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Contacts vs Users

What's the difference between Users and employee Contacts?

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Written by Rain Hyneman
Updated over 7 months ago

Users are individuals with access to view and possibly edit the Web Portal and iPad application. Think of Users as account administrators. Users include:

  • Account or Location Managers 

  • Anyone in charge of monitoring the visit log

  • Billing or AP departments

Contacts are individuals who can be selected by a visitor and notified of their arrival but who do not need inherently administrator access. Contacts include:

  • Employees receiving guests

  • Employees using the Employee Check-in Button

  • Recipients of deliveries

  • Anyone else your visitors come to see!

If you want someone to be able to both receive visitors and make changes to your account settings, you can add them as both a Contact and a User!

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