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Frontelio is the operating system for multi-outlet cafés, restaurants, and shops in the GCC. These docs explain how to onboard your team, deploy phone-as-credential access control, and call the platform from your own systems.
If you've landed here from a demo or a sales conversation, start with the 5-minute Getting Startedwalkthrough — it takes you from a cold signup to a working tenant with demo data, invited teammates, and the onboarding wizard finished. If you're evaluating Frontelio Access as a Kisi / Brivo replacement, jump straight to the Frontelio Access overview. If you want to call the platform from your own software, the API Reference is the single source of truth.
Everything in this documentation is verified against the live platform on the same day it ships. Endpoints, payloads, and UI flows reflect what runs on production today — not a roadmap. We version every release, and the "What's new" column on the right lists the last few shipped milestones so you can confirm you're looking at current behaviour.
Sign up, log in with the seeded demo workers, invite your team via QR codes, and run the 7-step onboarding wizard.
Turn every staff phone into a credential — for doors, rooms, lifts, lockers. Deploy a reader bridge or integrate with Kisi / Salto / Brivo / HID.
Full reference for /auth, /access, plus rate limits, error shape, and authentication patterns. Bearer JWT + per-tenant API keys.
What's new
Recent releases, newest first. Every version is in production on the day it lands here.
The page you're reading. Self-serve docs for the Get Started flow, Frontelio Access (concepts + bridge + integrations), and the REST API.
Open-source reader-bridge daemon for cafés deploying phone-as-credential access for the first time. Pi 4 + PN532 from $75; ESP32 variant from $25.
In addition to the GA Kisi adapter, three more provider integrations land in beta. Map external doors to Frontelio Zones in /admin/access → Integrations.
Time-limited contractor / inspector / driver passes with magic-link redeem flow. Closes the Kisi/Brivo 'visitor pass' competitive gap.
Generic AccessIntegration model — webhook receiver, door sync, zone mapping. Kisi adapter GA; webhook events flow into the same audit log as native taps.
Zones, grants, mobile My Access screen, /admin/access console, Android HCE service, /access/verify hot path. Included free on GROWTH and above.
Conventions used in these docs
We try to keep the structure obvious. A few things to know up front so you can read these pages quickly:
code is a file path, an HTTP path, or an env-var name.https://api.frontelio.com/api/v1. Replace with your self-hosted base if you're running on-prem.