Access Control Installation: before you call

Another employee left and the keys never came back. You changed the locks again, cut copies for everyone who stayed, and paid for a job that repeats itself the next time someone quits, taking a working key out the door with them.

Worth answering before the call

Is this a single business, or a shared, multi-tenant building? Is there an existing keypad or card system on any door now? Roughly how many people will need a credential to enter?

How do you decide where the readers and door hardware physically go?

A short walk-through maps which doors get used most, where wiring can run cleanly, and where a reader sits at a comfortable reach for everyone, including anyone using a wheelchair or a cart. Door swing and nearby glass affect where a strike or a magnetic lock sits, and mounting height gets checked against the existing door hardware so nothing interferes with the handle or closer. That walk-through happens before ordering hardware so the layout matches the building rather than the other way around.

Do we still need physical keys after this is installed?

On hardware that supports it, yes: a conventional cylinder sits alongside the electronic reader, cut to work like any other key on the property, though some access-controlled locks are built without one. Where it is fitted, it is meant as a fallback rather than the everyday way in: if a battery dies, a controller faults, or the power stays out longer than the backup lasts, the door still opens by key while the issue is sorted out.