FSDirect™
Online Facility Scheduling Software
FSDirect is a powerful online facility usage scheduling tool for managing facility usage requests, tracking event schedules, and accounting for usage expenses.
FSDirect greatly simplifies the facility usage request process, documents actual facility usage costs to help justify rental rates and improve cost recovery, and improves relations with community groups who use educational facilities.
On average, SchoolDude clients recover $20 per student annually through cost recovery of rental fees, with additional savings from reduced energy costs and overtime pay.
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"We needed a better way to view what was happening in different school locations, opposed to manually flipping through calendars. FSDirect helped us improve our customer service, while also providing as much community use as possible in a timely manner. Today it takes five minutes because we can simply look at the facility scheduling calendar for the entire district, all available spaces, and view them all online in real-time."
Devon Rauenzahn
Spokane Public Schools
Spokane, Washington
30,950 students
Value to Your Institution
- Improves relations with community groups who use educational facilities and greatly simplifies the facility usage request process
- Documents actual facility usage costs to help justify rental rates and improve cost recovery
- Reduces time required to manage facility schedules
- Improves coordination of support resources for events (e.g. HVAC, custodial, or setup requirements)
- Reduces risk by tracking contact information, including permits, contracts, and insurance policies
Benefits
- Recover $20 per student annually through improved cost recovery of rental fees
- Additional savings from reduced energy costs and overtime
- Saves the institution time, money, efficiency and productivity by streamlining the facility request and usage process
Features & Functions
- Enables event requesters to check facility availability and submit usage requests
- Automatically routes usage requests to approval managers
- Automatically emails event service providers regarding event setup requirements
- Tracks all facility requests and bookings
- Enables booking of events by setup and breakdown times or event start and end times
- Allows booking of single or multiple rooms at a location for single event and recurring event schedules
- Easily schedules recurring events at regular and irregular intervals
- Allows users to create “to do” tasks and set reminders
- Allows event requesters to select room setup configuration and check capacity (by configuration)
- Enables event requesters to request equipment and services, which can be approved and invoiced automatically
- Displays scheduled events on interactive calendar, including location, start time and status
- Tracks facility usage costs with billing, payment and usage summary
- Supports set up of standard schedule fees for invoicing
- Automatically generates invoices for facility usage events, including invoicing terms, PO number, deposit, organization, billing information and line item charges at the room and / or event level
- Tracks contact information for groups using facilities, including permits, contracts, and insurance policies
- Generates insurance policy expiration notifications
Enhanced Capabilities
Work Orders
FSDirect enables event service providers (technicians) to create work orders for tracking event setup labor and materials through MaintenanceDirect integration.
Schedule Star
Schedule Star has teamed with SchoolDude.com to create a powerful communications and event scheduling solution for K-12 schools. As clients, you can connect your existing Schedule Star application with SchoolDude’s facility usage and trip scheduling systems – enabling two-way communication between district level and local level event scheduling. This innovative approach eliminates double data entry and embarrassing double-bookings of school facilities and meeting rooms, as well as the uncertainty of coordinating transportation, custodial or security resources for your event. Integrating Schedule Star with SchoolDude’s event scheduling solutions gives you peace of mind that your events are well coordinated across your athletic, facility and transportation departments – saving you effort, time and money.
Client Success with FSDirect
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Spokane Public Schools (Spokane, Washington)
We needed a better way to view what was happening in different school locations, opposed to manually flipping through calendars. FSDirect helped us improve our customer service, while also providing as much community use as possible in a timely manner. Today it takes five minutes because we can simply look at the facility scheduling calendar for the entire district, all available spaces, and view them all online in real-time.
-Devon Rauenzahn
Spokane Public Schools; 30,950 students
Grapevine-Colleyville ISD (Grapevine, Texas)
The process of scheduling our facilities was very time intensive. SchoolDude's facilities scheduling solution allows me to give requesting community groups an answer within minutes. The district now has a real-time calendar of events, and we have solved our problem of double booking. With SchoolDude, the solution automatically notifies everyone of their responsibilities and the community groups' needs.
-Valerie See
Grapevine-Colleyville ISD; 13,860 students
Shaker Heights City School District (Shaker Heights, Ohio)
With FSDirect, I'm no longer waiting on approvals to come in the mail, or being lost in the process, or stuck in a pile on someone's desk. Schools feel more involved and at ease with more information at their fingertips. Finally, I found something I can really use that is conducive to a school.
-April Abbott
Shaker Heights City School District; 5,600 students
Cape Cod Academy (Osterville, Massachusetts)
FSDirect frees up a lot of our time, keeps scheduling very simple and allows us to get our work done. Now people are able to send requests from a computer, and things run much more smoothly when it comes to reserving rooms. Eliminating the paperwork gets rid of a real burden. It's scheduling simplified.
-Pat Viens
Cape Cod Academy; 400 students
Product Screenshots
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- Home Page
- New Schedule Page
- Month Calendar View
- Check Availability
- Approve Schedule Requests
- Fee Tables
- Invoice
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