Build your community facility booking.
Coordinate facility requests, capacity review and confirmed community bookings.
How to build your community facility booking
Describe the job
Coordinate facility requests, capacity review and confirmed community bookings.
Review the first version
Choose how the booking coordinator records the facility and how the facility manager reviews the next step.
Refine the views
Ask First to adjust the fields and views for the people who will use the app.
Test before sharing
Walk through the process with a sample record and check who owns the next action.
A community facility booking example
Two groups request the same community hall.
Community facility booking example
- Record
- Community facility booking · 01
- Owner
- Booking coordinator
Current stage · Booking coordinator
Open the facility
Two groups request the same community hall.
Read the full walkthrough
Open the facility
Two groups request the same community hall.
- Record:
- Community facility booking · 01
- Owner:
- Booking coordinator
Review the confirmation
Preserve both requests and require the booking owner's explicit confirmation before either becomes final.
- Stage:
- Awaiting facility manager review
- Owner:
- Facility manager
Keep a requested time provisional
Keep a requested time provisional until the facility owner records approval.
- Next action:
- Keep a requested time provisional until the facility owner records approval.
- Owner:
- Community organizer
What to include in your community facility booking
Keep the facility in context
Keep facility, event purpose, requested slot, capacity review, approval and confirmation together so the next person can understand the request or record.
When the next step needs a decision
Two groups request the same community hall. Preserve both requests and require the booking owner's explicit confirmation before either becomes final.
Keep confirmation visible
Keep a requested time provisional until the facility owner records approval.
Choose what each person needs
Give the booking coordinator a working view and the facility manager a review view. Keep facility and event purpose attached to the decision as the work moves between them.
Questions about community facility booking
Start with facility, event purpose, requested slot, capacity review, approval and confirmation. Describe who enters the information and who reviews the next step.