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Office corridor with an access control card reader beside each door

Access control installer for the doors you already have

An access control installer links the card reader or keypad and the electric lock on each door to one control box, so people open doors with a card, a code or a phone. Answer three questions for a price per door and a short written brief an installer can quote from.

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Price your doors

Step 1 of 3
What is on the doors now?
What kind of building is it?
How many doors need it?

Count every door that should open with a card, code or phone, gates included.

See per-door ranges

See your per-door price range and your brief once you've answered the three questions.

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Price per door based on current door hardware

These are installed prices for each door, based on what is on it today. The price drops if the locks and cable already work and can be kept. It costs more for glass doors, fire-rated doors (built to hold back a fire) or doors far from the control box.

On the doors nowInstalled, per doorWhat usually happens
Keys only$1,200 to $2,500Each door gets a card reader, an electric lock and new wiring, all run from one control box. People then open the door with a card or a phone.
Keypads$500 to $1,500The keypads come off and card or phone readers go on. Locks and cable that test fine are kept.
Card or fob readers$500 to $1,500The wiring and the locks usually stay, and often the readers too. The doors move over to a new control box and new software.
Not sure$1,000 to $3,000An installer checks every door before quoting. A complete card or fob system (readers, control panels, cable and programming) usually costs this much.
The Kisi cost guide (doors both with working electric locks and without) and Entegrity (full card and fob systems) supplied these figures.
Cloud license, per door each month
$3.50 to $15
Cards or fobs, each
$4 to $25
Office corridor with card readers beside each door, a building fitted with access control

How an installation goes

  1. Site survey

    The installer walks every door and checks the frame, the lock, the power and the cable route back to the control box. You get the price in writing.

  2. Installation

    About 2 to 4 hours for one standalone door, 1 to 2 days for 3 to 5 networked doors, and 3 to 5 days for 10 to 20 doors.

  3. Handover

    Every door is tested, including the fire alarm release where there is one. Your people get their cards or phone keys, and you learn the app.

Have ready: the door count, what is on each door now, which doors are glass or fire-rated, and the landlord's OK to drill.

Install times: Nortech and ButterflyMX installation guides.

Time and cost for each part of the job

Installation cost per door

You pay individually for cards, licences, labor, cable, controllers, locks and readers. The breakdown lets you see where the money in a quote goes.

See the cost by part

Local access control companies

Door access installers need a low voltage, alarm or electrical license, set by the state or by the city. Every state page names the board and links to its license lookup.

Maglocks on exit doors must also release for the fire alarm. Read the egress rules

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Systems that installers handle

Cloud systems like Verkada, Brivo, Avigilon Alta and Kisi let you manage doors from a browser. The comparison shows the published price and hardware for each one.

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