| Recommended score | 93/100 | 90/100 |
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| Ongoing free access | Free trial published | Free trial published |
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| Visitor workflow depth | 0 specialised workflow signals | 0 specialised workflow signals |
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| Customer review sentiment | 4. 6/5 from 334 published reviews | No review score listed |
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| Evidence confidence | medium | medium |
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| Published evidence | 16 vendor pages analysed | 1 vendor page analysed |
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| Best for | Hybrid workplace teams managing desks, rooms, parking, and shared assets, Enterprise facilities and IT teams needing centralized workplace administration, Organizations replacing paper-based room and visitor processes, Workplaces seeking room utilization and occupancy insights, Centralising workplace resource booking and visitor check-in, Organisations needing multi-resource booking (rooms, desks, parking, assets), Teams seeking simple digital visitor registration and badges, Facilities and office managers wanting utilisation analytics, Hybrid teams requiring mobile booking and geolocation check-in | Reception and front-desk teams looking to modernize check-ins (visitor experience and host notifications), Workplace operations teams seeking desk and meeting-room booking with occupancy insights, Security teams needing document capture and compliance tracking for visitors, Facilities teams managing deliveries, digital logbooks and audit trails, IT/ops buyers who want a cloud solution with API/integration options |
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| Comparison positioning | Joan positions itself as a unified workplace platform combining software and optional purpose-built e-ink hardware to manage rooms, desks, visitors, parking and assets from a single portal. | LobbyBase positions itself as an integrated visitor-and-space management solution for workplaces with emphasis on speed of deployment and an analytics-backed approach. |
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| Best-fit signals | Choose Joan when you want an integrated SaaS portal for multiple workplace resources with optional hardware displays and mobile check-in capabilities. | Choose when you need a single vendor for visitor check-ins plus space/desk booking and want a quick trial and deployment. |
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| Pricing information | The public pricing page states that plans start at a monthly amount and lists additional per-user and per-device monthly rates, but the displayed amounts are blank. A quote is required for confirmed pricing. A free trial is advertised. | Public site advertises a free 30-day trial and 'Start Free Trial' with no public list pricing or tiers on the cited overview page. |
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