Book a room from Slack
Connect Slack so anyone can type /book or /room to find a free room and book it.
Narrated walkthrough with captions. The steps below cover the same ground with screenshots.
Before you start
- Your organisation is on Pro for Rooms, or Complete Pro.
- Chat integrations appears in your sidebar. If it doesn't, Slack isn't enabled for your workspace yet: contact support.
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Open the Slack page
Go to Chat integrations, then Slack.
Connect Slack so anyone can type /book or /room. - 2
Add to Slack
Click Add to Slack and approve Lobby in Slack. Back in Lobby you'll see 'Slack connected' and the name of your Slack workspace.
Connect Slack so anyone can type /book or /room. - 3
Type /book in Slack
Anyone in your Slack workspace can type /book or /room. A Find a room dialog opens.
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Describe the meeting
Choose How many people?, the Date, Start time and Duration, then click Search.
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Book a free room
Slack lists the rooms that are free for that slot. Click Book next to a room. Your calendar opens with the room and time filled in: just save the event.
What happens next
The booking is a normal event in the person's own calendar, and the room's screen shows it after the next sync.
Tips
- Set each room's Capacity in Lobby so the 'How many people?' filter finds the right rooms.
- One Slack workspace can be linked to one Lobby organisation.
- To unlink Slack, click Disconnect on the Slack page.
If something goes wrong
'Only an admin can connect Slack.'
Ask a Lobby Admin to click Add to Slack.
'That Slack workspace is already linked to a different Lobby workspace.'
Disconnect Slack in the other Lobby organisation first, or contact support.
'No rooms are free' or 'No meeting rooms match that size.'
Try a shorter meeting, a different time or a smaller group, or add more rooms in Lobby.
/book says room booking from Slack is a Lobby Pro feature.
Your plan has changed. An admin can upgrade in Settings, under Plan & billing.
Related guides
Still stuck?
Open Support at the bottom of the dashboard sidebar and send us a ticket. We reply by email, in the same thread.
Prefer email?
Write to support@usethelobby.com and include your organisation's domain.