Every feature
Every feature. Honestly labelled.
Most feature pages list ambitions as if they ship tomorrow. This one doesn’t. All 117 features are here, and every one says plainly whether you can have it today. All 117 features, each one labelled, so you never quote a customer something that isn’t ready. If it says Available, you can fit it today.
Four labels. No surprises in month two.
Buy Bolt for what’s Available. Everything else is honest about how far off it is. Quote what’s Available. Mention the rest as direction, never as a promise.
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Available
Works end to end today. You can have it on your site.
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Early access
Exists and works, being proven with early users before it’s open to everyone. Expect the odd rough edge.
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In development
Being built now. If it’s on your must-have list, ask us where it’s got to.
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Planned
A committed direction, not started. Listed so you know where we’re heading. Don’t buy Bolt on the strength of it.
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Access & doors7
Controllers hold their own rules, schedules and credentials on-device. When connectivity drops, doors keep unlocking for enrolled people. Full 7-day event buffer. Everything resyncs when cloud returns.
Access & doors · Bolt.Access
Self-healing wireless mesh on ESP-NOW. Up to 3 hops, 8 slave nodes per master. One Ethernet run supports 9 controllers / 18 doors. The unit plugged into Ethernet auto-elects itself master; others find their way home.
Access & doors · Bolt.Access
Each BDC2 controller handles 2 doors, 4 OSDP readers, 8 opto-isolated inputs, 8 dry-contact relays (5 A).
Access & doors · Hardware
Readers speak OSDP v2 with secure channel enabled, not unencrypted Wiegand.
Access & doors · Hardware
Firmware is ECDSA-signed, delivered over the air, with a dual-partition rollback on failure. Updates for the lifetime of the controller, included.
Access & doors · Bolt.Access
Controllers buffer events locally for up to 7 days when cloud is unreachable. Uploads when connectivity returns.
Access & doors · Bolt.Access
A single controller can hold tens of thousands of active credentials locally.
Access & doors · Bolt.Access
Credentials9
Low-cost NFC stickers. Visitors tap their phone on a sticker; the door opens in ~2 seconds. No app to install. Works on iOS 13+ and Android 5+.
Credentials · Bolt.Tap
Add-to-Wallet credentials with iOS Express Mode — works with the phone locked, asleep, or dead. Currently in pilot.
Credentials · Bolt.Access
Wallet Passes API with NFC smart-tap. Currently in pilot alongside Apple Wallet.
Credentials · Bolt.Access
We only sell AES-encrypted DESFire cards. No cheap 125 kHz cards that can be cloned in the car park.
Credentials · Bolt.Access
Scan-on-camera QR codes issued for a window. Auto-expire. Useful for contractors, delivery drivers, one-off guests.
Credentials · Bolt.Access
12-key backlit keypad on the Bolt.PINReader. Used alone or combined with a card for dual-auth.
Credentials · Bolt.Access
Per-door rule: require both a credential and a PIN. Useful for secure rooms, server cupboards, drug cabinets.
Credentials · Bolt.Access
The camera on the door checks the face at tap-in matches the cardholder on file. If not, Bolt can log silently or block. Modes: Silent · Random · Alert · Enforce.
Credentials · Bolt.Vision
OSDP-native. For sites mid-migration who still have HID readers on the wall.
Credentials · Bolt.Access
Rules & policy7
Office hours, cleaning windows, delivery slots. Rules anyone in facilities can read.
Rules & policy · Bolt.Access
Access groups map people to doors. "Engineering" gets Floor 3; "Directors" get the board room.
Rules & policy · Bolt.Access
Prevents a staff member from badging in then passing their card back through the fence. Timed, hard, or soft modes.
Rules & policy · Bolt.Access
Grant Sarah access to the loading bay just for Thursday 14:00–14:30. Auto-expires. Logged.
Rules & policy · Bolt.Access
For controlled rooms (cash rooms, server rooms, pharmacies). Requires two authorised credentials within N seconds.
Rules & policy · Bolt.Access
e.g. "If fire alarm = active, unlock all primary escape routes". Requires BOLT-RULES.
Rules & policy · Bolt.Access
Sensitive zones require a manager to approve new access before it activates. Audit-trail logged.
Rules & policy · Bolt.Access
Video & AI9
Any ONVIF Profile S/T camera is compatible: Axis, Hikvision, Hanwha, Dahua, Bosch, Avigilon. Bring existing fleets.
Video & AI · Bolt.Vision
Cameras push snapshots straight to Bolt cloud. No NVR on site. Simplest deployment, lowest fixed cost.
Video & AI · Bolt.Vision
On-site recorder and cloud gateway. Rolling local buffer, on-box detection. Keeps recording if the internet drops.
Video & AI · Hardware
Only interesting frames reach the cloud. Bandwidth stays small, the AI doesn't look at static corridors, the storage bill is a fraction of streaming.
Video & AI · Bolt.Vision
On-box detection tells people from vehicles from passing shadows, with a confidence score on every detection. Plate and face recognition are separate, and still in development.
Video & AI · Bolt.Vision
When a door unlocks, the matching camera clip is automatically attached. No cross-referencing timestamps in a spreadsheet.
Video & AI · Bolt.Vision
Because Bolt owns access too, it knows who your cardholders are. Type a name, Bolt returns every clip that face appears in.
Video & AI · Bolt.Vision
Face-matching features are opt-in per site, with explicit cardholder consent captured and stored. DPIA support provided.
Video & AI · Bolt.Vision
Verified (classified) events are kept in the cloud for a set retention period, with the storage used shown plainly. Longer retention on request.
Video & AI · Bolt.Vision
Bookings6
Book a desk the night before or walk up and grab one. Favourites, recurring bookings, colleague visibility.
Bookings · Bolt.Spaces
See which rooms are free, book a slot, cancel when plans change. Calendar sync is planned separately.
Bookings · Bolt.Spaces
Book a bay; ANPR camera reads the plate at the barrier; gate opens. Pool, reserved, EV and accessible pools.
Bookings · Bolt.Spaces
Room booked? The room's door opens for you from 10 min before to 10 min after the slot. No lanyard hand-off.
Bookings · Bolt.Spaces
Planned: create a meeting in Outlook or Google and the room is booked. Move the meeting, the booking moves. Cancel, it frees.
Bookings · Bolt.Spaces
Room booked but nobody checks in or taps the door by 10 min in? Auto-released so others can grab it.
Bookings · Bolt.Spaces
Building control7
Bolt.Access knows who is in and where. BMS heats occupied zones only. Empty floors stay at setback.
Building control · Bolt.BMS
Lights brighten on occupancy, dim when empty. Scene controls per zone. No more "offices lit for nobody after 19:00".
Building control · Bolt.BMS
See consumption by zone, tenant or billing period. Export to PDF or CSV. Compliance-reporting-ready.
Building control · Bolt.BMS
Talks to the Modbus kit you already have from Schneider, ABB, Siemens.
Building control · Bolt.BMS
Reads existing BACnet/IP estates (Trend, Tridium, Distech) without replacing them.
Building control · Bolt.BMS
KNX IP/TP bridge. Read and write KNX group addresses from the Bolt dashboard.
Building control · Bolt.BMS
OCPP bridge for Alfen, Zaptec, Wallbox, Easee. Tie a charging session to a cardholder and a parking booking.
Building control · Bolt.BMS
Visitors8
Dedicated PWA at pass.boltaccess.cloud. Host sends a link, visitor fills in details, submits. No app install for the visitor.
Visitors · Bolt.Access
Visitor receives an email with a time-bound link that unlocks the door on tap.
Visitors · Bolt.Access
Same flow as email passes, delivered by SMS via Twilio. A surprising number of trade visitors need this.
Visitors · Bolt.Access
Branded lobby web app. Visitor types name, meeting host, accepts NDA, prints a badge. Part of BOLT-VISITOR.
Visitors · Bolt.Access
Host gets pinged when their visitor taps in at reception.
Visitors · Bolt.Access
Visitor signs the site NDA on their phone or the lobby kiosk before badge is issued.
Visitors · Bolt.Access
Print a dated badge with photo, host, expiry on a DYMO/Brother label printer.
Visitors · Bolt.Access
Visitor uploads a passport photo; Bolt runs an ID check. For regulated sites where visitor identity must be verified.
Visitors · Bolt.Access
Emergency4
Fire-alarm contact input releases all doors on the loop. Built into every Bolt.Access BDC2, wired at install.
Emergency · Bolt.Access
Panic button in the app, or webhook-triggered. Locks all doors except approved egress. Notifies security. Audit-logged.
Emergency · Bolt.Access
Live headcount by zone. On fire alarm, generates a printable roll of everyone still shown as in-the-building.
Emergency · Bolt.Access
For emergency response: the last door each cardholder was seen at.
Emergency · Bolt.Access
Mobile5
Book desks, rooms and parking from the Bolt web app in any phone browser. Add it to the home screen like an app.
Mobile · Bolt.Spaces
Web Push on Android + iOS 16.4+. Critical alerts to the people who need them.
Mobile · Bolt.Access
Planned: Wallet passes, booking, admin notifications and a provisioning scanner for installers.
Mobile · Platform
Step-up authentication for controlled rooms. Phone biometric confirms the user before Bolt issues the unlock.
Mobile · Platform
Phone advertises over BLE when in proximity. Controller accepts without a tap. High-trust sites only.
Mobile · Platform
Admin & multi-site9
An organisation can hold many sites; users can have different roles on each. For landlords, chains, multi-tenant estates.
Admin & multi-site · Platform
Owner · admin · operator · reception · auditor · read-only. Scoped by organisation.
Admin & multi-site · Platform
Define custom role bundles if the built-in roles don't fit (enterprise).
Admin & multi-site · Platform
Who did what, when, from where. Hash-chained so entries can't be silently edited.
Admin & multi-site · Platform
Head-office admin can have global rights; site managers scoped to their building only.
Admin & multi-site · Platform
CSV import of staff with role/door mappings. For new deployments moving from a legacy system.
Admin & multi-site · Platform
When HR adds someone to the directory, Bolt provisions them automatically. Enterprise-grade identity lifecycle.
Admin & multi-site · Platform
Customise the dashboard and emails with your logo and colours. Available to installer-tier partners.
Admin & multi-site · Platform
Importers for the common legacy systems. Turns a rip-and-replace into a swap-in-a-weekend.
Admin & multi-site · Platform
Reports6
Every unlock, denial, door-held-open, tamper. Filter by person, door, time. 12 months online; longer on request.
Reports · Bolt.Access
How many people actually used each floor each day. Hot desks vs. cold desks. Meeting-room utilisation.
Reports · Bolt.Spaces
Electricity, gas, heat. Comparison across months. Export to PDF or CSV.
Reports · Bolt.BMS
Any dashboard view can be scheduled to arrive as PDF on a Monday morning.
Reports · Platform
Floor-plan heat maps show which areas are popular, which are unused, which are over-booked.
Reports · Bolt.Spaces
Drag-and-drop report builder for ad-hoc analyses. Save and share.
Reports · Platform
Integrations10
Planned: Entra ID sync of users and groups, OIDC single sign-on, and off-boarding that follows the directory.
Integrations · Platform
Planned: directory sync with group-to-role mapping, so changes in Google follow through to Bolt.
Integrations · Platform
Planned. Enterprise identity stacks that aren't M365 or Google.
Integrations · Platform
Visitor tap on the lobby panel → video call to host → host releases door from phone.
Integrations · Bolt.Access
Bolt events appear on NX Meta/Witness timelines; NX clips open from Bolt events.
Integrations · Bolt.Vision
Plate read → Bolt rule check → barrier up. Parking gates, delivery yards, staff car-parks.
Integrations · Bolt.Access
Planned: triggers on unlock, denial and motion; actions to grant access and send invites.
Integrations · Platform
Planned: a Home Assistant integration over the Bolt MQTT event stream.
Integrations · Platform
Planned: visitor check-ins, denials and intrusion alerts posted to a channel of your choosing.
Integrations · Platform
Fire every Bolt event to your own endpoint. Signed with shared secret. Exponential-backoff retries.
Integrations · Platform
Security16
Cloud, edge and controller links all run over TLS. No plain text on the network.
Security · Platform
Every command to the controller is stamped. Controllers reject anything unsigned, tampered, or out of sequence.
Security · Bolt.Access
Every update carries an ECDSA signature. The controller checks it before installing, and won’t roll back to an older version.
Security · Bolt.Access
The chip refuses to run unsigned or modified firmware. In development for Bolt.Access BDC2.
Security · Bolt.Access
On-device storage encrypted to the chip. In development for Bolt.Access BDC2.
Security · Bolt.Access
Every command carries a fresh nonce. Controllers track sequence numbers. Replayed commands are rejected.
Security · Bolt.Access
Bolt.Mesh peer pairing uses ESP-NOW LMK encryption. Pending full rollout; HMAC-signed either way.
Security · Bolt.Access
TOTP via any authenticator app for operator accounts. Planned.
Security · Platform
Planned alongside native app launch. YubiKey + platform authenticators.
Security · Platform
Data processing agreement on request. Built and hosted in the UK.
Security · Platform
Application under way. We will say so here when it is certified.
Security · Platform
On the roadmap once revenue supports the audit cost.
Security · Platform
An external test by an independent firm. We will not claim one until there is a report to show you.
Security · Platform
A disclosure programme with rewards. Until then, found something? Email hello@boltaccess.co.uk.
Security · Platform
Full database backup every night to off-site storage. Restores are rehearsed, not assumed.
Security · Platform
Export every byte of your data. Delete on request (subject to statutory retention). No lock-in.
Security · Platform
Hardware7
2 doors, 4 OSDP readers, 8 inputs, 8 relays, Ethernet, mesh radio. ESP32-S3. 140 × 82 mm PCB.
Hardware · Hardware
1 TB (4-channel) or 2 TB (8-channel) local storage, rolling local buffer, on-box detection.
Hardware · Hardware
OSDP v2 secure-channel reader. Reads DESFire, Apple Wallet, Google Wallet, Bolt.Tap. RGB LED + buzzer. IP65.
Hardware · Hardware
All of Bolt.Reader plus a 12-key backlit tactile keypad. Supports dual-auth. Anti-tamper.
Hardware · Hardware
Steel enclosure, tamper-loop, optional 1.2 Ah battery. Good for one Bolt.Access BDC2 + 2 readers.
Hardware · Hardware
Larger steel enclosure, tamper-loop, optional 7 Ah battery. Good for mesh clusters + maglocks + strikes.
Hardware · Hardware
Keeps an existing Wiegand reader on the wall and presents it to Bolt.Access BDC2 as an OSDP reader. Useful mid-migration.
Hardware · Hardware
Developer7
Everything the dashboard does is on the API. Scoped API keys, 100 req/s, fully versioned.
Developer · Platform
Subscribe to every event as it happens. Zero polling. Sub-100 ms controller-to-code.
Developer · Platform
Point events at any HTTPS endpoint. Signed, retried with exponential backoff, dead-letter queue.
Developer · Platform
Stripe-style interactive docs. Examples in curl, TypeScript, Python. Currently private during early access.
Developer · Platform
Feature adds, breaking changes, deprecations. RSS feed for API consumers.
Developer · Platform
Live uptime, incident history, scheduled-maintenance notices.
Developer · Platform
Public high-level roadmap so customers can plan around upcoming features.
Developer · Platform
Rather see it working than read about it?
Twenty minutes, real hardware, a door that opens. Bring the feature you care about and we’ll show you it, or tell you straight that it isn’t ready. Demo kit on your bench: a live door and camera to show people. Ask about the feature your customer cares about and we’ll tell you straight whether it’s ready.