DOOR Alternatives for Property Managers

DOOR is the company that used to be Latch. Latch renamed itself DOOR in September 2025, a year after Nasdaq delisted the stock, and the shares now trade over the counter. That history is the reason most searches for alternatives to this vendor happen at all. An operator who standardized on proprietary Latch locks and intercoms across a Class A portfolio wants to know what happens to that hardware if the company changes hands again, and whether a lock-agnostic platform would have been the safer bet. This page walks through the other vendors in our multifamily access control guide and how each differs from DOOR on the facts we can verify.

Why operators look past DOOR

Three reasons show up in buyer posts and reviews. The first is the corporate history. Ambient Proptech’s piece on proprietary smart locks makes the lock-in argument directly, and interest in “alternatives to Latch” rose after the delisting. If the locks on 400 doors only talk to one company’s software, the health of that company is part of your building’s maintenance plan.

The second is resident experience. Latch residents on Trustpilot describe locks that lag and lockouts that repeat. Lockout resolution is the first thing NAA’s research on access control found operators buying for, so a platform that generates lockouts is solving the wrong problem.

The third is compliance. In New York, a landlord who blocked the key cylinder behind a Latch lock was sued by older tenants who did not have smartphones. Washington’s ESSB 5937, effective January 2027, requires a non-app key on request. Any platform you shortlist should be asked how it handles a resident who refuses the app.

None of this makes DOOR the wrong choice for a new-build high-rise on Yardi, RealPage, Entrata, or AppFolio, which is the profile the DOOR vendor page describes. It means the demo questions have changed, and the DOOR vs SmartRent comparison is where the proprietary-versus-agnostic argument gets its full hearing.

The table below is rendered from our vendor database, so every integration and segment claim carries a source URL and a verification date.

The alternatives

SmartRent is the platform most often set against DOOR. It sells a smart-home hub, locks, common-area access, and self-guided tours to multifamily, and reports 890,000 units across 3,700 communities. It integrates with Yardi, RealPage, Entrata, and ResMan. The hardware runs through a Z-Wave hub rather than a proprietary lock, which is the core of the agnostic argument.

ButterflyMX started as a cloud video intercom and grew into a full access platform, with 20,000 buildings and 1.5 million units behind it. Its PMS list is one of the longest in the category: AppFolio, Entrata, RealPage, Yardi, and Rent Manager. Operators with a DOOR intercom problem rather than a DOOR lock problem tend to land here.

Brivo is cloud access control with a Multifamily Edition built for apartment communities and mixed-use. It integrates with Yardi, RealPage, Rent Manager, and Entrata, and it is the option for a portfolio that also runs commercial doors.

Avigilon Alta is the former Openpath, now under Motorola Solutions. It sells cloud readers and mobile credentials and reaches multifamily through partners such as iApartments; it publishes no native PMS list. Commercial-first buyers weigh it against Brivo.

Gatewise handles gates, perimeter doors, and amenity access with cellular-first hardware, which matters in garden-style communities where hallway Wi-Fi does not exist. Allegion acquired it in July 2025. It integrates with Yardi, RealPage, Entrata, ResMan, and Rent Manager.

Swiftlane pairs a video intercom with face-recognition entry for small to mid-size apartment buildings and integrates with Yardi, Entrata, and RealPage. A buyer on BiggerPockets described an eight-unit building with a dead buzzer and no parts available, and Swiftlane was the replacement being weighed.

PointCentral is Alarm.com’s smart-property platform, built on a cellular hub, covering multifamily, build-to-rent, and single-family rental. It integrates with Yardi, RealPage, ResMan, AppFolio, and Entrata.

RemoteLock is lock-agnostic cloud access control, and it is a ButterflyMX partner. It integrates with AppFolio, Yardi, RealPage, and Rent Manager. It is the smallest-portfolio option on this list and the one a quadplex owner rehabbing for keyless turnover would look at first.

Zentra is Allegion’s multifamily access software paired with Schlage locks, with Apple and Google Wallet keys. Its PMS integrations are not published, so ask.

Salto sells enterprise electronic locks and access for multifamily and student housing. It publishes no PMS list, and it integrates with ButterflyMX.

dormakaba sells RFID and mobile locks with its Community access-management software for multihousing. Its PMS connection is described only as web services.

Quext combines NFC smart locks with a thermostat, intercom, and managed Wi-Fi for multifamily and student housing, has absorbed Homebase, and integrates with Yardi, RealPage, Entrata, AppFolio, MRI, and ResMan. Homebase, now part of OneQuext per its own site, pairs Schlage locks with a thermostat, sensors, and managed Wi-Fi, on AppFolio, Yardi, Entrata, and RealPage. Rently Smart Home runs a Z-Wave hub with its Smart Bolt Elite lock and integrates with Yardi, RealPage, Entrata, Rent Manager, and ResMan.

Aiphone, 2N, and Akuvox make video intercoms for apartment buildings; of the three, only Akuvox has a PMS integration in our records, a Rent Manager tenant sync on its SmartPlus cloud platform. LiftMaster myQ Community is Chamberlain Group’s cloud access platform for LiftMaster intercoms, door controllers, and gate operators, on Yardi, RealPage, and Entrata. ProdataKey is cloud access control for doors, gates, and amenity spaces with an Entrata integration. Verkada puts Bluetooth smartphone access, video intercoms, cameras, and visitor management in one console. Kastle Systems sells smartphone access from garage to unit as a managed security service, with a Yardi integration.

How to shortlist

Start with the lock, since that is what DOOR sold you. Decide whether you want to own a lock that any platform can drive (RemoteLock, Zentra with Schlage, Salto, dormakaba) or a platform that brings its own hub (SmartRent, PointCentral, Quext, Rently). Then filter by the PMS you run. If it is ResMan, only SmartRent, Gatewise, PointCentral, Quext, and Rently appear on the confirmed lists. If it is AppFolio, the list is ButterflyMX, PointCentral, RemoteLock, Quext, and Homebase. Our integrations page for Yardi shows the largest overlap.

Then ask each vendor the same four things. Which PMS integrations are included in the quote and which cost extra. Which data syncs, in which direction, and whether it is real-time or scheduled. What still works during an internet outage. Who owns setup and support, the vendor or an integrator. Those are the questions from Swiftlane’s own buyer’s guide, and they apply to everyone on this list.

Finally, ask for pricing in writing. Apart from 2N’s intercom calling licenses and Verkada’s hardware list prices, none of these vendors publishes a price, so get the per-unit figure, the per-door hardware figure, the fob cost (Gatewise puts the industry range at $50 to $100 each), and the minimum. The access control vendors list carries every vendor’s verified facts side by side.

What the Index shows

The 2026-09 edition holds 25 ChatGPT runs for multifamily access control, one per prompt, captured from the ChatGPT app on 19 September 2026. On the prompt from an operator with Latch locks, now DOOR, asking what to replace them with, ChatGPT named DOOR itself first, then Brivo, Zentra, Salto and dormakaba, all with a neutral framing. Across the whole set DOOR was named in 43% of runs, fifth in the category, behind ButterflyMX at 83%, Salto at 76%, Brivo at 75% and SmartRent at 65%. The snapshot above carries the current ranking. If you sell one of these platforms and want to know what determines that result, read what AI visibility means for a proptech vendor.

The next page to read depends on your portfolio. Garden-style and gated communities should start with the institutional multifamily segment page. Anyone under fifty doors should read the small multifamily options.