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
Pre-approve
Resident shares a WhatsApp link or marks a frequent visitor.
Visitor expected
- 2
Capture
Guard tablet captures photo, masked ID, purpose, vehicle.
Logged
- 3
Notify
Resident gets WhatsApp + push with photo. Approve / block in-app.
Resident in control
- 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%
- Parcel disputes
- -91%
- Pre-approved entries
- 74%
- Incident resolution time
- -58%
- Vehicle overstay flags
- 100%
- Resident security NPS
- +41 pts
Median across 80 sites
First 6 months
Up from 0% (paper)
Photo + log export
Vs 0 with paper
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.
