The core Envoy system allows for notifying specific employees when a visitor is denied entry due to a rule. This integration allows you to extend that functionality to also notify the visitor's host.
Requirements
In order for the integration to work, your employees—possible hosts—must have an email address listed on their employee record. Additionally, for SMS notifications, they must have a phone number listed that is capable of receiving SMS messages.
How to enable the app
Go to Apps > All Apps.
Search for Denied Entry Host Alerts > Click on it > Click Install.
Accept the needed permissions.
How to customize the SMS
On the "Customize SMS" page, you can change the message that is sent to the host when their visitor is denied. You can use any of the variables listed on this page in the message. The default message is:
Your visitor {{VISITOR_NAME}} was just denied entry at {{LOCATION_NAME}} due to a rule.
How to customize the email
On the "Customize Email" page, you can change the message and subject line of the email that is sent to the host when their visitor is denied. Again, you can use any of the variables listed on the page in the subject and/or the email body.
Note: You can use HTML in the email body, but it must be minified before being inserted/pasted into the body field.
The default subject line is:
{{VISITOR_NAME}} was denied entry
and the default email body, which mimics the look and feel of the email Envoy sends the designated employees, is (note: you don't have to use HTML—you can use just text if you like):
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
<meta name="format-detection" content="date=no" />
<meta name="format-detection" content="address=no" />
<meta name="format-detection" content="telephone=no" />
<meta name="x-apple-disable-message-reformatting" />
<title>Denied Visitor</title>
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<body class="body" style="padding:0 !important; margin:0 auto !important; display:block !important; min-width:100% !important; width:100% !important; background:#ffffff; -webkit-text-size-adjust:none;">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff" class="gwfw">
<tr>
<td align="center">
<table width="550" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="m-shell" style="max-width: 550px !important;">
<tr>
<td class="td" style="width:550px; min-width:550px; font-size:0pt; line-height:0pt; padding:0; margin:0; font-weight:normal;">
<table width="550" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="max-width: 550px !important; margin: 0 auto !important;">
<tr>
<td class="py-20 px-15" style="padding-top: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px;">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td class="pt-60 pb-64 mpb-30 mpt-20" style="padding-top: 60px; padding-bottom: 64px;">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td class="img" width="102" style="font-size:0pt; line-height:0pt; text-align:left;"> <a href="https://envoy.com" target="_blank"> <img src="https://envoy-plugin-host-notify-rule.herokuapp.com/envoy_logo.png" width="137" height="43" alt="" border="0" style="-ms-interpolation-mode:bicubic"> </a></td>
<td class="img" width="10" style="font-size:0pt; line-height:0pt; text-align:left;"></td>
<td align="right"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="h2 pb-8" style="color:#282c36; font-family:'Cera Pro Bold', Arial, sans-serif; font-size:24px; line-height:28px; text-align:left; font-weight:normal; min-width:auto !important; padding-bottom: 8px;"> <strong style="font-family: 'Cera Pro Bold',Arial,sans-serif;">{{VISITOR_NAME}} was denied entry</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="text-3 lh-24 pb-30" style="color:#282c36; font-family:'Cera Pro', Arial, sans-serif; font-size:16px; text-align:left; min-width:auto !important; line-height:24px; padding-bottom: 30px;"> Your visitor was just denied entry due to a rule.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="pb-55 mpb-40" style="padding-bottom: 55px;">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td style="border-radius: 5px; border: 1px solid #e9e9ea; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px;" class="px-15">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td class="py-16" valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; border-bottom: 1px solid #e9e9ea;">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td class="text-1 gray" style="padding-bottom: 1px; font-family:'Cera Pro', Arial, sans-serif; font-size:12px; line-height:16px; text-align:left; min-width:auto !important; color:#73767c;"> <strong style="font-family: 'Cera Pro',Arial,sans-serif;"> FULL NAME </strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="text-2" style="color:#282c36; font-family:'Cera Pro', Arial, sans-serif; font-size:18px; line-height:22px; text-align:left; min-width:auto !important;"> {{VISITOR_NAME}}</td>
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</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="py-16" valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; border-bottom: 1px solid #e9e9ea;">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td class="text-1 gray" style="padding-bottom: 1px; font-family:'Cera Pro', Arial, sans-serif; font-size:12px; line-height:16px; text-align:left; min-width:auto !important; color:#73767c;"> <strong style="font-family: 'Cera Pro',Arial,sans-serif;">EMAIL ADDRESS</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="text-2" style="color:#282c36; font-family:'Cera Pro', Arial, sans-serif; font-size:18px; line-height:22px; text-align:left; min-width:auto !important;"> {{VISITOR_EMAIL}}</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="py-16" valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px; border-bottom: 1px solid #e9e9ea;">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td class="text-1 gray" style="padding-bottom: 1px; font-family:'Cera Pro', Arial, sans-serif; font-size:12px; line-height:16px; text-align:left; min-width:auto !important; color:#73767c;"> <strong style="font-family: 'Cera Pro',Arial,sans-serif;">OCCURRED</strong></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="text-2" style="color:#282c36; font-family:'Cera Pro', Arial, sans-serif; font-size:18px; line-height:22px; text-align:left; min-width:auto !important;"> {{DENY_TIME}}, on {{DENY_DATE}}, at {{LOCATION_NAME}}</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="py-16" valign="bottom" style="padding-top: 16px; padding-bottom: 16px;">
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td class="text-1 gray" style="padding-bottom: 1px; font-family:'Cera Pro', Arial, sans-serif; font-size:12px; line-height:16px; text-align:left; min-width:auto !important; color:#73767c;"> <strong style="font-family: 'Cera Pro',Arial,sans-serif;">REASON FOR NOTIFICATION</strong></td>
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<tr>
<td class="text-2" style="color:#282c36; font-family:'Cera Pro', Arial, sans-serif; font-size:18px; line-height:22px; text-align:left; min-width:auto !important;"> Denied due to a rule</td>
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</td>
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</td>
</tr>
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</td>
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<tr>
<td class="pb-30" align="left" style="padding-bottom: 30px;">
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td class="btn-2" bgcolor="#ef3934" style="mso-padding-alt:12px 24px; border-radius:4px; color:#ffffff; font-family:'Cera Pro Bold', Arial, sans-serif; font-size:16px; line-height:20px; text-align:center; min-width:auto !important;"><a href="https://dashboard.envoy.com" target="_blank" class="link white" style="display: block; padding: 12px 24px; text-decoration:none; color:#ffffff;"><span class="link white" style="text-decoration:none; color:#ffffff;"><strong style="font-family: 'Cera Pro Bold',Arial,sans-serif;">View dashboard</strong></span></a></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="footer-text gray" style="padding: 16px 0 40px; border-top: 1px solid #e9e9ea; font-family:'Cera Pro', Arial, sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:21px; text-align:left; min-width:auto !important; color:#73767c;"> Questions or concerns? Visit our <a href="https://help.envoy.com/" target="_blank" class="link-u gray" style="text-decoration:underline; color:#73767c;">help center</a> or <a href="https://envoy.com/contact" target="_blank" class="link-u gray" style="text-decoration:underline; color:#73767c;">contact us</a>.</td>
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</table>
</td>
</tr>
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</td>
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</td>
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</body>
</html>
What the host will receive
Based on the defaults shown above, the host will receive an SMS that looks like the following:
and an email that looks like this:
