The short answer
OfficerReports and Calvis get compared to each other constantly, and almost nobody who runs that comparison needs both. They are not competing products. They sit on opposite sides of the same transaction.
OfficerReports is guard management software. A security agency buys it to run its own operation: tracking officers on patrol, collecting incident reports, building schedules, verifying clock-ins against GPS, and feeding hours into payroll. The agency is the customer. The agency's clients never log in.
Calvis is a marketplace. A business that needs officers on site uses it to compare independently licensed local agencies, see hourly rates before booking, and get coverage scheduled without a long sales cycle. Calvis is not a security agency and does not employ guards. The agencies on the marketplace hold their own state licenses and employ their own officers.
So the filter is short: are you staffing posts, or filling them? If you run the agency, OfficerReports is in your category. If you need guards at your building, event, or site, it is not sold to you at all.
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What OfficerReports actually does
It is worth being specific, because "guard management software" is a vague phrase covering a dozen different products.
Patrol tracking and tours
OfficerReports built its reputation on tour verification. Officers scan QR codes at checkpoints, and the system logs GPS position alongside each scan. Its ASOT feature (Active Security Officer Tracking) pings officer location roughly every two minutes and surfaces it on a live feed, so a supervisor can see movement in real time rather than reconstructing it after a shift. For an agency that has been burned by an officer who claimed to walk a property and did not, that is the core product.
Electronic incident reporting
Officers file reports from the field with photos, video, and location attached. The detail agency owners tend to care about most is that supervisors can review and edit reports before the client sees them, which matters when a rough field write-up would otherwise land in a property manager's inbox with typos and speculation in it.
Scheduling and time and attendance
Drag-and-drop shift building, templates for recurring posts, conflict checks, and geofenced clock-in that confirms an officer is physically on site before the clock starts. Verified hours then flow into payroll reporting, which is the piece that turns a tracking tool into an operations tool.
Pricing model
OfficerReports prices per site rather than per guard or per device, published openly on its site: $70 per site per month for 2 to 15 sites (two-site minimum), $65 per site for 16 to 50, and $60 per site for 51 to 100, with 100+ deployments quoted directly. Mobile patrol subscriptions are priced separately at $40 per site per month with a five-site minimum, or $600 per month for unlimited sites. Billing is monthly with no long-term contract, and there is a 14-day free trial that does not require a card. Confirm current figures on their pricing page before budgeting, since software pricing moves.
That model is a genuine differentiator worth naming plainly. A lot of guard software charges per officer or per handheld device, which punishes agencies with high turnover or shared phones. Per-site pricing is predictable, and an agency can add officers to a post without the bill moving. Reviews from agency owners are generally positive on the scheduling, geofenced time card, and payroll export, with the most common complaint being response time on custom requests.
None of this is a knock. OfficerReports does a real job that Calvis does not do and is not trying to do. If you own a guard company, this is a reasonable product to have on your shortlist alongside the other tools in our guard tour and patrol app roundup.
What Calvis actually does
Calvis solves the problem one layer up: not "how does an agency run its officers," but "how does a business find and book a good agency in the first place."
The traditional version of that process is a series of phone calls. You search for local security companies, leave voicemails, wait on quotes that arrive in inconsistent formats over several days, have no way to tell which agency's license is actually current, and end up choosing on gut feel or whoever called back first. Pricing is quoted, never published, so you have no reference point for whether the number is reasonable.
On Calvis, you describe the coverage you need, and the marketplace matches you with vetted local agencies that can staff it. You see flat hourly rates up front, review each agency's credentials, and book the shifts you actually need rather than signing a year to cover a three-month project. Agency licenses and individual guard registrations are verified against state databases as a condition of being on the marketplace, and once a shift starts, GPS check-in, patrol activity, and incident reports appear in your dashboard.
The important distinction from OfficerReports: that reporting reaches you directly as the buyer. With agency software, the agency owns the account and decides what to share and when. That is not a criticism of the software, it is just what a back-office tool is. The reports exist for the agency's benefit first.
Why the comparison comes up at all
Two different searchers land on this page.
The agency owner is doing real product research. They have officers in the field, paper reports or a spreadsheet, and clients asking for proof of patrol. They typed "OfficerReports alternative" and are collecting names. For them, the honest answer is that Calvis does not belong on that list, and we would rather say so than waste their evaluation cycle.
The buyer searched something like "security officer reports" or "guard tracking software" while trying to solve a completely different problem: their overnight guard is unreliable, or a property manager asked for patrol documentation, or they need coverage next Tuesday. They ended up in the software aisle because the industry's vocabulary is confusing. What they actually want is better coverage and visibility, not a subscription to an operations tool they would have no officers to load into.
That second reader is the more common one, and the correction is simple. Software does not put a guard on your loading dock. An agency does. What you need is a faster way to find a good one. How to hire a security guard walks through that process end to end.
Head-to-head: which side of the table are you on?
| Factor | OfficerReports | Calvis marketplace |
|---|---|---|
| Who buys it | Security agency owners and ops managers | Businesses, property managers, event organizers |
| What it delivers | Software to run guards you already employ | Access to vetted agencies that supply guards |
| Provides officers | No | No, Calvis is a marketplace; licensed agencies supply the officers |
| Pricing | Subscription, per site per month, published | No fee to compare and book; you pay the hourly guard rate |
| Contract | Monthly or annual subscription | No long-term contract required to start |
| Reporting visible to the end client | Through the agency, at the agency's discretion | Directly in the buyer's dashboard |
| Best fit | You employ officers and need to track them | You need officers and need to find them |
| Wrong fit | You have no guards to manage | You are an agency looking for back-office software |
Read the table by the first row. Everything else follows from it. If "who buys it" does not describe you, the rest of that column is not your decision to make.
What each reader should do next
If you own or operate a security agency
Evaluate OfficerReports against the other tools built for you, and weigh the per-site pricing model carefully. If you run many posts with few officers each, per-site billing is efficient. If you run a handful of large sites with dozens of officers rotating through, per-site pricing is very efficient. Compare it against per-officer competitors using your actual site count and headcount, not a list price. Our comparison of security guard scheduling software covers the adjacent options.
Separately: software fills shifts you have already sold. It does not sell them. If your constraint is demand rather than dispatch, agencies can join the Calvis network to receive booking requests from buyers in their coverage area. That is a supply-side channel, not a competing product, and it works alongside whatever operations software you already run.
If you need guards at a site
Skip the software aisle entirely. Compare agencies on rate, licensing, and availability, then book the coverage window you actually need. Start with published guard pricing so you have a reference number before anyone quotes you, then look at the service types to identify whether you need unarmed standing coverage, armed, mobile patrol, or something specialized. If you already have an agency and the problem is accountability rather than sourcing, ask them directly what patrol verification system they use and whether they can share tour logs with you. Many can. If they cannot produce any, that answer tells you what you need to know.
If you are not sure your current agency is legitimate
That is a licensing question, not a software question, and it is worth resolving before anything else. Every state licenses security agencies and individual officers through a regulator, and that regulator is the authoritative source. Our guide on how to vet a security guard company covers exactly which checks matter and which paperwork proves nothing.
The overlap that confuses people
There is one genuine area where the two products touch: patrol verification and incident documentation.
OfficerReports produces that data for the agency, which may then forward it to clients. Calvis surfaces the equivalent data to the buyer directly in their dashboard, because the buyer is the customer. Same category of information, different owner, different default visibility.
If your only complaint about your current security is "I have no idea whether they actually walk the property," you have two paths. Ask your existing agency whether they run tour verification and can share the logs, which is the lower-effort fix if the relationship is otherwise fine. Or move the coverage to a marketplace where that visibility is built into the buyer's side by default and you can compare agencies while you are at it. For a wider view of how these product categories divide up, see our security guard platform landscape guide.