Visitora — Self-Hosted Visitor Sign-In & Evacuation List vs. renting SaaS

Name: Visitora — Self-Hosted Visitor Sign-In & Evacuation List
Brand: Ownware
SKU: visitora
Price: 79.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Self-hosted visitor sign-in: a kiosk your visitors use themselves, and one page that answers who is still inside when the alarm goes off — offline if it has to.

Own it once for $79.00 Try the live demo

The subscription math

Visitora — Self-Hosted Visitor Sign-In & Evacuation List — yours

$79.00

one-time · self-hosted · your data, your server

Buy once

Envoy — rented

Visitors Premium $362 per location/month billed annually (Basic free with limited features; Enterprise custom) ^[1]

Break-even: 1 month of Envoy equals the one-time price.

Assumption: 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 their 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”

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.

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Months you'll run it

SaaS figures use the cited plan price above (see the sources below); per-seat plans scale by the seat count from the same cited price. This is arithmetic, not a quote.

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Sign In App ^[2]

Core £415 per site / year (Enhanced £835, Pro £1255 per site / year)
Priced per site per year, in pounds. No conversion is applied here because the rate is not something Sign In App published, and a figure that moves weekly does not belong on a comparison page. Visitora is one payment for the site, forever.

How their pricing grows: Sign In App meters by SITE: every reception you cover is another annual licence, and the tier you need is decided by feature, not by size.

“£415 per site / year”

Stay with Sign In App if you run many sites and want one vendor account across all of them, or if you need their evacuation app on staff phones — Visitora is one install per site and prints a muster sheet instead.

Why owning beats renting here

One payment. No per-month, per-seat, or per-location fees — the license is perpetual.
Your data stays on your server. Customer records never live in someone else's cloud.
No plan ceilings. Records, users, and usage are limited by your hosting, not a pricing tier.
It keeps working if the vendor doesn't. Self-hosted software can't be sunset out from under you.

Fair trade-offs: you host it, you back it up, and updates are yours to apply — see the product page for honest limitations.

Sources

Envoy — price checked 2026-08-22 — source
“'$362' ... 'per location/month billed annually' ... 'Free' ... 'With limited features' ... 'Custom pricing'”
Sign In App — price checked 2026-08-22 — source
“'Core' ... '£415 per site / year' ... 'Enhanced' ... '£835 per site / year' ... 'Pro' ... '£1255 per site / year'”

Competitor prices change — always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown.

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