Verkada Guest enables your organization to quickly and securely manage guest access to your building and key areas. Guest leverages camera feeds, and door events to track guests and hosts across your organization.

Once a Verkada Guest license has been activated in your organization, a Guest tab will appear on your home page. Click on this tab to begin setup:

This will open up several different options for Guest management. Let's start by navigating to the left hand side of the page and selecting the gear icon titled Admin. This will open the organization-level guest settings page, which has the following options:

The account page allows you to manage the company name, logo, and colors, as well as upload a badge background image. These settings will provide the default values for all Guest sites.

The sites section is used to convert pre-existing camera sites into Guest sites. Once a Guest site is created, you will have additional per-site configuration options.

You have the option to create Global or Site Guest types, but for this example, we will create a Site Guest Type.

You can start creating a Guest type by selecting + Add Guest Type

Name your Guest type then select Standard Guest Type and select Save and Continue

Guest types determine what information is required from a user when they check-in, including documents to sign, personal information to provide, etc. The options selected will determine the guest flow and guide the guest through the check-in process.

Once you add a new guest type, you will see a button appear which allows you to configure the required information for each type.

Note: When the features security screening and the sub features are selected, the guest will be asked to submit a photo of their ID to be scanned against an aggregated list of background and sex offender registries. To learn more about this feature, please review the article, Verkada Guest Security Screen.

You have the option to create Global Documents, but for this example, we will create documents for a specific site.

Use this section to upload new documents. When a new document is added you are able to insert variables that will be automatically populated with the guest's information upon check-in.

Default documents include a COVID-19 questionnaire, a health document, and an NDA document.

This section enables you to choose who in your organization will be hosting guests, which is used for tracking and logging.

In order to add a host, you can choose one of the following methods:

The .csv file must have the following headers, which are case-sensitive:

Note: Both the phone and photo columns must exist, however populating values for these columns is optional.

Use existing SCIM integration

Alternatively, if your organization has an existing SCIM integration you can import hosts from your SCIM-managed groups.

Users can choose how they want to be notified once their guests are on site. They have the option to do this from the Admin tab as well as from guest.verkada.com.

You can add guests to the Previously dismissed matches in cases where they receive a false positive during our screening process.

For your guests' privacy, you can customize how long to store sensitive data.

For enhanced security, you can toggle on Enable Enhanced Email Authentication so that guests can only accept an invite that originates from your company's domain.

This section displays a list of Guest users and their associated roles. See here for more information on user roles and permissions.

Sites are used to segment guest management across your organization. As mentioned above, Guest sites are created under the Sites submenu. Guest sites are created by importing existing sites within your organization using the Import a Verkada Site button.

Once your site is added, by clicking on the site within the site list a new window will appear showing a number of management options:

The details section contains options including changing the location of your site, changing the default logo of your site, changing the default badge of your site, a toggle for zero-contact check-in, settings for reminding a guest to sign out, and a tablet call button.

Zero-contact check-in will display a QR code on your iPad which guests can scan to check in, rather than entering information on the iPad itself.

The guest languages section will allow you to select which languages can be used to sign in as well as select a default language. Please keep in mind you will need to translate certain items highlighted in the sign in flow for each guest type.

When configuring a new guest type or editing an existing one you can customize how badges will look when printed.

This section is used to configure a list of hosts for the site. Hosts can be manually added, imported via CSV, provisioned using SCIM, or you can use the employee list of the Guest site.

When the guest is unsure of their host, the Default Host serves as a fallback. For instance, you may want to specify the receptionist as your default host.

Note: A site-level hosts list will override any organization level hosts list.

This menu will allow you to add cameras to your guest dashboard that are within the same site by clicking on the Manage cameras button.

This section will allow you to add doors to your guest dashboard that are within the same site by clicking on the Manage doors button.

Select Add Tablet when you are ready to enroll your iPad into the Guest dashboard. Once selected you will be prompted to enter a code that will appear on the Guest app.

A site-specific code will appear here to enroll your printer into your Guest dashboard. To enroll your printer tap and hold the bottom right corner of your Guest app to show a pin pad which will enable printer-specific options.

The Deny List setting can be used in order to upload a .CSV file with a list users that should always be denied when signing in. Both email addresses and phone numbers can be associated with these denied users.

Staff notifications can be used to notify contacts of check-in failures occurring within the site (e.g a guest is denied entry due to security screenings, a guest failed the questionnaire, or if a host approval failed). You can also choose to notify the host.

If a guest fails their COVID-19 screening, security screening, etc. they will be denied entry. This section allows you to configure how to inform the guest of denied entry, and which host to notify.

To begin, download the Verkada Guest app onto your iPad from the app store. Once installed, the guest app will display a 6-character code which is used to add the iPad to your organization under Guest Settings > Sites > Tablets > + Add Tablet

You should now see your newly enrolled tablet in the site settings page. Selecting the tablet will reveal key device information such as what the Guest app will look like, the OS, the IP address, the app version, and which printers the tablet can print to.

Once your Guest app is set up you will be able to press and hold the bottom right corner to display the printer setup menu. From here enter the PIN code found under Printers in your site settings.

Once the PIN is entered you will be able to select any Airprint enabled printer to begin printing badges.

Once a Host has been added to your general settings guests will be able to start signing in. When a guest signs in:

Admins, guest site managers, and guest site viewers will also be able to view the following: