Combining Access Control and Parking Management: Why Separate Systems Are a Bad Idea

Two systems, two tasks, one forgotten

Facilities managers typically juggle five to eight software systems. Each has its own logic, its own interface and its own admin. That already takes time, and wherever the systems are not connected, security gaps appear.

Access control for the building and parking management for the car park are almost always managed by different people, at different times, triggered by different events. A new employee is registered in the access system. Whether they also get a parking space depends on whether someone remembers to sort it out in a separate system.

On departure the reverse applies: access gets revoked via HR offboarding, but the car park has no offboarding trigger. Former employees then keep parking access, a security risk that a connection between the systems prevents.

What integration concretely means

An integrated system uses one data source for both access layers. Usually that means Paxton Net2 or Paxton10 as the primary system for building access, connected directly to the Revtek parking system.

When an employee is created in Paxton, their plate is automatically synchronised to the parking whitelist. When their Paxton profile is deactivated, their plate automatically disappears from parking access. No manual action, no dependence on a facilities manager who happens to think of two systems at once.

Registering visitors outside Paxton

Visitors are not in Paxton, because they only come temporarily. For visitors, access and parking registration work through a separate channel: WhatsApp registration on arrival, or an invitation sent in advance by a staff member or receptionist.

That visitor process is deliberately decoupled from the employee system. It does not run through Paxton, is brief and specific, and has its own log. More on how visitor management works on the office page.

Reporting across both layers at once

An additional benefit of integration: reporting. When access and parking are tracked separately, it's almost impossible to get a complete picture of who was on site when.

With an integrated system you can see when an employee parked, entered the building and left. That information is in the dashboard, searchable by period and exportable as CSV. It is intended for incident reporting, occupancy analysis and the occasional HR query.

Salto KS as an alternative to Paxton

Paxton is the most common choice in mid-sized office environments, but not the only one. Salto KS is a comparable cloud-based access control system increasingly used in co-working spaces and flexible office concepts. The Revtek integration with Salto KS works in a similar way to the Paxton integration.

More on available integrations on the Paxton integration page and the custom integrations page.