Paxton installation
Stoke-on-Trent & Staffordshire
Syntari designs, installs and configures Paxton access control for businesses across Stoke-on-Trent and the surrounding Staffordshire area. Currently installing Paxton10, with Net2 and Paxton Solo coming soon — surveyed properly, fitted properly, and handed over working.
Systems
Which one is right depends on the building, how many doors you need controlling and whether you want video alongside it. We'll tell you straight which one fits.
Paxton's established networked access control platform, managed from software on your own PC or server.
Best for: Sites with several doors, multiple user groups, or more than one building to keep in step.
Paxton's browser-managed platform, bringing access control and video management together in a single system.
Best for: Sites that want door control and cameras administered in one place rather than as two separate systems.
Paxton's newest access control system. Your smartphone acts as both the management interface and the physical key — no local server, PC or on-site network required.
Best for: Smaller sites and single-door premises that want cloud-connected access control without on-site infrastructure. The phone is the credential.
What we do
One team across the whole job. Nothing is handed to a subcontractor halfway through, and the people who surveyed the site are the people who hand it over.
We look at the doors, the cabling routes, the power and the network, then specify a system that suits the building rather than a template.
Controllers, readers, door hardware, power supplies and cabling — fitted neatly and to a standard you'd be happy to show someone.
Users, groups, access levels, time zones and door rules set up to match how your organisation actually operates day to day.
Every door tested, every rule checked, and any fire or emergency release behaviour verified before we call it finished.
Adding doors to an existing Paxton system, replacing ageing hardware, or moving from an older setup onto a current platform.
We show your team how to add users, change access and pull an event history — then stay contactable when something needs changing.
How it works
You’ll know what’s happening at every stage, and what’s expected of you at each one.
A conversation about what you're trying to control and why — one door, a building, or a site with several entrances.
We visit and look at the doors themselves: type, frame, existing locks, cable routes, power and network availability.
Who needs access to what, and when. Contractors, deliveries, out-of-hours, fire routes — the rules the system has to enforce.
Controllers, readers, locks and cabling fitted, with the disruption to your working day kept to a minimum.
Users, groups, access levels and time zones built into the system so it behaves the way your requirements described.
Every door tested against every rule, including emergency release and fail-safe behaviour, before anything is signed off.
We walk your team through day-to-day administration — adding a user, revoking a card, pulling an event history.
We stay contactable. Systems change as staff and buildings change, and you shouldn't have to start over to adjust one.
Where it’s used
Main entrances, meeting floors and areas that shouldn't be open to every visitor who walks in.
Front-of-house kept open and welcoming, back-of-house kept firmly closed.
Loading bays, stores and stock areas, with a record of who went where and when.
Controlled entrances and internal doors, with different rules for staff, pupils and contractors.
Plant rooms, workshops and restricted areas where access needs to be limited to trained staff.
Communal entrances, bin and bike stores, and shared facilities across a development.
Several buildings administered as one system, so a change is made once rather than everywhere.
Single high-value doors where you need a reliable record of every entry.
Service area
We're based in Stoke-on-Trent and this is where we work. That covers the six towns — Hanley, Burslem, Tunstall, Fenton, Longton and Stoke itself — along with Newcastle-under-Lyme, Kidsgrove, Trentham and the surrounding Staffordshire area.
Working locally is a deliberate choice. It means we can get to site for the survey without a long lead time, and just as importantly, we can get back out to you afterwards if something needs adjusting.
If you're somewhere near the edge of that area, ask. We'd rather tell you honestly whether we can look after you properly than take on a job we can't support.
Areas we currently cover
Syntari is a Stoke-on-Trent business. We don't operate nationally, and we don't pretend to — this is the area we cover and look after.
Questions
The things businesses usually want to know first.
It depends on how many doors you're controlling, whether you want video alongside it, and what kind of credentials suit your team. Paxton Solo is Paxton's newest system — phone-based and cloud-hosted, with no on-site server or network needed, and the smartphone is the key. For a single door where that approach works, Solo is often the simplest fit. Several doors, multiple user groups or more than one building generally points to Paxton10 or Net2. We'll look at the site and tell you which one genuinely fits rather than specifying the largest system we can.
In most cases, yes. It depends on the door type, the frame and what's already fitted — some doors take a maglock, others suit an electric strike or a different lock entirely. That's one of the main things we're assessing during the site survey.
Yes. Adding doors, replacing ageing hardware and reconfiguring an existing Paxton installation are all part of what we do. If it was installed by someone else, we'll take a look at how it's currently set up before quoting anything.
That depends almost entirely on the number of doors and how straightforward the cable routes are. A single door is a different job from a multi-door site with structured cabling. We give you a realistic timescale after the survey rather than a number before we've seen the building.
We cover Stoke-on-Trent and the surrounding Staffordshire area, including Hanley, Burslem, Tunstall, Fenton, Longton, Newcastle-under-Lyme and Kidsgrove. We're a local business and we don't operate nationally. If you're near the edge of that area, ask us and we'll give you a straight answer.
We test every door, then hand over properly — showing your team how to add and remove users, change access levels and pull an event history. After that we stay contactable, because buildings and staff change and the system needs to change with them.
They're complementary: access control governs who can open which door, while visitor management records who is on site and notifies their host. We build Entris, our own cloud visitor management platform, and can talk you through running the two together.
Get a quote
Send us the details and we'll come back to arrange a look at the doors. There's no obligation on either side until you've seen what's involved.
We'll read it properly
Your enquiry goes to a person, not a queue.
We'll be straight with you
Including telling you if we're not the right fit.
Prefer to email?
hello@syntari.co.ukLooking for visitor management instead? Take a look at Entris, our visitor management system.
