A guest drives into the company car park at 10:55 for a meeting that starts at 11:00. The plate is not in the system. Reception does not answer — it is almost lunch. The guest calls their contact inside, who calls facilities, who calls back four minutes later. At 11:08 the barrier opens. The meeting starts with an apology. This is not an exception — it is how visitor parking works at most office buildings.
Revtek · 14 July 2026
Visitor parking at most office buildings works the same way everywhere: the employee emails or calls reception with the guest's plate number, the receptionist manually enters it into the parking system, and the guest is expected to pass through automatically on arrival. That works — when someone is at reception, when the plate was communicated correctly, and when the email didn't land in spam.
Two broken links are enough to block a guest at the barrier. And every time it happens, it costs the employee at least five minutes they should have been in the meeting.
Before 2020 visitor volumes were fairly predictable: five days a week, spread relatively evenly. Now most teams are split across the week, with Tuesday through Thursday as peak days and Monday and Friday structurally quieter. CBRE has noted that average Dutch office occupancy remains below pre-2020 levels — but that lower average masks what happens on peak days.
Visitors follow the same spikes. Client meetings, job interviews, and supplier visits tend to be scheduled on the days when the host is actually in the office. Research by Toogethr shows that hybrid working has not led to less pressure on car parks overall — just different pressure: on specific days, competition for spaces is more intense than ever. And the system managing all those visitors still depends on an email and a phone call to reception.
The Revtek approach moves registration to the employee themselves, via a WhatsApp message. The employee sends the guest's plate to the Revtek number, optionally with a time window — for instance "10:00 to 14:00". The system immediately adds the plate to the ANPR camera whitelist at the entrance. Not after five minutes. Immediately.
The guest drives up, the camera reads the plate in under two seconds, the barrier opens. No one has to enter anything. No one has to answer a phone.
At the end of the specified time window — or at midnight by default — access expires automatically. The visitor's plate is gone from the system the next morning unless the employee registers it again.
Not every visit is planned. An account manager dropping by unannounced, a courier who wants a quick break — they have no reserved space and no registered plate. For these cases the system supports a QR code at the entrance. The visitor scans it with their phone, enters their name and plate on a mobile page, and their contact inside receives a WhatsApp message immediately: someone is at the barrier asking for you — grant access? One tap and the barrier opens.
No manual involvement from reception. No phone chain. The contact person decides on their own phone, wherever they happen to be in the building at that moment.
In the Revtek dashboard it is always visible which visitors are registered, by time slot and by access point. You can see when a plate entered the site and when it left. You can see who approved the registration.
This also matters for compliance purposes. Office buildings with mandatory visitor registration requirements — ISO-certified environments, secure sites, or buildings with specific insurance conditions — have a complete audit trail here, without anyone having to maintain it separately. The record is created as a by-product of access control.
Parking access and building access are two separate thresholds for visitors. With the integration between Revtek and Paxton Net2 or Paxton10, these can be combined: the same WhatsApp registration that opens the barrier can also generate a temporary access credential for the entrance lobby or a specific floor. The visitor receives that as a digital code or QR via WhatsApp before they get out of the car.
The result: the guest parks, walks to the door, holds their phone to the reader — and they are in. No queue at the desk, no badge to collect at reception. For more on how the technical integration works, see the Paxton integration page.
The system works for a small office with ten parking spaces and for a multi-tenant complex with multiple entrances and hundreds of employees. The logic is the same in both cases: every employee manages their own visitors via WhatsApp, and the facilities team does not need to act as gatekeeper.
For larger complexes with multiple tenants, each tenant can be assigned a separate WhatsApp number. Tenant A manages their guests, Tenant B theirs — with no overlap or visibility between the two. Access rights are configurable per number and per camera.
More on what the Revtek platform does for office buildings is on the office buildings page. Full pricing — including multi-site setups — is on the pricing page.
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