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Visitor sign-in on an iPad at your front desk

PlugNKiosk turns an iPad you already have into visitor sign-in. There's nothing to download from the App Store: open a link, pair it with a code, and lock the iPad to the kiosk with Guided Access.

What visitors do

  1. Check in.They enter their name and company, and pick who they're here to see. Returning visitors are quicker the next time.
  2. Sign your NDA.If you use one, they read your agreement and sign it on the screen with a finger. How NDA signing works.
  3. Smile, if you like.The kiosk can take a quick photo, so the person they're visiting knows who to look for. It's optional.
  4. Their host is told.By email, with a pop-up to let them in if the host has the dashboard open, and in Teams or Slack if you connect a channel. How arrival alerts work.

After checking in, the kiosk can also show a QR code that puts the visitor's phone on your guest WiFi.

Set up the iPad

  1. Set up your front deskIn the dashboard, add the agreement visitors sign, if you use one, and the people they come to see. Your team is listed automatically, and you can import anyone else from a CSV file.
  2. Get a pairing codeOn the Kiosks page, get a pairing code for the location. It works once, for 15 minutes.
  3. Pair the iPadOn the iPad, open the kiosk address shown with the code and enter the code, or scan the QR code.
  4. Add it to the Home ScreenAdd the kiosk to the iPad's Home Screen and open it from there.
  5. Lock the iPad to the kioskTurn on Guided Access (Settings > Accessibility) to keep the iPad on the kiosk. Set Auto-Lock to Never, and Guided Access's own Display Auto-Lock to Never too.
  6. Keep it plugged inPut the iPad on a stand at reception and keep it charging. If you take visitor photos, allow the camera the first time the kiosk asks.

If a kiosk goes quiet, unplugged or off the Wi-Fi, you get an email, and another when it's back.

Not an iPad?

Any iPad or Android tablet, or an iPhone, with a current browser works. On Android, add the kiosk to the Home screen and use App pinning, or a kiosk browser that starts with the tablet. You can have as many tablets as you like at each location, at no extra cost.

After the visit

Every check-in is kept in your visit log. Look up who came, when, who they saw and what they signed, and download the visits as a CSV. Visits are kept as long as your policy needs, up to 3 years, then deleted automatically.

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