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Guides and playbooks for security teams running modern guard tour operations.
Free guard tour app: what you really get
Free tiers come in three kinds and only one lasts. What our free plan includes, and the four points where it stops being enough.
Guard tour app vs guard tour system: what you need
An app is what the officer holds. A system is the app plus checkpoints, a back office and an evidence trail. Which one your contract actually requires.
Guard tour system software download: what installs
The wand-plus-desktop-utility model, its three failure modes, and what a mobile-first guard tour system actually installs instead.
Proof of presence: what holds up in a dispute
The six fields that turn a scan log into evidence when a client disputes a patrol, and three vendor claims that only sound like proof.
QR vs NFC vs Bluetooth beacons for guard tour
A decision matrix by environment and evidential strength: where each checkpoint technology holds, and where it stops proving presence.
Maritime guard tour software: ferries, ports, yards
Patrol requirements aboard ferries, in port terminals and at yacht yards: no-signal decks, handover across gangways, and the cases nobody publishes.
Guard tour webhooks: Splunk, Sentinel, Slack, Teams
Integration patterns that scale: event selection, retries, idempotency and signing, plus what to route where without flooding the channel.
Offline guard tour app: log patrols with no internet
What survives a full shift with no connectivity in pharma cleanrooms, data centers and remote sites, and how to test a vendor's claim.
Guard tour pricing: per-officer vs per-site billing
How the two billing models diverge as headcount and sites grow, and the five-year total cost comparison that decides which one fits you.
NFC tokens for guard tour software: 2026 buyer guide
Vendor-neutral guide to NFC tokens in guard tour deployments: tag types, NFC vs QR, where each wins, 6-step deployment checklist and production pricing.
What is guard tour software?
What problem it solves, how QR and NFC checkpoints work, and the team size at which it starts paying for itself.
Data center patrols as SOC 2 evidence
How hot and cold aisle rounds become auditable SOC 2 control evidence, and what an auditor asks for when they sample your patrol log.