Every hostel, hall and gate, on one campus platform.
Hostel access for thousands of students, visitor passes with hostel visiting hours enforced at the gate, matric-number ID checks and a real Google Map of your campus — so every visitor finds the right hall.
What goes wrong without it.
Anyone can walk into a hostel
Porters rely on a signature in a book, with no way to confirm a visitor was invited by a student in that hall.
Visiting hours ignored
Late-night visitors argue their way in, and there is no record of who allowed it or why.
Is this really a student?
Gates can’t quickly check a matric number, so ID cards are borrowed, faked or simply waved through.
Visitors lost on a huge campus
Parents and guests wander between faculties and halls asking for directions, often after dark.
Built for campus life, from the gate to the hostel.
Hostel & hall access
Every student linked to their hall and room. Onboard thousands at once by CSV, hall by hall.
Hostel visiting hours
Students create visitor passes; the gate is warned outside hostel visiting hours and any override is logged with a reason.
Matric-number ID check
Guards and porters search a matric or staff number and see the student’s name, photo, department, level and hall.
Google Maps campus map
Halls, faculties, gates, the clinic and library on a real Google Map. Visitor passes include directions to the right hall.
Deliveries & vehicle log
Plate, driver, company, goods and time in and out for every delivery and vehicle on campus.
Marketplace, lounge & events
Students buy and sell safely, join the campus lounge and RSVP to events — all inside the app.
Hostel fees collection
Hostel and other fees paid by card or transfer through Paystack, with an invoice and receipt for every payment.
Campus-wide SOS
One tap raises an emergency alert that sounds on every guard’s and porter’s phone across campus.
Contractors & staff shifts
Contractor passes with a safety induction at the gate, and shift checks for security, porters and staff.
How the three apps work for universities.
The apps speak your language — students & staff and hostel rooms, not residents and units.
AreaConnector Admin
Halls and hostel rooms, students and staff, visiting hours, the campus map, fees and every gate log in one dashboard.
- Halls, rooms & students
- Campus map & places
- Hostel visiting hours
- Hostel fees & receipts
AreaMates
Students invite visitors with directions to their hall, pay hostel fees, use the marketplace and raise an SOS.
- Visitor passes with directions
- Pay hostel fees
- Marketplace, lounge & events
- Campus SOS button
AreaConnector Guard
Verify visitor passes, enforce visiting hours, check matric numbers and log every delivery.
- Matric-number ID check
- Visiting-hours warning
- Directions to the right hall
- Deliveries & vehicle log
Live in four steps.
Set up your campus
Sign up, choose University and add your halls and hostel rooms.
Map your campus
Pin halls, faculties, gates, the clinic and library on Google Maps.
Import students
Upload students by CSV with matric numbers, halls and rooms.
Go live
Students invite visitors; gates and porters verify every entry.
Yes. Import students in bulk by CSV with their matric number, department, level, hall and room. Every student gets their own login, and you can onboard hall by hall at the start of each session.
Yes. Each campus is set up as its own site with its own gates, halls and guards, and administrators can manage every campus from one login on Enterprise.
Porters use the Guard app at the hall entrance, just like the main gates. They verify visitor codes, see whether the visitor is inside hostel visiting hours, and check a student’s matric number before letting them in.
You pin your halls, faculties, gates, clinic, library and other buildings on a real Google Map. Each student is linked to their hall, so the visitor pass they send includes Google Maps directions straight to the right building.
Yes. Polytechnics, colleges of education and private universities use the same setup — halls, hostel visiting hours, ID checks, the campus map and fees.
The same plans as every AreaConnector site — from ₦20,000/month, with limits counted in students & staff and hostel rooms. Large campuses usually go on Enterprise. Every new campus starts with a 14-day free trial.
Bring your campus onto AreaConnector.
Start a 14-day free trial — student affairs, students, porters and gate security on one platform.