QR-Patrol alternative
when the tour is only part of the problem
If you are weighing a QR-Patrol alternative, it helps to be clear about what QR-Patrol is: a specialist guard tour system, with QR, NFC and beacon checkpoints and man-down alerts, and a published per-guard price. CGuardPro is a different kind of product. Tours are one part of it, next to the roster, the clock-in, the daily report, the panic button, the radio and the client portal. If the patrol is the only thing you need to prove, a specialist may suit you better. If the patrol is one of six things you are stitching together, read on.
A specialist, or a platform that includes tours
A guard tour system answers one question very well: did the officer walk the route, in order, on time? QR-Patrol's own site describes exactly that, with a choice of three checkpoint technologies and real-time alerts. For a firm whose scheduling, time records and client reporting already run somewhere else, adding a specialist for tours is a clean decision.
The trouble starts when the tour is the only thing in the system. The roster lives in a spreadsheet, the clock-in in a payroll app, the daily report in a group chat and the client gets a PDF on Monday. Each record is fine on its own; the evidence a client or an insurer asks for is the join between them, and someone in your office is building it by hand.
What CGuardPro puts around the tour
Checkpoints are QR codes you print from the dashboard, or NFC tags if you prefer, scanned with the officer's own phone. Time, sequence and GPS position are validated on arrival, and a missed tour raises an alert to dispatch. Around that sits the rest of the shift: rotations and cover, geofenced clock-in with a selfie, a daily activity report that hands the open items to the next officer, a silent SOS into your own control room, push-to-talk voice in the same app, live supervision on a map, and a portal where each client sees their own sites. One seat price covers all of it: $5 per user per month, with a 7-day trial. Trusted by 600+ security companies worldwide.
What we do not do
Two things on QR-Patrol's site are not in CGuardPro, and it is better you hear them from us. We do not support Bluetooth beacons as checkpoints; we use QR and NFC. And we have no automatic man-down or no-motion detection; our lone-worker answer is a silent SOS the officer raises, plus tours that flag themselves when they run late. If either of those is a contract requirement, it should decide the question.
Point by point, with our answers
| Topic | CGuardPro | How to check this with any vendor |
|---|---|---|
| Checkpoint technology | QR codes printed from the dashboard, or NFC tags if you prefer them, scanned with the guard's own phone. No Bluetooth beacons | Ask which checkpoint types are supported, which need hardware you buy, and what replacing a lost or pried-off tag costs. |
| What a scan proves | Time, sequence and GPS position validated on arrival; a code scanned from somewhere else is not accepted | Ask what stops a guard photographing a QR code and scanning it from the guard shack. |
| Missed and late tours | Rules per post — frequency, tolerance and hours — with alerts to dispatch when a tour is missed | Ask to see a missed tour raise an alert live in the demo, not only a completed one in a report. |
| Lone-worker safety | Silent SOS into your own control room with last known location. No automatic man-down or no-motion detection | If automatic fall or no-motion detection is a contract requirement, ask every vendor to demonstrate it on a real phone. |
| Scheduling and clock-in | Rotations and shift cover in the same product, with geofenced clock-in carrying a selfie and a GPS fix | Ask whether the roster and the time record live in the same system as the tours, or in a second one you reconcile. |
| Daily activity reports and handover | Digital DAR with automatic shift handover: the incoming guard opens the outgoing guard's log | Ask to see the outgoing shift's log reach the incoming guard without anyone retyping or forwarding it. |
| Voice on shift | Push-to-talk channel inside the same app the guard already carries, no radios to buy | Ask whether voice is part of the platform, a separate product, or a third-party integration you pay for. |
| Client portal | Included: your client sees patrols, incidents and reports for their own sites | Get it in writing whether the client gets their own login, and whether it is in the base price. |
| Getting to a number | Published: $5 per user per month, every seat, plus an optional one-time $299.99 implementation package | Price your real headcount on each vendor's published page, including the tier that carries the features you saw in the demo. |
| Working with no signal | Scans, reports, photos and visitor entries queue on the phone and sync later: the report keeps the time it happened, the scan is stamped on arrival, the clock-in needs a connection | Ask for it in airplane mode during the demo — and ask what time each record ends up carrying. |
Statements about QR-Patrol come only from its own published pages — qrpatrol.com, its about page and its pricing page — read in September 2026; confirm current details with the vendor before you decide. QR-Patrol is a trademark of its respective owner. CGuardPro is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by QR-Patrol or Terracom S.A.
Before you decide
Count the systems a single night shift touches today, from roster to the report the client reads, and ask each vendor how many of them it replaces. More on running the evaluation is in how to evaluate guard management software and on our QR guard tour system page, and every comparison we publish is on one page at security guard software compared.
Frequently asked questions
What is QR-Patrol?+
A real-time online guard tour system developed by Terracom S.A., a company based in Ioannina, Greece, according to QR-Patrol's own about page. Its site describes checkpoint scanning by QR code, NFC tag and Bluetooth beacon, GPS tracking, incident reporting, and SOS and Man Down alerts, sold in Base, Pro and Gold tiers. Checked September 2026; confirm current details with the vendor.
Is CGuardPro a real alternative to QR-Patrol?+
If you want tours inside a wider operations platform, yes. CGuardPro runs QR and NFC patrols alongside shift scheduling, geofenced clock-in with a selfie, daily activity reports with shift handover, a silent panic button, push-to-talk voice, live GPS supervision and a client portal, on one seat price. If tours are the only thing you need to fix, a tour specialist may be the simpler buy, and QR-Patrol's beacon support and man-down alerts are two things we do not offer.
How does the pricing compare?+
QR-Patrol publishes its prices: three tiers per guard per month, starting from $3.20 on Base, $6.15 on Pro and $11.10 on Gold, set in bands by the number of guards, with an annual discount and a quote above 100 guards (qrpatrol.com/pricing, checked September 2026). The "from" figures are the lowest in each tier, so read the band for your own headcount. CGuardPro is $5 per user per month for every seat, including supervisors, office staff and client logins, with a 7-day trial and an optional one-time $299.99 implementation package. Compare the totals for your real team, not the headline numbers.
Does CGuardPro have man-down detection?+
No. There is no automatic fall, no-motion or man-down detection in CGuardPro, and we would rather tell you here than in month two. What exists is a silent SOS the officer raises from their phone into your own control room, with last known location, and tours that flag themselves when they are late or missed. If automatic man-down is written into a contract, choose a product that has it and ask to see it work on a real phone.
Do we need beacons or special hardware?+
Not with CGuardPro. Checkpoints are QR codes you print from the dashboard, or NFC tags if you prefer them, scanned with the phone the officer already carries. Beacons have their own advantages — a checkpoint that registers without the guard aiming a camera at it — and QR-Patrol supports them. Price the tags, the batteries and the replacements over five years before you decide which trade suits your sites.
Who should choose QR-Patrol instead?+
A buyer whose problem is the patrol and only the patrol — proving rounds happened, with the widest choice of checkpoint hardware — and who already runs scheduling, time and client reporting somewhere they are happy with. The same goes for a buyer who needs automatic man-down alerts on a lone-worker post. QR-Patrol publishes that it is used in many countries and has been running since the mid-2010s; a specialist with that history is a reasonable choice for a specialist problem.
Walk one real route with us
Bring a site and its checkpoints. We will print the codes, run the tour and show you what the client sees afterwards.