The same rules for shops apply to places of worship. A team should be in charge of booking people into church. During the COVID-19 pandemic, people needed to call a number in church to confirm that they will be attending services so that the church will not go over the required number. So, intending visitors to church must call in advance so they can be booked. There is a facility in Gatehouse that allows you to book many people at once and each one will get a different code. 

Regular members will already have a long-term multiple booking code generated for them. Alternatively, a member of the greeting team can be at the gate and book visitors in when they indicate they are coming to church.

Thirdly, the estate can have a policy that allows people to go in if they say they are going to a place of worship but insists that they must come back with an ‘exit only’ pass from the facility they have visited.

Telecom companies pay rent for the use of the spaces within the estate, so they are known to the association’s management. GateHouse will view each of these facilities as a unit of building and the estate will give access to a responsible officer from the company who will now define each person coming in as a visitor or as dependants.

ATMs will follow the same rule as the Telcos. The bank will have a resident status, and they can give access to staff and/or contractors to perform activities around and on the ATM.

For non-residents of the estate, it unfortunately no longer be possible to use that ATM since no one can book them in any longer. Ideally, installations within gated estates are for the exclusive use of the estate’s residents.

Your children, domestic staff and anyone who lives under your roof or comes into the estate to work for you are your responsibility. Once you have access to the solution, the first thing you do is to register them on the software. This will give each one of them a unique QR code that will be scanned at the Gate. This code can be saved on their phone, printed on paper or made into an ID card. This is what they will use to come into the estate. When you no longer need their services, all you need to do is to delete their registration, and the QR code no longer works

If you know the people coming, you can use bulk booking to book them in a few easy steps. If you don’t know if they may come with people you can put an estimate in the field “Number in Party”. You can also leave a note in the booking note instructing the security officer to allow a group in as long as one of them has a booking code. It means that someone without a code cannot go out of the estate unless they are still with the person that has the code.
Thirdly, you can send a booking link to your guests and whoever else you think may want to come. They will fill in their details, and send it back to you, and you can approve to send them a QR code or reject it if you don’t want them to be there.