Archie

Archie is space management software for flexible workspaces covering desk booking, room scheduling, visitor management and coworking operations, with the vendor reporting more than 1,000 organisations and review scores of 4.9, 4.9 and 4.7 across platforms.

Serving both corporate offices and coworking operators from one product is the structural choice, and the two have genuinely different requirements that overlap more than they appear to.

A corporate office manages employees, who are known, employed and do not pay. A coworking space manages members, who are customers with contracts, billing cycles, credit allowances and the ability to leave. The coworking case therefore needs everything the corporate case needs plus billing, plans, contracts and member lifecycle.

That is why products built for coworking generally serve corporate offices well, while the reverse is rarely true. An office booking tool cannot bill anybody, and a coworking operator adopting one discovers that immediately.

Visitor management is where the two converge, and it matters more than it used to. Offices now have obligations around who is on site: for evacuation lists, for security, and in some sectors for regulatory reasons. A paper visitor book satisfies none of that and is also a data protection problem, since every visitor can read the details of everyone before them.

Room scheduling alongside desks reflects that meeting rooms are the contested resource in both settings, and in coworking they are frequently a billable one with credit allowances per plan.

Pricing is published from $2.80 with a $159 figure published within the range, covering booking, room scheduling, visitor management and coworking capability.