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Let customers visit. Keep other areas protected.

Connect entrance permissions, route alarms and unit access around the visit your customer needs to make.

A customer needs a clear route from the entrance to their unit. They do not need permission for every floor, every corridor or every other customer’s storage.

By Bearbox · Updated

Start with the route the customer needs

Consider a customer with a unit on the first floor. Their route might include the main gate, a building entrance, a lift and a corridor. Permissions can cover those access points while keeping staff rooms and other floors restricted. The useful starting point is the actual building layout.

Permitted routeOther areas protected

Access permission and alarm treatment work together

Entrance permissions decide which doors a customer can open. Alarm areas decide which monitored activity needs attention. For the customer’s visit, Bearbox temporarily disarms the relevant route and their own unit. Other alarm areas stay protected, so their visit does not leave the whole building unprotected.

Opening a unit is a separate job

Where fitted, the customer’s BearLock can unlock as part of their visit and the unit alarm can be disarmed. You can combine unit monitoring with automatic locks or keep your existing locking arrangement.

The end of the visit matters

Agree how protection returns when a visit ends. Include customers who forget to check out, doors left open and people who stay longer than expected. Your team needs to know how each of those events is handled and when to investigate.

Give each visitor their own access

A business customer may have several people visiting one unit. Where sharing is enabled, individual invitations let each person use their own credentials. Permission to use that unit should still follow the areas and hours they need. Sharing a unit does not need to mean sharing one entrance code.

See the whole visit

Follow the customer from arrival through their route and unit access to departure. The walkthrough shows how entrance permissions and alarm areas can work together. Compare that journey with the floors, corridors and units at your own site.

Open the interactive walkthrough

A few more answers

Questions about customer visits and alarms?

Does a visit disarm the whole building?

The configured alarm areas on the permitted route and the customer’s own unit can be temporarily disarmed. Other areas remain protected.

Does this require automatic locks?

No. Access permissions and alarm treatment can work with monitoring separately from automatic unit locks.