Access control, run by operators
Building Access Systems gives property and space operators a manager portal and a member app for iPhone and Android, branded with your business, for entrances, suites and studios — plus optional payments and hourly booking through your own merchant processor, and professional lock installation. Built inside a 20+ building studio business and now available to yours.
20+ buildings
run on the same platform every day
~3,000 users
active on the platform every month
CA + NV
installed and supported on the ground
24/7
access for your staff, on your rules
How it works
01
Smart locks on suites and studios, connected entrance controllers on front, rear and staff doors. Each door is mapped to your units.
02
From the manager portal, add or remove a client in seconds. They get their suite plus the shared entrances automatically — and lose them the moment you remove them.
03
Our member app on iPhone or Android, showing your business. They sign in with an emailed code and open doors by Bluetooth right at the door. Turn on payments and they can also pay you, and book by the hour, in the same app.
Features
Your team adds, removes and reviews members for only the units they run, from any phone or computer.
Our app on iPhone and Android, showing your business. Your members are your customers, never ours.
Give someone a suite and the shared doors come with it automatically.
Your staff can get every suite, side doors and around-the-clock access.
Text a visitor or vendor a link that opens only the doors you pick, for the hours you set.
Pause anyone's access instantly and restore it just as fast. Nothing is deleted.
Access is tied to each member's phone. A new phone needs your manager's OK.
Choose per building: members open by Bluetooth at the door only, or remotely too.
If the building network drops, members still get in with a 24-hour backup code.
Step-by-step help plus an Ask button that answers your managers' questions about their own building.
We watch every lock and controller and flag anything that goes quiet.
See who opened which door and when, plus every change your managers make.
Fully customizable
Each business picks how it appears: your own logo, the Building Access Systems label, or no logo at all, always with your business name. Your members and your managers see your brand, set once for your business with no custom build.
Your logo, our label or none, plus your name, in the member app and the manager portal.
Address, hours, parking, WiFi details, house rules and maps.
Post maintenance notices and updates; send them by text too.
Your support number, a how-to for each door, and request forms.
New members get a branded invite text and set up in under a minute.
Set access hours, which doors each group gets, and pass lengths.
iPhone and Android
Members download our app, sign in with their email and see only your doors, under your name. Built for buildings where security matters.
Your logo, the Building Access Systems label, or no logo, with your business name.
Doors open from the phone in hand, even when the building WiFi is down.
A shared login stops working. Moving to a new phone needs your approval.
Members sign in with an emailed code. No passwords to forget or share.
If a door can't be reached, the app shows a 24-hour code for that door.
Members see only the doors you give them, and pay only you, if you turn payments on.
Payments & hourly booking
Plug in your own merchant account and Building Access Systems becomes your billing system too. Collect payments, bill members for services, rent space by the hour and sell add-ons, with door access tied to what each person has paid for. It's the same setup we use to run our own hourly studios. Money goes straight to your account, never through ours.
Connect the processor you already use. Payments deposit directly to your business.
Monthly memberships, recurring fees and one-off invoices, with cards on file and autopay.
Members pick a room and a time in the app and pay up front. You set the rates and hours.
Booked doors open just before the session and lock again when it ends. No keys, no front desk.
Gear rental, extra time, cleaning, storage or anything else you offer, sold right in the app.
Choose whether access pauses when a payment fails, and restore it automatically once they pay.
Lock installation service
Our own installers have fitted smart locks and entrance controllers across our buildings. We do the same for yours — from a single suite to a whole portfolio.
We survey every door, gate and entrance and recommend the right hardware for each.
Keypad and app-controlled smart locks, installed and paired to your units.
Connected controllers on front doors, rear doors, staff doors and parking gates.
We watch battery and connection status and send a tech when something needs fixing.
Service area: [SERVICE AREA — e.g. Southern California and Las Vegas]
Who it's for
Your managers control who gets which suite and the shared entrances.
Monthly members, hourly bookings and add-on users, all on the same doors.
Landlords and sub-operators each manage their own people in one building.
Gate, entrance and unit access tied to who is currently active.
In the field · Las Vegas
Their managers add and remove their own clients. Clients get their suite plus the front and rear entrances; the operator's staff get every suite, the staff entrance and around-the-clock access. Their clients never touch our customer system.
Who we are
Building Access Systems comes from the team behind Lockout Music Studios & Creative Offices, which licenses rehearsal studios and creative office space in 20+ buildings across Southern California, Sacramento and Las Vegas, serving about 3,000 active users: musicians, artists, small businesses and our own team. We've been in property management since 2002, and technology has run the back end of our business from the start.
We find underused commercial buildings and renovate them using value engineering, putting the money where it matters, to create affordable studios and workspace for musicians, artists and entrepreneurs. We handle the construction and remodel, then run every building as the operator: licensing, maintenance, access, billing and all the systems behind them. Full property management, from the first walk-through to the day-to-day.
For years we ran the business on a stack of separate platforms: one for accounting, one for vendors, one for HR, others for phones, lead forms, contracts and reviews, building systems like HVAC, automations, maintenance and keeping in touch with thousands of people. Nothing talked to anything else. Every subscription added up, and every time data had to be copied from one system to another was another chance for a mistake: a door that didn't open, a payment that got missed or a message that never went out. They're the same problems every growing property management company runs into.
So we built our own: Studio Manager, one platform that runs all of it, from the first tour to the last day of a license, and every door, payment, call, work order and message in between, with security built in from day one.
We did the same with the hardware. Big-name access systems charge a premium for locks, readers and controllers, plus yearly fees on top. We found affordable alternatives that do the job just as well, and tested them extensively across our own buildings before putting them in front of our members. That's the hardware we install for you.
When a national workspace operator moved into one of our Las Vegas buildings and wanted to run its own suites, we gave its managers their own portal on the same system. That's when we realized other operators needed exactly this, and Building Access Systems was born.
Where it started · since 2002
Underused commercial buildings, renovated into affordable studios and creative offices for musicians, artists and entrepreneurs.
What we built
Our in-house platform replaced a dozen separate tools and now runs every building, every day.
First outside operator
A national operator's managers run their own clients' access on our system, without ever touching ours.
Now
The same tools, our installers and our support, available for your building.
One login, one database, one place for the whole team. The same engine powers Building Access Systems.
Web leads, call-backs, tour booking and a guided move-in with ID checks and e-signed agreements.
Licensing fees, autopay, cards and bank payments, late fees, credits and refunds.
Payments reconciled and synced to the books, with building-level reporting.
Smart locks, entrances and gates, the member app, temp passes and backup codes.
Thermostats and HVAC schedules for efficiency, water shut-offs, sensors and WiFi health.
Work orders, room checks, daily walk-throughs and lock and device alerts.
Vendor passes, contractor agreements, invoices and payments.
Onboarding, time clock, scheduling, reviews and a staff app for the team in the field.
Every call answered or routed, an AI phone greeting, AI replies to texts and a smooth handoff to staff.
Texts, email and app notifications to ~3,000 users, with automated reminders and follow-ups.
Our own lead forms, SEO campaigns, contracts with automatic notifications and review requests sent to members.
Locked-down data, phone-bound door access, role-based staff permissions and safeguards against automated attacks.
Pricing
Building Access Systems is an affordable, fully customizable option — every service below is à la carte. Start with door access and add payments, hourly booking, onboarding, contracts or installation only if you need them. Fill out the form below for a free consultation and we'll put together a quote for your property.
Mix and match. Add or drop a service at any time.
Manager portal, your branded iPhone and Android app, and shared entrances that follow the unit.
Connect your own merchant processor to collect payments, bill for services and keep cards on file.
Customers book and pay by the hour, and their doors open only for the time they booked.
A guided sign-up: application, agreement, payment setup and door access, with no front desk needed.
Send your own agreements for e-signature from the portal. Signed copies are saved to each customer.
Set a move-out date, settle the final bill, and access shuts off automatically at the end.
We supply, install, monitor and repair the locks and entrance controllers.
Tell us about your property and we'll set up a free consultation, walk you through the manager portal and member app, and send you a quote.
Or email sales@lockoutmusicstudios.com