October '26 news

October brought a whole bunch of new features to Seatsurfing: public bookings, new filters and a dark mode for the Admin UI, block periods and announcements for locations, and better support for the 24-hour time format.

🌍 Public bookings

Not every room is booked by your own employees. Think meeting rooms rented out to external partners, a coworking space for visitors, or event rooms used by guests. With public bookings, external users can book a room themselves — without needing a Seatsurfing account.

Here's how it works:

• Enable it per room: Public bookings are switched on individually for each room, so you decide exactly which spaces external users can book — everything else stays internal.
• A public booking page: Enabled rooms are bookable via a publicly reachable page that you can share or link to from your website.
• Map included if you want it: Optionally, the page also shows the floor plan, so visitors can see at a glance where the room is located.
• Your approval process still applies: Public bookings go through Seatsurfing's standard approval process, so you stay in control of who actually gets the room.

More from October

🔍 New booking filters: multiple users and subject

The bookings list in the Admin UI got new filter options: you can now filter by several users at once, as well as by subject.

🌙 Dark mode for the Admin UI

The Admin UI now comes with a dark mode.

⛔ Block periods for locations

You can now define block periods for locations. During a block period, the location can't be booked — perfect for renovations, maintenance work, company holidays or events.

📢 Announcements for locations

Locations can now have an announcement. Use it to inform users about anything they should know before booking — like construction work, changed access rules or a new floor layout.

🕒 24-hour format in calendar views and a new default time format

Calendar views now support the 24-hour time format. On top of that, there's a new "default time format" setting, so you can choose which time format is used by default in your organization.

📋 More details

As always, you can find detailed information about all releases and technical changes on our GitHub releases page.

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