People · Visitor Management
VanVed vs Envoy
for Visitor Management
Why businesses choose VanVed over Envoy
Envoy charges per building — around $362 a month per location on Premium — for a product that only manages visitors. VanVed's kiosk, pre-registration, deny list and on-site board cost nothing extra and sit next to the HR roster the hosts already come from, so a host is an employee record rather than a separately-synced directory.
Capability by capability
Every row below is what our 2026 research found — including the rows we lose.
| Capability | VanVed | Envoy |
|---|---|---|
| Unattended self-service kiosk | Real full-screen kiosk — phone lookup, selfie capture, host picker, idle and post-visit auto-reset | iPad kiosk app, the category standard |
| Pre-registration and invite | Staff issue a single-use expiring token; the visitor fills their own details on a public throttled page | Invites with calendar integration and visitor emails |
| NDA or document signed at check-in | Not built — the kiosk collects name, company, purpose, host and photo only | Legal documents and NDAs signed during sign-in |
| Badge printing | Browser-printable pass carrying the visitor's photo and a QR code — but no badge printer support, and the QR opens the staff visit page rather than checking anyone out | Supported badge printers, though it is a paid add-on |
| Host notification | In-app notification, plus email and outbound webhook when configured — no SMS | Slack, Teams, email, SMS and push |
| Deny list | Per-visitor block flag; a blocked person is refused at check-in and the attempt is logged as a denied visit | Blocklist plus third-party watchlist screening on higher tiers |
| Who is on site right now | Today board lists everyone currently checked in, and the visit log exports to CSV | Evacuation lists and emergency notifications |
| Multi-location | The today board and the visit log both filter by branch, and the log names it per visit | Per-location configuration, and priced per location |
| Price | Included in the platform fee, every location | Free Basic tier; Premium around $362 per location per month annually |
Where Envoy is ahead of us today
Envoy is a security and compliance product; VanVed is a front-desk log. Envoy signs NDAs and legal documents during sign-in, prints proper badges on supported printers, screens against watchlists, notifies hosts over Slack, Teams and SMS, and produces evacuation lists per location. VanVed has no document sign-in, no printer support and no SMS. Multi-branch is now real — the board and the log both filter on it — and the printed pass now carries a photo and a QR, though the QR is a link to the staff page rather than a scan that checks the visitor out.
We publish this because a comparison that only flatters us is worth nothing to you. If one of these gaps is the thing you actually need, Envoy may well be the better buy.
What VanVed's Visitor Management module does
- Pre-registration
Pre-register an expected visitor before they arrive.
- Check-in / check-out
Check visitors in and out at the front desk.
- Blocklist
Flag visitors who should not be let in.
- Visitor pass
Print a visitor pass on check-in.