Gatewise: Features, Pricing, Integrations & AI Visibility

Gatewise is cellular-first access for the doors a garden-style community fights over: the vehicle gate, the pedestrian gates, the pool, the gym, and the package room. It is not a unit-lock platform. Allegion acquired it in July 2025, which puts it in the same house as Schlage locks and the Zentra software, and the research notes describe that group as the hardware incumbent turning into a platform. In our multifamily access control guide it is the specialist for gated and garden-style sites. The facts panel below is rendered from our vendor database with a source URL and verification date on each entry.

Who it fits and who it does not

Gatewise lists institutional multifamily and student housing. The buyer is an operator with a 300-unit garden-style community on Yardi or RealPage, a vehicle gate that generates more work orders than any door in the building, and a fob bin at the leasing office. Student housing fits for the same reason, with gates, amenity doors, and a resident population that turns over every August.

It does not list small multifamily, single-family rental, or commercial facilities. A six-unit rehab with one common door has no gate to manage. A high-rise with a lobby intercom and no perimeter is a ButterflyMX or DOOR question. And an operator who wants unit locks from the same contract will be pairing Gatewise with a lock platform, or, now that Allegion owns both, asking what the combined Zentra and Gatewise offer looks like.

Pricing

Pricing is not published. Ask for the per-gate or per-entry-point hardware figure, the per-unit software figure, and the minimum. Ask whether the cellular connection is billed as a separate line or bundled. Ask what a replacement fob costs. Gatewise’s own blog puts fobs at $50 to $100 each, a vendor-authored figure, so confirm the number for your community and multiply it by your annual turnover.

Integrations

The confirmed PMS list is Yardi, RealPage, Entrata, ResMan, and Rent Manager, per Gatewise’s integrations page. That ties with ButterflyMX and PointCentral for the widest list in the category database at five, and it is the only one that includes both ResMan and Rent Manager. AppFolio, Buildium, and MRI are not on it. The Rent Manager integrations page shows which other access vendors share that connection.

Ask what syncs, in which direction, and whether it is real time or scheduled, because a gate credential that lags the move-out by a day is a former resident who still opens the gate after handing in the keys. Ask how guest and vendor access works at the gate specifically, for the delivery driver, the pool contractor, and the cleaning crew at turn.

Limitations and questions to ask

Ask what still works during an outage. Cellular is the pitch, and the research notes record Wi-Fi failing at scale in garden-style layouts, so ask what the gate does when the cellular link drops and whether it fails open or closed. Ask about power and batteries at each entry point.

Ask how a resident without a smartphone gets through the gate. Washington’s ESSB 5937 requires a non-app key on request from January 2027, and fobs at the numbers above add up across a community. Ask who owns setup and support, Gatewise, Allegion, or an integrator, and whether the acquisition changed the support path. Ask what the wallet-based credentials Allegion announced for Zentra and Gatewise at OPTECH 2025 mean for your residents and on what timeline.

The research notes record buyers comparing Gatewise with LiftMaster myQ, a telephone-entry product. Decide first whether you need a platform with PMS provisioning or a gate controller with a call box, because the two are priced and supported differently.

Alternatives

Inside the same company, Zentra is the Schlage lock software and the natural pairing for unit doors. Brivo covers perimeter and common doors from the commercial side with four PMS integrations of its own. The SmartRent alternatives page places Gatewise among the full category, and the student housing page covers the segment where gates and turnover meet.

AI visibility

The 2026-09 export of the AI Shortlist Index records zero runs for multifamily access control, so Gatewise’s row has no mention rate, position score, or consistency figure yet. The live summary above and Gatewise’s row in the Index fill in with the first full edition. What shapes that result is on our page on AI visibility for proptech companies.