The licensing model
Zeitwart is licensed by estate, not by users – every package has the same feature set.
Most vendors charge per user. We do not: with Zeitwart your estate determines the price – how many rooms, desks and items you manage. How many people work with them makes no difference.
That makes the cost predictable. It grows with the building, not with the headcount. And nobody has to weigh up whether one more account is still worth it – a question that works against the whole point of room booking.
What costs a point
Every object you manage in Zeitwart costs a fixed number of points. Their sum is the demand your package has to cover:
Room: 1 point – every bookable resource that is not a desk. A meeting room, a vehicle, a projector to borrow.
Desk: ¼ point – a single workstation or parking space. Four make one point, which keeps desk sharing cheap.
Item: ⅕ point – your inventory. Things that belong to a unit and sit in a room, but are not booked themselves.
Calendar connection: 1 point – a resource run through an interface, synchronised with Outlook or Google for example.
Lock connection: 1 point – a room or service connected to an electronic locking system.
On top of that come events: twelve a year are free, after that every started further group of twelve costs one point. They are the only item where what you do counts – for everything else, what you have counts.
Because otherwise the rule is: the price follows the estate, not the usage. A room nobody books costs just as much as a constantly occupied one. So anyone wanting to save points tidies up unused resources rather than trying to change behaviour.
What sets the packages apart
Nothing but the number of points. We do not lock a feature behind a bigger package – there is no variant missing approval workflows, statistics or the event module.
The more points you need, the cheaper the individual point gets. Universities, libraries and other educational institutions get an additional discount. You will find the amounts and the calculator on the pricing page.
Advantages at a glance
Licensed by estate instead of headcount – unlimited accounts and roles
The same feature set in every package, no feature behind a bigger plan
Desks count as a quarter point, items as a fifth of a point
Twelve events per year and tenant are free, no matter how many people register
Quota, consumption and balance are visible in the application at any time
30 days free to try before a licensable feature costs any points
An exceeded quota blocks nothing – it is a commercial note
Frequently asked questions
The details that tend to come up while you work out your points:
As many as you like. Accounts, roles and administrators are unlimited and cost no points. The price follows your estate, not the number of people booking with it.
Yes, it costs three points: one for the room and one for each of the two connections. A connection does not replace the object, it comes on top. Each object can have at most one connection of each kind.
A lock connection can also belong to a service. The service itself consumes no points, its connection does. Items, on the other hand, are never counted twice – an item is never also a room or a desk.
No, one. Rounding up happens per category across the total and not per unit: three desks together cost one point, twelve items cost three.
If you manage several tenants, Zeitwart rounds up per tenant and only then adds the results together.
Counting happens as soon as somebody can register – not when the event is created. A draft costs nothing, and a copy always starts as a draft. What matters are the last twelve months rather than the calendar year: anything more than a year old drops out of the count by itself.
An event that has been counted stays counted, even if you delete it later. Moving a date costs nothing – reusing a finished event for a new date does, because that is a second run.
How many people register makes no difference. A conference with 300 attendees is one event, just like a guided tour with eight.
The rule applies per tenant from the start date recorded in your contract. Before that, Zeitwart counts your events and shows them in the overview, but charges nothing.
Most features are simply there. A few are licensed separately and cost a fixed number of points – the first of them is Wayfinding & maps at 25 points. This is not a package difference: the feature is available in every package, it only has to be licensed.
When an administrator switches such a feature on, it runs free for 30 days. The period starts with switching on, not with the contract, and there is one per feature and customer.
Administration is closed, viewing stays open. Whatever is already set up keeps working – it just cannot be maintained any more. Locked menu items do not disappear either, they appear greyed out.
An outage of the licence server locks nothing, by the way: a running licence carries on if a query fails.
Nothing, at first. Licence points are not technically enforced: Zeitwart keeps running unchanged, nobody loses access and nothing is blocked. A negative balance is a commercial note – we will get in touch to adjust the licence together.
No. The e-paper door signs are licensed once and tied to the device; there are no licence points and no running fee. Information displays for room overviews are included in the feature set as well.
No, and the two are easily confused. Cost rules work out what a booking costs your users – that is your internal recharging. It has nothing to do with licensing Zeitwart.
The pricing page carries a calculator: you enter your quantities and see straight away which package is cheapest. If Zeitwart is already running, the application shows your quota, the consumption and the trend of recent months under Administration → License points.