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Feature Release: Reach everyone in your office with Broadcast Notifications

The Receptionist’s newest visitor management feature will help ensure everyone in your workplace is informed of important events or safety situations. Say hello to Broadcast Notifications! Broadcast Notifications allow you to send out mass alerts via SMS to everyone who…

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Feature Release: Less lobby stress with assigned deliveries

With The Receptionist’s newest visitor management feature, your employees can have peace of mind that any important deliveries won’t go missing or be left sitting out at the front desk overnight. Say hello to Assigned Deliveries! Our Assigned Deliveries feature…

Feature Release: A stellar visitor experience with assigned visits

The Receptionist for iPad welcomes our newest feature designed to upgrade your visitor experience and ease anxiety at the front desk: visit assignment! We built the assigned visits feature primarily for users in the credit union and banking industries, who…

Feature Release: Stay on top of your workplace with visit notes

The Receptionist’s extensive list of visitor management features has a brand new addition: visit notes! Customers across industries have asked us for a way to append specific visits in their visit log with extra information beyond the data collected during…

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Feature Release: Microsoft Teams integration

One of the most frequent requests from potential users and customers alike has been delivered, as we are excited to announce the new native integration between The Receptionist for iPad and Microsoft Teams! We’re excited to provide our customers with…

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Feature Release: Dive deeper with new analytics views

Our latest feature updates for The Receptionist for iPad are all about analytics that give you even more information about who’s coming to your office, who they’re seeing, and what days are busiest for your team. Visit Analytics by Day…

Feature Update: Contactless Check-In

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced business leaders around the world to rethink how they welcome visitors through their doors. As more businesses reopen, it is essential to minimize the risk of spreading any virus or disease through reduced contact opportunities.…

Feature Update: ID capture visitor field

We are excited to introduce the ability to capture various forms of identification through a new visitor form field in the release of our newest version 4.4. Users can now assign an ID capture field to any visitor check-in button…

Contactless check-in — a message from The Receptionist CEO Andy Alsop

Last week we sent out a customer survey to better understand the challenges our users are facing as stay-at-home mandates begin to relax and businesses re-open their doors. So far, we have received tremendous feedback. To those who took the…

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Temperature screening — what we’ve found, how we’re responding, and what comes next?

As COVID-19 stay-at-home orders expire and businesses ease into opening their doors, a top concern has emerged: how to keep visitors and employees safe from a virus that hasn’t been eradicated? When the coronavirus was initially growing into a global…

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Feature Update: Google Drive and Dropbox integration

The Receptionist for iPad has added two new integrations to the software that make saving important documents collected during the check-in process even easier. These latest integrations let customers instantly save and file signed copies of legal documents and agreements…

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Feature Update: Zapier integration

The Receptionist for iPad has launched a brand new integration that allows you to increase the scope of The Receptionist platform and trigger events in more of the apps you use daily. The new Zapier integration allows customers to seamlessly…

Feature Update: QR code check in

The Receptionist for iPad has released to all customers the ability to allow guests to check in for their visit using a QR code on their mobile device. With the QR code check-in option, pre-registered visitors or returning visitors will…

Feature Update: Employee Check In and Check Out

The Receptionist for iPad’s latest feature release offers our customers the ability to track employee check-in and check-out activity separate from visitors with a new Employee button type. The Receptionist for iPad users have numerous different button types to choose…

Feature Updates: Dark Mode and custom check-out questions

We often hear that our customers love all of the ways they can customize The Receptionist for iPad, and now, two new feature updates offer up even more ways to create a unique and well-rounded visitor check-in experience. Dark Mode…

Feature Updates: Custom email domains and departments

We’re back with two new feature updates for The Receptionist for iPad that will make your visitor check-in experience even more efficient! Custom email domains With the release of the highly requested custom email domains feature, you can now add your…

Feature Updates: Location Management

For companies with more than one location, building, or office, implementing the highest rated visitor management system in The Receptionist for iPad has been made easier than ever with the rollout of our location management functionality. With The Receptionist for…

Feature Updates: Visit Log Refresh

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Feature Updates: Agreements Vault!

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Feature Updates: Multiple Languages Display Now in Beta!

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Feature Updates: Added Home Screen Customizations

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Feature Update: Visit Summary Emails, Photo Capture Updates, and New Printer Options

When was the last time you updated The Receptionist app on your iPad? We’re giving you a really good reason to do just that this week. Nothing works until you update your app so do that first. The Receptionist places…

New Feature: Visitor Evacuation List

Do you know who’s in your office right now? If an emergency happened, would you be able to ensure that all of your visitors get out? It’s not fun to think about, but emergencies can and do happen. Because of…

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