Enterphone
Enterphone is the name on the entry panel in a huge number of older Canadian apartment buildings, especially in Vancouver and Toronto. Most Enterphone systems are telephone entry at heart: your unit's entry dials a phone number. Swap that number for your Enterkey number and the decades-old panel in your lobby gets auto-unlock, PINs, and scheduling.
Which Enterphone setups work?
If buzzing your unit rings a phone — cell or landline — your Enterphone dials out and Enterkey is compatible. Some older Enterphone installations ring an in-suite handset only; those have no outside line for Enterkey to receive, so they're not supported.
Buildings sometimes migrate these panels during renovations. If your building just modernized and your buzzer stopped ringing your phone, ask the property manager whether the directory entry can point at an outside number — usually it can.
How do you tell if yours is compatible?
The test is simple: when a visitor buzzes your unit, does your cell phone (or a phone number you chose) ring? If yes, your system dials out — and Enterkey works by giving it a smarter number to dial. If your buzzer only rings a wired handset inside your unit and can't call an outside line, it isn't compatible.
Not sure? Ask your property manager one question: "Can the directory entry for my unit point at any phone number?" If the answer is yes, you're set — see how Enterkey works, and if you get stuck, support@enterkey.app answers within hours.
Try it on your own buzzer — setup is one directory change by your property manager, and it costs nothing to find out.