The self-hosted Greetly 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 Greetly every month.
Stop renting Greetly.
Visitora1 month of Greetly costs what Visitora costs once.
Buy onceHow we counted: The entry tier at the vendor's own yearly-billing rate; no month-to-month figure renders, so none is stored. Greetly does not meter people — users, check-ins and hosts are unlimited — which makes the monthly fee the whole comparison: $99 a month against Visitora at $79 once.
Greetly charges a flat monthly fee per workplace rather than per user, and moves you up a tier for multiple locations and badge printing.
“unlimited users, check-ins, and hosts”, their own page, read 2026-09-03
Greetly is a full front-desk product: touchless check-in, multi-channel notifications across email, text, Slack, Google Chat and Teams, watchlists, and badge printing on the upper tier.
“essential ideal for smaller organizations or offices with basic visitor check-in needs. $99/month billed yearly”, their own page
Stay with Greetly if you want visitor photos or watchlists. Visitora has a browser kiosk and printable badges, tells the host by email, in your Slack, Teams, Google Chat or Discord channel, or by a text through your own SMS gateway when the host asks for one, and answers the question the fire officer asks: a single page naming every visitor and contractor still inside, kept on the device for when the network dies.
What Visitora deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.
Why owning beats renting Greetly.
No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.
It never lives in Greetly's cloud.
Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.
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 Greetly.
Does it unlock doors or print encoded badges?
Does it verify identity?
What happens when the wifi drops during an evacuation?
Can it text a host instead of emailing?
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Sources
- Greetly: price checked 2026-09-03, source“essential ideal for smaller organizations or offices with basic visitor check-in needs. $99/month billed yearly ... $159/month billed yearly ... unlimited users, check-ins, and hosts ... no extra charges or hidden fees”
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.