Add an Automated Key Exchange System as a Building Amenity for your Tenants

Key storage and exchange is a tricky problem for apartment building managers as tenants and residents try to manage their apartment access for cleaners, dog walkers, and any friends or family that are visiting. Leaving keys with a building concierge poses a liability problem (and not all buildings have a concierge), and lockboxes attached inside or outside buildings pose an easy break-in target and are ultimately an inefficient solution.

By installing Keycafe’s SmartBox and key management service, building owners can prevent potential break-ins and ugly lockboxes stuck to building railings and fences, while providing a useful amenity for their residents. 

Keycafe’s Benefits for Residents and Tenants

By having access to a secure key exchange system in their building lobby, tenants don’t need to find complicated or risky workarounds to exchange their keys with friends, family, and guests. All tenants have the option to enable photo ID verification which requires uploaded photo identification from the person picking up keys, ensuring that only the right person has access to keys and property.

With Keycafe in their building residents can: 

• Store a spare key for their apartment in case they lose their main one
• Give property access to cleaners, dog walkers, and home service professionals
• Share keys with friends and family while they are away from home
• Verify the identity of guests picking up keys with photo ID verification and live photo check-in

Having a key exchange service in an apartment building enables all residents to provide easy property access for friends and family, and gives guests an easy way to allow for regular visits from cleaners and dog walkers while they’re not at home. Some residents might simply use Keycafe to store a spare key to be able to still access their home in case they lose their main key, making it a handy amenity to have in their building lobby.

Keycafe’s Benefits for Building Managers and Owners

Installing Keycafe in a residential building’s lobby enables building owners to easily allow residents to manage their existing keys and fobs simply with an app. This way, there’s no need to install electronic locks and tamper with the building’s doors.

Having a trusted key exchange system within the building’s lobby ensures that guests don’t risk losing their keys by using other methods like lockboxes or hiding keys outside in order to exchange them. Most importantly, this amenity gives residents the freedom to be out of the house while still being able to provide access remotely to cleaners, dog walkers, and any friends or family. 

With Keycafe in their building, building managers and owners: 

• Can provide a secure in-building key exchange service at no cost. 
• Remove the need for residents to use and attach lockboxes around the building.
• Digitise traditional locks, so residents don’t need to purchase and install electronic locks.
• Eliminate liability issues around residents leaving keys with the building concierge.
• Don’t need to worry about installation, maintenance, or support. 

Residents have access to Keycafe’s 24/7 multi language support, ensuring that any potential issues are resolved by Keycafe specialists and that building managers aren’t troubled. 

Add a Key Exchange System to your Building Today

Having a key exchange service helps ensure that residents avoid using unsafe key exchange methods that put their keys and property at risk. From hiding keys under doormats to attaching lockboxes in or outside of the building, these methods often result in lost keys and make buildings much more vulnerable to break-ins. Having Keycafe also allows buildings to completely ban the use of unappealing key lockboxes, with a more secure and efficient alternative available for residents in the comfort of their building lobby. 

Beneficial for both building owners and residents, Keycafe is a new tenant amenity for building management that can be the tipping point in a potential resident’s decision to move in. Contact us on our website to add key exchange to your building today.