Joan

Two things needed verifying about Joan and both came back clearly. The vendor is Visionect d.o.o., named in the copyright notice on the Joan site, which is the Slovenian e-paper display company behind the product. And the software is not locked to Visionect hardware: the Joan pricing FAQ states that Joan "works on our proprietary ePaper devices as well as any other display", including tablets and LCD televisions. So you can buy Joan as software and run it on screens you already own.

That said, the commercial model is still hardware-shaped, and this is the most important thing for a buyer to understand. Every plan bundles both a user allowance and a device allowance, and extra devices are charged separately from extra users. Joan publishes four plans, with figures shown during this pass in AED because the pricing page is geolocated. Plans start at 221.18 AED per month and are described as including all Joan solutions. 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 are 44 AED per device per month, which is a roughly tenfold difference. The FAQ states these rates apply to annually billed plans with monthly-billed prices "in brackets", but the bracketed monthly figures did not render in the page text retrieved, so the monthly-billed rates are unverified.

Joan also sells ePaper badges at 73.40 AED per badge per year on top of a plan, with licences starting 15 November 2026 and no minimum order. There is a 30-day free trial with no commitment, badge licences include a one-month trial, and device purchases carry a 30-day money-back guarantee.

The pricing page is the only vendor page read in depth during this pass, so the capability set is thinly evidenced here. Room and desk booking are evident from the plan descriptions and the product category, but floor plans, occupancy analytics, visitor management, sensors, utilisation reporting, wayfinding, multi-site handling, API availability and the depth of any Outlook or Teams integration were not verified from the vendor site and are recorded as unknown. This profile should be treated as commercially well evidenced and functionally under-evidenced.

Joan fits small and mid-sized offices whose primary need is meeting room booking with physical screens outside the rooms. The e-paper heritage is genuinely useful here: e-paper panels need no mains wiring and run for long periods on battery, which makes retrofitting room displays into an office with no cabling at meeting room doors far cheaper than it would be otherwise. If you have twelve meeting rooms and no power outside any of them, that is the problem Joan solves better than anyone in this set.

Watch the device economics. Extra devices cost around ten times what extra users cost, so the plan you need is determined by your screen count, not your headcount. An organisation with 40 rooms is pushed toward Organization or Enterprise+ regardless of how few employees it has. Model devices first.

Joan is not an enterprise space management product. Nothing in the published material suggests space allocation, chargeback, portfolio reporting or sensor-driven occupancy counting, and the plan ceilings top out at a few hundred users. Large estates should look at Eptura, Planon or Spacewell instead.

Finally, confirm the currency and the monthly rates yourself. The pricing page is geolocated and served AED during this research pass; your own figures may appear in a different currency, and the monthly-billed rates referenced in the FAQ did not render.

Typical use cases: retrofitting room booking displays into offices without cabling, small to mid-sized meeting room booking with a 30-day trial, and desk booking alongside room booking in a single office.