Vendor pair

Patrol Tech vs GuardsPro

GuardsPro runs a contract security business end to end — dispatch, payroll clock, invoicing, a client portal. Patrol Tech runs patrols, time and attendance, visitor management and a client portal, with workforce management in beta on its Business plan. The comparison is really about how much of your operation you want in one tool. Everything stated below about GuardsPro comes from guardspro.com; where they publish nothing, this page says so instead of guessing.

Where each one is strong, and where it is not

Best for operators who want the price up front, a free tier that does not expire, and patrols that survive dead zones

Strengths
  • An AI agent in WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack or Microsoft Teams that answers questions and takes actions: it reviews missed rounds and suspicious scans, creates and edits checkpoints and officers, and reconfigures routes. Included on the free plan, on by default, and it replies in each user's language. On WhatsApp (+34 624 085 772) the same assistant also creates and configures a new account from the conversation
  • Pricing published in full: Free $0, Pro $29, Business $79 per month, with the per-extra-checkpoint rate stated
  • A permanent free tier rather than a countdown: 5 checkpoints, 1 site, 2 dashboard users, 30 days of history, no card
  • Officers unlimited on every plan — billing is per checkpoint, so the invoice does not move with the roster
  • Offline end to end, with buffered events timestamped device-side and signed on sync
  • QR and digitally signed NFC checkpoints, incident capture with photo
  • Time and attendance, visitor management and a client portal for the end customer, in the same platform
  • Workforce management (shift scheduling, payroll prep, dispatch) in beta on the Business plan
  • SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ENS (Spain's National Security Framework) certified and active
  • Self-serve from first visit to first patrol
Caveats
  • No invoicing or estimates; dispatch and payroll prep are part of workforce management, in beta on the Business plan only
  • No vehicle patrol management and no video watch-mode
  • Man Down and facial verification of the officer are in beta, Business plan only
  • No Bluetooth beacons: they are on the roadmap, and digitally signed NFC tags are the chosen approach today
  • If you want invoicing and the whole back office from one vendor today, GuardsPro is closer to that shape

Best for contract security companies that want dispatch, payroll, invoicing and the client portal in one platform

Strengths
  • Runs the business, not just the patrol: dispatcher, time clock for payroll, invoice and estimate generation
  • A client web portal, so the people paying you can see the work without you exporting anything
  • Live tracking with tracking history, geofencing with violation alerts, and real-time notifications
  • Vehicle patrol management alongside foot patrol
  • Post orders, Daily Activity Reports, passdown logs and task assignment — the paperwork a contract operation actually runs on
  • Watch-mode for video feeds, secure messenger, 2-step authentication
  • A 30-day free trial you can start from the site without talking to anyone
Caveats
  • No pricing published on the site, and the billing model is not stated — so cost cannot be compared until you ask
  • The free offer is a 30-day trial, not a tier that keeps working; a single-site operator ends up paying or leaving
  • Offline operation is not mentioned anywhere on the site — worth asking directly if your sites lose signal
  • The breadth is the point, and also the cost: far more to configure than a small operation needs

Which one, by situation

You run a contract security company and want one tool for dispatch, payroll and invoicing

GuardsPro

That is the product, generally available. Patrol Tech has dispatch and payroll prep in beta on the Business plan only, and no invoicing.

Your clients want a portal to see the work themselves

Either

Both include a client portal. Patrol Tech's is on a published price list; GuardsPro's pricing needs a request.

Vehicle patrol alongside foot patrol

GuardsPro

Vehicle patrol management is a named module. Patrol Tech treats every checkpoint the same regardless of how you reached it.

You want to evaluate without a sales call

Either

GuardsPro offers a 30-day trial you can start yourself; Patrol Tech is self-serve with no time limit. Both work — the difference shows up on day 31.

You want to know the price before committing

Patrol Tech

Every figure is on the pricing page. GuardsPro publishes none, so budgeting means asking first.

One small site, and you want it free permanently

Patrol Tech

The free tier keeps working: 5 checkpoints, unlimited officers, no card. A 30-day trial does not solve this case.

Basements, plant rooms, remote perimeters — sites that lose signal

Patrol Tech

Offline is shipped and documented. GuardsPro does not mention offline; ask them before assuming either way.

High officer turnover, or many officers across few checkpoints

Patrol Tech

Officers are unlimited and billing is per checkpoint. GuardsPro does not state its billing model publicly, so the effect of turnover on your bill is unknown until you ask.

Supervisors run the operation from WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack or Teams rather than a dashboard

Patrol Tech

Its AI agent answers and takes actions from those chat tools — missed rounds, checkpoints, officers, routes — with no new panel to learn, on every plan including the free one. GuardsPro does not describe an AI assistant in chat tools on the pages reviewed.