Your estate runs Impro Portal. StaffPass handles the domestic staff paperwork around it.
Impro Portal decides who gets through the gate. StaffPass connects to the same Portal database to renew domestic worker and driver access before it lapses, with the employing resident approving by SMS or WhatsApp, and turns every turnstile transaction into a timesheet residents can read.
No new readers, tags or hardware. Runs beside Portal on your estate's own server.
Connects to
Your Impro Portal database
Reads
People and turnstile transactions
Writes
The renewed access expiry
Hosting
Beside Portal, on site
The gap
The gate is automated. The work around domestic staff isn't.
On most Impro Portal estates the security office still checks expiry dates by hand, chases residents on WhatsApp for a yes, types the new date into Portal, and answers residents who want to know when their domestic worker arrived. StaffPass takes over each of those jobs.
Impro Portal on its ownWith StaffPass
Expiry dates checked in Portal or a spreadsheetEvery expiry in the next 30 days found each night
Residents phoned or messaged for approvalAn approval link by SMS or WhatsApp to the employing resident
The new expiry typed into Portal by handWritten into Portal on security approval, and put back if reversed
Transactions only the security office can seeShifts, timesheets and arrival messages for each resident
Departments limited to Domestic and DriverGardener, Nanny or Caregiver labels, kept outside Portal
How it connects
Reads almost everything. Writes almost nothing.
StaffPass connects to the SQL Server database behind Impro Portal. The department and field numbers it uses are settings, so they match the way your estate has set Portal up.
What StaffPass reads
Domestic workers and drivers, with their access expiry dates
Residents, with their phone and ERF numbers, to know who employs whom
The security department, to decide who may sign in to the security screens
Turnstile transactions, about once a minute, including refused entries
What StaffPass writes
The new access expiry and current status, only when security approves a renewal
The original expiry, put back if security reverses that approval
Details a security officer deliberately edits, each one recorded with who made the change
If Portal refuses a write, nothing is marked approved, so the two never disagree
What it adds
What Impro Portal estates get with StaffPass.
Renewals before access lapses
Domestic worker and driver access licences checked every night against your renewal window, with approvals about to lapse flagged to security.
Resident approval by SMS or WhatsApp
One link to the household that employs the worker. No app, no password, and a declined renewal comes with a reason.
Timesheets from turnstile taps
Every Portal transaction becomes a shift. Residents correct a missed tap with a reason and export the month to CSV for payroll.
My Staff for every household
Residents see who is on the property, each worker's week and anything unusual, including staff shared with another household.
Arrival and departure messages
Named by gate and time, sent only with the worker's consent, with each resident's own choice of messages and quiet hours.
An audit trail Portal doesn't keep
Who approved each renewal and when, every settings change with its old value, and every edit made through StaffPass.
Installed beside Portal, live one step at a time.
One installer on the Windows server that already runs Portal.
1
Shadow mode
StaffPass reads Portal and builds every message, but sends them all to your security manager.
2
Beta group
A handful of named households receive real messages, with your security manager copied.
3
Whole estate
Every employing resident receives their approval links and, with Timekeeping, My Staff.
No. Readers, turnstiles, tags and biometrics carry on exactly as before, and staff are still enrolled at the security office in Impro Portal. StaffPass only reads from the Portal database, except for the renewed expiry date it writes on a security approval and the details a security officer deliberately edits.
Which Impro Portal data does StaffPass use?
The person records for your domestic, driver, resident and security departments, with their phone and ERF numbers and access expiry dates, and the turnstile transaction log. Which department and field numbers to use is a setting, so it matches how your estate has set Portal up.
Where does StaffPass run?
On the estate's own server, usually the same Windows server that hosts the Portal database, in containers that restart on their own after a reboot. Nothing is hosted centrally, and an optional outbound-only tunnel lets residents open their links from outside the estate network.
Is StaffPass made by Impro?
No. StaffPass is an independent product. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Impro Technologies; it works with the Impro Portal database your estate already owns.
Book a demo
See StaffPass against your own Impro Portal setup.
We'll walk through a renewal from the resident's phone to the Portal record, and what installing beside your Portal server involves.
Which Portal departments and fields your estate uses
A renewal from SMS link to the new Portal expiry
Timesheets from your turnstile transactions
A rollout plan, starting in shadow mode
Impro and Portal are trademarks of their respective owner. StaffPass is an independent product and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Impro Technologies.