THE GRAND THEATRE BLACKPOOL CASE STUDY
INVENTRY PROVIDES BLACKPOOL’S GRAND THEATRE WITH A PROFESSIONAL AND SECURE SYSTEM WHICH ALLOWS THEM TO ACCURATELY TRACK WHO’S ON SITE AT ANY GIVEN TIME, WHILST ALSO ALLOWING THEIR STAFF AND VISITORS TO QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY SIGN IN FROM MULTIPLE ENTRANCE POINTS.
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VISITORS ADMIRE HAVING THEIR DETAILS READY TO WELCOME THEM WHEN THEY ARRIVE, IT’S EXTREMELY ORGANISED, ACCESSIBLE AND ABOVE ALL, PROFESSIONAL
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InVentry helps The Grand Theatre Blackpool to Improve their Site Security while Streamlining their Sign in Process.
THE CLIENT
THE CHALLENGE
Built in 1984, The Grand Theatre Blackpool offers
The Grand Theatre Blackpool was looking to improve
a variety of amazing shows and entertainment
their staff and visitor sign in experience whilst
productions including its famous annual
ensuring that they had a modern and effective
pantomime. Along with providing guided tours
system that worked well for visitors, staff, contractors
which offer the inside story of Blackpool’s Grand
and visiting companies. As they have many groups of
theatre, taking their visitors on a fascinating journey
visitors coming in at one time, it was also imperative
through its unique history, incredible architecture
that they could easily track who was coming and
and impressive performances and cast, their site has
going from their theatre and determine from which
many visitors coming and going on a daily basis.
entrance.
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INVENTRY HAS REVOLUTIONIZED THE WAY WE RUN OUR STAGE DOOR OPERATIONS AND HELPED US TO BE MORE PROFESSIONAL TO OUR GUESTS, STAFF AND VISITORS.
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THE SOLUTION InVentry provided Blackpool’s Grand Theatre with a professional and secure sign in system which allows them to track who’s in the building at any
that InVentry allows us to track all groups entering the building and record the DBS and Chaperone Licenses.”
given time while also allowing group visitors to sign in quickly and efficiently via our group tracking
With their own custom skin displayed on their
feature.
InVentry screen, the professional touch is something their end users appreciate, as Shaun notes
For additional security, their staff members are now able to gain entry to the building using our door access control fobs while having the ability to easily sign in via various Quickscan Touch units using
“visitors admire having their details ready to welcome them when they arrive, it’s extremely organised, accessible and above all, professional.”
their RFID staff ID cards. Shaun also added “InVentry has revolutionized When speaking with Shaun Gorringe, Operations Manager, regarding the solution, he commented:
“we have several entrances to our building that staff, and visitors can use. We found that people would enter through one door, leave through another and we wouldn’t know that they had left. With InVentry we’re now able to easily track them through the building and ensure that our record keeping is up to date.”
the way we run our Stage Door operations and helped us to be more professional to our guests, staff and visitors. I would highly recommend this system to anyone who may be considering it.”
With the InVentry Anywhere App, they now have peace of mind that their fire evacuation list is up to date and easily accessible in case of an emergency; without the need for dangerous paper-based checklists. Before the InVentry installation, The Grand Theatre Blackpool would have to manually sign in groups of visitors through a paper-based process which caused a frustrating and untidy reception area. Their
WITH INVENTRY WE’RE
InVentry solution means they’ve now reduced their
NOW ABLE TO EASILY
paperwork and the risk of human error, all while
TRACK THEM THROUGH
upholding a professional entrance hall, with Shaun commenting “We find it very useful pre-
THE BUILDING AND ENSURE
loading groups of visitors and having them all sign in quickly. We do a lot of work with children and young people and were particularly impressed with the way
THAT OUR RECORD KEEPING IS UP TO DATE.
SHAUN GORRINGE, OPERATIONS MANAGER SAID:
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“we have several entrances to our building that staff, and visitors can use. We found that people would enter through one door, leave through another and we wouldn’t know that they had left. With InVentry we’re now able to easily track them through the building and ensure that our record keeping is up to date.” We find it very useful pre-loading groups of visitors and having them all sign in quickly. We do a lot of work with children and young people and were particularly impressed with the way that InVentry allows us to track all groups entering the building and record the DBS and Chaperone Licenses.” “visitors admire having their details ready to welcome them when they arrive, it’s extremely organised, accessible and above all, professional.” “InVentry has revolutionized the way we run our Stage Door operations and helped us to be more professional to our guests, staff and visitors. I would highly recommend this system to anyone who may be considering it.”
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