What is Secure Visitor Management?
In many organizations today, visitors entering a ‘secure’ building, facility or campus are able to gain access by simply scribbling their name in a paper guest book. Not only is this not at all ‘secure’, but the data is usually incomplete, often difficult to read, and always impossible to analyze. Perhaps more importantly, confidential information about who has recently visited your facility is out in the open and readily available to anyone who wants to flip through the book's pages.

EasyLobby, the Global Leader in Secure Visitor Management Systems, believes that today’s organizations must do better, in order to enhance both their security and their image.

With a Secure Visitor Management (or SVM) system, visitors electronically scan their ID (business card, driver's license, passport or other form of ID), and all relevant information about them is captured in a secure database file. This information is fully-customizable and can include a variety of information including their photo, signature, the name of the person being visited, the reason for the visit, and their entry and exit times. In twenty seconds or less, the visitor is professionally checked in and a high quality visitor badge is automatically printed.

What are the benefits of SVM?
Over the last several years, thousands of organizations, both large and small, public and private, have discovered the many benefits of replacing the outdated paper log with a Secure Visitor Management system.

These benefits include:

• Securing the workplace more robustly
• Streamlining the visitor check-in process• Capturing detailed visitor information more accurately and automatically
• Being able to easily perform analysis and reporting on visitor data across multiple locations
• Keeping visitor and company information confidential
• Providing high quality, professional looking badges to visitors and employees
• Enhancing the organization's image and making visitors and employees feel safer
• Networking multiple locations together to show a single visitor database
• Being able to tightly integrate the visitor system with your access control system

How does SVM work? 
While SVM is a powerful method for enhancing security, at the same time it needs to be simple and user-friendly for both visitors as well as your lobby security personnel. EasyLobby breaks SVM down to a multi-step process:

Scan the ID – simply and accurately scan the visitor’s credentials (driver’s license, business card, passport, etc…).

Verify identity – capture other visitor details via webcam, signature pad, fingerprint reader or other device

Capture the data – enter all of the above data as well as other information (name of the person being visited, reason for visit, entry and exit times, etc…) in a secure database file.

Print a customized, personalized and professional Visitor Badge. EasyLobby provides over 200 templates with our software, and can print badges and labels for Visitors, Employees, Assets and Packages. Badges can be customized by type of visitor and our Custom Badge Designer allows you to create your own badge templates.

Access and Analyze – use the SVM database to lookup and sort visitors and visits by a variety of criteria. Use the Report Wizard to generate customized reports in seconds, and store and disseminate report data instantly.

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