> Yeah, I think I need to get away from the term 'access system' everyone I've asked didn't get it and I think that was the main part of the confusion.
Have you looks through condo/apartment amenity listings and figured out what words they're using to describe these systems? I imagine people would probably pick up on and use those names?
I just call it a "buzzer" and explain to friends "enter the code or find me in the directory and it'll call me"
I've never seen any that actually specify it as an amenity. I think it's assumed that buildings will have that these days.
In searing for how they're actually sold, I've seen mostly "Phone Entry System" and "Phone Access System", but I felt like that was super generic without context.
You're getting it right. The problem with terms like "buzzer", IMO, is that they're super generic and very regional. But I suppose it might be more generally understandable than what I've got, I guess I should try it on a few people.
That's not what this does though - it hooks into a system like that to automatically let in certain people at certain times, as a one-off, or until the owner/tenant next returns, etc.
I'm thinking something more along the lines of
"Can your front door call you? Let the ninja get it instead.
Knock.Ninja can open the door for guests and deliveries automatically in any building that uses phone-based entry request systems."
That still gets too technical at the end, but I think more people would understand.
Edit: It also now occurs to me that that's actually more word, ah well.