F1–F10, carrying on after the existing ones) or in a text field – “HG 01–08” adds eight, the zeros stay
- Preview before adding; duplicate names are reported, not created
- Rename several at once, move them to another area or archive them
- Unnumbered areas without desk numbers
What it means
For you: If you have no desk numbers on the wall, you do not need them in the software either.
For your members: Books a desk or just an area, depending on the setting.
Create desk areas and desksIn detail
- Size and equipment
- A price per hour for each room, gross
- Publicly bookable or not
- Bookable on all plans or only on selected ones
What it means
For you: Phone booth and seminar room cost what you set for each. A room can be bookable from outside without an account, and the studio only for tenants with a fixed desk.
For your members: Sees what the room costs before booking.
Create a roomOpening hours and booking window
When you are open and how far ahead people can book.
In detail
- Opening hours per weekday
- Closed on the public holidays of your German state, each one can be reopened
- The booking window in days
- Bookable time slots
What it means
For you: The window also limits how long a recurring booking may run.
For your members: Only sees days that are actually bookable.
Set opening hours and the booking windowIn detail
- A sticker per desk
- A sheet for all desks
- A poster for the wall
What it means
For you: The sticker also sends people without the app to the right page.
For your members: Scans and is checked in.
Print the poster and the QR sheetIn detail
- Logo and your own colour or one of nine themes
- The colour stays readable, light and dark
- Applies in the app and on the web
What it means
For you: Not white-label, but your space looks like yours.
For your members: Recognises their space.
Adjust the look and feelIn detail
- Signing up and signing in are one path, with a six-digit code
- Google on the web and in the app
- Apple on the web and in the app
- Password optional, at least 12 characters
- A fresh code from the email before a password, deleting a space and exports
- From the browser into the app without signing in there again
What it means
For you: You never manage a password.
For your members: Stays signed in as long as the app is opened again within 180 days, the browser within 30.
Create your account and sign inApp lock, language, notifications
Face ID in front of the app, German or English.
In detail
- Face ID or a code, after 5 minutes in the background or immediately
- German and English
- Light and dark mode
- Push on or off
Front desk for the daily work at the counter, admin for everything.
In detail
- Front desk: book a desk for members, check-in, applications, messages, opening doors, guests, view and cancel kiosk purchases
- No billing, prices, setup, legal texts, team or exports with names
- Choose the role when inviting, change or remove it in the record
- The server checks every action, not just the menu
What it means
For you: Whoever works at the front desk sees no invoices and changes no prices.
Assign rolesIn detail
- Fill in a template or upload your own
- Versions with a date
- Preview of the next version with everything that changes
- The price list is created by itself with every price change, with announced prices and their month
- Acceptance is logged
What it means
For you: Three documents are built from your details, the conditions of use you upload yourself.
For your members: Sees exactly the version they are accepting when joining.
The four legal documents of your spaceYour DPA with Selfdesk, concluded by consent and available as a PDF.
In detail
- The owner agrees in Selfdesk; time and version are stored
- PDF with your legal details for your records
- List of sub-processors, servers in Germany
- Selfdesk announces a new version by mail and asks you to agree again
- The text is public at selfdesk.app/avv
What it means
For you: One click by the owner, then the agreement is ready as a PDF.
Conclude the data processing agreementTrial and Selfdesk subscription
45 days without a card, cancel and take back on the subscription page.
In detail
- 45-day trial, every feature free, no card when you create the space
- Reminder by email a week and a day before the trial ends
- Add a payment method on the web, during the trial or after it; in the app a button emails you the link
- Without a payment method, 14 days with no new members and no guest bookings; existing members keep booking
- Cancel and take it back on the web and in the app, effective at the end of the trial or the month
- Before you confirm, the dialog says how many members are affected and who still has credit
- After that the space is inactive, the data is kept for six months, reactivate on the web
- Our invoices to you are on the subscription page, with the PDF
- After the six months deleted for good; invoices, receipts and contracts stay locked for eight years and come as a ZIP on request
What it means
For you: You try Selfdesk with your real members and decide at the end of the trial.
Cancel the trial or the subscriptionIn detail
- In the app and on the web under Settings → Account, with two confirmations
- Without the app through a public page, confirmed by email
- Access ends at once, the contract at the end of the month
- Invoices stay until the retention period ends
- Then a confirmation by email; with a running contract, the offer to withdraw comes first
What it means
For you: You have nothing to do and nothing to prove.
For your members: No letter to support needed.
Delete your accountIn detail
- In the app and on the web under Settings, one tap
- The file goes to the account's address, not as a download to the device
- From every space, without sign-in details
What it means
For you: A member answers their own access request.
For your members: No letter to support needed.
Request my dataWhat 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm (German time)
A question before you start? Write to us: hilfe@selfdesk.app