Visitor Badge Types and Styles

Compare visitor badge options, styles and designs for your business use

By Jennifer Ehlenfeldt, Freelance Writer

Visitor badge types and styles include everything from a peel-and-wear one-use sticker badge to a reusable and durable plastic imprinted security badge. Manufacturers produce visitor badges specifically for certain industries like the construction business while others manufacturer a general-use visitor badge that can be used in many situations.

When comparing visitor badge options, break your choices down into reusable or non-reusable. Within these categories there are many other options pertaining to security measures and wearing options. Badges come in magnetic, clip-on, sticker, pin-on or even necklace form. Start your comparison by:

1. Considering the stick-on visitor badge for a one-time use situation.

2. Reviewing reusable badge options.

3. Looking at a custom printed visitor badge.

4. Finding software to create your own one-of-a-kind badges.

Find a stick on visitor badge for one time use

The stick on badge is the most basic solution to identifying visitors to your work site or business. While the simplicity of writing a name and sticking a sticker on a shirt makes implementation easy, the security drawbacks are evident. There are stick-on badges that incorporate additional security measures like the one-day use badge that expires after the first day.
Try: Review the color changing one-day issue sticker visitor pass at Visitor Pass 2. The badge lets you issue for a one-day period, and then it changes colors after a day signaling it is not good. For examples of a basic sticker write-on badge with no additional security integration, see Bright Shine.

Choose a reusable visitor badge for permanent security

Reusable badges come in many styles and are made of many materials. They can be hard plastic, metal, plastic with paper inserts and more. Some hang around the visitor's neck, while others clip to their uniform, shirt or hat. Choosing a reusable badge allows you to identify different visitors on different days without having to make each a new badge.
Try: Review a hanging visitor badge option that you can refill with different information for each visitor at C-Line Products. Name Tag, Inc. offers a magnetic badge that you can reuse, and Ideal Identification produces a reusable visitor badge that clips on.

Order a custom printed visitor badge for daily visitors

Custom printed badges make it easier to identify visitors and the construction site or business. Order badges printed with logos, identification numbers or even badges with bar codes that you can computerize to keep track of the visitors on a site.
Try: Review custom printed visitor badge options at Hartford Badges, or look at the hanging options at Imprint Plus. Compare these custom options to the magnetic option available at Name Badge Productions.

Consider using software to create a custom visitor badge system

When you don't want to rely on others to make sure the security of your site or office is what it should be, find a software system you can use to create visitor badges and a system to control those visiting. Design your own badge with your logo and any specific security information you want included.
Try: Read the visitor badge information at Security Magazine to find out the different reasons visitor badges are important including security, population control and safety concerns. Easy Lobby offers a fully integrated badge system that allows you to keep track of everyone on site at all times. All Id Systems is another visitor badge computer system you can customize and use.