Hi Dana, Congrats! We have the same square feet and 2.5 meeting-rooms (the .5 is what we call, "the cloffice." Closet/office)
We run one high-speed cable wireless router for the space and are almost max with it's bandwidth. The cable company will say 10-12 PCs per drop. we may ad a second drop or move to fibre in the future. A full day is around 17 tenants. We change our password every 2-3 months We use Google cal for room bookings - self managed - works great. Payment - we do it manually right now (email invoice, they pay by check or cash) but just recently started using www.cobot.me Peace. Chad On 2011-01-12, at 7:21 PM, Dana VanDen Heuvel wrote: > Hello! > > We're about to open our first coworking center in Green Bay, WI in the > next few months (www.thedockingstation.net) and have a few questions > about some operational aspects of the center. > > 1. Wifi - Is a simple password protected wifi router enough or do many > coworking centers use something that's more "enterprise level" (like a > Cisco system or something)? We're at 2400 square feet. > > 2. Scheduling - we have a couple of conf. rooms that can be > scheduled. I've seen some several coworking centers using Wufoo or > Genbook.com but was wondering if someone was actually really happy > with a system for scheduling conf. rooms for members and for > scheduling hot desk spaces for drop ins? > > 3. Payment systems - Simply billing through PayPal is what we're > thinking today, but is there something better? We'd use PayPal > virtual terminal if someone wants to use their card to pay that day, > in the office, but again, we're wondering if there's something that > people are really happy with that we're missing. > > That's what's top of mind today... What else should we be considering > from an operations perspective? > > Thanks in advance for your advice! > > Dana VanDen Heuvel > The Docking Station > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Coworking" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en. > Chad Ballantyne The Creative Space Director (705) 252-2423 www.thecreativespace.ca -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en.
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