Moving off The Receptionist? Choose your next system.
The Receptionist for iPad is now part of Sign In Solutions, and customers are being moved to Sign In App. Move on your terms: SSO, an immutable audit log, photo ID and watchlist screening and a HIPAA BAA, live in about a week to 14 days with your hosts and visitor types migrated. Published per-location pricing.
What's public about The Receptionist, and what Visitly ships.
Owner
Sign In SolutionsCustomers
5,500+Direction
Sign In AppPricing
Same price, for nowAcquired
Jan 2026
Moving
SSO + immutable audit log
StandardPhoto ID + watchlist screening
Flag or blockHIPAA program support
BAA availableSlack or Teams alerts
InstantEvacuation alerts
Every siteYour own iPads
$0 kiosk
Zero
Switch Assist plans the move around your cutover date, migrates your hosts and visitor types, and sets up the iPads you already own, so visitors keep checking in while you move. First sites go live in about a week to 14 days.
The Receptionist and Visitly, including where The Receptionist is stronger.
Screening & compliance
Where The Receptionist is stronger
Product & support
Screening & compliance
Where The Receptionist is stronger
Before you move off The Receptionist
Straight answers on HIPAA, screening, hardware, support and switching on a tight deadline.
Yes. Every check-in captures a visitor photo and prints a badge, and photo ID screening checks each visitor against your watchlist before the badge prints.
Yes. Watchlist screening flags or blocks a match before a badge prints. Schools and campuses that need sex offender registry screening can add it.
Yes. Visitly supports your HIPAA program and signs a Business Associate Agreement, executed with your contract. Visitly is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified, and every visit is kept in an immutable audit log.
Visitly runs on iPads you already own with Zebra or Epson badge printers, so there is no dedicated kiosk to buy or maintain.
Uptime was 99.97% observed over the last 90 days (visitly.io/trust). A 99.9% uptime SLA and a named Customer Success Manager are available, and 24/7 phone and chat support is an option.
A single site can be live in about a week. Multi-site moves take about 14 days, including the SSO cutover. Switch Assist plans the move around your deadline, migrates your hosts and visitor types, and sets up the iPads you already own. Firework migrated from Envoy in 9 days.
Switch on your deadline, without compromising on security.
A tight cutover date is no reason to settle for less. A single site can be checking visitors in within about a week, and multi-site moves take about 14 days. Switch Assist plans around your cutover date, migrates your hosts and visitor types, and sets up the iPads you already own.
Plan the move
Review your cutover date, visitor flows, hosts, badge printers and every site you run.
Visitly stand-up
Tenant provisioned, SSO wired to your identity provider, hosts and visitor types imported, and the iPads you already own set up as kiosks.
Front desk ready
Your front desk is trained and checking visitors in on Visitly.
Cutover
Every site moves over in the order you choose, planned around The Receptionist cutover date.
Legal disclosure: The Receptionist facts sourced from thereceptionist.com and signinapp.com, verified October 8, 2026 (thereceptionist.com/the-future re-checked October 9, 2026), and Sign In Solutions' acquisition announcement of January 12, 2026. The BAA point is customer-reported. The Receptionist and Sign In App are trademarks of their respective owners. Visitly is not affiliated with Sign In Solutions or The Receptionist.
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SSO and the audit log come with every site.