Administrator's Guide – Settings tab: Visitors
This page describes the different settings you can apply in the Visitors section of the Settings tab when you edit a location or resource.
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Booking category selector
Underneath the Time zone section, your booking categories can be selected. For example, Meeting Rooms.
As the Time zone section is above the booking category selector, it’s not affected by the booking category selector.
All settings below the booking category selector are specific to the booking category that you select (for example, Meeting Rooms).
Note: make sure that you’ve selected the right booking category before making any changes to your settings.
Visitors
The Visitors section gives you the option to set up:
where your reception is for visitors
whether your staff are part of the visitors list (this is useful for your reports)
whether staff and visitors receive passcodes or QR codes
whether they have to sign a declaration.
We recommend that you set your reception up at the building level and have one reception per building. You should see the building name appear below that as a dedicated reception. This will allow you to specify this building as a location for your visitors to arrive at.
Note: Matrix Booking has a feature switch that prevents general users from seeing each other’s external visitors. This feature will therefore keep external visitor information confidential between general users. Only Administrators will have access to external visitor information in the External Directory screen. This feature is switched off by default. To switch this feature on, raise a support ticket.
Set up Visitors settings
To set up the Texts settings of a location or resource:
Select Admin in the top bar.
Select Location and Resources under the Location Settings section in the side menu.
Select Edit hierarchy. Your resource hierarchy will appear.
Select the 📝 Edit button next to the location or resource.
The Edit [Location] or Edit [Resource] pop-up will appear.
Select the Settings tab.
Select the correct resource using the booking category selector.
Select the Override global settings or Override [location or resource] tick box under the Visitors section.
Check if any of the tick boxes are greyed out. If they are, this means that these settings are inherited from a higher level in your resource hierarchy. You may have them switched on at that level for a reason.
The [Building] is the reception for visitors to this location tick box will be automatically selected for you.
Select any of the following:
The Send a passcode to internal staff tick box.
The Send a passcode to visitors tick box.
The Include a QR code in the passcode email tick box.
Go to the bottom of the pop-up.
Select Save. The pop-up will close.
Select Save Changes.
Notes:
Use the booking category selector to select your resource type before editing these settings.
Settings from a location or resource that’s higher in your hierarchy will be inherited by locations and resources below it. These settings will appear greyed out in the locations or resources lower in the hierarchy. If they are, this means that these settings are inherited from a higher level in your resource hierarchy. You may have them switched on at that level for a reason.
Changing the settings described above may affect other features you have for your organisation.