Meeting room scheduling

Room hours recovered per week by auto-release
24
No-shows per week
18
Room hours lost per week
27
Share of lost hours recovered, percent
89

Every figure on this page is computed from the inputs entered, by the method stated below it. Huddlevo publishes no benchmark utilisation, no no-show rate and no release rule: the rates, the targets and the rules are yours, and the defaults are a worked example to replace with your own figures.

Your numbers

The figures above start from a worked example (24). Change any input and the answer updates as you type.

Download the Meeting room scheduling worked example (CSV)

This is a no-show sheet, the piece of meeting room scheduling that decides whether the office needs another room or a rule. Bookings times the no-show rate is the no-shows; times average length is the room hours lost; no-shows times the length less the release minutes is the hours an auto-release rule gives back; and the recovered share is the length less the release minutes over the length. Every figure is yours, including the release rule; the sheet publishes no rule. Free, on the page, no account; the paid plan applies the rule and emails the organiser.

No-shows and the hours they lose

20% of 90 bookings is 18 no-shows a week, 27 room hours at an hour and a half, on the worked example. The rate is yours from check-ins; the sheet works what it costs in rooms.

What auto-release recovers

Releasing an unclaimed room ten minutes after its start gives back 24 of the 27 hours, 89%. The rule is the office's: a longer grace period recovers less and annoys fewer organisers, and the sheet shows what any rule recovers.

The rule, not the room

24 recovered hours a week is more than half a room's bookable time. The sheet is where the office decides whether the next answer to full rooms is a rule; the paid plan applies the rule and records every release.

Meeting room scheduling: common questions

How do I reduce meeting room no-shows?

Record check-ins, release unclaimed rooms by a rule, and remind organisers. The free sheet on this site works what any release rule recovers from your own no-show rate; Huddlevo Pro applies the rule and emails the organiser.

How many room hours do no-shows cost?

Bookings times the no-show rate times the average length: 27 hours a week on the worked example. The sheet publishes no benchmark rate; enter your own.

What release rule should I set?

Your own; the worked example's ten minutes is arithmetic, not guidance. The sheet shows the hours and the share any rule recovers, so the choice is a number.

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Keeping what you make

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