Smart locks

About Smart locks

Bikes, boxes, lockers and cabins usually sit behind a lock, and someone has to hand over the key and take it back. For a store that wants to rent around the clock without staff, that someone is the owner, on a Sunday evening, on the phone.

GROU.Studio connects the lock to the booking instead. Mark which items have a lock, and every paid booking generates a code valid for exactly that booking, rounded to full hours. The code is saved on the order and sent to the customer in a native TWICE email template — your wording, your branding, no extra app for them to install. Move the booking and a new code goes out. Orders placed in the admin, over the API or at check-in get their code immediately; web orders get theirs on payment. Anything missed is checked again automatically.

The demo runs on igloohome, and other smart locks with an API connect the same way. One limitation is worth knowing up front: offline locks cannot revoke a code remotely, so a shortened or cancelled booking leaves the old code working until its original end time unless it is cleared over Bluetooth or a bridge. GROU.Studio agrees a manual fallback with you before going live.