Skedda vs Joan

The pricing shapes, and when each one wins

Skedda publishes regionalised per-space plans, all billed annually and all prefixed Starting at. For EMEA and APAC: Starter from 99 per month with 15 spaces, Plus from 149 with 20 spaces, Premier from 199 with 25 spaces. For the United States and Canada: Plus from 249 per month with 35 spaces, Premier from 349 with 45 spaces. Enterprise is custom and a separate AllBooked offering is quote only. Every figure is printed with a bare dollar symbol and no ISO code, so USD is inferred from the symbol plus the explicit United States and Canada heading, and the EMEA and APAC figures carry the same bare symbol. There is no free plan, but a free 14-day Premium trial with no payment method required.

Joan publishes four tiers, served in AED during research because the pricing page is geolocated, starting at 221.18 AED per month. Team includes 20 users, up to 50, and 2 devices, up to 5. Business includes 50 users, up to 150, and 5 devices, up to 12. Organization includes 100 users, up to 400, and 10 devices, up to 35. Enterprise+ includes 200 users and 20 devices. Extra users are 4.42 AED per user per month and extra devices 44 AED per device per month. ePaper badges cost 73.40 AED per badge per year on top of a plan, with licences starting 15 November 2026. There is a 30-day free trial with no commitment and a 30-day money-back guarantee on devices. The monthly-billed rates referenced in the FAQ did not render and are unverified, and the currency you see will depend on your region.

So: count your spaces for Skedda and count your screens for Joan. A 500-person company with 30 bookable rooms pays for 30 spaces on Skedda. An organisation with 40 rooms is pushed up Joan tiers by screen count regardless of headcount. Neither is cheap in the other one shape.

Outlook and Teams: a documented caveat against no evidence at all

This is the capability that decides adoption in this category, and the two products fail the test in different ways.

Skedda is the trap. Its integrations page says that Outlook calendar syncs with Skedda for real-time availability and scheduling, and lists Microsoft Teams as a direct integration. What it nowhere states is that users can create, cancel or manage bookings from within Outlook or Teams. The same pattern applies to Google Workspace, where calendar management is described but booking from Google Calendar is not, and to Slack, which surfaces hybrid schedule information. Read carefully, Skedda documents calendar sync, not calendar-native booking. It is recorded in this directory as supported with that caveat spelled out, and the caveat must not be flattened: if your entire adoption plan rests on employees never leaving Outlook, this distinction is decisive and the 14-day trial is where you test it.

Joan has no Outlook or Teams evidence at all. No such statement was read on the vendor pages covered. For a product whose core use case is meeting room booking with displays outside the rooms, that is the single most important gap in the evidence and it has to be established directly with the vendor before purchase. And since no vendor anywhere in this category documents recurring-meeting behaviour, neither product carries a verified recurring-booking claim either.

Everything else

Skedda is reasonably open: SSO via Okta, OneLogin, Microsoft Entra ID and JumpCloud, webhooks, Zapier, Google Sheets, API documentation for booking data, and listed integrations including Zoom, Webex, ServiceNow, Stripe, Xero, QuickBooks, Kisi, Logitech Tap Scheduler and an embeddable website scheduler. Floor plans, occupancy analytics, utilisation reporting, visitor management, wayfinding and sensors are all absent from the published material. For Joan, none of those were verified either way.