Therapists and home-office practitioners
A practice run out of an apartment has one recurring interruption: the buzzer, sounding at ten to the hour while you are still with somebody. Enterkey puts the entrance on your appointment book, so the client arriving for the eleven o'clock lets themselves into the building without a call ever reaching your phone.
The buzzer is the only thing you cannot silence
Everything else in a home practice can be muted. The phone goes on do not disturb, notifications go off, the door to the rest of the apartment closes. The building panel is the exception, because answering it is how the next client gets in at all.
So the hour is interrupted at the worst possible moment by a call you have to take. Moving that call off your phone is the single change that makes working from a flat feel like a practice rather than an improvisation.
Your appointment book as an unlock window
Set a schedule matching the hours you see people: weekdays nine to five, or Tuesday and Thursday evenings if that is the shape of the work. Add a code so the window is gated rather than simply open, and clients say the code at the panel and come up.
One window covers a whole block of appointments, so nothing needs doing between sessions. The apartment buzzer guide explains the panel side if you have never had cause to think about it.
What Enterkey stores, stated plainly
Enterkey is a door tool. The activity log in the app shows a time and which key or schedule opened the entrance, and nothing else: no client name, no appointment, no note. None of that is something a buzzer needs to know.
That is a limit on the product, not a compliance claim. Enterkey holds no certification under any health privacy framework and should not be treated as part of your clinical record keeping. Your notes, your booking system and your files remain yours to protect. What this removes is a phone call, not an obligation.
How it works, step by step
Mirror the hours you actually see people
Create a schedule that matches the book. If your days are fixed, one window per day quietly covers every appointment inside it.
Gate the window with a code
A PIN can be typed or said aloud, which matters on a panel that has been outdoors for twenty winters and answers to nobody's expectations.
Send the code with the appointment confirmation
One line in the message you already send: press the unit, say the code, second floor on the left. Clients arrive knowing precisely what to do.
Stay in the room
The client buzzes, Enterkey answers, the entrance opens. Your phone does not ring, and the person sitting opposite you never hears the panel at all.
Let the window close at the end of the day
The schedule locks at the time you set. Outside those hours buzzes forward to your phone as before, and your home goes back to being a home.
Frequently asked questions
How do back-to-back appointments work?
One window covers the whole block. A schedule opens at the start of your working day and closes at the end, so the nine, the ten and the eleven all use it with no action from you in between.
A code belongs to a schedule or a key rather than to a person. If one long-term client should have a credential of their own, give them a Permanent key with its own PIN and delete it when the work ends. A Permanent key has no window, so use it only where standing access is genuinely appropriate.
What if somebody arrives twenty minutes early?
Inside the window they come in and wait wherever you have arranged for people to wait. Before it opens, the buzz forwards to your phone as usual, which is the one interruption you probably do want.
Starting the window fifteen minutes ahead of the first appointment absorbs most early arrivals without leaving the entrance automatic all morning.
Is this HIPAA or PHIPA compliant?
Enterkey makes no compliance claim and carries no certification under either framework. It is a door tool that opens a building entrance on a schedule and records the time and the key that did it.
Nothing you are shown in the app is client information: the activity log gives a time and which key or schedule opened the entrance, and nothing else. Whether your practice as a whole meets its obligations depends on your records and your systems, not on your buzzer.
Can a colleague who shares the space use it too?
Yes. Shared access puts another practitioner in the same group with the same windows and the same log, still on one subscription.
Nothing should interrupt the fifty minutes you owe the person in the room.