Seatsurfing is a web-based application for booking seats, desks, and rooms in offices — built for the reality of hybrid work. Employees book the right desk or room in seconds from a visual floor plan, and workplace teams get the governance and utilisation insights they need. It is an open-source product you can self-host with Docker or Kubernetes, with a managed cloud option.

Key Features

• Visual floor plans — show desks, rooms and spaces on interactive maps so availability is clear at a glance
• Fast self-service booking — book from mobile, desktop, Microsoft Teams or Confluence
• Advanced booking controls — booking limits, approvals, recurring reservations and group restrictions
• Utilisation insights — track occupancy and booking patterns to improve office planning and return-to-office initiatives
• Security and identity — MFA, passkeys, and third-party identity providers for enterprise rollouts
• Use-case flexible — desk sharing, meeting rooms, parking and broader space coordination
• Cloud or self-hosted — managed SaaS, dedicated hosting, or self-hosted with Docker/Kubernetes; open-source with documented APIs

Why Use Seatsurfing?

It gives hybrid teams a low-friction way to coordinate office presence — reducing the reliance on chat, email and spreadsheets for desk booking. Self-hosting keeps your utilisation data on your own infrastructure while still offering the integrations employees actually use.

Use Cases

• Hybrid offices coordinating flexible desk seating day to day
• Facility teams managing meeting rooms and approvals
• IT/compliance teams needing self-hosted, auditable booking with SSO
• Return-to-office initiatives tracking occupancy and space usage

Platform

Web (self-hosted with Docker/Kubernetes; managed cloud available) + Microsoft Teams and Confluence integrations

Licence

GPL-3.0 — open source; self-hosted is free, managed cloud has a free tier (10 users) and paid plans

Website

seatsurfing.io