Visitor Sign in App

Sheridan · April 22, 2016

We're looking to replace the old visitor book with a ipad driven system - we've looked at a few (such as Sign In/Lite) and most will do what we want - but barely any will let you buy them outright, they're nearly all monthly/yearly subscriptions.

Is anyone using a system like this that was just a one off app payment?

Paid_Peanuts · March 14, 2017

We're looking to replace the old visitor book with a ipad driven system - we've looked at a few (such as Sign In/Lite) and most will do what we want - but barely any will let you buy them outright, they're nearly all monthly/yearly subscriptions.

Is anyone using a system like this that was just a one off app payment?

Interested to know what solution you went for in the end?

Paid_Peanuts · March 14, 2017

We're looking to replace the old visitor book with a ipad driven system - we've looked at a few (such as Sign In/Lite) and most will do what we want - but barely any will let you buy them outright, they're nearly all monthly/yearly subscriptions.

Is anyone using a system like this that was just a one off app payment?

Interested to know what solution you went for in the end?

Bev · March 14, 2017

I'm also looking for similiar. Sign In is available for a one off fee on ios7, but after that it's moved to a $50/month subscription which is not viable

Bev · March 14, 2017

I'm also looking for similiar. Sign In is available for a one off fee on ios7, but after that it's moved to a $50/month subscription which is not viable

pfl · March 14, 2017

I'm currently in the final stages of writing a visitor sign in system based on php / html5 and mysql.

So far i have

Visitor sign in

Staff Sign in

Pupil Sign in

Visitor signs in, accepts site AUP, fills in personal details and who they want to see, they then have a photo taken, signature captured and the person they want to see is then emailed with photo of visitor and name.

Sticker badge is then printed off with personal detail, who they are seeing and id number and qr code for signing out purposes.

staff can sign in and out using an rfid id badge, self enrolment if badge isnt recognised (manual signin and out with 4 digit pin or admin can do this manually through the admin back end)

parents can sign in /out their child they fill in a pupil form, select the year they are in then class and then teacher, the teacher is then emailed.

All options can be set in the admin end, so disable photo taking, signature taking etc. admin user can manually sign visitors in advanced. force sign out visitors, reprint badges.

fire alarm when activated through the admin end emails out a list of visitors currently signed in and also sends a register to the default printer.

admin users have a personal profile so can also reset their own passwords.

auto sign out of visitors,staff and pupils (pupils get archived off into another table for auditing purposes)

(screenshot of admin end)

At a glance the admin end shows last 8 sign outs and last 8 current signed in visitors / staff with various options for searching who is signed in / out.

The visitor frontend has configurable options eg site title, logo etc.

The only requirements so far is that it needs to be run in chrome kiosk mode (this allows auto printing for the badge creation) windows (this could easily change, it uses windows temp folder to hold temp image creation) apache and mysql.

I'm hoping that it should be finished in a week or so but would gladly let people try it once the code is a little cleaned up?

Thanks

CAWJames · March 15, 2017

I would be very interested in this @pfl , sounds great, what are your plans for when it is finished, open source, commercial, donationware, bundled on a retro AOL cd?

Thanks

James

fiza · March 15, 2017

Would be interested also

jmak · March 15, 2017

I'm still looking for something like this too 😀

pfl · April 6, 2017

Just a quick update,

Staff rfid badge enrolment now saves a webcam image of that member of staff in the database so can be easily identifiable from the admin dashboard.

Small script to backup the mysql database (bat file included in the admin folder so a task schedule in windows can be created)

Small report page on pupil sign in and outs showing how many pupils per reason for that day and also over the last 7 days

general tidying up of code and admin layout changes......

..... almost finished!

Edu-IT · April 6, 2017

Just a quick update,
Staff rfid badge enrolment now saves a webcam image of that member of staff in the database so can be easily identifiable from the admin dashboard.
Small script to backup the mysql database (bat file included in the admin folder so a task schedule in windows can be created)
Small report page on pupil sign in and outs showing how many pupils per reason for that day and also over the last 7 days
general tidying up of code and admin layout changes......
..... almost finished!

Plans to release it?

RobFuller · May 4, 2018

@pfl , did you ever release this?

I'm currently in the final stages of writing a visitor sign in system based on php / html5 and mysql.
So far i have

Visitor sign in
Staff Sign in
Pupil Sign in

Visitor signs in, accepts site AUP, fills in personal details and who they want to see, they then have a photo taken, signature captured and the person they want to see is then emailed with photo of visitor and name.
Sticker badge is then printed off with personal detail, who they are seeing and id number and qr code for signing out purposes.

staff can sign in and out using an rfid id badge, self enrolment if badge isnt recognised (manual signin and out with 4 digit pin or admin can do this manually through the admin back end)

parents can sign in /out their child they fill in a pupil form, select the year they are in then class and then teacher, the teacher is then emailed.

All options can be set in the admin end, so disable photo taking, signature taking etc. admin user can manually sign visitors in advanced. force sign out visitors, reprint badges.

fire alarm when activated through the admin end emails out a list of visitors currently signed in and also sends a register to the default printer.

admin users have a personal profile so can also reset their own passwords.

auto sign out of visitors,staff and pupils (pupils get archived off into another table for auditing purposes)

(screenshot of admin end)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]42147[/ATTACH]

At a glance the admin end shows last 8 sign outs and last 8 current signed in visitors / staff with various options for searching who is signed in / out.

The visitor frontend has configurable options eg site title, logo etc.

The only requirements so far is that it needs to be run in chrome kiosk mode (this allows auto printing for the badge creation) windows (this could easily change, it uses windows temp folder to hold temp image creation) apache and mysql.

I'm hoping that it should be finished in a week or so but would gladly let people try it once the code is a little cleaned up?

Thanks

TTG_Alice · May 9, 2018

Wow! This sounds amazing. Let us know if you did launch this

I'm currently in the final stages of writing a visitor sign in system based on php / html5 and mysql.
So far i have

Visitor sign in
Staff Sign in
Pupil Sign in

Visitor signs in, accepts site AUP, fills in personal details and who they want to see, they then have a photo taken, signature captured and the person they want to see is then emailed with photo of visitor and name.
Sticker badge is then printed off with personal detail, who they are seeing and id number and qr code for signing out purposes.

staff can sign in and out using an rfid id badge, self enrolment if badge isnt recognised (manual signin and out with 4 digit pin or admin can do this manually through the admin back end)

parents can sign in /out their child they fill in a pupil form, select the year they are in then class and then teacher, the teacher is then emailed.

All options can be set in the admin end, so disable photo taking, signature taking etc. admin user can manually sign visitors in advanced. force sign out visitors, reprint badges.

fire alarm when activated through the admin end emails out a list of visitors currently signed in and also sends a register to the default printer.

admin users have a personal profile so can also reset their own passwords.

auto sign out of visitors,staff and pupils (pupils get archived off into another table for auditing purposes)

(screenshot of admin end)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]42147[/ATTACH]

At a glance the admin end shows last 8 sign outs and last 8 current signed in visitors / staff with various options for searching who is signed in / out.

The visitor frontend has configurable options eg site title, logo etc.

The only requirements so far is that it needs to be run in chrome kiosk mode (this allows auto printing for the badge creation) windows (this could easily change, it uses windows temp folder to hold temp image creation) apache and mysql.

I'm hoping that it should be finished in a week or so but would gladly let people try it once the code is a little cleaned up?

Thanks

jtdunford · May 11, 2018

I'd definitely be interested in trying it. Thank you for this.

Marci · May 11, 2018

@pfl's last post was July last year. I don't think you'll be getting a response.

mdrabble · May 11, 2018

We can live in hope that @pfl will see the new comments and very kindly offer to share his app

pfl · May 11, 2018

Hi all,

Apologies for the late response,

I now use this system in 2 primary schools and a secondary school, I have added more features to the admin back end and added some GDPR functionality (search by visitor, export visitor, forget visitor, same for pupils as well)

lots of code cleanup

full logging with event ids

My only frustration is the visitor front end does need manual intervention if it doesn't scale correctly on the screen (luckily not much is needed to do this), I do want to re-write the frontend to automatically scale correctly at some point.

There still isn't any automated way to package this up but this will be my next step

Let me go through my code and see if i have left any comments in there that shouldn't be and any personally identifiable data and ill zip it up and host it somewhere for you all to try...please bear in mind that this was a project of mine and i have no coding experience apart from i have taught myself to do this so you may find better ways of doing what i have done.

Edited May 11, 2018 by pfl

the_one_that_cant · May 17, 2018

https://signinapp.co.uk/ Is being used in a few of our schools at the minute.

Needs an iPad, badge printer and security stand, all of which can be purchased for approx £500 all in.

Then the software is free for 15 days, then just a shade under £300 per year afterwards.

Really nice and easy to use and set up.

atechguy · May 22, 2018

https://signinapp.co.uk/ Is being used in a few of our schools at the minute.

Needs an iPad, badge printer and security stand, all of which can be purchased for approx £500 all in.

Then the software is free for 15 days, then just a shade under £300 per year afterwards.

Really nice and easy to use and set up.

Does this link up with SIMS??

RobFuller · May 23, 2018

Hi all,
Apologies for the late response,

I now use this system in 2 primary schools and a secondary school, I have added more features to the admin back end and added some GDPR functionality (search by visitor, export visitor, forget visitor, same for pupils as well)

lots of code cleanup
full logging with event ids
My only frustration is the visitor front end does need manual intervention if it doesn't scale correctly on the screen (luckily not much is needed to do this), I do want to re-write the frontend to automatically scale correctly at some point.

There still isn't any automated way to package this up but this will be my next step
Let me go through my code and see if i have left any comments in there that shouldn't be and any personally identifiable data and ill zip it up and host it somewhere for you all to try...please bear in mind that this was a project of mine and i have no coding experience apart from i have taught myself to do this so you may find better ways of doing what i have done.

Hi @pfl,

How did you get on with your code? Interested to try this out and feedback any changes we make (if good enough!)

Thanks, Rob

coz44 · June 25, 2018

Hi all,
Apologies for the late response,

I now use this system in 2 primary schools and a secondary school, I have added more features to the admin back end and added some GDPR functionality (search by visitor, export visitor, forget visitor, same for pupils as well)

lots of code cleanup
full logging with event ids
My only frustration is the visitor front end does need manual intervention if it doesn't scale correctly on the screen (luckily not much is needed to do this), I do want to re-write the frontend to automatically scale correctly at some point.

There still isn't any automated way to package this up but this will be my next step
Let me go through my code and see if i have left any comments in there that shouldn't be and any personally identifiable data and ill zip it up and host it somewhere for you all to try...please bear in mind that this was a project of mine and i have no coding experience apart from i have taught myself to do this so you may find better ways of doing what i have done.

@pfl did you ever get this hosted? We are looking for something like this in our high school so would be very interested in giving this a go

THERADIOTUBBY · June 25, 2018

Sounds good ..... Would appreciate a look here as well..... Thanks

Sheridan · June 26, 2018

Since I started this thread maybe I shoud respond! We opted for SigninApp in the end. Works very well and a slick interface. Also handy that several managers/site staff can have a login to the web interface to check fire lists etc.

mdrabble · September 18, 2018

@pfl I know it is a busy time of year with the new term etc, but did you upload your visitor system anywhere?

Cheers

RandomXS · July 23, 2019

Hi @pfl,

Did you ever managed to get this packaged up?

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