Commercial security for people who have payroll to make
A break-in at a house is a violation. A break-in at a business is a violation plus a deductible plus a day of lost revenue plus an insurance carrier asking pointed questions about your last inspection.
Fixed written quote after a free survey — we beat any written competitor quote
Openings, closings, and the things you cannot see
The most valuable report a commercial system produces has nothing to do with burglary. It is the open/close log. Who disarmed the building, at what time, on which code. Whether the store opened at 6:52 like it is supposed to or at 7:31 for the fourth time this month. Whether someone came back in at 11:40 on a Sunday night.
That report has settled more disputes, prevented more shrink and answered more insurance questions than every siren we have ever installed. It costs nothing extra. Most business owners do not know they can have it, because the salesman who sold them the system was compensated on hardware.
Built for the way a business actually operates
Commercial systems need partitioning — the warehouse armed while the front office is occupied, the after-hours entry that lets a manager in without waking the whole building. They need duress codes, so an employee forced to disarm at the door can do it in a way that looks completely normal and silently brings police. They need schedules, so the system arms itself at 10 p.m. whether or not the last person out remembered.
They also need monitored fire where code requires it, and in Texas that means understanding the difference between what the fire marshal will accept and what a residential installer thinks is close enough. We pull permits. We meet inspectors. We do the paperwork that makes a certificate of occupancy happen instead of stall.
One vendor, four metros
If you run locations in San Antonio, Austin, Houston and Dallas, you have probably lived through the alternative: four vendors, four invoices, four different apps, and four separate arguments about whose sensor failed. We monitor and service all four metros under one account, one bill and one phone number that reaches somebody in San Antonio who can name your sites.
For franchise and multi-unit operators we set up centralized user management, so terminating an employee removes their code from every location at once. That sounds like a small thing until the week you need it.
What is included
- Open/close reportingTime-stamped log of every arm and disarm, by user, emailed on your schedule.
- Partitioned areasArm the warehouse while the office is staffed, on independent schedules.
- Silent duress codesA code that disarms normally and dispatches police without a visible cue.
- Monitored commercial firePermitted, inspected and code-compliant, with the paperwork handled.
- Multi-site managementOne account across all four Texas metros, one invoice, centralized user control.
- Certificate of insuranceLicensed and insured, with COI issued to your landlord or carrier on request.
Questions people actually ask
- Can you take over the system the previous tenant left behind? +
- Frequently, yes. Commercial panels outlive tenants. We assess what is there, replace what is failed, reprogram the rest and get you monitored — usually for a fraction of a full replacement.
- Do you handle fire alarm permits and inspections? +
- Yes. We pull the permits, coordinate with the AHJ, and schedule annual inspections. You get the documentation your insurer and your fire marshal both want.
- What does commercial monitoring cost? +
- Every commercial site is quoted in writing after a walkthrough — a single-partition retail space and a multi-tenant warehouse with fire monitoring are different jobs, and pretending otherwise is how the national brands end up surprising you in month three. The walkthrough is free, and we beat any written competitor quote on comparable scope.
Business Security Systems across Texas
We install and service this in all four metros, and in every community within fifty miles of downtown San Antonio. Service calls carry no trip charge regardless of how far out the address is.
Free survey · No obligation
Bring us a written quote. We will beat it.
Any competitor, comparable scope, in writing. A licensed technician walks your property, maps the real entry points and gives you a fixed number — whether or not you hire us.
TX DPS PSB Lic. #B16898 · Serving San Antonio, Austin, Houston & Dallas since 2010