--- title: "Calira Software Reviews, Demo & Pricing - 2026" description: "Review of Calira Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs." source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/lim/bookkit-profile/" page_type: "product" language: "en" --- [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Asset Tracking Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/cmms/asset-tracking-comparison/) / Calira Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. Overview [Reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/249067-calira/reviews/)[Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/249067-calira/alternatives/) # Calira Review Custom quote Free trial 3 plans Wondering if Calira is right for your organization? Our Asset Tracking Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. On this page - Overview - User Interface - Popular Alternatives - Pricing and Plans - Features - Integrations - User Reviews - Popular Comparisons ## Overview Calira 4.4 [(183)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/249067-calira/reviews/) Pricing Pricing available upon request ### About Calira Calira is an equipment booking and management platform for shared R&D lab equipment. It replaces the shared spreadsheets, Outlook calendars, paper signup sheets, and other improvised systems that most labs use to manage access to shared instruments. Labs use Calira to track instrument utilisation, improve asset visibility, reduce booking conflicts, prevent downtime, plan CapEx, and produce structured usage data. More than 1,800 labs in 53 countries run on Calira, including teams at Moderna, Takeda, Eli Lilly, Bayer, Novo Nordisk, Stanford, and MIT. Feature overview: - Book equipment: Real-time booking calendar with booking rules, approval workflows, recurring bookings, and multi-equipment booking (up to 5 instruments per session) - Manage equipment: Searchable directory of every instrument with location, metadata, purchase price, and QR code labels for walk-up mobile booking - Report usage: Per-instrument utilisation reports, filterable by team, department, or site, with export to CSV, Excel, or BI tools - Track maintenance: Planned calibration and servicing with task assignment, service contract tracking, and automatic booking blocks during downtime - Manage users: Training-bas... ed access rules, role-based permissions, and approval workflows to prevent untrained users booking sensitive instruments - Send notifications: Booking reminders, maintenance alerts, and lab-wide announcements - LabTrack: Desktop application that captures real instrument usage and controls access at the PC Wondering if Calira is right for your organization? Our Asset Tracking Software selection experts can help you in 15 minutes or less. ## Calira User Interface ## Popular Calira Alternatives Main Product Calira 4.4 [(183)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/product/249067-calira/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.20Ease of use - 4.43Value for money - 4.42Customer support - 4.31Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price Alternative Product [CaliberLIMS](https://www.softwareadvice.com/chemical/caliber-lims-profile/) 4.2 [(44)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/chemical/caliber-lims-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.34Ease of use - 4.02Value for money - 4.09Customer support - 4.23Functionality Pricing Starting at ₹150000.00 per year Get Price Alternative Product [CloudLIMS](https://www.softwareadvice.com/medical-lab/cloudlims-profile/) 4.5 [(48)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/medical-lab/cloudlims-profile/reviews/) Ratings Breakdown - 4.38Ease of use - 4.56Value for money - 4.70Customer support - 4.44Functionality Pricing Starting at $230.00 per month Get Price Alternative Product [Di-LIMS](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lim/di-lims-profile/) 4.8 [(15)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lim/di-lims-profile/#reviews) Ratings Breakdown - 4.67Ease of use - 5.0Value for money - 5.0Customer support - 4.60Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price Alternative Product [TEEXMA for LIMS](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lim/teexma-profile/) 3.9 [(12)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lim/teexma-profile/#reviews) Ratings Breakdown - 3.42Ease of use - 3.67Value for money - 4.17Customer support - 3.50Functionality Pricing Available upon request Get Price Alternative Product [Labordatenbank](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lim/labordatenbank-profile/) 4.5 [(15)](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lim/labordatenbank-profile/#reviews) Ratings Breakdown - 4.53Ease of use - 4.54Value for money - 4.60Customer support - 4.47Functionality Pricing Starting at €49.00 per month Get Price ## Calira Pricing and Plans Starting price: Connect with an advisor for pricing Free Trial Free Version Core (Academia Only) Pricing available upon request Plan includes: - Equipment booking calendar - Equipment inventory - Notification preference center - Desktop app LabTrack for access management and utilization data (paid add-on) - User role management - Access permissions - Document management (e.g. manuals, warranties, etc.) - Asset monitoring IoT integrations (paid add-on) - Calendar synchronization - Knowledge center, online guides and tutorials Premium Pricing available upon request Plan includes: - Equipment booking calendar - Equipment inventory - Notification preference center - Desktop app LabTrack for access management and utilization data (paid add-on) - User role management - Access permissions - Document management (e.g. manuals, warranties, etc.) - Asset monitoring IoT integrations (paid add-on) - Calendar synchronization - Knowledge center, online guides and tutorials Read More Enterprise Pricing available upon request Plan includes: - Equipment booking calendar - Equipment inventory - Notification preference center - Desktop app LabTrack for access management and utilization data (paid add-on) - User role management - Access permissions - Document management (e.g. manuals, warranties, etc.) - Asset monitoring IoT integrations (paid add-on) - Calendar synchronization - Knowledge center, online guides and tutorials Read More Confused about pricing? 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Get a personalized pricing breakdown tailored to your specific needs—no guesswork, no generic estimates. ## Calira Features - Popular features found in Asset Tracking Activity Tracking Asset Lifecycle Management Audit Trail Check-in/Check-out Depreciation Management Equipment Tracking Inventory Management Maintenance Management Mobile Access Search/Filter Work Order Management - More features of Calira Access Controls/Permissions Activity Dashboard Alerts/Notifications API Asset Assignment Asset Tracking Automated Scheduling Availability Management Barcoding/RFID Booking Management Calendar Management Calendar Sync Contract/License Management Cost Tracking Customizable Fields Customizable Reports Data Import/Export Document Management EDI Funding Source Tracking Historical Reporting Instrument Management Location Tracking Maintenance Scheduling Monitoring Multi-Location Online Booking QR Codes Real-Time Monitoring Real-Time Notifications Real-Time Reporting Real-time Scheduling Reminders Reporting/Analytics Reporting & Statistics Reservations Management Resource Management Role-Based Permissions Rules-Based Workflow Self Service Portal Status Tracking Summary Reports Tagging Third-Party Integrations User Management Workflow Management ## Calira Integrations SciSure Integration rated undefined from -1 review Benchling Integration rated undefined from -1 review Microsoft Outlook Integration rated undefined from -1 review ## Calira User Reviews ## Calira customer ratings - Overall rating: 4.4/5 - Total reviews: 183 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 98 reviews (54%) - 4 stars: 70 reviews (38%) - 3 stars: 13 reviews (7%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 2 reviews (1%) ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 4.2/5 - Value for money: 4.4/5 - Customer support: 4.4/5 - Functionality: 4.3/5 --- ### Very helpful - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Josep G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Research - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Its great versatility and the chance to manage the booking of very different equipment and services. #### Cons In some cases is more difficult to customize groups of users. #### Vendor response Many thanks for your feedback, Josep! Replied July 2022 --- ### Bookkit - new kids on the block - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Andrew M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Research - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: September 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Very happy with the software and the support from the Clustermarket team. We have managed to solve all sorts of booking problems thrown up by the pandemic with minimal fuss and our users are very happy with the way it all works. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros This booking system comes as part of the Clustermarket app and allows other customers to find services and equipment at participating organisations. A quote can be obtained for the service and the customer also pays Clustermarket a fee for facilitating the deal. This allows educational and research establishments like our NMR Facility use the app free of charge. We have found Bookkit to be very easy to use, has a good look and feel about its design and has enough features without being overly complicated. The recent upgrade to V2.5 of Bookkit allows much more functionality and customisation of the usage reports by a number of filters, as well as giving users registered with another "lab" equal rights to be a "researcher" (our default user type) in our facility lab. We have found the technical support to be very impressive and helpful whenever we have needed assistance or guidance. It has proved its worth during the Covid-19 pandemic when we had to add nearly 150 extra users as our open-access spectrometer rooms had to be switched to single occupancy due to air conditioning requirements. #### Cons The worst thing about the software is probably the notifications that the software gives the administrator. As we have so many bookings each day the notifications soon built up to a level that caused the server to timeout when trying to display or mark them as read. It would be nice if we could switch the notifications off in the software whilst retaining them via email as a record of the bookings. I am also hoping that equipment will soon be able to be removed from the app if it is now redundant or not required to be bookable by the lab administrator so that the dashboard can be made less cluttered with equipment that no longer exists! #### Reasons for choosing Calira The customer support we got from Clustermarket and the fact that as an academic research institution it was free to use helped us make the decision to go with Bookkit, however even a modest yearly subscription of £250 max would have not swayed us against Bookkit. #### Reasons for switching to Calira We didn't want to keep paying the annual fee for functionality that we didn't need #### Vendor response Hi Andrew - thank you very much for your honest feedback! Our development team have fixed the issues with notifications and they should now be deleted automatically after 4 to 7 weeks depending on the read status. We are also working on removing the equipment and will update you as soon as this is possible! Replied September 2020 --- ### Clustermarket "Bookkit" is easy to use - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jackie C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: June 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Customer service has been absolutely fantastic since day one. Don't think I've waited more than a few hours ever for a response. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros This software is very easy to use for both administrator (my primary use) and end user. Setting up new users and training take little to no time. #### Cons Users are unable to edit their bookings after-the-fact, which is difficult when this is being used for billing (I am doing it all myself). The only way for users to edit past bookings is if they get admin status, which would make it much more difficult for them to use (would see everything vs. just the instruments they can use) and take away the point of the software. --- ### Life Sciences Student review - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rita S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Research - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: August 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros -The software is definitely more user-friendly compared to the previous one we were using here at KCL. - It allowed the combination of all the softwares that were being used here and became the only platform we are using at the moment in the building - saving time for all of us researchers. - It also allows the notification via Bookkit of any problems present in the equipment we use, which is very handy. Plus, the admins can add the equipments' instructions in the software - which proves to be helpful if any equipment becomes faulty. - In this covid era, the software proved to be good for managing the amount of people present in the building and it's helpful for me, as a first aider, to realize how many people will be around. - Probably the best feature of the software is the marketplace (is not yet well accepted in academia or at least, not used frequently by) - to allow equipment sharing which I'm sure, once "accepted" by the academia, will prove to be a powerful tool in the future. #### Cons - I would definitely appreciate if I could do several bookings in the same equipment at the same time - I mean, without the need to do it every time and click on the "confirm booking" button seven times for the same equipment in the same week. It would save time - and we, researchers, truly appreciate that. - Sometimes, some bugs appear (like double bookings from the same person in the same slot in the same equipment) but I guess those appear all the time when a software is under construction - but it should be something your developers team should be able to fix straight away. - Also, I couldn't change a booking that was already started. For instance, if I finish my booking in one equipment earlier and I want to reduce the booking, I can't. It appears a weird message (saying that I should do that alteration in a specific time) and it prevents me from changing it. - Little emphasis in the marketplace. It's probably one of the best tools the software have and most of the researchers, have no idea it exists in Bookkit. Researchers, especially in academia, are a bit complicated in terms of sharing equipment but I think with good marketing and wise communication, your software might be able to change minds and potentially help science going further. - Finally, a mobile app would be amazing (and to say the least, novel) and I'm sure everyone would be pleased - whenever that becomes possible for the company. #### Vendor response Thank you very much for the review, Rita! We truly appreciate your feedback and will give our very best to continue improving Bookkit and help scientists like you in the lab. Replied August 2020 --- ### Easy to use booking system with excellent customer support - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Andreas K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Research - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The general ease of use, but more importantly, when needed, customer support was excellent. #### Cons There is not something that I particularly dislike when using this software on my laptop, but it is more difficult to select timings for a booking on a phone. #### Vendor response Hi Andreas, thanks for the honest feedback! We are continuously working on improving the system and making it more mobile-friendly is definitely on the list. Replied September 2020 --- ### Cluster Market is an excellent platform for automatic booking system - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Research - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Great #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Simple and book multiple slots altogether. #### Cons Some options are hidden if not use for a while. #### Vendor response Thank you for your feedback. Replied December 2021 --- ### This software is FANTASTIC and the customer and technical support is EXTRAORDINARY - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Heidi O. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. When COVID-19 hit, we really needed software that could allow us to manage lab use and control for social distancing. This allowed us to book both space and equipment to assure that lab members could plan for the use of smaller spaces, and avoid booking time in the lab for a piece of equipment that would already be in use at that time. I am confident that, even after the need for social distancing has ended, the lab will continue to use the software for booking and managing equipment use. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Ease of set up, ease of use, flexibility, fulfills all our needs for equipment and space booking. #### Cons Nothing. Best system software I have had to use at my institution. #### Reasons for choosing Calira Skedda and Robin were primarily set up for conference and shared workspace bookings, and not set up for lab equipment. Bookkit was designed for labs and I honestly don't know what we would have done had we not found it. #### Vendor response Thanks a lot for the positive feedback Heidi! It's a pleasure to hear our system is working well for you. Replied March 2021 --- ### Excellent customer support - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: August 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. But most importantly the support we have received (from [SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN]) has been excellent. He is quick to respond, and always resolves our queries with ease. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The software is easy to set up and use, the video tutorials are very helpful. #### Cons The inability to download user lists (with contact details) makes maintaining an emergency contact list a bit tricky. #### Reasons for choosing Calira More features, reporting, ability to organise hierarchical structures that we have institutional oversight over. #### Vendor response Thank you for the feedback! Replied October 2021 --- ### Integrative but confusing - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Research - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: December 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I wish the interface was easier to follow. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The thoroughness of the software is impressive. #### Cons it is difficult to navigate because there are too many tabs. #### Vendor response Thanks for your feedback! Replied December 2021 --- ### Convenient - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Research - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Convenient to book equipment once you get used to it. Might need some time to learn the most effective way to access and book. #### Cons Not very intuitive at the start, such as dragging on the timeline to book a certain slot. #### Vendor response Thank you for your feedback. 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