SoftDocket

Solution · Visitor & Access

Retire the paper register.

Pre-approvals, photo + ID capture, parcel hand-off, and vehicle entry — with the audit trail your incident response needs.

What security heads tell us

Five gaps every gated community has.

  • Paper register

    Illegible, lost, manipulable. Useless when an incident is being investigated.

    Incident risk

  • Parcel theft + disputes

    No hand-off log. "Did the guard sign for it?" — nobody can tell.

    Daily friction

  • No pre-approvals

    Domestic help, food delivery, cabs — all wait at the gate every time.

    Resident frustration

  • Vehicle gaps

    No ANPR, no visitor parking tracking. Outsider cars sit overnight.

    Security risk

  • No incident trail

    When something happens, the only evidence is in someone's memory.

    Compliance risk

How SoftDocket solves it

Every entry recorded. Every resident in control.

Visitor Management + Access Control + Parcel Locker — wired into the same resident app, the same guard tablet, the same audit log.

  • Photo + ID + purpose capture in under 20 seconds
  • Pre-approved guests via shareable WhatsApp link
  • Frequent visitors (domestic help, food delivery) one-tap approval
  • Parcel hand-off log with photo evidence + resident OTP
  • Vehicle entry with ANPR-ready integration
  • Incident-ready export with timestamped events
  • Visitor flow

    Pre-approval, photo, ID, purpose, exit. 20 seconds end-to-end.

  • Parcel hand-off

    Photo + OTP. Dispute-proof receipt for both guard and resident.

  • Vehicle entry

    Manual + ANPR. Visitor parking slot tracking with auto-checkout.

What you get out of the box

Four modules. One gatekeeper.

  • Pre-approvals

    Residents pre-approve guests via WhatsApp link. Guard sees them coming.

    • WhatsApp shareable links
    • Frequent-visitor approvals (one tap)
    • Time-bound passes
    • QR check-in
    • Block / unblock visitor
  • Guard check-in

    Tablet-first flow. Works on cheap Android. Offline-ready.

    • Photo capture (front + ID)
    • Aadhaar masking
    • Purpose + host pin
    • Auto-resident notification
    • Exit capture with reconciliation
  • Parcel locker

    Photo + OTP hand-off. End the "did the guard receive it?" question.

    • Photo at receipt
    • OTP at hand-off
    • Resident WhatsApp notify
    • Pending-parcel dashboard
    • Unclaimed parcel escalation
  • Vehicle entry

    Visitor parking with slot tracking. ANPR-ready.

    • Visitor vehicle log
    • ANPR integration (Hikvision / CP Plus)
    • Parking slot allocation
    • Auto-exit on checkout
    • Overstay alerts

Gate flow

Four steps. Twenty seconds.

  1. 1

    Pre-approve

    Resident shares a WhatsApp link or marks a frequent visitor.

    Visitor expected

  2. 2

    Capture

    Guard tablet captures photo, masked ID, purpose, vehicle.

    Logged

  3. 3

    Notify

    Resident gets WhatsApp + push with photo. Approve / block in-app.

    Resident in control

  4. 4

    Exit

    Exit capture reconciles entry. Overstay alerts fire.

    Audit-ready

Every event is timestamped, photo-evidenced, and exportable for incident review.

Integrations

Talks to your cameras, your gate, your residents.

  • Hikvision cameras

    Cameras

  • CP Plus

    Cameras

  • ANPR engines

    Vehicle

  • Boom barriers

    Access

  • RFID readers

    Access

  • WhatsApp Business

    Comms

  • Firebase Push

    Comms

  • Google Maps

    Location

  • Twilio SMS

    Comms

  • DigiLocker masking

    Identity

Security

Designed around incident response.

  • Aadhaar masking by default

    Last 4 digits only. Full Aadhaar never leaves the device.

    UIDAI guideline compliant

  • Visitor data retention

    Configurable 30 / 90 / 180 day retention. Auto-purge after.

    DPDP Act 2023

  • Tamper-evident gate log

    Every entry, exit, edit logged. Photo metadata preserved.

    Court-admissible export

  • Guard / supervisor / MC roles

    Field-level permissions. Guards can't delete; supervisors can amend with reason.

    Mapped to ISO 27001 A.5.15

Analytics

Gate metrics every MC should see weekly.

Visitor wait time
-62%

Median across 80 sites

Parcel disputes
-91%

First 6 months

Pre-approved entries
74%

Up from 0% (paper)

Incident resolution time
-58%

Photo + log export

Vehicle overstay flags
100%

Vs 0 with paper

Resident security NPS
+41 pts

Post-rollout survey

  • Live gate dashboard — current visitors, parcels, vehicles
  • Weekly visitor mix — domestic help vs delivery vs guests
  • Incident-ready export — date range + filters + PDF
  • Guard performance — check-in compliance + photo quality

Customer voices

Security heads on the change.

  • We had a delivery dispute last month. Pulled the log, the photo, the OTP — case closed in five minutes.

    Suresh Babu

    Security Head · DLF Camellias

    Dispute closed in 5 min

  • Our domestic help no longer waits at the gate. The frequent-visitor approval changed daily life.

    Priya Raghavan

    MC Member · Mantri Espana RWA

  • Aadhaar masking by default was the deciding factor for us. Legal review took one meeting.

    Iqbal Hussain

    Compliance Officer · Salarpuria Greenage

    Legal cleared in 1 meeting

Ready when you are

Retire your paper register this month.

Get a walkthrough with someone who has rolled out SoftDocket visitor management at 50+ gated communities.

Visitor Management & Access Control — SoftDocket