HqO

Changelog

New features, improvements, and fixes across the HqO platform — released monthly.

Kiosks go self-service, screens come online, and bookings sync with Outlook

Walk-up visitors still need staff to get through the door, lobbies rely on printed signs instead of live screens, and resource bookings live in a calendar of their own, disconnected from Outlook. This release closes all three gaps: Visitor Kiosk now handles check-in and host approval without front-desk help, Digital Signage brings published content and events to in-building screens, and Resource Booking syncs bidirectionally with Microsoft 365.

Visitor Kiosk: self-service check-in and host approval

Walk-up visitors can now complete check-in independently, with no staff assistance required.

  • Three check-in flows: Visitors check in by scanning their QR code, searching by email or phone, or registering on the spot as a walk-up
  • Real-time host approval: Walk-up requests notify the host by email and/or SMS, and the host can approve or deny directly from the notification or the admin portal
  • Automatic badge printing: Once approved, a badge prints automatically so the visitor can proceed without further steps
  • Full branding control: Customize kiosk colors, logo, background, welcome text, and check-in flow copy per building

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Digital Signage

HqO now integrates with Telecine to display published content and events on in-building screens.

  • One publishing flow: Select which buildings should display a piece of content or an event when you publish it, and it appears on-screen automatically
  • Centralized signage view: A dedicated Digital Signage page shows what's live now, what's scheduled, and what's available to add
  • Building-level control: Turn the integration on or off per organization, and remove any item from screens at any time

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Resource Booking: Outlook calendar integration

Resource Booking now stays in sync with Microsoft 365, so a booking made in either system reflects in both automatically.

  • Bidirectional sync: A booking made in HqO or Outlook is reflected in both places automatically
  • Flexible calendar mapping: Map each bookable resource to a dedicated, shared, or personal Outlook calendar
  • Automatic attribution: Bookings made by users who aren't yet registered in HqO are matched to a company by email domain, so records stay accurate without manual cleanup
  • Scoped access: Connect a dedicated service account or limit calendar shares so the integration only touches the resource calendars you intend

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Together, these releases meet people where they already are — on the screens in the lobby, at the kiosk instead of the front desk, and inside the calendar app teams use every day.

Leasing joins HqO, and everyday operations get sharper

Lease financials, key dates, and space assignments have long lived outside the rest of the platform, and front desks have had to choose between clunky recurring-visit workarounds and service requests that required an account first. This release closes both gaps. HqO now has a single home for lease data, visitor registration and recurring visits get a cleaner experience, Service Requests opens up to anyone regardless of account status, and Local Experiences starts surfacing what's happening nearby without any manual curation.

Leasing

Property teams get a centralized, portfolio-wide view of every lease — financials, key dates, and occupied spaces in one place.

  • Portfolio overview: See total active leases, total annual rent, and upcoming expirations across all buildings
  • Guided lease creation: A three-step process (parties and spaces, lease terms, final review) supports multi-building leases
  • Full financial breakdown: Base rent, rent per square foot, and total lease value, with term progress tracking
  • Space-level detail: Building, floor, and suite listings, with the ability to modify spaces as terms change

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Visitor Management: registration and recurring visits

The native app's visit creation and management interface has been modernized, and property teams get updated settings to configure registration behavior.

Recurring visits also get their own dedicated controls:

  • Flexible repeat patterns: Daily, weekly, monthly (by date or by day), weekdays, or custom day sets
  • Just-in-time invites: Visitor invites now dispatch on each specific visit date rather than all at once
  • Scoped edits and cancellations: Modify a single occurrence, the series going forward, or the entire series independently

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Service Requests

Property teams can now submit a service request on behalf of anyone — including people who don't have an account yet.

  • Pre-registration requests: Create a request for an unregistered user by email, with automatic notification
  • Built for new hires and guests: Eliminates the sign-up prerequisite that previously blocked requests
  • Custom request forms: Tailored intake forms per service type, supporting text, multiple choice, file uploads, dates, and other field types

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Local Experiences

Nearby events — concerts, festivals, classes — now surface automatically, refreshed on a rolling 30-day basis.

  • Automatic sourcing: Events populate based on building city and selected event types, with no manual publishing required
  • Auto-populate or curate: Choose automatic handling or hand-pick events for specific content sections
  • Portfolio-wide configuration: Set event preferences across the portfolio, with adjustments available at the individual building level

Resource Booking grows up: cancellation policies, walk-up kiosks, and Tripleseat

Property teams have asked for clearer rules around late cancellations, a way to let tenants book shared spaces without an app, and support for event and meeting spaces managed in specialized systems like Tripleseat. This release closes those gaps directly in Resource Booking, adding cancellation policies, a walk-up kiosk mode, and a live Tripleseat integration — extending the booking lifecycle rather than expanding its scope.

Cancellation policies

Property teams can now define exactly how tenants are allowed to cancel a booking, and what happens when they cancel late.

  • Configurable window: Set a cutoff — in minutes, hours, or days — after which a cancellation counts as late
  • Enforcement: Let tenants cancel late with an optional refund percentage, or disable late cancellation entirely
  • Post-start cancellations: Optionally let tenants cancel even after a booking has already begun
  • Communication: Add a custom message explaining the policy or next steps for tenants whose cancellation is blocked

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Walk-up kiosks

Resource Booking Kiosk turns any tablet into a walk-up booking station, with no app download or login required.

  • Display options: Show a single bookable space, or group several together as a collection for tenants to browse
  • Visual control: Choose whether to show booker names, company names, or a QR code
  • User identification: Require tenants to identify themselves before booking, or attribute walk-up bookings to a kiosk account
  • Hardware support: Runs on iPad and Android tablets

Tripleseat integration

Events booked in Tripleseat now automatically block the corresponding time in HqO, bringing Tripleseat-managed event spaces into Resource Booking.

  • Real-time sync: Availability updates automatically across both platforms
  • Workflow: Tenants browse and check availability in HqO, then complete their booking through the building's existing Tripleseat lead form
  • Kiosk compatibility: Tripleseat resources can be viewed, read-only, on a Resource Booking Kiosk
  • Automatic import: All imported Tripleseat spaces stay in sync without manual setup

Service Requests launches, and access gets smarter

Property teams have long tracked tenant service issues across email threads and disconnected systems, making it hard to see status or spot patterns. This release closes that gap and moves several other operational touchpoints forward at the same time. Service Requests officially launches as a full intake-to-resolution workflow, and it's joined by new Visitor Management configuration controls, a live Integriti access control integration, and French language support in Intelligence.

Service Requests

Service Requests turns an everyday tenant touchpoint into a streamlined, high-impact workflow, giving property teams one place to intake, prioritize, and resolve requests with speed and transparency. Unifying communication, tracking, and assignment removes the friction of email chains and manual handoffs, turning routine issues into a chance to build trust and improve response times.

The launch includes:

  • A modern, table-driven UX with search, robust filters, and a detailed request view with status and location fields for faster updates
  • Flexible management settings so admins can configure request types to fit each property's unique offerings and needs
  • Built-in two-way chat with timestamps and internal notes, keeping requesters and assignees aligned without email chains
  • Attachments with preview, plus assignment and progress tracking from intake to resolution

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Visitor Management: smarter configuration

Three new capabilities give property teams more flexibility to configure visitor experiences that match their building's security model, staffing approach, and tenant expectations.

  • Walk-up optional fields: Building operators can configure lighter registration requirements for last-minute visits, supporting walk-up arrivals within one hour with optional email and phone fields, reducing front-desk friction without compromising security on future-dated registrations.
  • Reminder notification customization: Reminder schedules can now be set to match how visitors actually plan their day, choosing from no reminder, an early reminder one hour before arrival, or a daily reminder at a consistent building-defined time.
  • Re-send notification and invite status: Invite delivery status (email, text, or both, with date and time) now surfaces directly in the visitor table, along with the ability to resend invitations for any visit with a single click.

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Integriti access control integration

HqO's integration with Integriti connects the tenant experience platform directly to building access control systems. Tenant employees receive NFC mobile credentials provisioned into Apple Wallet or Android, while visitors are automatically registered and granted temporary access, all managed through the HqO app.

  • NFC credentials via Apple Wallet and Android: Tenant employees can provision mobile credentials directly from the HqO app with a single tap
  • Full credential lifecycle: Credentials can be added, suspended, activated, and removed through HID Origo, automatically synced with the Integriti access control system
  • Automated visitor registration: Visitors are automatically created in Integriti with temporary access credentials assigned and revoked based on visit dates, with both single-day and multi-day visits supported
  • Multi-building support: One-to-many credential management is available for complex campus and multi-building environments

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Intelligence: French language support

The Intelligence dashboard is now available in French, making it accessible to French-speaking admins across Canadian and European properties. The language displays automatically based on the admin's language preference settings, and additional languages are planned to follow.

Smaller improvements

Web

  • Public users can now register for the HqO platform through the web, with no app download required, lowering the barrier to entry for anyone who visits a building's Tenant Portal. This applies to buildings that have already approved public domains for platform access.

Multi-day visitor management, mastered

Enterprise tenants increasingly host visitors in bulk and over multiple days — trainings, onboarding cohorts, recurring guests — and that kind of volume can overwhelm a visitor management flow built for single-day check-ins. This month we're giving property teams and tenant hosts the tools to handle that complexity with ease, from smarter multi-day scheduling to richer visitor data and a unified admin experience.

Multi-day visits, simplified

Multi-day visits now adapt as plans change. Visitors get a comprehensive initial invitation with their full schedule the moment a visit is created, plus a same-day reminder at 8am (or one hour before, for early-morning visits) so guests arrive prepared every day of their stay. Bulk registration now supports multi-day visits too — process dozens or hundreds of registrations at once through the bulk visit form or an improved CSV template with readable headers and example rows, and any dates that fall on a weekend are skipped automatically. Existing multi-day visits are also editable: update details, host information, or date ranges as schedules shift, and cancel an individual day or remove all remaining future days in a series without starting over.

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Turn visitor data into property intelligence

New Visitor Company and Visit Purpose fields capture context at registration and carry it through the whole workflow — they now appear on the Create Visit form, the Visitor table, and Visitor profiles, and flow into communication templates for more relevant, personalized host and guest messages. This isn't just cleaner data: knowing which companies are visiting and why gives landlords a read on amenity demand and gives property teams an early signal on tenant engagement and retention risk. To support all this new detail, the Visitor table now supports column toggling and more responsive, dynamic filtering.

Visitor passes that print correctly, every time

Property teams can now configure visitor pass print settings — orientation (portrait or landscape) and custom dimensions — to match their specific printer and badge stock. Passes print correctly the first time, cutting down on friction at the front desk and keeping the arrival experience professional.

Admin Navigation is now broadly available

After a beta with select customers in January, the redesigned HqO Admin Navigation is rolling out broadly. It brings every stage of the property lifecycle — from tenant management to day-to-day operations — into one persona-driven platform, cutting down on context switching for every member of the property team.

Smarter bookings, deeper intelligence

Property teams are constantly balancing tenant perks, white-glove service requests, and the reporting needed to prove it's all paying off. This release gives you more room to do all three: a new credits system for Resource Booking, flexible paid bookings from Admin, feature-specific Intelligence dashboards, and a set of improvements to the Tenant Web App.

Turn amenities into tenant perks with Credits

Landlords can now assign credits for booking shared resources like meeting rooms and amenities, making it easier to build stronger tenant relationships and encourage better use of shared space. Credits can be built into a lease, offered as a standalone perk, or used to keep access fair across tenants.

  • Assign credits to everyone at a tenant, or target specific users or roles
  • Allocate credits across all resources, or limit them to specific spaces
  • Configure recurring credits with customizable schedules and rollover rules
  • Support fixed-rate, block, or tiered pricing
  • Monitor allocations, transactions, active users, and redemption patterns with detailed reporting
  • Give end users real-time visibility into their credit balance, with the choice of credits or standard payment at checkout

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Book paid resources on tenants' behalf, without card-only limits

Property and hospitality teams can now book paid resources for tenants directly from Admin without being restricted to card payment at time of booking, so you can deliver concierge-level service while keeping billing, cost tracking, and financial controls accurate.

  • Book paid resources on behalf of tenants directly from Admin
  • Choose from payment methods based on building, tenant, and user configuration
  • Pay with tenant credits, validated against real-time balances
  • Record invoice-billed transactions for reconciliation
  • Waive payment entirely for VIP bookings, promotions, or service recovery

See deeper into Access and Content performance with Feature Dashboards

Intelligence now includes feature-specific dashboards that go beyond surface-level metrics, starting with Access utilization and Content performance, so you can understand what's actually driving on-site presence and engagement.

The Access dashboard digs into building utilization using access scan data, with initial support for Lenel NetBox (ACS) and HID Origo BLE — Lenel covers both physical badge and wallet scans, while Origo BLE captures mobile credential scans provisioned through HqO. The Content dashboard shows which content types, events, and communications drive the most tenant engagement, so you can focus on what performs best.

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A more configurable, polished Tenant Web App

A set of targeted improvements makes the web app easier to brand and easier for tenants to navigate:

  • Configure utility buttons as link-out icons, and hide mobile-only utility buttons from the web view
  • Support "Content 2" as a secondary content feed
  • Share direct URLs to Content and Event pages
  • Manage the Hero image separately from the mobile app in Themes
  • Add rich text formatting to building descriptions on the About page
  • Add a file repository to the About page, with control over which files publish to the web app

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A refreshed visitor experience, and new controls for Resource Booking

Booking a room shouldn't mean juggling two separate systems, and registering a guest shouldn't feel different on a phone than it does at a desk. This month's release closes both gaps: visitor registration gets a modern, mobile-optimized redesign, the new Admin Navigation moves into a wider beta, and Resource Booking picks up several practical controls that give property teams more flexibility day to day.

A modern visitor registration experience

We've rebuilt the tenant visitor registration flow with a refreshed, mobile-optimized interface so scheduling a guest feels effortless whether you're at your desk or on the go. Consistent visit cards now appear across both mobile and web, navigation is more streamlined, and the responsive design adapts cleanly to any device. The result is a registration flow with less friction for the tenant users who manage guests every day.

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New Admin Navigation expands to beta

Following its initial release in December, the redesigned HqO Admin Navigation began rolling out in beta to select customers this month. It brings every stage of the property lifecycle into one unified, intuitive platform, so property teams can manage portfolios, engage tenants, and run operations without switching contexts. The navigation is built around each user persona, so asset managers, building operators, and every other role see exactly what they need, when they need it.

More control over Resource Booking

Several practical Resource Booking enhancements are now live, giving property teams more say over how amenities are managed and accessed:

  • Add a guest with native visitor registration — properties running both Resource Booking and Visitor Registration can now add external guests directly to any booking. Guests get instant visitor invitations, and admins get full visibility into guest activity.
  • Customize check-in timing — configure exactly when tenants can check in for a booking, whether that's 60 minutes before, 30 minutes before, or any window that fits your property's needs, so resources get used as intended.
  • Customize resource address — assign a custom address to individual resources, ideal for campuses and multi-building environments where tenants and guests need to find the right place every time.

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A reimagined Admin experience

Property teams juggle a lot inside HqO Admin — tenant relationships, building content, event logistics, visitor traffic — and until now each of those lived in its own corner of the platform. This release brings them closer together. We've rebuilt Admin navigation around how you actually work, and paired it with a smarter way to tag relationships in CRM, richer content and file tools, flexible multi-session events, and a modern visitor email experience. Together, these updates are about reducing friction so property teams can focus on building great experiences.

New Admin navigation

HqO Admin has been reimagined to unify every stage of the property lifecycle in a single, intuitive platform. The navigation is now designed around each user persona, making it easier to manage portfolios, engage tenants, and streamline operations without switching contexts. Whether you're managing a single building or a large portfolio, the updated experience makes sure you always know where you are and what's next.

Universal tagging in CRM

CRM now has a tagging system that gives property teams a clear, structured way to understand every relationship across their portfolio — instant visibility into who matters, why they matter, and how they connect to tenants, buildings, vendors, and operational workflows. With consistent taxonomy across every object, teams can segment stakeholders, surface priorities, and act on insights without digging through disconnected records.

  • Dual tag model: custom tags for team-specific categorization, plus system tags that power CRM logic
  • Visual tag management: color-coded badges, intuitive add/remove controls, and clear protection indicators
  • Centralized management: create, edit, delete, and organize your entire tag library in one place

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File Repository and a richer Content Builder

The new File Repository gives property teams a centralized home for approved digital assets — brand imagery, safety policies, floor plans, tenant handbooks — so landlords can standardize how files are stored and accessed and confidently give tenants the most accurate, up-to-date information. Alongside it, the Content Builder now supports a more dynamic, media-rich experience: teams can create tenant communications that feel like a modern newsletter, complete with embedded images, videos, and attachments pulled directly from the File Repository, cutting down on repetitive uploads.

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Multi-session events

You can now create events with multiple bookable sessions — 30-minute massages, small fitness classes, or other time-based activities — all within a single event in HqO. Each session has its own time, capacity, and attendee list. Guests pick the time that works for them, join a waitlist if a slot is full, and get confirmations and calendar reminders just like standard events today, so there's no more need for third-party tools like Calendly or Eventbrite to manage staggered bookings. Reporting on multi-session events stays fully in-platform as well.

Modern visitor emails

Visitor Management's email enhancements bring a modern, branded pre-arrival experience that sets clear expectations and reduces day-of confusion. Visitors get email invitations with complete visit details, mobile wallet and QR passes, and customized check-in instructions from their host; hosts, in turn, get notifications throughout the visitor lifecycle. Visitor communications are automatically translated into the building's primary language, and change indicators clearly flag when visit details have been modified. Add to Wallet is available for Wavelynx customers.

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Combined resources and collections

Resource Booking has always made it easy to reserve shared spaces, from conference rooms to fitness studios to lab equipment. But properties offering spaces of different sizes have had to choose between over-allocating space or forcing tenants to book multiple rooms manually, and as portfolios grow, long unsorted lists of resources make it harder for tenants to find what they need. This release adds two capabilities that tie together intelligence, engagement, and operations so property teams can maximize utilization while keeping booking frictionless: Combined Resources and Collections.

Combined Resources

You can now merge individual resources into infinite combinations, unlocking dynamic room configurations while simplifying backend management. Instead of over-allocating space or making tenants book multiple rooms, you give them right-sized options while the platform automatically manages availability and eliminates double-bookings.

  • Dynamic configurations give tenants flexible, right-sized options while properties maximize utilization and eliminate booking conflicts.
  • Simplified management lets you copy settings from existing spaces for fast setup, then adjust pricing, rules, or details for each configuration as needed.
  • Automatic availability logic manages conflicts in real time, with no manual intervention required.

This is built for flex office and coworking spaces that need maximum flexibility throughout the day — a small room used for a morning standup can become part of a larger combined space for an afternoon workshop, then split back into individual rooms for evening focus work. It also suits premium amenity spaces, where a lounge can operate as three separate spaces during business hours, combine for after-work networking, or transform into a full-floor venue for tenant events, with pricing tiers applied automatically.

Collections

Collections let you organize resources — collaboration spaces, wellness amenities, gym spots, lab equipment — into intuitive categories that spotlight your best amenities and make them easier for tenants to discover and book. As portfolios scale and resource types multiply, tenants no longer have to scroll through long mixed lists of conference rooms, fitness studios, and lab equipment with no way to filter by type or use case.

  • Create and manage collections by grouping resources by type, use case, or property strategy.
  • Display and filter by collections with utility buttons on mobile and filterable views on web, giving tenants faster access to the right spaces.
  • Reorder resources within a collection from the admin calendar view — updates reflect instantly for tenants on mobile and web.

Properties with lab equipment, collaboration rooms, and event spaces can separate lab reservations from traditional conferencing, streamlining booking for specialized tenants. Properties offering both meeting rooms and fitness amenities can organize bookings by type, making it easier for tenants to find gym spots without scrolling past unrelated conference rooms.

Together, Combined Resources and Collections turn shared spaces into strategic assets — helping property teams maximize utilization, add flexibility, and deliver the seamless experience tenants expect, without the integration headaches of a standalone booking platform.

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HqO becomes the CRM for CRE

Commercial real estate is being won by the assets that understand and serve the people in them, not just the square footage they manage. Too often, though, the systems that hold tenant relationships, performance data, and day-to-day operations live apart from each other, making it hard to see the full picture of a property or a portfolio. This release moves HqO further toward being the CRM for CRE: a single platform where relationship intelligence, engagement, and operations connect, so every property and portfolio can close the gap between managing buildings and managing experiences.

The CRM for CRE

HqO now gives owners, operators, and asset managers a unified system for managing relationships, not just the buildings they sit in. A centralized relationship intelligence layer acts as a single source of truth for tenants, vendors, and deals, while real-time tenant health surfaces renewal risk early enough to act on with context. AI-powered insights learn from every service ticket, event, and survey, and workflow automation turns everyday interactions into structured, trackable engagement data rather than one-off tasks.

Portfolio intelligence, unified

Portfolio Analytics Dashboards now bring all of your property and tenant data into Intelligence, in one place, so asset managers can make faster, better-informed decisions instead of stitching together reports. The dashboards include portfolio-wide engagement funnel metrics covering reach, awareness, utilization, engagement, and sentiment; an AI-powered chat for instant answers; and benchmarking and Occupier Insights for comparing assets across the market.

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A stronger Events platform

Building teams can now plan, promote, and manage events entirely within HqO, from tenant socials to wellness classes. Waitlists and check-in are QR-based, with automated capacity management so teams aren't tracking headcounts by hand. Smart notifications keep attendees informed without extra manual work, and built-in event analytics track attendance and ROI to help teams optimize future programming.

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A new tenant web experience

The Tenant Web App has been rebuilt to bring the full HqO experience to desktop, fast, familiar, and branded to match your property. Smarter navigation and a My Feed view surface building updates, events, and content at a glance, while role-aware layouts personalize what each user sees. Policies, waivers, and building information are now centralized in one place, and branding stays consistent across web and mobile.

Vendor and loading dock management

Operational excellence depends on knowing who is coming and going. A centralized vendor directory now tracks Certificate of Insurance (COI) status, vendor type, and activity, with automated compliance checks that keep insurance valid and liability low. Loading dock check-ins are streamlined with license plate scanning, driver ID verification, and digital delivery tracking.

Resource collections

Experience Managers can now group related amenities and bookable spaces into themed Resource Collections, making it easier for tenants to find and reserve what they need. For example, a Lab & Life Sciences collection can group microscopes, lab rooms, and collaboration spaces together, while a Wellness & Gym collection can separate fitness amenities from conference rooms to streamline booking for both.

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Introducing the Intelligence Dashboard

The health of a property isn't just measured in leases signed. It's measured in the everyday signals of tenant activity, satisfaction, and engagement, and until now those signals have lived in fragmented tools and systems. With HqO's new Intelligence Dashboard, you get a single source of truth for your building's full performance. It organizes everything into one clear funnel, Reach, Awareness, Utilization, Engagement, and Sentiment, so you can diagnose strengths, spot risks, and connect strategy directly to tenant expectations.

Reach: how many people can you impact

Reach is the total number of people connected to your building through the HqO platform, not just app registrants but everyone in your contact base across email, app, and web. A unified contact view gives you the full scope of your potential audience, with trend monitoring to track growth over time, a breakdown of availability by communication channel, portfolio-wide aggregation across all buildings and tenants, and period-over-period performance insights to watch growth momentum.

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Awareness: are they paying attention

Awareness tracks how many people are actually engaging with your emails, push notifications, and content, the pulse check on whether tenants are opening, reading, and responding to outreach. The dashboard reports a communication engagement rate, a multi-channel breakdown across email, push, and in-app content, trend visualization over time, and a performance delta flagging increases or decreases versus the previous period.

Utilization: who's actually using the space

Utilization shows whether people are actually showing up, based on access swipes into the building and visitor check-ins at the front desk. It captures access swipe tracking from your access control systems, visitor check-in monitoring, a combined total-building-interactions metric, a utilization trendline to spot drop-offs or spikes, and portfolio-level comparison to identify underperforming assets.

Engagement: are they using your services

Engagement goes deeper, measuring how tenants interact with your building's full ecosystem: booking rooms, attending events, submitting work orders, and using amenities. Admins can also add usage from offline workflows or external systems, making this the most comprehensive engagement measure available. It includes tracking across bookings, RSVPs, work orders, registrations, and feedback; resource booking analytics that surface top spaces and time-of-day trends (for example, identifying the most popular day); event and amenity metrics; tenant-level engagement highlighting the most active tenants by RSVP count; and trend visualization for proactive planning.

Sentiment: do they value the experience

Sentiment turns participation into perception, capturing how tenants feel through surveys, NPS, star ratings, and Leesman benchmarks, the top of the funnel that tells you not just what people are doing but how they perceive the value you deliver. Capabilities include survey distribution and response tracking, tenant participation rate at the individual or portfolio level, a sentiment trendline, the ability to launch NPS campaigns directly from the dashboard, and integrated Leesman benchmarking to compare sentiment across buildings, portfolios, and global standards.

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Don't look at any one stage in isolation. Ask how many people you can reach, how many are aware, how many are utilizing the property, how many are engaged, and how they feel, then use Portfolio Comparison to apply that same funnel across multiple assets. If one building excels at Awareness but lags in Utilization, you can learn from the leaders and replicate what's working.

Occupier Insights, powered by Leesman

Knowing what tenants truly want is the key to smarter real estate decisions, and Occupier Insights, powered by Leesman, turns survey data into clear insight about your Ideal Tenant Profile (ITP). You'll see which workplace factors matter most, where satisfaction is highest or lowest, and how to align amenities, programming, and communications for maximum impact. It benchmarks tenant sentiment against global data from over 1.4 million respondents across 9,500+ workplaces and 1,800+ surveys, surfaces the workplace activities and features that matter most to your ideal tenants, and connects workspace variety to outcomes like pride, productivity, and enjoyment to help teams reduce capital spend and boost retention.

Event waitlists and post-event surveys

Fall is the moment to re-energize tenant communities after the summer slowdown, but a great event calendar only pays off if you can promote it well, run it smoothly on the day, and prove it worked afterward. This release focuses on closing those gaps in Events, from RSVP management through to post-event feedback, so your team can plan, host, and evaluate tenant programming with less manual effort.

Waitlists for fully-booked events

When an event's RSVP cap is reached, tenants can now opt in to a waitlist instead of being turned away outright. If a spot opens up from a late cancellation, waitlisted tenants are automatically notified so they can claim it. This keeps attendance up even with last-minute no-shows, and it makes tenants who don't get in right away still feel seen and included in the event.

To get the most out of this, pair waitlists with targeted promotion across your channels — email, digital signage, building apps, or direct invitations — so tenants know an event exists and how to RSVP. Tailoring the invite list also helps: a networking event may land better with specific companies, while a wellness class can go out building-wide.

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Smoother day-of check-in

On the day of the event, attendees can check in quickly (including on-the-spot registration for anyone who didn't RSVP in advance), and your team can track attendance in real time as it happens. That means fewer bottlenecks at the door and a clearer, up-to-date picture of who actually showed up versus who RSVP'd.

Post-event surveys and attendance reporting

Once an event wraps, you can compare final attendance against RSVPs to understand turnout, and send post-event surveys to find out what resonated and what didn't. Surveys surface whether the event met tenant expectations, which formats drove the most engagement, and what tenants want to see next — insights you can use to prove programming value to stakeholders and sharpen your next event.

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Three emails every property team should send

Email is more than a message — it's a moment to build relationships, spark engagement, and extend your building's brand of hospitality. Consistent, targeted communication helps tenants feel informed, appreciated, and engaged, whether they're brand new to the building or your most active anchor tenant. This release focuses on making HqO's email tools easier to use so you can reach the right people with the right message, and we're spotlighting three high-impact strategies to help you boost tenant engagement and make your building feel more connected.

The monthly tenant newsletter

A well-timed newsletter is your building's heartbeat, pulsing out what's happening, what's available, and why tenants should care. From promoting wellness classes and monthly offers to highlighting open flex space, these updates turn everyday touchpoints into opportunities to engage, delight, and drive foot traffic where it counts.

You can now build and send custom emails using our intuitive email editor, and include deep links to in-app events, service bookings, or amenity bookings to drive seamless multi-channel engagement. Customize the "from" and "reply-to" address to match your building's brand, and schedule emails ahead of time to line up with your programming calendar. Turn your newsletter into a monthly habit that drives engagement and makes tenants feel part of the community.

The tenant welcome email

Set the tone for a great experience with a personalized welcome email for new tenant employees. Introduce amenities, perks, and key contacts, and show new arrivals where to go for help or how to download the app. It's one message that helps tenants feel supported from day one, while helping property teams onboard at scale and reduce first-week confusion or missed opportunities.

Welcome emails now support audience targeting by tenant company or user status, customizable templates and branding, embedded deep links to guides and resources, and one-click support-contact or service-request buttons. When communication is proactive, operations run smoother and tenant satisfaction grows.

Service and amenity alerts

Being in the know helps everyone plan their day. Whether it's elevator maintenance or a new amenity launch, proactive communication keeps tenants feeling informed, respected, and in control. These alerts show your team is a step ahead — thoughtful, professional, and tuned in to what tenants need.

You can target alerts by building, tenant, or a custom segment, link directly to app content or FAQs for more detail, and monitor open and click-through rates right in the platform, so your team can deliver timely updates with confidence.

Custom email builder

Marketing and property teams can now create branded, impactful emails and newsletters with a drag-and-drop custom email builder. The simple WYSIWYG interface lets you choose a layout and add images, call-to-action buttons, and attachments to bring your building's story to life. Whether you're welcoming new tenants or promoting this month's events, every message is easy to build and tailored to your property's voice — directing tenants to the information that matters.

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A single home for every tenant relationship

Every tenant interaction — from move-in to day-to-day engagement — shapes how your property is experienced, but that history is often scattered across systems and inboxes. This month we're laying the foundation for a connected tenant lifecycle inside HqO, starting with a new home for tenant relationships and previewing onboarding, engagement, and booking tools arriving over the next two months.

Tenant Company page: one place for every tenant relationship

The Tenant Company page is available now, giving property and asset teams a clear, connected view of each tenant in a single place. Instead of piecing together lease details, contacts, and activity from separate tools, your team can see the full relationship at a glance — supporting smarter decisions and more personalized service across the portfolio.

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Tenant Onboarding: make a great first impression

Launching in May 2025, Tenant Onboarding gives new tenants a guided, seamless introduction to your building the moment they move in. Through the HqO platform, tenant contacts can confirm company details, add key users, and opt into the tools and amenities available to them — making it easy for your team to get every new tenant up and running quickly, and setting the tone for a strong ongoing relationship.

User Management & Profiles: turn access into insight

Also launching in May 2025, User Profiles give property teams deeper insight into individual tenant users, helping you deliver more thoughtful, hospitality-driven service. Recognize VIPs, understand preferences, and respond to issues more personally — like offering a food discount to a tenant locked out during lunch — turning everyday operational moments into opportunities to build the relationship.

Discounts: keep tenants engaged with thoughtful perks

Rounding out May's launches, HqO Discounts let you deliver meaningful perks to tenants and their employees, from one-time gestures to scalable programs. Configure discounts by timeframe, tenant, or resource — whether that's a one-time event discount for a VIP after a service hiccup, or an overflow desk discount when a tenant's team needs extra workspace on a high-traffic day.

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Account-Based Booking: reserve spaces with the ease of company billing

Coming in June 2025, Account-Based Booking lets tenants reserve spaces like meeting rooms or desks directly on their company's account, without paying individually at the time of booking. It's a smoother, more professional experience for users, and gives your team a clear view of usage for streamlined billing and reporting — closing the loop between space utilization and stronger tenant relationships.

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Introducing Building Management

Running a growing portfolio means keeping property data organized while still delivering a great guest experience — and pricing your spaces the right way. This release makes both easier. We're rolling out a centralized way to manage your buildings and finer control over visitor scheduling, plus previewing new pricing and access tools for Resource Booking that help you fill space and strengthen tenant relationships.

Building Management

Your building portfolio now has a single home. Building Management gives you an organized view of every property, with advanced search that makes finding and accessing building details fast and intuitive — so you can stay on top of portfolio data without piecing it together across disconnected screens. Each property also gets its own Building Overview page: a dedicated view of key details with intuitive navigation and quick-edit functionality, so you can update building information directly and keep your data accurate.

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Custom notes for seamless visitor check-ins

Landlords now have more control over how tenants schedule visitor invitations. Advanced Visitor Invitation Settings let you set the default duration for a visitor invite and cap how far in advance tenants can schedule one, keeping scheduling aligned with your building's business hours and operational policies. The result: secure, predictable visitor scheduling and a smoother check-in experience for guests.

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Coming soon: discounts and flexible pricing for Resource Booking

Coming soon, property teams get more ways to price and promote bookable spaces. Discounts let you set percentage-based rates for select tenants, time-based windows, or key tenant groups, with full control over the discount percentage, duration, and eligibility — a tailored, hospitable way to keep spaces booked. Alongside that, Flexible Pricing adds fixed rates (per hour or per day), block pricing for half- and full-day reservations, and tiered pricing that pairs a base rate with a lower rate for additional hours. Tenants see a clear price breakdown before checkout, and property teams get smarter tools to maximize demand and space utilization.

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Coming soon: Tenant Offboarding

Also on the way: Tenant Offboarding gives property teams a structured way to offboard tenants directly in the platform when they vacate a building. It lets landlords manage this core process themselves, ensuring the right users retain access during the transition and that tenant data is properly archived or transferred once the tenant is gone.

Coming soon: access control for Resource Booking with OpenPath

Finally, we're integrating OpenPath's access management system with Resource Booking. Once live, booked resources will link directly to OpenPath Access Levels, so users can unlock and enter their reserved space automatically during the booking window — no manual intervention required, for a frictionless booking experience.

Faster resource discovery

Onboarding a new teammate, finding an open room, and coordinating a visitor's arrival should all be quick — but small friction points add up fast for admins and tenants alike. This release cuts that friction in three places: a simpler way to invite users, a faster path to booking resources, and better context for building staff handling visitors. We're also giving a preview of what's landing in our next mobile app release.

New user invite flow

Onboarding new users is now faster for tenant and landlord admins. The new invite flow offers a streamlined, intuitive process for inviting people to the platform and assigning them the right access and permissions from the start.

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Skip straight to the resource list

Booking a resource now takes fewer clicks. Users land directly on the resource list instead of a filter screen first, so finding and reserving a space is quicker by default. Filters are still there to refine a search, and a "My Bookings" button gives one-tap access to upcoming reservations.

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Custom notes for visitor check-ins

Visitor hosts can now attach custom notes to a visit, giving building staff the special instructions they need to handle a guest's arrival smoothly. It's a small addition that closes a real coordination gap between hosts and the front desk.

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Coming soon

Three more updates are on the way with our next mobile app release:

Android support for SwiftConnect with the app closed

SwiftConnect NFC keys will work on Android even when the app is closed, using background NFC to simplify entry while keeping the same security protocols in place. This is fully compatible with customers already using the SwiftConnect integration, so access stays uninterrupted for users on the go.

Informational emails

Admins will be able to compose and send rich-text emails directly from HqO to keep tenants informed about building updates, upcoming events, and other announcements — all in a branded, professional format.

Improved building management

Managing a portfolio is getting more efficient, with advanced search and a clearer, more organized view for finding and updating building details faster.

Access Control Command Center

First impressions matter, whether it's a visitor arriving at your building or a new user logging into the platform for the first time. This release focuses on exactly that: giving admins better visibility and control over access activity, making visitor arrivals clearer, and speeding up how new users get onboarded. Everything below is available now to all existing customers, with one mobile feature on the way.

See every access event in one place

Tenant and landlord admins now get a consolidated, filterable feed of access control activity across a property. Tenant admins can monitor access to their own leased spaces, while landlord admins get insight into building-wide access patterns.

Real-time and historical data in one view makes it easier to spot security risks, confirm compliance, and improve operational oversight with confidence.

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Give visitors clear floor and suite directions

Visitor invitations can now include floor and suite details, so guests know exactly where to go the moment they arrive. Tenant and landlord admins manage this location information directly in Admin, keeping it accurate for every space.

The result is fewer confused visitors at the front desk and a smoother, more welcoming arrival experience overall.

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Invite new users faster

A new invite flow gives tenant and landlord admins a streamlined, intuitive way to invite users to the platform with the right access and permissions from the start, cutting down the steps needed to get someone onboarded.

Export user data straight from the Users table

Admins can now export user data directly from the Users table, and the export respects whatever filters are already applied — buildings, companies, or any other criteria — so you get exactly the targeted dataset you need for reporting or analysis.

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Coming soon: Google Wallet support for HID

In our next mobile app release, users will be able to store HID credentials directly in Google Wallet for seamless, cardless entry. It's a faster onboarding experience for end users and takes advantage of Google Wallet's built-in security for a more convenient, more secure way to get into your buildings.

Map view for resource booking

Scrolling a long list of conference rooms, desks, and amenities to find the right one is slow, and it only gets harder as portfolios grow. Keeping access reliable across hardware providers and keeping your user base organized add more friction on top. This release tackles all three: a new way to browse and book resources visually, a more dependable access experience on HID and OpenPath, and a faster User Management workflow. These updates are now available to all existing customers.

Map View for resource booking

Resource Booking now includes a Map View, so tenants can find and book resources across your locations using an interactive map instead of scrolling a list. The visual layout of available spaces helps users quickly spot the best option for their needs, making the booking process faster and simpler.

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Faster, easier User Management

We've enhanced User Management with improved filters and pagination, so handling users is faster and simpler. These updates give admins a smoother, more intuitive way to keep user information organized and current as your user base grows.

More reliable access control

We've refreshed the HID experience with a new, unified look and feel for visual and functional consistency. Improved tap detection addresses issues that caused intermittent Tap-to-Unlock failures, and we've optimized the interaction flow for a more seamless, consistent access experience.

OpenPath also gets a UI refresh along with multi-instance support — users can now onboard and use multiple OpenPath instances within the app, moving between different access points without manual configuration changes. OpenPath now supports offline mode too, so users can access secure areas without depending on network connectivity.

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Coming soon

Two features are in the works for next month. An improved Building Management tool will add advanced search and a clearer, more organized view, making it faster to find and update building details across your portfolio. An Access Control Command Center will give tenant and landlord admins deeper visibility into access activity — tenant admins can monitor access to their own leased spaces, while landlord admins see building-wide patterns, with real-time and historical data consolidated into a filterable feed to support security, compliance, and operational oversight.

VIP visitors and visitor groups

Front desk teams hosting high-profile guests or coordinating large group visits have had to choose between capturing full contact details for every single person or skipping the system altogether. This release gives Visitor Management two new ways to handle exactly those situations, brings Leesman surveys up to the latest accessibility standard, and previews what's coming next for User Management and Resource Booking. Everything below is available now to all existing customers.

VIP Visitor Support

You can now mark a visitor as VIP, letting administrators manage the visit without collecting contact details. VIP visits stay anonymous from invitation through check-in, adding an extra layer of security and confidentiality for high-profile guests while giving your front desk full visibility into who's arriving and when.

Visitor Groups

Visitor Groups save time when you're hosting more than one guest at once. Create, manage, and invite a group of visitors to a property in a single flow instead of registering each person individually — particularly useful for recurring visits and large events. Administrators keep full control over group details and permissions throughout.

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Leesman survey accessibility updates

Leesman's Occupier surveys now meet the latest WCAG 2.2 standards, which took effect in October 2023. We've rebuilt the design, navigation, and functionality of these surveys so every respondent has a more intuitive, accessible experience from start to finish.

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Coming soon

Look out for two more updates next month. Improved User Management brings better filters and pagination, making it faster to find and manage users as your portfolio grows. And Resource Booking gets a Map View, letting tenants browse and book resources across your locations from an interactive map that visually surfaces the best available spaces.

Visit cloning for faster visitor registration

Registering the same visitor over and over, publishing content without a clear sense of what's still missing, and managing users without easy visibility into their accounts all slow admins down. This release focuses on cutting that friction, with a faster way to register repeat and recurring visitors, a clearer content creation flow, and a couple of small but useful additions to user management. We're also previewing two upcoming features for visitor groups and event management.

Visit cloning

Registering recurring or similar visits used to mean re-entering the same details every time. Now you can clone an existing visit in one click. A Clone button in the kebab menu on any visitor record opens a new visit modal pre-filled with the original visitor's name, date and time, bypass/stop flow selections, and other visit details. If the original visit was in the past, we automatically update the date to today and align the time to standard business hours, so it's ready to submit without manual changes. You can still adjust anything in the pre-filled form before submitting.

Building watchlist

For Enterprise customers, HqO now supports a building watchlist. Building administrators can manage the watchlist and get notified when a registered visitor matches a watchlist record. Badge creation is halted for that visitor until the match is resolved, so a watchlist member can't be granted access to the property.

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Day pass

Also for Enterprise customers, Day Pass is now available. Visitors who forgot or lost their badge can request a day pass at the front desk, and building guards can print one on the spot. Tenants can turn this on for all, some, or none of their employees, and can enable or disable the approval request workflow as needed.

Content creation, simplified

Creating content is now easier to get right. A new tab-based UI guides you through the creation flow with clear visibility into which fields still need attention, so nothing gets missed before you publish. Audiences now sync automatically between content and notifications, removing a manual step from your workflow, and a new preview screen lets you review content before it goes live.

Coming soon

Visitor groups. Landlord administrators will be able to enable or disable visitor groups per building. Tenant and landlord admins will be able to filter and view group visits alongside individual ones, invite a whole group of visitors in a single step, remove individual users from a group visit, and create groups in bulk from users with active invitations. A new reusable search dropdown will make it faster to select group members when inviting a visitor group. Visitor groups are also supported in bulk visit creation.

Event management. An upcoming event builder will let attendees register and pay for events directly in the HqO app, with funds deposited to an account of your choice. Advanced reporting will show attendee emails, companies, and registration status for more targeted communication, and push and email notifications will confirm RSVPs and cancellations and remind attendees a day before the event.

Smaller improvements

  • Admin: Administrators can now deactivate users directly from the admin dashboard.
  • Admin: User administrators can view user email addresses on the User Configuration Page, making it easier to identify and manage users.
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