Alternatives to Envoy
Looking for an alternative to Envoy?
Most people searching for an Envoy alternative want one of three things: a lower bill, EU data hosting, or a product that does the front desk without a whole workplace platform attached. This page ranks the alternatives that actually address those, and says plainly where Envoy is still the better choice.
Hosted in Europe
ISO 27001 Certified
GDPR compliant
Set up in minutes
Two products with a different centre of gravity
Most feature lists look interchangeable. The difference is what each company is actually building.
Vizito is a visitor management system and nothing else. It is built and hosted in Europe by a Belgian team, ISO 27001 certified, and every part of it exists to get a visitor, contractor or driver through your front door correctly and out again. Because the scope is narrow, the price is low, the setup is short, and the depth inside the sign-in flow itself - visit types, agreements, 31 languages, badge layouts, retention rules - is unusually good for the money.
Envoy is a workplace platform. Visitor management is its best-known product, but it sits next to desk and room reservations, deliveries, digital signage and an emergency and threat-intelligence product, each priced separately on top of a platform fee. Envoy is a large US company with a SOC 2 Type II report and a big integration marketplace, built for organisations that want one vendor for the whole office rather than just the front desk.
Should you actually replace Envoy?
Half the people who land on a page like this are better off staying where they are. Here is how to tell.
Stay with Envoy if...
- Your organisation genuinely uses the wider platform: desks, rooms, parcels or lobby screens. Replacing Visitors alone will not save what you think.
- You need ID scanning, blocklist screening or facial recognition at the door, which sit on Envoy Enterprise.
- You need a data region outside the EU.
- Your office is small and the free Basic tier covers your 100 entries a month at no cost.
- Your security review requires SOC 2 Type II by name.
Start looking if...
- You only ever switched on Visitors, and you are paying a platform fee for a platform you do not open.
- Your data protection officer has asked why visitor personal data sits on a US platform by default.
- Your renewal quote has gone up faster than your visitor numbers.
- Reception wants a small change to the sign-in flow and cannot get one.
- You are rolling out to smaller sites where the per-location price cannot be justified.
If you are only here because of a price increase, ask your account manager for the renewal number before you run a migration. It is a cheaper first step.
Why teams move from Envoy to Vizito
European by default, not by option
Vizito has been built and hosted in the EU since day one and is ISO 27001 certified. Envoy added an EU region in 2026, which is genuine progress, but it is a separate opt-in region on a US platform. If your DPA, your works council or your NIS2 scope makes hosting the first question, that difference matters.
One price, not a stack of modules
Vizito is one subscription per location, from EUR 29.95 per month, with unlimited kiosks, QR codes, hosts and administrators at that site. Envoy prices Visitors, Reservations, Deliveries, Screens and Response separately, each on top of a platform fee. For a front desk that only needs a front desk, the totals are not close.
Depth inside the sign-in flow
Custom flows per visit type, text, PDF and video agreements with signature, host approval before entry, Wallet passes in invitations, satisfaction surveys, and one tablet that can serve several companies in a shared building. That is where our whole development budget goes.
Vizito vs Envoy, feature by feature
The same honest matrix we publish on the head-to-head page. Envoy wins ten rows here.
| Feature | Vizito | Envoy |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing and getting started | ||
| Published price for the entry plan |  EUR 29.95/site/month | Basic free, Premium $362/location/month |
| Free plan for very small offices |  14-day full trial instead | Basic: 100 entries/month |
| Unlimited visits on the entry plan | 100 visits/month on Standard | 100 entries/month on Basic |
| No separate platform fee on top of the subscription | | module prices exclude the platform fee |
| Unlimited kiosks, QR codes and hosts per site | | |
| Full-feature trial without a credit card | 14 days | free Basic tier, paid tiers via sales |
| At the front desk | ||
| Visitor pre-registration and invitations | | |
| Contactless sign-in on the visitor's own phone | | |
| Badge printing | every plan | Premium and up |
| NDA and document signing | every plan | Premium and up |
| Instruction video as part of the sign-in flow | | |
| Host notifications by email, SMS, Teams and Slack | | |
| Languages in the visitor sign-in flow | 31 | 31 |
| Emergency evacuation overview | included | Response module, $2/user/month |
| Apple and Google Wallet visitor pass | | |
| One kiosk shared by several companies in a building | | |
| Security at the door | ||
| ID document scanning (passport, driving licence) |  Belgian eID cards only | Enterprise, 500 scans/year |
| Watchlist or blocklist screening | | Enterprise |
| Facial recognition at the kiosk | | Enterprise |
| Host approval before a visitor is let in | | |
| Compliance and hosting | ||
| ISO 27001 certified | | |
| SOC 2 Type II report | | |
| EU data hosting | default, EU only | EU region since 2026, opt-in |
| Data residency outside the EU (US, APAC) | | |
| GDPR tooling: consent, retention, anonymisation | | |
| SAML single sign-on | Enterprise plan | Premium and up |
| Beyond the front desk | ||
| Desk and meeting room booking | | Reservations, $5/resource/month |
| Parcel and delivery logging | | Deliveries, $250/location/month |
| Digital signage for the lobby | | Screens, $12/device/month |
| Large third-party integration marketplace | Teams, Slack, Entra ID, Google Workspace, webhooks, REST API | |
Included
Limited, higher plan, or paid add-on
Not availableChecked against public pricing and documentation pages in August 2026. Vendors change their products often - if something here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.
Where Envoy is stronger
You would find this out during the trial anyway, so here it is up front.
One platform for the whole workplace
Desks, rooms, parking, parcels and lobby screens are all Envoy products on a shared platform. Vizito does none of that and is not planning to. If the brief you were given is “one system for the office”, Envoy answers it and we do not.
A SOC 2 Type II report
Envoy holds SOC 2 Type II. Vizito is ISO 27001 certified, which covers much of the same ground and is what most European security reviews ask for, but if your questionnaire has a hard SOC 2 line, that is a real gap on our side.
Security features at the door
ID document scanning, blocklist screening and facial recognition sit on Envoy Enterprise. Vizito reads Belgian eID cards and can require host approval before entry, but it has no document scanner, no watchlist and no face matching. For a site with a genuine denied-party obligation, that difference is decisive.
Global scale and regional hosting
Envoy can host in several regions and has a far larger integration marketplace. Vizito hosts in the EU only. For a multinational that needs a US or APAC data region, that is a blocker, and no amount of price advantage fixes it.
If none of those four decide it, the choice comes down to scope, price and how quickly you want to be live - and that is ground we are happy to be judged on.
How Vizito gets better: you ask, we ship
One more difference that does not show up in a feature table: who picks up when you ask for something. Vizito is built by a small European team that answers its own support chat, so a request about the tablet at your reception reaches the person who owns that screen rather than a queue. A large share of what ends up in a release started as a customer message.
Your request reaches the people who build it
Support, product and development sit together. When you describe something that does not work at your front desk, it is logged against the actual feature rather than dropped into a suggestion box, and you get told whether it is a quick fix, a roadmap item or a no.
Small changes ship in weeks, not roadmap quarters
An extra field on a visit type, a wording change in an invitation mail, a badge layout that fits your label stock. Those small differences decide whether a system fits your reception or almost fits it, and they are exactly the changes we turn around quickly.
You can read exactly what changed
Every release is written up in plain language for the people who use Vizito daily: what changed on the tablet, what changed in the backoffice, and what it means for you. No ticket numbers, no marketing.
If we have feedback on improving the solution, they will use this feedback. For example, there was an issue relating to GDPR, and they fixed it on the fly, so now we are running a compliant GDPR solution. If we recommend improvements, they will not let you down and do something with the information.
Top pick
1. Vizito, if you want visitor management and not a platform
Vizito is a European visitor management system used by more than 2,000 organisations in 80+ countries, rated 4.9 out of 5 on Capterra and voted Best Ease of Use. It is ISO 27001 certified, hosted in the EU by default, published at EUR 29.95 to EUR 99 per location per month, and every visitor feature is included at every tier. It is the strongest Envoy alternative if what you actually need is the front desk. It is the wrong answer if you need the rest of the Envoy platform.
What Vizito gives you, and what it does not
You get
Pre-registration, contactless sign-in, badge printing, text, PDF and video agreements with signature, host approval, an emergency overview, retention and anonymisation, 31 languages and multi-site management - on every plan, from EUR 29.95 per location per month.
You do not get
Desk or room booking, parcel logging, watchlist screening, passport or driving licence scanning, employee attendance, access control integration, a SOC 2 Type II report, or hosting outside the EU.
You can try it
Fourteen days with every feature switched on, no credit card, 25 SMS notifications included so you can test host alerts end to end.
The rest of the shortlist
The other Envoy alternatives worth a demo
None of these is the right answer for everyone, so each entry says what it is actually good at rather than repeating the same three adjectives. Where we publish a head-to-head comparison, it is linked.
Other alternatives to Envoy
2. Sign In App
UK, part of Sign In Solutions. GBP 415 to GBP 1,255 per site per year, unlimited sign-ins, six data regions, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, with desk booking and time and attendance as paid modules. See the full comparison.
3. Eptura Visitor
formerly Proxyclick, now the visitor module of the Eptura worktech suite. ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, watchlists, ID matching and RFID access cards. Pricing by quote. See the full comparison.
4. FacilityOS
formerly iLobby. Built for regulated sites: watchlist screening, contractor credential tracking, access control and a managed iPad in the box. VisitorOS from $225 per location per month. See the full comparison.
5. MRI OnLocation
formerly WhosOnLocation, part of MRI Software. People presence management: visitors, contractors with inductions, employee presence, ban rules and evacuations. ISO 27001, pricing by quote. See the full comparison.
6. Greetly
US digital receptionist. $99 or $159 per month with unlimited check-ins, watchlist alerts and employee check-in, and badge printing, ID scanning and a digital mailroom on the Pro tier. See the full comparison.
How this list was put together
Every product here was checked against its own public pricing and documentation pages in August 2026. Prices are quoted in the currency each vendor publishes, because converting them hides the differences in billing period and unit. Where a vendor does not publish pricing, the entry says so rather than repeating a number from a review site.
We put Vizito first because this is our website and you would not believe us if we pretended otherwise. What we can do is be specific about where we are not the answer, which is what the second card in each entry is for.
The comparison that actually matters
Before looking at any of these, write down two numbers and one list: how many visitors your busiest site sees in a month, how many sites you have, and everything beyond visitor sign-in that your current Envoy subscription is doing. Those three facts eliminate most of this page in about a minute and turn the rest into a real shortlist.
Frequently asked questions
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What is the best alternative to Envoy?
It depends on why you are leaving. For a European organisation that wants visitor management alone at a much lower price, with EU hosting and ISO 27001, Vizito is the strongest fit at EUR 29.95 to EUR 99 per location per month. For a busy reception that wants unlimited sign-ins and a choice of data regions, Sign In App. For a regulated plant, FacilityOS. For contractor compliance, MRI OnLocation. There is no single best answer and any page that gives you one is selling something.
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Why do companies look for Envoy alternatives?
Three reasons dominate. Price, because Visitors Premium is published at $362 per location per month and each additional module is priced on top of a platform fee. Data residency, because Envoy is a US platform and its EU region, opened in February 2026, is an opt-in region rather than the default. And scope, because many organisations only ever used Visitors and are paying for a workplace platform they never opened.
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Is Vizito cheaper than Envoy?
For paid plans, substantially: EUR 29.95, EUR 59 or EUR 99 per location per month with every visitor feature included, against $362 per location per month for Visitors Premium plus a platform fee. The exception is Envoy Basic, which is free for up to 100 entries a month with a 50-person directory. Vizito has no permanently free tier, so a very small office may genuinely be better off staying on Envoy Basic.
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Will I lose features by leaving Envoy?
If you use more than Visitors, yes. Desk and room reservations, parcel logging and lobby signage are separate Envoy products with no equivalent in Vizito. On the visitor side you would also lose ID document scanning, blocklist screening and facial recognition, which are Envoy Enterprise features. What you gain is EU hosting by default, ISO 27001, badge printing and agreements on the entry plan, 31 languages and a much smaller invoice.
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How long does a migration from Envoy take?
Most teams cut over in a day. Export your visitor history from Envoy for your retention obligation, configure the new location, import hosts from a spreadsheet or synchronise them from Microsoft Entra ID or Google Workspace, install the app on the tablets you already own and switch the kiosk over at the end of a working day. Brother label printers carry across, so hardware cost is usually zero.
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