=== Visitor Management System – Office Visitor Check-In Logbook ===
Contributors: Ming's IT Services Ltd.
Donate link: https://paypal.me/mingsitservices?country.x=CA&locale.x=en_US
Tags: office, visit, visitor, log, logbook
Requires at least: 5.4
Tested up to: 6.9
Requires PHP: 5.5
Stable tag: 1.1.5
Copyright: Ming's IT Services Ltd.. All rights reserved.
License: GPLv2 or later

A simple visitor management system for small businesses. Let office guests, interview candidates, contractors, and clients check in and out digitally from a tablet or kiosk. Features include visitor logs, search history, responsive design, accessibility support, and receptionist monitoring.

== Description ==

A simple visitor management system for small businesses. Let office guests, interview candidates, contractors, and clients check in and out digitally from a tablet or kiosk. Features include visitor logs, search history, responsive design, accessibility support, and receptionist monitoring.

This office visits logbook plugin is for the sign-in and sign-out of office interview, business, meeting, etc. You can add any new visit type categories and new visit types if you want. For example, for hospitals and clinics, you can add new visit types such as surgery, emergency, ICU. For dental offices, you can add new visit types such as wash teeth, root canal, dental implants, wisdom tooth extraction, reconstructive surgery, and cosmetic surgery. 

This plugin has the web accessibility feature for the disabled people to listen to the screen reader. The disabled people just need to press the tab key to access the elements on the page. Then use keyboard to input. Then press enter key for submit, reset and cancel. To use this feature, you can download and use any screen reader software such as NVDA (for Windows), VoiceOver (for Apple), etc. Most of this kind of software is free to download and use. 

A visit record can be updated only when it is active and timeout is empty. Deleted visits and finished visits are not available for editing.

This plugin stores all data in your own WordPress database. It does not track visitor activity or share your data with any third party, keeping your visit data completely private.

This plugin has an access restriction feature. You can give a user access to the visit landing page by adding the user to the wp_dragonvisitzyx987_users table. 

After you are added to the wp_dragonvisitzyx987_users table, you must log in WordPress website to access this plugin’s landing page. On the admin setting page, admin and assigned users can access admin setting page to see table lists. 

This plugin uses a responsive design. You can use it from your cellphone, tablet, laptop, and PC. The layout will change accordingly.

For this plugin to get your company's current local date, you must set the timezone value correctly. You can edit the timezone at Dashboard -> Settings -> General -> Timezone -> check if the value has been set correctly.

By default, a WordPress login session timeout is usually about 2 days if “Remember Me” is not checked. If “Remember Me” is checked, it can last about 14 days. So, a receptionist only needs to log in one time in the morning, and the visitor management system does not need to log in again during the day. This makes this visitor management system perfect for being in a tablet in a kiosk. Guests just go to the tablet and check in.

Documentation file is in the root folder with the name documentation_officevisitslogbook.pdf. Please follow the instructions in the file to install this plugin.

Donate URL link:
https://paypal.me/mingsitservices?country.x=CA&locale.x=en_US

Documentation:

https://mingsitservicesfree.infinityfreeapp.com/wp-content/plugins/office-visits-logbook/documentation_officevisitslogbook.pdf

You can run it on any platform: Windows, Mac, Linux.

There is an advanced version on sale here:
https://www.codester.com/items/39162/office-visits-logbook-plugin-for-wordpress
It can export visit records into an Excel file for download. It can also backup your database. The advanced version and this free version have the same database tables and stored procedures. It's easy to migrate from this free version to the advanced version. Remember to backup your free version database before migration.

The visitor management system market is increasing fast. According to this website https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2023/06/27/2695465/0/en/Global-Visitor-Management-System-Market-Size-To-Grow-USD-2-7-Billion-By-2032-CAGR-of-18-4.html, 
Spherical Insights & Consulting published a report saying the global visitor management system market size was valued at USD 1.5 billion in 2022 and the worldwide visitor management system market size is expected to reach USD 2.7 billion by 2032.

This plugin is very popular. It has been downloaded over 4200 times so far:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/office-visits-logbook/advanced/

== Installation ==
 
1. Unzip the file. Copy the folder into your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.

2. Log in to your WordPress admin page. Click “Plugins” and click “Activate” to activate the plugin. http://yourwebsite.com/wp-login.php

3. On the left menu, you will find “Office Visits Logbook”. Click it and you will see the admin page for Office Visits Logbook.

4. Please refer to the document documentation_officevisitslogbook.pdf for further details.

 
== Frequently Asked Questions ==
 
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== Changelog ==

= 1.1.4 =
* Updated: from now on, the dashboard plugin link shows in the root menu, not in the "Settings" submenu any more. Easier for you to find the plugin setting link.
* New: in the admin dashboard, in the plugin setting page, below the plugin title, added a URL link to the plugin landing page. Easier for you to go to the landing page.
* New: added a new constant called SHOW_REASON_FOR_VISIT to hide visit reasons from the landing page. It's for protecting the visitors' privacy. You can set it to true to show visit reasons on the landing page.

= 1.1.2 =
* Updated: Now it works for all the permalink settings URL: Plain (https://yourwebsite.com/?p=123), Day and name (https://yourwebsite.com/2024/08/04/officevisitslogbook/), Month and name (https://yourwebsite.com/2024/08/officevisitslogbook/), Numeric (https://yourwebsite.com/archives/123), Post name (https://yourwebsite.com/officevisitslogbook/).

= 1.1.1 =
* Updated: Small changes - 1. Removed white spaces. 2. Replaced sanitize_text_field($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) with sanitize_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']).
* Updated: Replaced sanitize_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) with esc_html($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']).

= 1.1.0 =
* New: From now on, by default, when you activate this plugin, it will automatically create a visit landing page for you. You do not need to copy the template-officevisitslogbook.php file to this folder: wordpress\wp-content\themes\twentytwenty\templates if you are using the twentytwenty theme. For some themes, if it does not automatically create a visit landing page for you, you still need to add this plugin root folder template-officevisitslogbook.php file to your template folder. 

= 1.0.2 =
* Updated: For this plugin to get your company's current local date, you must set the timezone value correctly. You can edit the timezone at Dashboard -> Settings -> General -> Timezone -> check if the value has been set correctly.
* New: Added a constant SHOW_ALL_VISITS_WHEN_NOT_SEARCH to the constant table. By default, the landing page shows all the visits. But sometimes you want to protect other visitors' privacy and hide other visits' details when a new visitor is using this landing page. To do this, just set the value of SHOW_ALL_VISITS_WHEN_NOT_SEARCH in your constant table to no (0). If you did not find SHOW_ALL_VISITS_WHEN_NOT_SEARCH in your constant table, please deactivate this plugin and activate it again. Then SHOW_ALL_VISITS_WHEN_NOT_SEARCH will be automatically added to your constant table. A visit record can be updated only when it is active and timeout is empty. Deleted visits and finished visits are not available for editing.

= 1.0.1 =
* New: Added the create new page image into the documentation_officevisitslogbook.docx and documentation_officevisitslogbook.pdf files.

 
== Upgrade Notice ==
 
