Keep everyone aligned and on time with booking reminders, maintenance alerts, calendar sync, and lab-wide announcements.
Keep users informed about outages, calibration periods, or preventative maintenance so they know what to expect and can plan around what's really going on.
Need to get the word about something bigger? Send updates to all users in a lab or site to ensure coordination around system outages, new policies, or important events.
Sync bookings to user calendars via Outlook integration or with an ICS feed. Help users stay aligned across systems and avoid missed sessions.
Build a structured, searchable directory of your lab equipment and enrich it with metadata, location information, and purchase price.
Make availability clear to lab users, let teams book shared instruments with confidence, and avoid double bookings.
Give your team the visibility and control to reduce idle time and maximise usage across shared equipment.
Prevent downtime through visible maintenance tracking, safer access, and smarter user controls.
Make confident decisions with clean usage data so you can see what's being used, what isn't, where, and why.
Turn lab usage data into a structured foundation: exportable, filterable, and ready for integration with your ELN, AI, or BI platforms.
“We get an extremely granular view of how every piece of equipment is being used down to the exact minute.”
“Without it, we probably would have bought more kit than we really needed. Calira gave us the visibility to see where we could share or reallocate instead.”
“The most valuable aspect is the visibility among the users—knowing what’s available to book. From a LabOps perspective, it’s become our record management system for servicing, embedded into our SOPs.”
“Calira helped us improve our equipment usage and planning processes within our teams. It's also handy for me to have oversight of the utilization of our instruments.”
"Calira has improved the process of booking laboratory equipment in our R&D teams, created visibility across teams, improved insight into real time equipment status and allowed us to gather data for equipment usage with ease.”
"I haven't needed to log in in the last two weeks to sort anything out. Scheduling runs quite a lot smoother now."
Calira sends booking reminders to users, equipment-specific announcements (e.g. for calibrations, outages, or preventative maintenance), general lab-wide announcements (for new policies, system outages, or events), and booking calendar events to external calendars. This keeps users aligned without extra admin effort.
Equipment-related announcements are tied to a specific instrument and appear in the booking experience for that piece of equipment, useful for notifying users about calibration or downtime. General announcements go to everyone in the lab and are used for broader updates like policy changes or site-wide events.
Yes. Bookings can be synced to Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Outlook, and any calendar service that supports ICS. There's also a dedicated Outlook integration that keeps calendars in near real-time sync rather than via iCal refresh intervals.
Yes. Open the Announcements page, click the arrow on the right side of the announcement, and select Delete. Worth knowing for announcements that become outdated.
Yes. Calira sends booking reminders to users so they don't miss scheduled sessions. Users can also sync bookings to their personal calendar to get native reminders through whichever calendar app they prefer.
We know that every lab is different. Our team has years of experience in the lab and can answer any question you have and demo the whole platform in less than thirty minutes.
