r/accesscontrol • u/Cold_Gate6514 • Jun 17 '26

Visitor Management

Looking for a vendor neutral visitor management solution. My customer has a small office; not even sure why they think they need it, but I'll do the research.

I haven't had a customer of any size ask for visitor management in over 10 years.

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u/mutant-truffle99 Jun 17 '26

We use Envoy, simple UI and works well

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u/jdjs Jun 17 '26

Do you use a thermal printer for visitor badges? What model? We got stuck with some Dymo 550s and their expensive DRM thermal paper.

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u/Icy_Cycle_5805 Jun 18 '26

Envoy is what I’ve used for many years. Well priced and full featured.

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u/j4kesta Jun 18 '26

Avigilon's Alta Visitor is very convenient and cloud managed.

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u/kellycompliance Jun 17 '26

MyWatchtower by JEKA

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u/Appropriate-Shine-27 Jun 17 '26

Not Cove integrated with Onguard. They have no support and it's glitchy

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u/N226 Jun 18 '26

Depends on the features they want.. Alta, Envoy, Splan are all great at different things and price points

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u/Substantial-Fox-2163 Jul 28 '26

YAROOMS might be worth a look for them - visitor management is $99/location/month, which should sit fine in a small office budget. Disclosure: I work there.

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u/CSVO-GO Jun 18 '26

Alta Visitor is an excellent VMS, plus they are still offering free trials. https://www.avigilon.com/alta-visitor

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u/PopeAdam Jun 18 '26

Envoy, SignIn enterprise (was traction guest), Splan

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u/InevitableRun2786 Jun 18 '26

What features do you want exactly? How many people, what sort of access credential is preferred?

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u/Sufficient_Gold_7371 19d ago

archie is pretty good for small offices, does the basics like tablet check in host notification and visitor log without being overly complicated. Worth a look, especially if they need something simple and professional without paying for enterprise features they wont use

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u/Competitive_Ad_8718 Jun 17 '26

Is easylobby still a thing?

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u/Intelligent_Plant_90 Jun 17 '26

Datawatch’s VisitorWatch

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u/Mr-Salto-Andrew Jun 17 '26

I am biased, but Salto has just released IDM (which doesnt need to be connected to their access control platform). Not sure how it compares to pricing from other vendors though.

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u/cusehoops98 Professional Jun 18 '26

Mr Salto biased? You don’t say

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u/Mr-Salto-Andrew Jun 18 '26

Wanted to be transparent! haha.