Commercial buildings
Give every tenant a branded arrival experience, manage invitations at the building level, and see occupancy and utilization across an entire portfolio.
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Visitor Management System
A cloud-based visitor management system, powered by Kenai, delivers a seamless, secure, and modern way to manage people, processes, and access across any physical site, ensuring compliance, enhancing safety, and creating an exceptional first impression.
Make your first impression a lasting impression
The front door is where every visit begins and where your organization makes its first impression. Too often that moment runs on a paper logbook, a queue at reception, and no reliable record of who is on site when it matters.
A visitor management system turns that first impression into a lasting one. A connected, cloud-based platform handles preregistration, identity, host notifications, and access in a single workflow. Your visitors get a fast, intuitive welcome and your team gets real-time visibility of everyone on site.
What a visitor management system delivers for your organisation
A visitor management system earns its place through what it changes for your organization, giving visitors a better arrival and your team the oversight, compliance, and answers they need to keep the site running.
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Seamless visitor and employee experience
Branded preregistration, touchless QR or facial recognition check-in, and instant host notifications make every arrival feel effortless, from the first invitation to the moment a guest walks out the door.
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Compliance built in, audits made easy
Aligned with GDPR and POPI, the platform handles customizable visitor agreements, induction tracking, consent, and exportable logs, so compliance is built into every visit.
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One dashboard, total oversight
One dashboard covers visitor flows, employee check-ins, and access activity, giving your team real-time operationality visibility across every site.
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Faster safer emergency response
Omnichannel evacuation alerts and muster-point workflows let you reach everyone on site at once and confirm who is safe in moments, not minutes.
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One platform, tailored to every building
Tenant-specific branding, building-level invitations, and portfolio-wide insights keep every building consistent while still supporting the needs of each tenant.
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Accessible from anywhere
With a cloud-based visitor management system administrators gain secure access to records, reporting, and controls from any location, with updates delivered automatically.
One visitor management system for the entire visitor experience
Manage every part of the visitor experience with all the features you need from preregistration and sign-in to access control and reporting.
Customizable preregistration
Interact with visitors before they arrive onsite with customizable preregistration
Digital documentation
Replace paper forms with digital agreements
Branded experience
Carry your organization's look through every visitor touch point
Seamless onsite check-in
Recognize every user on site in seconds with facial recognition
Host notifications
Connect visitors with hosts, the instant their visitor arrives
Integrated access control
Visitors receive the right access automatically and revoke it when their visit ends
Visitor reporting
Keep accurate, searchable records of who visited, who they saw, and when, ready for audits and reviews
AI assistant
Ask questions across your visitor records and get answers in seconds, without building a report by hand
Visitor management that works with your access control
Most visitor software stops at the front desk. It records who arrived, then hands the question of what that person can actually reach to a separate system that has never heard of them.
Gallagher designs and manufactures a comprehensive suite of security software and hardware including integrated access control, intruder alarm, and perimeter solutions. That means your visitor management connects directly to your security ecosystem rather than running beside it. Through a secure integration with Command Centre, our visitor management system, powered by Kenai, issues the right credential automatically, whether that is a QR code, a mobile credential, or a physical badge, and revokes it the moment a visit ends. Zone-based access and visitor-type access groups mean a contractor, a job candidate, and a maintenance technician each get exactly the access their visit calls for, and nothing more.
Securing the front door is where it starts. With visitor management and access control on one platform, you also gain accurate occupancy data, automated compliance records, and a single source of truth for who is on your site at any moment.
Securing your buildings is just the beginning.
Tailored visitor management solutions for key industries
The visitor management system is built for the specific challenges of the industries it serves, with workflows that fit how each one operates.
Simplified, consistent compliance
The visitor management system meets your security and compliance needs on two levels.
At the visitor level, you control what each person agrees to and completes before they reach the door. Custom NDAs and visitor agreements, asset declarations, and safety inductions can all be required as part of check-in, and evacuation management gives you real-time accountability if an emergency ever arises.
At the platform level, our systems are compliant with GDPR and POPI, and SOC 2 Type II certificated, they also support role-based access and enterprise single sign-on.
Gallagher Trust Center
A collection of policies, certifications, product and company information all together in one place.
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Frequently asked questions (FAQ)
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How does a visitor management system work?
A visitor management system works by digitizing each stage of a visit. A host or visitor preregisters the visit, the visitor receives an invitation with any agreements or inductions to complete, and on arrival they check in by QR code or facial recognition. The system notifies the host instantly, issues a credential for the visit, and the platform logs the visit. When the visitor leaves, the system records the exit and revokes the access automatically.
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What is a visitor management system?
A visitor management system is software that manages how people enter and move through a workplace, from preregistration and check-in to host notifications, compliance, and departure. A digital visitor management system replaces paper logbooks and manual sign-in with a digital record of who is on site, why, and when. An integrated system also connects to your access control, so visitors receive the right access automatically and lose it as soon as their visit ends.
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What are the benefits of a visitor management system
The main benefits of a visitor management system are a faster, more professional arrival experience, stronger security, and consistent compliance. It gives security and facilities teams real-time visibility of everyone on site, automates safety inductions and agreements, and produces audit-ready records. When it integrates with access control, it also delivers accurate occupancy data and a single record of who entered, where, and when.
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What are the essential features of a modern visitor management system
The essential features of a modern visitor management system are preregistration, touchless check-in, host notifications, customizable agreements and inductions, real-time reporting, and emergency evacuation management. A cloud-based visitor management system adds remote access and automatic updates, and integration with access control adds automated credentialing and accurate occupancy data.
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How do you choose a visitor management system
To choose a digital visitor management system, start with how well it fits the systems you already run. Confirm whether it integrates with your access control, whether it meets compliance standards such as GDPR, POPI, or SOC 2, and whether it scales across multiple sites or tenants. Look for a partner that supports the platform over its full lifetime rather than a one-off install and ask to see both the visitor experience and the administrator dashboard in a live demo.