AskCody Meeting Planning Services for Outlook

Right from Outlook's familiar interface

REQUEST SERVICES FOR YOUR MEETINGS

Are you tired of wasting time on meeting preparation or cumbersome service requests? Book meetings, catering, audio-visual, and other facilities and office services directly from Outlook and Microsoft 365.

Manage catering and associated costs for meetings and events. Assign cost codes and allocate to finance for invoicing or internal charging.

Meeting Management Services allow you to request services for your meeting when using the Outlook Add-in to book a room and includes things like catering, A/V requests, facilities requests, specific tech setup, etc. Admins can also add custom categories for unique service requests that your organization would like to support.

A scalable solution for handling meeting services

AUTOMATE YOUR SERVICE REQUEST

In AskCody you can configure all your meeting services like catering, cleaning, room-setup, etc. Get a frictionless experience when booking services for your meeting and use our Meeting Service API integration to completely automate the process of handling invoices from your service providers.

It is the most scalable and configurable platform to manage meetings and Services.

Reschedule or cancel without worrying

SAVE TIME PLAN MORE EFFECTIVELY

With Meeting Management Services simply book what you want from Outlook or Microsoft 365 on your desktop, laptop, tablet, or phone.

The corresponding parties (kitchen, canteen management, AV provider, or facility management) are instantly alerted to your booking needs with exactly what, when, and where you need supplies, and can manage everything from the integrated Service Management tool.

Get a clean overview of all room bookings with service orders. Learn more about Workplace Central.

Book directly from Outlook

A FAMILIAR INTERFACE

AskCody is 100% integrated with Outlook and Microsoft 365. No need for outdated third-party tools, unintegrated SharePoint sites, 3rd party webpages, or paper-based bookings. Meeting Management Services from AskCody comes as a Modern Add-in for Outlook and Microsoft 365 and runs where Outlook is.

Redefine the Meeting Services experience

BOOST YOUR PRODUCTIVITY

With AskCody Meeting Services, the booking experience of meeting services goes to a whole new level and is fully integrated into Outlook and Microsoft 365.

The old way of ordering refreshments or additional meeting room equipment such as AV or workstations for a meeting is cumbersome, time-consuming, difficult to administer, and error-prone. Now, booking of Meeting Services runs inside Outlook! Imagine, like a webshop for meeting services. But inside Outlook.

Service Vendor Management Portal

EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT OF SERVICE REQUESTS

The Service Management Portal is a complete management tool making the meeting service experience more efficient and effective than ever for service vendors like Office Managers, Catering Management, Hospitality Teams, AV provider, or Facility Management. Imagine, a light-weight IWMS platform for meeting management services.

Use the Meeting Service Portal to manage additional resources and meeting services, workflows, items, bookings of corporate kitchens and canteens, and accept or reject service requests. Kitchen and facility managers can tell at a glance what they need and how many people need meeting service, as well as the location of the service. Now they have an instant one-stop interface with an updated overview in real time.

Custom properties and extension attributes

TO FIT YOUR ORGANISATION

Meeting Management Services lets you define mandatory and optional input fields when requesting and ordering service, in terms of Tax & Financial Information, Client Matter Numbers, User Information, and Cost Center Management. This makes your IT and Finance Department fall in love with the Meeting Management Services features immediately. Associated costs for meetings and events can be assigned cost codes and allocated to finance for invoicing or internal charging.

IT and Finance will love the ease-of-use associated with the data export in the AskCody Management Portal. Data is simply exported to incorporate with accounting, databases, and ERP, either via CSV exports or with our JSON API.

User Information is managed by Active Directory or Azure Active Directory to save clicks and ensure correct user data every time. Hereby time-consuming and manual processes are automated to help IT and Finance save a huge amount of time every day.

KEY FEATURES & BENEFITS

Completely Integrated in Outlook

BookRequest our meeting management services right from Outlook's familiar interface

RequestRequest services across multiple vendors, locations and time zones

ManageManage billing and costs, tax, or client matter numbers. Assign cost codes and allocate to finance for invoicing or internal charging.

Be EfficientA light-weight IWMS for Meeting Management Services

Videos

CURIOUS TO SEE THE MEETING SERVICES PORTAL?

Check out the videos below and learn: how to manage service requests, tips and tricks on managing finances and reporting, and how to plan ahead with items and previous requests. You can also get a walkthrough of the functionality in our help center

Webinar: Meeting Services tips and tricks

Watch this webinar to get tips and tricks on online meeting services with AskCody.

What AV support is available? AskCody provides many ways to order and manage your audio visual needs.

Orders can be placed directly from Outlook
Faulty equipment can be reported directly from the room using Room Displays
AV orders can be tracked, sent to the appropriate department and shared with finance in the Management Portal

Does AskCody software integrate with both Outlook and Microsoft 365? Yes, it indeed does.

We have a close collaboration with Microsoft, and our product suite is 100% integrated with Microsoft 365 and Outlook. No need for manual processes or outdated third-party tools, unintegrated SharePoint sites, or paper-based booking. Everything works within the familiar Outlook and Office interface. We base AskCody on modern integrations into Microsoft Exchange, and built everything on Microsoft Azure.

Learn more about how we integrate to Exchange and Microsoft 365 on our knowledge base.

What happens to my catering or services order when meetings are cancelled or rescheduled? Catering and additional resources follow your meeting. That's one of the best parts. We have developed a true follow the meeting intelligence.

Meetings are cancelled, rescheduled, postponed, or relocated all the time. That’s why all the assigned resources such as catering, AV and telepresence, meeting room equipment, and table arrangements follow the meeting if it is rescheduled. If a meeting is cancelled, the assigned resources will be released automatically. The kitchen or the AV provider will be notified immediately from the AskCody Management Portal.

Can data be exported? And what about cost center management or tax management for external meetings? With AskCody you get the data you need when you need it.

Your IT or Finance department will love the ease-of-use associated with the data export in the AskCody Management Portal. Data is simply exported to incorporate with accounting, databases, and ERP through simple CSV exports or by leveraging the AskCody API.

Cost Centers can be managed manually in AskCody or by your Active Directory. Invoices, tax management for external meetings, and settlements can all be taken care of by AskCody.

Do the AskCody add-ins work across all Outlook platforms? Outlook, Outlook Web App, or OWA for Devices. The Add-ins for Outlook work seamlessly across all platforms, making it easy for you to book meetings and meeting services.

Now you and your organization only need Outlook and AskCody to handle everything related to productivity, mail and collaboration, and meeting management.

How do vendors or service providers work with AskCody Meeting Services?

here's a complete Management Portal for Service Vendors like corporate kitchens, facilities, and office managers designed to make the meeting experience more efficient and effective than ever.

Use the AskCody Management Portal to manage additional resources, workflows, items, bookings of corporate kitchens and canteens, and accept or reject bookings. Kitchen and facility managers can view at a glance what they need and how many people need meeting services, as well as the location. Now they have an instant one-stop interface with an updated overview in real time.

Which languages does AskCody support?

The AskCody Platform is available in major languages of your choice.

English
German
French
Spanish
Norwegian
Swedish
Danish
Finnish

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