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The self-hosted Envoy alternative

Visitora: Self-hosted evacuation list for reception and site safety: one page naming everyone still inside — staff, contractors and visitors — derived from the sign-in log and kept on the device for when the network dies. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying Envoy every month.

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Stop renting Envoy.

Rented Envoy Visitors Premium $362 per location/month billed annually (Basic free with limited features; Enterprise custom) ^[1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud

Yours

Visitora

$79 once · self-hosted · your data on your server

1 month of Envoy costs what Visitora costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: The published Visitors Premium tier, per location, on the annual commitment — the cheapest way to buy the paid product. A free Basic tier exists and is the honest starting point for a single quiet reception. Visitora is $79 once, for any number of visitors.

How Envoy pricing grows

Envoy meters by LOCATION and by product: Visitors is its own line, and Response, Reservations, Screens and Deliveries each carry their own per-user, per-resource or per-device fee on top.

“$362 per location/month billed annually”, their own page

Who should stay with Envoy

Stay with Envoy if you want the wider workplace platform — desk booking, room screens, deliveries — under one roof. Visitora does the sign-in book and the evacuation list, and nothing else.

What Visitora deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.

Why owning beats renting Envoy.

One payment

No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in Envoy's cloud.

No plan ceilings

Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.

It keeps working if the vendor doesn't

Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.

The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Visitora vs renting comparison.

Questions about moving off Envoy.

Does it unlock doors or print encoded badges?

No. It is a sign-in book, not a security system: no door access, no turnstiles, no badge encoding. It prints a paper badge with a number on it and records who holds it.

Does it verify identity?

No, and deliberately. No ID scan, no passport read, no photo capture, no ID upload. None of that is needed to answer who is inside, and all of it is data you then have to protect.

What happens when the wifi drops during an evacuation?

The evacuation page is kept on the device and still shows the list as of its last load. There is also a one-click print muster sheet, because paper beats every screen at 2% battery.

Can it text a host instead of emailing?

Yes, if you connect your own SMS gateway and the host asks for it: a host turns arrival texts on from their own phone link, and each text names the visitor and the badge and ends with a stop link. Email through your own SMTP server and texts through your own SMS gateway, both off until you switch them on — no push, and Visitora sells no credits for either. Arrivals can also be posted to your team's Slack, Teams, Google Chat or Discord channel.

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Sources

Envoy: price checked 2026-08-22, source“'$362' ... 'per location/month billed annually' ... 'Free' ... 'With limited features' ... 'Custom pricing'”

Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory: every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.

Replace Envoy with Visitora.

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