STOPware Blog: Stay Up to Date on Everything You Need to Know About Visitor Management
Georgia’s House Bill 268, enacted in 2025 following the tragic Apalachee High School shooting, is a game-changer for school safety. While the bill focuses on behavioral threat assessments, emergency alert systems, and student well-being, its ripple effects extend to visitor management—a critical component of any school’s safety strategy. At STOPware, Inc., we understand the importance of secure, efficient visitor management, and we’re here to help Georgia schools align their visitor protocols with HB 268’s requirements. Here’s what the bill means for your school’s visitor management plan and how our PassagePoint solutions can help.
In today’s fast-paced workplace environments—whether in healthcare, corporate, education, or industrial settings—flexibility and efficiency are more important than ever. While traditional front-desk setups remain common, many organizations are now turning to Workstations on Wheels (WoWs) to complement their visitor management software (VMS) and streamline check-ins, enhance safety, and adapt to dynamic spaces.
One of the largest direct-to-consumer food e-commerce companies uses PassagePoint to register thousands of temporary workers at their distribution centers across the country making PassagePoint a critical system for their daily operations.
7 Tips for Large Enterprises to follow when selecting a Visitor Management System from including all stakeholders, to clearing defining your requirements and ensuring that you select a solution that can grow with the company, have interoperability with other systems all while ensuring a great visitor experience.
Large School System in Northern New Jersey – Case Study PassagePoint EDU Visitor Management Solution
A school system in northern New Jersey faced a challenge, how could they track and manage Visitors for an entire school district? It was important that each school had the ability to screen visitors and then properly identify the visitor so that the staff could tell at a glance that the person in the hallway had a legitimate reason for being there. They needed an enterprise solution to connect all schools to a central database.
STOPware works with large University Research Facility for Homeland Security to create a unique workflow to enforce visitor pre-screening to ensure compliance with government regulations.
A leading physical medicine and rehabilitation research hospital for adults and children in a large US metropolitan area was looking for a visitor management system that could process outpatients and visitors via a kiosk and limit their access using CCure 9000 access control system and RFID integration. The visitor experience was paramount since there wouldn’t be personnel to guide the visitors.
Hospitals are meant to be places of healing, but without proper security, they can become vulnerable to violence. Implementing an advanced Visitor Management System (VMS) integrated with weapon detection technology can significantly reduce these risks, ensuring the safety of patients, staff, and visitors.
One of the leading cancer treatment centers in the US came to STOPware wanting to integrate PassagePoint with the mobile app. Being a Cancer hospital, customer service and user experience are of utmost importance. Patients are coming in for scheduled appointments over a period of time for chemotherapy, radiation,etc.
In the fast-paced world of healthcare, efficiency and improved satisfaction are paramount. Long wait times, manual check-in processes, and administrative bottlenecks can lead to frustration for visitors and staff alike. To address these challenges, healthcare facilities are increasingly turning to innovative solutions like PassagePoint, a cutting-edge visitor management system designed to streamline the visitor check-in process and improve the overall visitor experience.
8 Tips on how technology contributes to improved efficiency in healthcare settings. From simplifying the check-in process, to reducing administrative burdens and managing high traffic volumes. This blog post will help you identify the areas you should consider to improve the efficiency of your hospital.
In today's data-driven world, organizations that collect or process personal information must take extra care to handle it responsibly and in compliance with global data privacy regulations. For companies handling the personal information of European Union (EU) residents, compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is critical.
As the new school year has just kicked off, ensuring the safety of students, staff, and visitors is more critical than ever. Schools are bustling environments with parents, volunteers, vendors, and other visitors entering daily, making it essential to maintain strict control over who comes and goes.
At STOPware, we're always evolving our products to meet the changing needs of our customers, especially when it comes to managing visitor security.
In healthcare, ensuring the privacy and security of patient information is paramount. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) establishes the framework for protecting patient data, and healthcare organizations must navigate these regulations carefully to avoid breaches and penalties.
In today’s fast-paced and security-conscious world, managing visitor access efficiently is more important than ever. For many organizations, especially those with high traffic or sensitive environments, pre-registration has emerged as a critical component of effective visitor management. But why is pre-registration so essential, and how can it benefit your organization? Let’s explore the key reasons why pre-registration should be a core part of your visitor management strategy.
1. Enhances Security Measures
Ensuring the security and efficiency of your facility is paramount, and integrating visitor management software with access control systems is a key strategy in achieving this. At STOPware, we understand the importance of a seamless integration to enhance your security measures while maintaining ease of use. Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you through the process.
Step 1: Assess Your Current Systems
Before beginning the integration, take stock of your current visitor management and access control systems. Consider the following:
In an era where technology continues to transform various sectors, educational institutions are increasingly turning to modern solutions to enhance security and efficiency. One area that has seen significant advancements is visitor management. Traditional sign-in sheets are being replaced by sophisticated visitor management systems (VMS), providing a host of benefits that go beyond mere record-keeping. Let's explore the key advantages of these digital systems and why they are essential for today's schools.
The Limitations of Traditional Sign-In Sheets
A school district in northern New Jersey needed a comprehensive system to track and manage visitors across all its schools. Each school required the capability to screen and identify visitors so that staff could quickly verify if someone had a legitimate reason to be on the premises. The district's requirements included enterprise connectivity to link all schools to a central database and data partitioning to display relevant information specific to each site while sharing important watch list information across the district.