Somebody Who Won't Leave
By Connor · Founder, ShiftFree · 843-894-0852
Ask any owner who's tried longer hours and they'll have a story. Someone asleep on the folding table. Someone who came in to get warm and didn't leave. Someone who wasn't a customer at all.
This is the objection that sounds the hardest, and it's the one where the answer is most practical.
Most of it never gets through the door
A timer lock opens the door on a schedule for anyone standing there. A keypad opens it for anyone who's been told the code — and codes get shared.
SafeSpin24 doesn't work that way. It provides rules-based access control: you decide who comes in the door, when they can come in, and where they can go once they're inside.
The entry door is secured and credentialed. Every person gets their own credential on their own phone. If someone isn't approved, the door doesn't open for them.
Johnny off the street isn't getting in — unless somebody holds the door for him.
One bad actor costs you one credential
That's the one real gap, and it's a people problem, not a door problem. A member feels sorry for someone standing out in the cold and lets them in.
When that happens, you revoke that member's credential. They're no longer able to get into your store. You don't change the locks, and you don't change a code for everybody. One person, one credential, and everyone else keeps coming in.
Will there be exceptions? Yes. They'll be few and far between.
You don't have to go looking
Operational monitoring records events based on how you've set up your store. FreeByrd gathers what happened and puts it in your morning report — with the entry logs and a link to the video. You review it with your coffee. You don't have to dig for it.
The system also watches the door itself. A door forced open or propped open is flagged. If you need to act on something the next day, you're working from a record, not a guess.
When it's a real threat
Two-way audio is for security events only — a threat to your property or to someone in the store. That's when a person in monitoring steps in and speaks into the store.
When it's a genuine safety threat, your escalation rules don't apply. The person in monitoring takes the situation.
What the system won't do is physically remove anyone. Software can't, and we'll never tell you otherwise. What you get is a store where this is rare, a person who steps in when it isn't, and a way to shut out the person responsible without disrupting anyone else.