Book a Room free WordPress plugin

** IMPORTANT! A recent update requires you to add delimiters to your regex. Please check your Locale settings and make sure your phone and zip regex have a slash / at the start and end.** Note: You need the Book a Room Event Calendar plugin to view the Event Calendar. Backup before updating to 2.0 and above. Commercial event calendars can be expensive, confusing for both staff and patrons, and are generally developed with businesses, not libraries, in mind. We wanted to develop a system that is designed for libraries! The meeting room system we developed and use was designed in-house by our marketing team and coded by our staff developer over the course of about a year. It has improved our workflow, lessened staff stress and frustration, minimized mistakes, and has made our staff and patron’s experience a better and more pleasant one. Here are a few things we thought about in tackling this project: Time Whether you’re spending your precious off-the-floor time trying to make sense of yesterday’s meeting room requests, trying to contact today’s reservations after the power (and internet) went out, or are helping a patron sign up over the phone, any unnecessary or excessive time spent dealing with your meeting room system is time away from your other patrons. We started fresh and looked at what we needed as a multiple-branch library system instead of trying to make a cure-all for every situation. Because of this, we were able to simplify our workflow by saving time on managing requests. We also simplified the public forms so that staff spends little to no time handling the questions and problems that a more complex system can create. Price Since the setup and yearly fees of commercial systems can cost tens of thousands of dollars, we wanted to