Doorcom

Posters, stickers and claim cards

Everything a visitor or a new resident touches is a printed piece: the poster on the door, the sticker on a glass door, and the claim card that gets a resident signed up. All three print from the panel with no other software.

The door poster

From a door's page choose Poster. The page is /doors/{id}/poster, A5 by default; the link at the top switches to A4 (?size=a4). It prints as exactly one sheet: set the printer to the matching paper size, no margins, 100% scale. Printing the poster is noted in the log.

The A5 poster: green surround, a grey faceplate with four screw heads, the building and door names with a green READY light, a two-column directory of Flat 1 to Flat 24, a speaker grille, the QR code in a black bezel, Scan to ring a flat, the short URL, and a white plate reading Cannot scan? Call 020 7946 0018, then key in door 2231
An A5 poster for a door that rings 24 flats.

What is on it, top to bottom:

  • The building name and the door name, with a green "ready" light. These come from the building and door pages.
  • A directory of the flats this door rings, each with a round button, like the panel it replaces. Up to 14 flats fit in one column on A5 (20 on A4); up to 28 (40) go into two columns; beyond that the directory becomes one row, "Flats 1 to 93", with "Tap your flat on screen".
  • The QR code, generated inside Doorcom (no outside service), set into a black screen bezel, with "Scan to ring a flat" and the short address underneath for anyone who would rather type it.
  • A white plate: "Cannot scan? Call [phone line], then key in door [dial code]". The phone line comes from the building page; the dial code from the door page. Until they are set the poster shows placeholders in square brackets.
  • A footer with the building's logo, "Managed by [landlord]" and the Doorcom name.

The door sticker

Sticker on the door's page (/doors/{id}/sticker) is a 100 mm square for a glass door or a gate: green surround, "Ring a flat", the QR code, the short address, the phone line and the dial code. Print it on adhesive paper or laminate it.

The 100 mm sticker: Ring a flat, the QR code, the short URL and the phone line with the dial code

Claim cards

A claim card is how a resident signs up for a particular flat. Each flat has its own claim code (eight characters, no ambiguous letters) and its own QR pointing at /claim/<code>. The card shows the flat number, the QR, the code spaced in two groups, and three lines of instructions.

An A6 claim card for Flat 5: the building name, the QR code, the claim code in two groups of four, and three short instructions
  • One card: Claim card on the flat's row in Apartments, or from the sign-up dialog. Prints as one A6 sheet at /apartments/{id}/card.
  • All cards: Print all claim cards at the top of Apartments, /apartments/cards. Eight cards per A4 sheet, disabled flats left out. Cut along the lines and post them through the doors.

If a card goes astray, New claim code on the flat gives it a new code; old cards for that flat stop working. Residents who have already signed up are not affected.

Where the addresses come from

The QR codes and short addresses are built from the public URL: the DC_PUBLIC_URL environment variable, or the Public URL setting when that is unset, or the address the browser used when both are blank. Set it before printing anything, and check the address printed under the QR before you print 93 posters.