Alternatives to FacilityOS
Looking for an alternative to iLobby?
iLobby now sells as FacilityOS, a modular platform for regulated and high-security sites. Alternatives fall into two groups: other enterprise platforms if you genuinely need that level of control, and focused visitor management systems if you do not. This page separates them honestly.
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What each product actually is
This is one of the few comparisons where the two products barely overlap in intent.
Vizito is a visitor management system you buy online and run yourself. It is ISO 27001 certified, hosted in the EU, works on any iPad, Android tablet, Windows kiosk or browser you already have, and every plan includes pre-registration, contactless sign-in, badge printing, agreements and the emergency overview. It is designed so that a facility manager, not an integrator, can set it up and change it.
FacilityOS is a facility operations platform built for regulated and high-security sites, mostly in North America. VisitorOS is one module; EmergencyOS, ContractorOS, LogisticsOS and SecurityOS sit next to it. It carries ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, offers single sign-on with MFA on every tier, ships a managed and MDM-enrolled iPad with the Corporate plan, and can issue physical access cards and integrate with access control. It is bought through sales and deployed as a project.
Should you actually replace FacilityOS?
Half the people who land on a page like this are better off staying where they are. Here is how to tell.
Stay with FacilityOS if...
- Your site is audited against a regime that expects an immutable log and formal document control.
- You screen visitors against watchlists, or track contractor credentials and training expiry.
- Visitors are issued physical access cards, or the kiosk drives access control and turnstiles.
- You value the vendor shipping and managing the tablet, because the site has no local IT.
- You need SOC 2 Type II as well as ISO 27001, or hosting outside the EU.
Start looking if...
- Your requirement is a professional front desk, not a regulated-site control system.
- The per-location price makes it impossible to roll out to smaller sites.
- You want pre-registration and contactless sign-in on the entry plan rather than a tier up.
- You already own tablets and would rather use them.
- Your visitor data belongs in the EU by default.
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 iLobby to Vizito
No hardware lock-in
Vizito runs on any iPad, Android tablet, Windows kiosk or plain browser, and pairs with the Brother QL network label printers most offices already have. FacilityOS Corporate includes a managed iPad, which is convenient but ties the deployment to their device. If you have tablets in a cupboard, Vizito can use them this afternoon.
Everything at the front desk on every plan
Pre-registration, contactless sign-in, badge printing, agreements with signature and the emergency overview are included on the EUR 29.95 Standard plan. On FacilityOS, touchless sign-in and pre-registration sit on the Enhanced tier at $299 per location per month.
European hosting and 31 languages
Visitor data stays in the EU by default under an ISO 27001 certified management system, and the whole sign-in flow - not just the admin screens - runs in 31 languages. For a European site that receives drivers and contractors from across the continent, that is the practical difference at the door.
Vizito vs FacilityOS, feature by feature
The same honest matrix we publish on the head-to-head page. FacilityOS wins seven rows here.
| Feature | Vizito | FacilityOS |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing and getting started | ||
| Published starting price |  EUR 29.95/site/month | VisitorOS Corporate from $225/location/month |
| Self-service signup, no sales call needed | |  |
| Full-feature trial without a credit card | 14 days | |
| Runs on hardware you already own | |  managed iPad included with Corporate |
| Pre-registration on the entry plan | | Enhanced tier, $299/location/month |
| Contactless sign-in on the entry plan | | Enhanced tier |
| At the front desk | ||
| Visitor pre-registration and invitations | | |
| Badge printing | every plan | |
| NDA and document signing | | |
| 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 | |
| Emergency evacuation overview | included | EmergencyOS Basic included, Corporate from $275/month |
| Apple and Google Wallet visitor pass | | |
| One kiosk shared by several companies in a building | | |
| Visitor satisfaction survey after the visit | | |
| Security and regulated sites | ||
| Watchlist or denied-party screening | | |
| ID document scanning | Belgian eID cards only | |
| Contractor credential and training expiry tracking | | ContractorOS from $199/month |
| Physical access card issuing and access control integration | | SecurityOS from $199/month |
| Immutable audit log | | |
| 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 | Azure, region on request |
| Single sign-on | Enterprise plan | every tier, with MFA |
| GDPR tooling: consent, retention, anonymisation | | |
| Beyond the front desk | ||
| Parcel, mail and inventory logging | | LogisticsOS from $369/month |
| Desk and meeting room booking | | |
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 FacilityOS is stronger
FacilityOS is aimed at sites where getting visitor control wrong is a regulatory event, not an inconvenience. That shows.
Regulated-site compliance
SOC 2 Type II alongside ISO 27001, an immutable audit log, single sign-on with MFA on every tier and formal document control. If your site is audited against ITAR, FDA or a similar regime, this is a different class of evidence than Vizito can produce.
Contractors as a first-class problem
ContractorOS tracks credentials, inductions and training expiry and blocks somebody at the door when their certificate has lapsed. Vizito can require a contractor to accept a safety agreement and can require host approval, but it does not hold a credential register.
Physical security integration
SecurityOS issues physical access cards from the kiosk and integrates with access control. Vizito prints a badge and can hand out a WiFi access token, but it does not open a turnstile.
Hardware handled for you
The Corporate plan ships a mounted, MDM-enrolled iPad. For a plant with no local IT, that is a real reduction in work, and it is a service we simply do not offer.
If two or more of those matter, do not let a price difference talk you out of the right product. A visitor system that cannot prove what it did during an audit costs more than it saved.
How Vizito gets better: you ask, we ship
One more thing a feature table will not tell you: what happens when you need a change. Vizito is built by a small European team that answers its own support chat, so a request about your reception reaches the person who owns that screen rather than a queue. A large share of every 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 focused visitor management system used by more than 2,000 organisations in 80+ countries, ISO 27001 certified and hosted in the EU, at EUR 29.95 to EUR 99 per location per month. Compared with FacilityOS it is a smaller product bought a different way: online, in an afternoon, on tablets you already own, with everything for the front desk in every plan. It is the right choice for sites that need visitor management done well and the wrong choice for sites that need a compliance 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 FacilityOS 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 FacilityOS
2. Sign In Enterprise
formerly Traction Guest, part of Sign In Solutions. Enterprise visitor security: watchlists, conditional approval workflows, regional policies, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001. Pricing by quote. 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. 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.
5. Envoy
US workplace platform. Free Basic tier, Visitors Premium at $362 per location per month plus a platform fee, SOC 2 Type II, EU region since 2026, with desks, rooms, parcels and signage alongside. See the full comparison.
6. 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.
Two different shopping lists
The mistake to avoid on this page is comparing prices across categories. FacilityOS, Sign In Enterprise, Eptura Visitor and MRI OnLocation are platforms that expect to enforce rules and produce evidence. Vizito, Sign In App, Envoy Visitors and Greetly are products that expect to run a front desk well. A product from the second group is not a cheap version of one from the first; it is a different thing.
Work out which list you are on before you compare anything. If your requirements document contains the words watchlist, competency, permit, induction expiry or immutable, you are on the first list. If it contains visitors, badges, hosts, agreements and evacuation, you are on the second, and the first list will cost you several times more than the job needs.
What we would check on a demo
Ask any vendor on this page to show you three things live rather than in slides: a contractor signing in with a safety agreement they have to accept, the evacuation list refreshing while somebody signs out, and the screen an administrator uses to change a field. Those three demos tell you more about daily life with the product than the whole feature comparison.
Frequently asked questions
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What is the best alternative to iLobby?
It depends entirely on whether you need a regulated-site platform. If you do, Sign In Enterprise and Eptura Visitor are the closest equivalents, with MRI OnLocation the strongest option when contractor compliance is the driver. If you do not, and what you actually need is a professional front desk, Vizito is the cheapest credible option at EUR 29.95 to EUR 99 per location per month with EU hosting and ISO 27001.
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Why do companies look for iLobby alternatives?
Usually price and scope. VisitorOS starts at $225 per location per month, and rolling that out to depots, workshops and branch offices is hard to justify when those sites see a handful of visitors a day. The second reason is bundling: pre-registration and touchless sign-in sit on the Enhanced tier at $299 per location per month, which surprises buyers who expected them at entry level.
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Is Vizito a replacement for VisitorOS?
For office, education, healthcare, professional services and light industrial sites, yes, at a fraction of the price. For a regulated plant it is not, because Vizito has no watchlist screening, no contractor credential register, no document scanning beyond Belgian eID cards, no access control integration and no SOC 2 Type II report. We would rather say that here than during your trial.
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Do I have to buy hardware from these vendors?
FacilityOS includes a managed, MDM-enrolled iPad with its Corporate plan, which is convenient but ties the deployment to their device. Vizito sells software only and runs on any iPad, Android tablet, Windows kiosk or browser, with Brother QL network label printers for badges. Which model you prefer usually depends on whether the site has local IT.
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Can a cheaper system still handle a factory?
It depends what the factory needs. Vizito handles contractor visit types with their own safety agreements and induction videos, questions that must be answered on every visit, host approval before entry, badge printing and a live evacuation list, and several manufacturing and logistics customers run it across dozens of European sites. What it will not do is hold a credential register with expiry dates or block somebody on a list. If those are in your safety policy, buy a platform that has them.
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