Desk & Park vs Tactic: EU data, 10 languages, fixed price

Tactic's estimator and Desk & Park's price list both count what you book, not how many people you employ. For 75 desks, 5 meeting rooms and 20 parking spots, Tactic's online estimator returns a rough range of 3,240–4,440 USD a year (gettactic.com/pricing, October 2026), with the exact price confirmed by its sales team. Desk & Park covers the same 100 objects on its Pro plan at a fixed 2,300 USD a year, 29–48 % less. The bigger differences are elsewhere: Tactic is a broader workplace suite with SAML, a SOC 2 Type II report and native iOS and Android apps, but its interface is in English only and its privacy policy says data is processed in the United States. Desk & Park keeps data in the EU and speaks 10 languages.

Hybrid work in 2026 follows a familiar pattern: Tuesday to Thursday the office fills up and the car park runs out, Monday and Friday whole rows of desks stay empty. Both products exist to manage that swing.

Tactic, Inc. describes itself as workplace management software: desk and room booking, visitors, workplace requests, space and move management, office insights and an assistant called Tessa AI, sold as separate products. Desk & Park is narrower on purpose: desks, parking spots (including EV charger spots) and meeting rooms on one map, QR check-in with automatic release, board reports, and a price list you can read before talking to anyone.

Neither product charges per user, so both lines stay flat as headcount grows. Tactic's line is the low end of its published estimator for the scenario (3,240 USD a year); the high end is 4,440 USD (gettactic.com/pricing, October 2026).

Pricing and total cost of ownership

Take a typical mid-sized hybrid office: 175 employees, 75 desks, 20 parking spots (4 of them with EV chargers) and 5 meeting rooms — 100 bookable objects in total.

Tactic. The pricing page has no plan table. It has an estimator: you choose products, enter the number of locations, bookable desks, rooms and other resources, and get an annual range. The page states that Desk Booking is "estimated using desks or managed workstations, not total employee count", that resources "can include desks, rooms, parking spaces, lockers, phone booths…", and that "final pricing depends on rollout scope, integrations, onboarding, and support". Entering our scenario (one location; Desk management, Rooms and Other bookable resources, with the parking spots entered as resources) gives:

That works out to 3–4 USD per desk, 5–6 USD per room and 1–2 USD per other resource per month. The estimator does not say whether tax is included and publishes no setup fee, but names onboarding and floor plans among the things that move the final price. Optional modules are extra: Visitor Management at 99 USD per location per month, Tessa AI at 99 USD per month.

Desk & Park. 100 objects fit the Pro plan (up to 125 objects, 10 locations): 2,300 USD per year with annual billing, or 230 USD per month. Users are unlimited, parking and EV spots count as objects like any desk, floor plans and setup cost nothing, and the room tablet needs no extra licence. Prices are net.

Both prices are in USD, so no conversion is needed here (for reference, the NBP mid rate of 16 October 2026 was 1 USD = 3.8827 PLN).

What growth does to each bill. Neither vendor charges per employee, so growing from 175 to 250 people with the same 100 objects changes neither bill. The models diverge when the office changes. Add 25 desks and Desk & Park stays on Pro at 2,300 USD (the plan covers up to 125 objects), while Tactic's estimator rises by 900–1,200 USD to 4,140–5,640 USD. A second office is included in Pro (up to 10 locations); Tactic's estimator adds 250–500 USD a year per additional location.

Architecture, security and data protection

Desk & Park. Every customer organisation gets its own PostgreSQL database: no tables shared with other customers, backups and erasure per organisation, and an incident in one database does not touch another (why we built it this way). Databases run in Frankfurt and the application in the Netherlands. Backups are encrypted nightly and an audit log records who did what. Every user can sign in with two-factor authentication (TOTP), passkeys or a one-time e-mail code. Single sign-on uses OpenID Connect (Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, Okta and other OIDC providers), with SCIM provisioning (Entra ID, Okta), on every plan including the free one. A data processing agreement is published.

The honest gaps: Desk & Park supports no SAML (OIDC only), and ISO 27001 and SOC 2 are planned, not certified. If your security questionnaire needs an audit report today, that is a real limitation.

Tactic. Its Trust Center (trust.delve.co/tactic, October 2026) lists SOC 2 Type II and SOC 2 Type I as compliant, with a 2026 SOC 2 Type 2 report and a 2025 penetration test available on request; the controls listed include encryption in transit and at rest, database backups and a multi-availability-zone deployment. Its desk and room booking pages say any organisation can add SSO, with SAML providers including Okta, Microsoft Entra ID, Google, OneLogin, JumpCloud and PingFederate, a generic SAML option, Google and Microsoft OAuth, and SCIM provisioning; the pricing FAQ adds that SSO is not reserved for an enterprise plan. On data location, Tactic's privacy policy (effective 10 February 2021) says that for users outside the United States, "we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there". We found no EU hosting option or tenancy model described on its site; ask in writing if either matters to you.

On audit reports and SAML, Tactic is ahead today. On EU data residency and per-customer database isolation, only Desk & Park publishes an answer.

Features 07–10 of the Top 10 Desk & Park features: the room tablet, reports, integrations and EU data protection, included in the plan price rather than sold as modules.

Employee experience and team coordination

Desk & Park runs in any browser and installs as a PWA, with nothing to download from a store; an Android app adds a native QR scanner, fingerprint or face unlock and push notifications. The iOS app is planned for 2027. Scanning the QR sticker of a free desk books it and checks you in with one tap.

"Who's in the office" shows each booked person's photo or initials ringed in their team colour, with a green dot once they have checked in, and today's roster grouped by team; the company can switch it off and anyone can hide themselves, enforced on the server. Parking has its own maps (a garage and a surface lot, for example), EV charger spots are marked ⚡, and a desk and a parking spot booked together arrive as one calendar invitation. Board members keep assigned spaces and hand them back for the day with "I'm away today" (feature 06 of the Top 10). Interface and e-mails come in 10 languages, including Polish, German, French, Romanian, Bulgarian and Chinese.

Tactic has native apps for iPhone and Android, embeds its full interface in Microsoft Teams, and lets people book, get reminders and check in from Slack. The map shows colleagues' photos or initials, team schedules show who is coming in, and a desk reservation can include an optional parking space (Tactic help centre). Check-in works remotely, by QR code, by office Wi-Fi or by badge readers, and team neighbourhoods and priority booking are built in. Its help centre states that Tactic "currently does not support multiple language options" and that the main interface is in English; map labels and desk names can be customised through support. We found no EV charger spots documented on gettactic.com or in its help centre.

Both cover the everyday core. Tactic offers more channels today; Desk & Park needs no install, treats EV spots as their own objects and serves teams that do not work in English.

Space optimisation, reports and AI

The quiet cost of hybrid work is the ghost booking: a desk or parking spot reserved and never used. In Desk & Park, a desk or parking booking not checked in by your organisation's deadline (for example "check in by 10:00") returns to the pool automatically (how auto-release works). Meeting rooms are released only if the organisation turns that on (off by default, after 5 to 120 minutes without a check-in); scanning the QR code of a free room books the next half hour. Tactic does the same when admins turn on automatic cancellation: they set a check-in window in minutes after the start time, and an unchecked desk or room reservation is cancelled.

Board Reports in Desk & Park measure occupancy against the seats that could actually be booked, the no-show (ghost) rate per floor and resource, usage by department and team, EV charging demand and the peak day, for any range from 7 days to a year, with CSV export. AI recommendations work like this: an administrator clicks "Generate report", a large language model receives aggregates only (no employee names) and returns 3–6 recommendations (cost saving, space consolidation, EV optimisation, ghost booking alerts, ESG, capacity planning and more), each with a model-written impact estimate (more on the board view). The board triages them with Dismiss or Mark as done, recorded in the audit log. This is not predictive forecasting, and Desk & Park does not calculate savings or costs: the impact estimate is the model's hypothesis to verify.

Tactic's Office Insights compares reservations with check-ins and breaks desk use down by team, office, workspace, day and week, with room, parking and visitor reporting alongside. Tessa AI is a different kind of AI: a conversational assistant that helps people find spaces and explore workplace information in natural language, priced in the estimator as a 99 USD-a-month add-on. Tactic also sells space and move management for modelling seating changes, a planning layer Desk & Park does not offer.

Features 01–06 of the Top 10: the everyday part — map, QR check-in with auto release, desks, parking and rooms in one app, who's in the office, phone booking and assigned spaces you can hand back.

Side-by-side comparison

Tactic facts from gettactic.com (pricing, desk booking, room booking, mobile app, Tactic facts and privacy pages), help.gettactic.com and trust.delve.co/tactic, checked October 2026; prices and features change — check the current page.

Verdict: which one fits your company

Tactic is the better fit if you want one vendor for much more than booking: visitor management, workplace requests, managed rooms with AV and catering, and space and move planning. It also fits a security review that needs SAML or a SOC 2 Type II report today, a workforce that lives in Microsoft Teams or Slack, iPhone users from day one, badge or Wi-Fi check-in, and an English-speaking organisation comfortable with data processed in the United States.

Desk & Park is the better fit if you want a fixed price on the page instead of an estimate (100 objects: 2,300 USD a year, users unlimited), EU data in a database of its own, parking and EV spots as first-class objects, an interface your employees read in Polish, German, Romanian, Bulgarian or Chinese, and one administrator who can set it up in an afternoon. Try the free plan with up to 10 objects before you buy.

See the pricing, the desk booking and parking booking pages, the Top 10 Desk & Park features, and our comparison with another workplace suite, Desk & Park vs Robin.

FAQ

How much does Tactic cost compared with Desk & Park?

For 75 desks, 5 meeting rooms and 20 parking spots at one location, Tactic's online estimator gives a rough range of 3,240–4,440 USD a year, with the exact price confirmed by its sales team (gettactic.com/pricing, October 2026). Desk & Park covers the same 100 objects on its Pro plan for 2,300 USD a year with annual billing. That is 940–2,140 USD, or 29–48 %, less.

Which one has SAML and a SOC 2 report?

Tactic: its Trust Center lists SOC 2 Type II, and its product pages say any organisation can add SAML-based SSO and SCIM. Desk & Park supports OpenID Connect and SCIM on every plan, including the free one, but no SAML, and its ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certifications are planned, not completed.

Where is the data stored, and which languages are supported?

Desk & Park stores data in the EU: databases in Frankfurt, the application in the Netherlands, one database per customer. Tactic's privacy policy says data of users outside the United States is transferred to and processed in the US. Tactic's help centre says its interface is available in English only; Desk & Park's interface and e-mails come in 10 languages.

How long does setup take?

Desk & Park's onboarding guide quotes 60–90 minutes for one office: one administrator, six self-serve steps, no implementation call. Tactic publishes no setup time; its pricing page says the final price depends on rollout scope, floor plans and onboarding, and routes buyers to a demo.