2020 Access Manager Software

Automatic Activation and Deactivation of Credentials

Streamlining the card issuance process is our number one priority at BadgePass. As a result, our card production process ensures that cards are not only printed and personalized, but are also activated with a cardholder’s appropriate door access permissions during print, enabling a cardholder to instantly start using their badge on assigned doors.

With many door access systems, card activation is a multi-step process, requiring the cardholder to visit multiple departments to have their card activated in the variety of other systems that use it. While this may not seem like an issue for initial card print, it becomes a bigger security risk as cardholders lose or misplace badges and new ones are issued. With BadgePass, we eliminate that issue, by issuing and activating cards from the same interface.

Eliminate Credential Overflow

In BadgePass, when new badges are produced for existing cardholders, lost or stolen credentials (previously issued cards) are automatically deactivated as the new card is printed, ensuring each cardholder only has one active badge in the system at any given moment. Many other systems require multiple systems, and access to multiple systems and databases, to deactivate lost or stolen credentials. This multi-step process often results in more active ID cards in your system than there are actual active cardholders, also known as credential overflow. As cards are used for accessing doors and essentially acting as keys to your building, it becomes increasingly important to minimize this risk to your organization’s security.

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Our secure issuance process is one way we eliminate Credential Overflow; however, our DataSync Utility is equally important. DataSync is a powerful tool that allows users to import data from an existing data source (ex: Student Information System or HR database) into the BadgePass system. It streamlines the enrollment process by eliminating the need to manually enroll cardholder information and ensuring information is always up to date.

DataSync can also manage your active door access credentials based on data within your system, such as whether an employee is currently active or not. Should a cardholder be removed from payroll, for example, DataSync can update their cardholder record in BadgePass and automatically deactivate their credential in the process, another important step in minimizing the risk of Credential Overflow at your facility.

Enable Lockdown with Ease

As organizations implement new policies and procedures for emergency evacuations and lockdowns, it becomes increasingly important that your door access control system give you the ability to easily enact a campus-wide lockdown. In an emergency where every second counts, time spent running around locking or unlocking doors to seal off a room, wing or building puts people at risk, both from doors not getting locked in time or from potentially coming into contact with whatever the threat may be. For these reasons, lockout and/or lockdown capabilities are an essential feature for a modern access control system.

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With BadgePass, we offer several options for initiating a lockdown. Our triple-tap lockdown option allows specified cardholders with lockdown privileges to present a valid credential to a reader three times in a row and enact a lockdown for either all doors, or a specified group of doors, automatically. Our physical lockdown buttons require interaction with a physical input (ex: a pull or switch) that causes lockdown to be initiated. There are also options for initiating a lockdown from the software interface itself.

Grant Visitors Temporary Access to Doors

Fully integrated with BadgePass Visitor Manager, Access Manager allows facilities to easily grant temporary door access privileges to visitors and other guests. Our customizable QuickPass visitor badge option allows a visitor to automatically be assigned guest-level access upon completion of their check-in process. Then, their movements throughout the facility are automatically updated on the secure on-site list every time they present their badge to a reader. For security purposes, and to minimize the risk of credential overflow, visitor access privileges are automatically revoked as soon as a visitor is checked out. Learn more about Visitor Manager here.

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Accurate On-Site List

As cardholders scan their badges upon arrival each day, BadgePass automatically updates our On-Site List with all cardholder details, giving you an accurate snapshot of who is in the building at any given moment. Coupled with electronic visitor management, organizations can easily see who is in the building, and potentially where they are within the facility, at all times.