Keyless entry for landlords and property managers

A mechanical lock has to be re-keyed every time you lose confidence in who holds a copy — end of tenancy, a contractor who never gave one back, a guest who checked out three weeks ago. Each of those is a locksmith call-out and a trip to the property.

With a smart lock the same event is a code revoked from your phone. That is the entire business case; everything else is a bonus.

Multi-unit work is not the single-door job repeated. Bluetooth gateways have a practical range of roughly 10 to 15 metres, so a building with locks over several floors needs the gateway positions surveyed, not guessed. Access usually needs tiers — a front-door credential plus a room credential — and each unit has its own code lifecycle and its own battery to keep an eye on.

We survey the whole building before quoting so the number you get accounts for all of that.

That means no surprise extras later, no lost-key callouts between tenancies, and a proposal that matches the way your portfolio is actually managed.

A plumber, a cleaner or an inventory clerk gets a code that starts and stops on the days you set, so nobody has to meet them with a key. A one-use code covers a meter reading. The app records which code opened the door and when, so if something goes wrong you know who was there.

An HMO or student house needs a lock on every bedroom door as well as the front, with a code per tenant. That is its own job, with fire doors to think about; see room door locks for HMOs and shared houses.

The app account that runs the locks is set up in your name or your agency's, never ours. You can add staff to it, and you keep every code and record whether or not we ever come back.

At handover you get a written record for every door: the lock fitted, where any gateway is, and which account runs it. When a property changes hands, that record goes with it.

Letting agencies, housing providers, public sector bodies and larger companies are invoiced with agreed payment terms rather than being asked to pay on the day. Contracts run from a single site to multi-building rollouts, and for a large enough job we will travel beyond the Northwest.