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BETA Employee App: Android

Employees can download our bonus mobile app to their Android devices to view visit history, manage visitors, and more!

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Written by Rain Hyneman
Updated over 7 months ago

The Android Employee App is only available in Private Beta for our most curious customers. If you want to try it out, please contact the support team by selecting the orange chat button on the lower right!

Overview

Our employee app will allow you to give employees personal access to our system and provide the following functionality:

  • Notifications and interactions with visitors who are checking in

  • Review visitor history, conversations, and data, as well as scheduled visits

  • Manage their check-in and check-out history

  • Receive push notifications in areas where SMS may not be available

  • Access to the Evacuation Log (account owners only)

Getting Started

  1. Your employee(s) must be added to our system as a user and be set up with the "account owner" role (our other roles will be supported in the future). This role will determine the employee's access level on the Employee App.

  2. Once a user has been created, an invitation email with a link will be sent to the email address provided, directing the person to set up a password for their account. The employee will need to perform this step to make the user account active.

  3. To tell our system what visits are associated with the user, you next need to edit a contact and set the "User" dropdown to point to the user you created in Step 1.

  4. Because this application is currently in a closed beta, we will need to add the email address your employee uses to sign into the Play Store to our Internal test group. To do this, please reach out to us via chat, email, or phone and provide us with the email address that the employee uses to sign into the Play Store on their device (this is often NOT the same email address that they use at work, but is a personal email address).

  5. Once we have confirmed with you that the email address has been added, the employee must visit this link from their phone and choose to join our Internal test program. After that, they can download the latest internal build and get updates.

  6. After the app has been installed on the employee's device, the employee will sign in using the credentials they created in Step 2.

Step 1: Setting up a new employee user

An image of the User Editing page on the web portal.

Step 2: Setting the "User" dropdown for a Contact

A gif of the "Editing Employee Contact" page of the web portal.  The "User" dropdown is selected.

Functionality Overview

From the main screen, an Account Owner can navigate between tabs to view all checked-in and scheduled visitors, the evacuation list, and visitors who checked in to see them specifically (if they are also a contact in your systems). If you're utilizing our employee check-in feature, employees can check out directly from their app instead of making an additional trip to the iPad.

*If your user is set up as an Employee, they will only be able to see visits where they were selected as the contact.*

Each visitor can be selected to view their details and be checked out (if they haven't already). The app can send notifications to an employee's mobile phone directly, where they can chat with the visitor if you have activated two-way chat.

Have questions or want to chat through options? Click on that orange chat button in the lower right corner to livechat with a member of The Receptionist team!

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