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Joan

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0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by Visionect d.o.o. · getjoan.com

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Joan at a glance

Vendor
Visionect d.o.o.
Headquarters
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Data hosting
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Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Joan 3/5, the mean of 6 judges. Joan, from Visionect d.o.o. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 5 Nov 2026; evaluated by the panel 6 Nov 2026. all sources

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The Workplace Manager

Weighted verdict

Runs workplace and facilities for a 900-person insurer with offices in Cologne, Munich and Vienna and 0.6 desks per employee since the move to hybrid work. Tuesdays are full, Fridays are empty, and the Munich lease is up in eighteen months. Wants desks, rooms and parking on real floor plans, no-shows released automatically, neighbourhoods per team, and occupancy figures built from check-ins rather than bookings, good enough to take to the board.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Workplace Manager

Panel median The Workplace Manager This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Workplace Manager
Desk, room & parking booking 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Check-in, auto-release & booking rules 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Hybrid work coordination 2 of 5 2 of 5
Occupancy analytics & employee privacy 3 of 5 3 of 5
Integrations, identity & administration 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
European sovereignty 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Pricing transparency 3 of 5 3 of 5

Desk, room & parking booking

How this is scored

What can be booked and how easily: desks, meeting rooms, parking spaces and other resources (lockers, equipment, EV chargers), interactive floor plans per site and floor, desk attributes (monitor, standing desk, accessibility), neighbourhoods and zones, hot and assigned desks, recurring and multi-day bookings, booking for colleagues and guests, room booking synced both ways with Microsoft 365 or Google calendars, room displays, booking from the web, mobile apps, Outlook, Microsoft Teams and Slack, and several languages.

0 — Books nothing for an organisation's own staff; a customer appointment tool or a facility system without self-service booking.

3 — Desks can be booked from a list or a simple plan in a web app; rooms, parking, mobile apps and calendar integration are basic or not described.

5 — Desks, rooms and parking on interactive floor plans for several sites and floors, desk attributes and assigned desks, recurring bookings, booking on behalf of colleagues, mobile apps, room bookings synced with Microsoft 365 or Google calendars, and booking from Microsoft Teams or Slack.

8 — Neighbourhoods and zones per team, an Outlook add-in that books a room and a desk together, room displays with check-in, guest and visitor bookings linked to the host's desk, resources such as lockers and EV chargers, floor plans imported from CAD or drawn in an editor, accessibility of the apps stated, and the product in German and other languages.

10 — Booking that runs a multi-country estate: every resource type above on one plan, wayfinding to the booked desk, booking from every channel with parity documented, catering and equipment with the room, and the accessibility of web and apps documented to WCAG 2.1 AA.

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The Workplace Manager

Rooms, desks, parking and equipment are bookable from an interactive office map with a live floor plan, neighbourhood and team-zone booking filtered by department, recurring bookings, and four booking paths — room display, mobile app, calendar and the MyJoan portal — plus bots in Slack and Microsoft Teams and calendar sync with Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Exchange and iCal, on wireless ePaper displays or third-party tablets. What holds it below the top is that we found no public information on desk attributes such as monitors or standing desks, hot versus assigned desks, importing plans from CAD, or which languages the localised interface covers. 2 3 7 8 12 13

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Check-in, auto-release & booking rules

How this is scored

How the booking is kept honest and fair: check-in by app, QR code, NFC, room display, Wi-Fi or sensor, auto-release of desks and rooms nobody checked in to, booking rules per site, area or group (how far ahead, how many days a week, maximum duration), approvals for restricted areas, assigned and permanent desks with release when the owner is away, fair allocation of scarce parking (lottery, rotation, priority for disabled or EV drivers), capacity limits per floor, and notifications and reminders.

0 — No rules at all; any booking stands whether or not anyone arrives.

3 — A booking can be cancelled by the user; check-in, auto-release and booking rules are basic or not described.

5 — Check-in by app or QR code, automatic release of unconfirmed desk and room bookings after a set time, booking windows and limits per site or group, restricted areas for named groups, assigned desks that their owner can release, and reminders before the booking.

8 — Check-in by room display, NFC, Wi-Fi or occupancy sensor, rules per area and user group with approvals, fair parking allocation by lottery or rotation with priority spaces, capacity limits per floor, permanent desks released automatically during absence synced from the HR system, and the no-show logic documented.

10 — Rules that run themselves across an estate: every check-in method above, automatic desk assignment from team and attendance plans, policy changes rolled out per country with an audit trail, and no-show and release rates reported per site with the method stated.

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The Workplace Manager

Desk check-in runs by email or app notification, QR code, NFC tag, geolocation with automatic check-in inside a 200-metre radius, or a Zens desk sensor, and unused desks and rooms are released automatically after a configurable window with an email notice to the no-show and a reminder 15 minutes before the reservation. Rules cover check-in enforcement, duration limits and advance windows applied globally, per building or per room, and the check-in configuration extends to parking and asset bookings. We found no public information on approvals for restricted areas, fair allocation of scarce parking, capacity limits per floor, or permanent desks released during an owner's absence. 3 12 13 14 15

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Hybrid work coordination

How this is scored

How people plan office days together: a weekly view of who will be in the office, home office and absence, favourite colleagues and teams, team days and anchor days, booking next to colleagues, office events, attendance planning and office policies (for example two office days a week) with nudges rather than enforcement, the planner inside Microsoft Teams, Outlook or Slack, sync with absence and HR systems, and visibility settings so employees decide who sees their plans.

0 — No view of colleagues or office days; booking only.

3 — A list of who has booked a desk on a day; team planning, policies and visibility settings are basic or not described.

5 — A weekly planner of office, home and absence days, favourite colleagues and teams, booking a desk next to a colleague, team days, the planner in Microsoft Teams or Slack, notifications when colleagues plan to come in, and a visibility setting per user.

8 — Anchor days and office policies per team with nudges, office events and invitations, sync with absence and HR systems, recommendations of the best office day for a team, delegation for assistants, and visibility and privacy options documented for employees and admins.

10 — Coordination that changes behaviour and is measured: team plans that book desks and rooms automatically, policy adherence shown only in aggregate, works council-ready configuration documented, and the effect on office attendance reported with the method stated.

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The Workplace Manager

Employees can see their team's bookings for the week in the app or portal, browse the floor plan or search by colleague name to sit near their team, and a Joan 13 team grid shows up to nine colleagues' availability with the meeting subject hideable for privacy. Beyond that the coordination story thins out: we found no public information on a weekly planner of office, home and absence days, favourite colleagues, team or anchor days, office-day policies with nudges, notifications when colleagues plan to come in, or per-user visibility settings. 2 13 16 17

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Occupancy analytics & employee privacy

How this is scored

What the data is worth for a real estate decision and how it treats the people it measures: utilisation per desk, room, zone, floor and site, booked against checked-in or measured use, peak days and times, no-show rates, room size against meeting size, occupancy sensors, badge, Wi-Fi or people counting data, scenario planning for consolidation, scheduled reports and export to Excel or BI tools, and on the other side aggregation, anonymisation and minimum group sizes, configurable retention and deletion of booking records, role-based access to personal data, and documentation a works council or data protection officer can work with.

0 — No reports of any kind; only the current bookings are shown.

3 — Booking counts or a utilisation chart per site; check-in data, export, retention and anonymisation are basic or not described.

5 — Utilisation per desk, room, floor and site over time, booked against checked-in use, no-show rates, peak days, CSV or Excel export, a retention period for booking data stated or configurable, and reports that can be limited to aggregates.

8 — Occupancy sensors or badge and Wi-Fi data combined with bookings, room size against attendance, scenario or consolidation planning, a BI connector or analytics API, anonymised reports with minimum group sizes, role-based access to personal booking data, deletion periods per data type, and material for a works council agreement published.

10 — Evidence a portfolio decision can rest on: measured and booked occupancy reconciled with the method stated, data quality and sensor accuracy documented, raw data exportable in an open format, privacy by design documented down to field level, and a sample works council agreement or DPIA published.

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The Workplace Manager

The MyJoan analytics dashboard reports desk occupancy per day, weekday and location, days working from the office per week, room occupancy, unattended meetings when check-in is enabled, visitor counts and air quality, with filters by location and timeframe, downloadable reports and a CSV of weekly desk reservations including check-in and check-out times; workplace data retention is capped at 12 months, deletion is available on request, and access sits with Admin and Office Manager roles under role-based control. For a board-facing decision it falls short on the method: room analytics is built from synchronised calendar data rather than check-ins, and we found no public information on anonymised reports with minimum group sizes, floor-level figures, consolidation scenarios, or material a works council could work with. 5 10 11 14 18 19

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Integrations, identity & administration

How this is scored

How the tool fits the company's systems and is run: Microsoft 365 and Exchange room mailboxes, Google Workspace, Microsoft Teams and Slack apps, single sign-on with Entra ID, Okta or Google (SAML or OIDC), SCIM user provisioning, HR system sync (Personio, SAP SuccessFactors, Workday), access control and badge systems, room displays and sensor hardware, a documented REST API and webhooks, several sites, countries and companies in one account, roles and delegated administration per site, audit logs, bulk import of users and resources, and implementation and support.

0 — No integrations, one admin login, users and desks entered only by hand.

3 — A calendar connection and a few admin roles; single sign-on, provisioning, API and multi-site administration are basic or not described.

5 — Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace calendar sync, Teams or Slack app, single sign-on with Entra ID, Okta or Google, user import or SCIM provisioning, a documented REST API, several sites with administrators per site, and bulk import of users and resources.

8 — SCIM provisioning with groups, HR system sync, access control or badge integration, webhooks, SAML and OIDC, granular roles and delegated administration per site and country, audit logs, room display and sensor hardware supported by named models, several companies or tenants in one account, and an implementation plan published.

10 — Administration that scales across a multinational estate: every setting reachable by API with parity stated, multi-tenant administration with separate data per company, audit logs exportable to a SIEM, an open hardware policy with documented device APIs, and a named support SLA per plan.

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The Workplace Manager

Calendar sync covers Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Exchange and iCal with Microsoft Teams and Slack apps, single sign-on via OAuth2, Google and Microsoft 365, directory sync with Azure AD, Okta, OneLogin and JumpCloud, a documented SCIMv2 connection with automatic provisioning, groups and deprovisioning, and a documented API with webhooks, automation and export to a data platform. Named display and sensor hardware (Joan 6 RE, 6 Pro and 13 Pro, Crestron, ProDVX, Zens, Cisco and Jabra cameras), multiple office locations, multi-tenant support and a five-step setup are all documented; we found no public information on HR system sync, badge or access-control integration, audit logs, or administrators delegated per site. 6 7 8 11 12 20 21

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Who the contracting entity and the parent company are, where employee profiles, bookings (who sat where on which day), presence and absence plans, parking licence plates and sensor data are stored and processed, and who the subprocessors are (hosting, email and push notifications, maps, analytics, support and payment tools, hardware and sensor clouds). Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline. A calendar integration with Microsoft 365 or Google that the customer already runs is part of the customer's chain; the vendor's own hosting and subprocessors are what is judged.

0 — Non-EU vendor and contracting entity, hosting unstated, subprocessors unnamed, and no data processing agreement offered.

3 — A privacy policy and a data processing agreement exist, but hosting location is unstated or non-EU and the subprocessors are not listed.

5 — EU hosting available and an EU contracting entity or EU representative, but parts of the chain (email and push notifications, analytics, support, payment, sensor clouds) run through non-EU providers without a stated safeguard.

8 — EU hosting on named infrastructure, EU contracting entity, subprocessors listed with their locations, a data processing agreement published, and security certifications (ISO 27001, SOC 2) stated — or an on-premise edition documented that keeps every record on the customer's own servers.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: European ownership, entity, hosting and every subprocessor, or an on-premise edition with no call home, data export and deletion documented, and certifications published with their scope rather than implied.

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The Workplace Manager

Visionect d.o.o. of Ljubljana, Slovenia is the contracting entity, and all customer data is hosted in EU data centres on Google Cloud in Belgium with no data leaving the European Union; a data processing agreement is published and ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification is held with a downloadable certificate and annual surveillance reviews. The subprocessor list is only referenced — the privacy policy points to the data processing agreement's annex — and we found no public information showing the subprocessors and their locations, which is what keeps this short of the top end for my data protection officer. 9 10 11

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real annual cost from public pages alone: price per tier by user, desk, bookable resource, site or device, what rooms, parking and analytics cost on top, which features (SSO, SCIM, HR sync, sensors, room displays, visitor management, API) need a higher tier or an add-on, hardware prices and their licences, platform or setup fees, minimum users or minimum spend, the free tier and its limits, minimum term and VAT.

0 — No public prices at all; every customer is a sales call.

3 — A starting price or a free tier exists, but how cost scales with users, desks, rooms, sites or devices is unclear.

5 — Tiers are public with their price unit (per user, desk, resource or site) and main inclusions, but at least one commonly needed piece (room or parking booking, SSO, analytics, displays or sensors, setup) is unpriced or "on request".

8 — Every tier priced publicly with its scaling rule, add-ons and hardware licences priced, setup and platform fees stated, minimum users or spend stated, minimum term and VAT treatment stated.

10 — Complete price computability: annual cost derivable for a given number of users, desks, rooms, parking spaces and sites, with every add-on, hardware, support and implementation fee and the cancellation and data-return terms published.

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The Workplace Manager

Public prices cover bundled plans from "€49 per month" (Team, 2 devices, 20 users) up to Enterprise+ "From €999/month" including 20 devices and 200 users, with additional users at "€0.99 per user per month", additional devices at "€9.99 per device per month", badge licences at "€20 per badge per year", per-device plan tiers from "€4.99 per device per month" to "€19.99 per device per month", and the rule that only people with a Joan account are billed — though the captured pages show two pricing presentations, flat user-and-device bundles on one and per-device tiers on another. Hardware is sold separately, and we found no public information on hardware prices, setup or platform fees, VAT treatment or a free tier. 8 12 13

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 6 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

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Questions about Joan

Is Joan European?

Yes. whats-best.ai classifies Joan as EU-Made.

Where does Joan store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 5 Nov 2026.

Does Joan have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 5 Nov 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Joan?

As of 6 Nov 2026, the panel rates deskbird (3.5/5), Kadence (3.5/5) and Mapiq (3.5/5) highest among the other 15 Desk Booking & Hybrid Workplace products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is deskbird (UK / wider Europe). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Joan alternatives.

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Sources (21)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Features page (desk booking) getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Features page (room booking) getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Features page (parking and asset booking) getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Features page (analytics) getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Integrations page getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Documentation getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Pricing page getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Legal documents getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Privacy policy (names the operating company) getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Security / trust page getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Desk, room & parking booking — found from sitemap getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Desk, room & parking booking — found from sitemap getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  14. 14 Check-in, auto-release & booking rules — found from sitemap support.getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  15. 15 Check-in, auto-release & booking rules — found from sitemap support.getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  16. 16 Hybrid work coordination — found from sitemap support.getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  17. 17 Hybrid work coordination — found from sitemap getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  18. 18 Occupancy analytics & employee privacy — found from sitemap support.getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  19. 19 Occupancy analytics & employee privacy — found from sitemap getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  20. 20 Integrations, identity & administration — found from sitemap getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →
  21. 21 Integrations, identity & administration — found from sitemap getjoan.com Checked 5 Nov 2026 Details →