How to Use Your Visitor Management System to Improve Future Visits
What are the best strategies for improving future office visits? In this post, we share tips on using a visitor management system successfully.
14 Things to Look For When Choosing Visitor Management Software
What should you look for when choosing a visitor management system? In this post, we share a list of top features to consider.
Does a Visitor Management System Hurt Your Human Connection?
How do you use a visitor management system without hurting or losing your human connection? In this post, we share essential tips you need to know.
Should Your Employees Sign In at the Lobby?
Should your employees sign in at the lobby? In this article, we look at the benefits of implementing a lobby employee sign-in process.
Are You Making One of These Common Visitor Check-in Mistakes?
Looking for ways to improve your visitor check-in process? In this post, we look at common visitor management mistakes and how to avoid them.
A Guide to Using Text Messages to Impress Your Office Visitors
Should you use text messages for office visitors? Absolutely! In this post, we share why and how to send effective text messages to your visitors.
A Guide to Hoteling in the Workplace
What is hoteling in the workplace? In this guide, we discuss the what, why, and how of hoteling, along with best practices.
20 Creative Ways to Use The Receptionist for iPad
Check out these unique ways to use The Receptionist for iPad in your organization. Tips include Zapier integrations for check-ins and check outs.
COVID-19 in the Workplace: How to Continue to Protect Your Employees and Visitors in 2022 and Beyond
In this post, we share tips for protecting your workplace post-pandemic. Here’s how to keep your employees and visitors safe in 2022 and beyond.
How to Use Visitor Data to Improve Your Business’ Day to Day Operations
Are you collecting visitor data? If not, you could miss the chance to optimize your workflow and increase security. Here’s how to use visitor data:
Improve Your On-Campus Security With These Best Practices
What are some of the best ways to improve your on-campus security? In this post, we share how to use a visitor management software to stay secure.
Can’t Find a Reliable Receptionist to Hire? Here’s How to Use Technology as an Effective Replacement
Not able to find a receptionist due to the Great Resignation? In this post, we share an effective receptionist alternative.
12 Creative Ways to Use Your Visitor Management System
Let’s take a look at the various ways you can use your visitor management system to improve your security and visitor experience.
Becoming SOC 2 Certified
On this episode we discuss becoming SOC 2 certified: what that means, what we went through, and why it was important to get this certification. Learn more about The Receptionist at https://hubs.ly/H0-HP680
How to Create a Safer Visitor Experience
Would you like to create a safer visitor experience? Check out this simple guide.
7 Must-Have Tech Tools for the Modern Office
Technology is what drives and supports businesses today, from apps that enable communications to smart conference tables that allow anyone at a meeting to share their screen with the press of a button. Here are seven office tech tools we’ve…
How a startup incubator’s search for check-in software landed at The Receptionist for iPad
At the Civil-Military Innovation Institute, Inc., (CMI2) headquarters in West Virginia, several companies exist under one roof, all with a focus on supporting United States Department of Defense and developing dual-use (for government and commercial use) technologies.
Each individual company…
Featured Business — Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise
As the executive assistant for the Chattanooga (Tenn.) Neighborhood Enterprise, a housing nonprofit that focuses on homeowner education and counseling, Hannah Clark has to keep track of and account for just about everything.
Donations and grants. Office supplies. Time.
And…
Featured Business — Wakaya Perfection
Originally founded in 2011 by famed entrepreneur and founder of FIJI Water, David H. Gilmour, Wakaya Perfection joined the booming direct sales industry in 2015 when Co-Founder Todd Smith took the helm and moved operations from South Florida to Central…
How to Get Your Office Ready for a Visitor Management System
Before you launch visitor management software in your office, make sure you’re ready by taking these steps.
Featured Business — Alex E. Navidad, PLC
Alex Navidad is a Phoenix, Ariz.-based business owner and building manager who must constantly balance between offering value to his building tenants and managing costs.
So in 2017, when he began considering how to make the reception area of his…
Featured Business — MRZ
Technology continues to disrupt the way companies do business, and seemingly no industry is safe.
As more of Houston-based CPA firm MRZ’s services and interactions with clients moved to the digital space, it shifted the way the 100-person company…
Featured Business — eCycle Solutions
eCycle Solutions, an Ontario-based electronics recycling and information technology asset disposition (ITAD) provider, prides itself on ensuring that when a customer’s electronics enter its facilities, they are recycled in a way that ensures data security, worker health and safety, and…
How to Build Your Company’s Own Visitor Management System
If you’re considering having a visitor management system built specifically for your company’s needs, here’s what to keep in mind.
Why You Need to Categorize Your Business Visitors
Every visitor management system should start with an analysis of who comes through your organization’s doors. Here’s what to consider.
New Features: Pre-Registration and Returning Visitor Check-In
A few weeks ago, we launched The Receptionist for iPad version 3.0. (Missed the announcement? Check it out here). But today is the BIG announcement! Today, we’re rolling out two huge new features to make your visitors’ check-in even…
The Receptionist for iPad Version 3.0: More Customizable Than Ever!
While you were hopefully enjoying a relaxing summer vacation on a tropical isle, the Engineering team at The Receptionist was hard at work making your office check-in process even more awesome. Version 3.0 includes many more button options so that…
13 Things You Didn’t Know Your iPad Could Become
Your iPad is already your favorite movie theater, cookbook, and gaming console. But that’s just the start of what it’s capable of. Download an app and your iPad can turn into anything from a fish tank to a receptionist. Here…
Got Answers to These 10 Visitor Management Questions?
Do you collect data about who visits your office? If not, you could be missing out on information that could help you understand what happens in your company on a daily basis. Here are 10 important questions you should try…
5 Reasons Your Visitor Management System Belongs in the Cloud
You’ve taken your accounting to the cloud with QuickBooks Online, your communication into the cloud with Gmail and Slack, and your customer service into the cloud with Zendesk. And now, it’s time to send your visitor management process to the…
How Secure is Your Office? (And How a Visitor Management System Can Help)
What are you doing about office security? I’m not talking computer security or network security (though those are certainly important!). I’m talking people-walking-into-your-office-and-taking-stuff security. Many companies today aren’t doing enough about security, particularly companies with open office plans, where employees…
Visitor Management System Best Practices
Visitor management systems improve the flow of visitors through your office while also reducing the administrative burden and increasing security. Here are seven best practices for implementing a visitor management system.
Choose a user-friendly system
Yes, a visitor management system…
5 Ways Visitor Management Systems Save You Money
For startups, small offices, and even large companies that don’t have receptionists, visitor management systems simplify visitor processing while providing an enhanced level of safety and security. On top of all that, they are enormously friendly to your bottom line.…
How to Use Automation to Improve Office Productivity (Hint: Get Rid of Visitor Sign In Sheets)
Office and personal productivity tools are everywhere. Do a Google search and you will find endless lists of must-have software and mobile apps that claim to save you time and help you get more done. But do they really save…
What’s Your Office’s First Impression?
Have you ever walked into an office and gotten a bad first impression? We have, and that can have a damaging effect for a company.
First impressions count. I’m not just talking about whether your shirt is clean or you’ve…
New Feature: Visitor Badge Printing!
Need to easily identify who’s visiting your office? Custom visitor badge printing is now available for The iPad Receptionist! From the visitor name to who their visiting, along with date and time, you can fully customize your badges complete with your…