Badge Printing Block for Visitor Sign-in Kiosk

Badge Printing Kiosk
Badge Printing
Printed Badges
Sign-in Kiosk Splash Page
Visitor Sign-in Form
Process

Inspiration

Inspired by professional badge printing systems from Teem & Envoy, we created a Badge printing block for the Visitor Management template included with AirTable. It uses the information from the visitor sign-in to generate a PDF badge, which can be printed out for each visitor, without leaving AirTable!

Features

Stylish Splash Screen
Visitor Sign-in Form
Badge Printing
Visitor Notifications
NDA / Document Signature
Setup Guide

What it does

The block pulls information from the visitor sign-in form, and uses it to generate a 2.25" x 4" PDF, formatted and optimized for thermal badge label printers, such as the Brother QL series, or Dymo printers.

How we built it

Our frontend is built as an AirTable Block in React, and our backend generates the PDFs using Node.js, Phantomjs, and the html-pdf module on NPM.

Here's a time lapse of us building the kiosk:

Source Code

The AirTable block can be found here:

https://github.com/Meeting-Room-365/AirTable-badge-printing-block

The badge printing backend is located in a separate repository, here:

https://github.com/Meeting-Room-365/badge-printing-backend

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We created a guide for the entire no-code kiosk setup, including integration with other tools like SignRequest and Zapier, to add document signature to the workflow.