A fractional office is a single private office that several companies share on a fixed days-of-week rotation. One company holds the office on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, another holds it on Tuesday and Thursday, and each pays only for the days it uses. Behind the scenes a fractional office is still an asset, and each company's claim is still a normal assignment with its own rate and monthly billing. What fractional adds is a weekly schedule layer that records which assignment owns which weekday, so a single room can carry several tenants at once without anyone double-booking the space.
What a fractional office is
A fractional office is an asset whose type is set to fractional. Unlike an ordinary private office or dedicated desk, which is held by one member or company full time, a fractional office is divided across the seven days of the week. Each day of the week is owned by at most one share, and a share is simply the assignment that connects a member or team to the office.
Because each share is an ordinary assignment, the things you already know about assignments still apply. Each share has its own rate, bills monthly through the standard billing pipeline, appears on the holder's profile and on the office's finance and activity history, and can be ended at any time. The only difference is that a share also owns a set of weekdays on the office's weekly schedule.
Deskie enforces one hard rule on the schedule: a given weekday can belong to only one share. This is guaranteed at the database level, so two shares can never end up holding the same day, even if two admins are editing at the same moment.
Converting an office to fractional
You turn an existing space into a fractional office by converting it. On the asset's detail page, the Convert to Fractional action changes an office's type from private office or dedicated desk to fractional. Only those two types can become fractional; other asset types cannot.
Conversion is safe and reversible. All of the asset's history, its assignments, invoices, and activity, is keyed to the asset itself and is computed when you view it, so flipping between full time and fractional never discards anything. If the office already had one active assignment when you convert it, that assignment simply becomes the first share, and you then give it its days on the weekly schedule.
You can convert a fractional office back to a full-time private office or dedicated desk at any time using the Convert to Full-Time Office action. Converting back clears the weekly schedule and returns the space to a single occupant, while keeping every record from the fractional period intact. Because a full-time office holds only one tenant, Deskie requires that at most one active share remains before you convert back. If the office still has more than one active share, you end all but one of those assignments first, then convert.
Assigning members to weekday shares
Fractional offices are managed from a Schedule tab that appears on the asset's detail page once the asset is fractional. The first card on that tab is the Weekly Schedule, a seven-day grid that shows which share holds each day.
To create a share, assign a member or team to the office the same way you would assign any asset. That assignment shows up on the schedule as a share. From the weekly grid you then pick which weekdays that share owns. Each day in the grid has a small selector: choose a share to give that share the day, or choose Open to release the day. Reassigning a day that another share already holds moves it from the old share to the new one in a single step.
Because days are owned by assignments rather than by the asset, they take care of themselves when a tenancy changes. When you end a share's assignment, the weekdays it held are freed automatically and become open again, ready to hand to another company. There is no separate cleanup step.
The schedule card also shows a legend of every current share, the number of days per week it holds, and its monthly rate, so you can see the whole rotation at a glance. A short summary at the top tells you how many of the seven days are currently assigned.
When a day cannot be assigned because another share already holds it, Deskie tells you which day is taken and who holds it, rather than failing silently. This check happens before the change is written, and the database guarantee backs it up against the rare case of two admins grabbing the same day at the same moment.
How it fits with billing and assignments
Fractional offices do not introduce a separate billing system. Each share is an assignment, and assignments bill on their normal monthly cadence through the standard pipeline, so a fractional office with three shares simply produces three monthly charges, one per company, each at its own rate. Ending a share ends its billing and frees its weekdays in the same action, and converting the office back to full time keeps all of that history in place.
To go deeper on the pieces a fractional office is built from, see assets for how the underlying space and its rates work, assignments for how a member's claim on a space is created, billed, and ended, and plans and memberships for how recurring memberships relate to the spaces members occupy.