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# Employee Check-In with Guest

Many organizations use Verkada Guest to account for everyone on site who isn't based there full-time. Employee Check-in extends the solution for internal staff, who can identify themselves as employees rather than sign in as visitors.

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## Employee check-in methods

Guest supports two ways for employees to check in:

<table><thead><tr><th width="173.625">Method</th><th width="329.7109375">Description</th><th>Requires Verkada Access Control?</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><a href="/guest/configuration/employee-check-in-with-guest/manual-employee-check-in-using-employee-id.md">Manual Check-in</a></td><td>Validate employees by their employee ID number. Employees enter this value during sign-in or event registration.</td><td>No</td></tr><tr><td><a href="/guest/configuration/employee-check-in-with-guest/automatic-employee-check-in.md">Automatic Check-in</a></td><td>Create a record in Guest when an employee opens an admin-defined door.</td><td>Yes</td></tr></tbody></table>

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## Manage employee Visit Records

The following data is pulled in from the Command user profile to Guest:

* First Name
* Last Name
* User Photo
* Email
* Phone Number
* Employee Title
* Department
* Company Name

Key Guest features are applicable to employees who sign in through Guest, including [bulk messaging](/guest/notifications/send-custom-messages-to-guests.md), [temporary Wi-Fi credentials](/guest/configuration/meraki-wi-fi-integration-for-guest.md), [temporary door access](/guest/configuration/door-access-for-guests.md), and self sign-out.

{% hint style="warning" %}
**Using Employee Check-in with Verkada Access Control**

Employees who sign in through Guest can access additional doors during their visit. They can use their existing credentials to open these doors. Depending on the [Visit Access Type](/access-control/users-and-credentials/add-a-user-to-the-verkada-access-system/visitor-access-visit-access-type.md#create-a-visit-access-type) settings, Guest can also provide a temporary entry code, QR code, or one or more web unlock links. Guest cannot issue new keycards or Face Unlock credentials during a visit.
{% endhint %}

### Manage employees signed in at another Guest site

If an employee checks in while another visit record for them is still signed in, then a Guest user must review the visit.&#x20;

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Approving the new sign-in signs the visitor out of their previous visits.


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