Raptor vs QuickSecure
Raptor and QuickSecure both help K-12 staff get help fast, but they are different kinds of product. Raptor is a visitor-management and emergency-management company: best known for screening visitors at the front door, it also sells an emergency app, an optional wearable badge on a network Raptor installs, and separate products for drills and anonymous reporting. QuickSecure is one school safety system: it tells staff what to do next in an emergency, shows administrators every room as it happens, and runs the safety work in between, from drills to repair tickets, on the same map.
By QuickSecure · Last verified October 27, 2026
What is Raptor?
Raptor is a visitor-management and emergency-management company. Its VisitorSafe product checks each visitor against sex offender registries and the school's own lists. For emergencies, staff start a response from the Raptor Alert app on a phone or computer, and account for students against rosters synced from your student information system. Alerts can reach 911 through RapidSOS, and responders see the floor where an alert started.
Schools can add Badge Alert, a wearable panic button pressed three or seven times for a silent alert. It runs on Raptor's own long-range network of badges, location beacons and gateways, which Raptor installs, owns and monitors, so it works without Wi-Fi or cell service. Strobes and classroom-screen alerts are further add-ons. Raptor groups its products into four suites, sold in bundles, and serves schools, childcare and youth programs.
What is QuickSecure?
QuickSecure is one school safety platform, built entirely for pre-K through 12, and it is made of modules. Each module does its job on its own, and each one you add connects to the others, so the whole system knows more. Together they link the emergency response to the work of every other day (drills, procedures, tips, repair tickets, connected devices, cameras and safety equipment) through the same campus, staff and schedules. That is what lets QuickSecure tell staff what to do next and show administrators what is happening, live.
Raptor sells its strengths as separate suites, from visitor screening to drills to anonymous reporting. QuickSecure is one platform where every piece shares the same campus, staff and schedules. During an Alert, that shared map is what lets each teacher get the steps for the room they're in, and lets administrators follow the building room by room as teachers check in.
The same system covers what Raptor's public pages leave out: procedures on every phone with read acknowledgments and review reminders, repair tickets routed to IT and facilities, monitoring of every camera, door controller and panic button with a ticket when one goes offline, and inspection dates for AEDs and extinguishers. Dispatch reaches 911 through RapidSOS, and you buy one module at a time instead of a bundle.
How do Raptor and QuickSecure compare?
| Raptor | QuickSecure | |
|---|---|---|
| Raising an alert | ||
| How staff raise one | Start an emergency or a Team Assist call from the Raptor Alert app on any phone or computer, or press the optional Badge Alert three or seven times. In Raptor's own example, three presses call Team Assist and seven send an alert to 911; schools can change the setup | Tap any of your school's Alert types in Panic, preset or custom, each with its own workflow, or press a physical panic button. Every Alert asks for a confirmation, the buttons you choose need a press-and-hold, and an Alert raised far from campus is refused |
| What staff carry | The Raptor Alert app on their phone or computer. A wearable badge is an optional add-on, with an extended battery life | The phone they already carry (iPhone or Android). No wearable |
| What gets installed | Nothing for the app on its own. With Badge Alert: badges, location beacons and gateways on Raptor's own long-range (LoRa) network, installed, owned and monitored by Raptor. Strobes and classroom-display alerts can be added | No wall hardware. A small on-site bridge connects the cameras and door controllers you already own; physical panic buttons are optional |
| Silent or announced | Badge presses send a silent alert, confirmed by light or vibration. Alerts can also set off strobes, screen takeovers, intercoms and PA through Raptor Connect | Your school chooses whether an Alert goes out silently or announced |
| During the emergency | ||
| What each staff member does | The app walks staff through the school's protocol, with the "I Love U Guys" Foundation's Standard Response Protocol built in. Any staff member can mark any student accounted for, missing or injured | Gets the steps on their phone. Lockdown: a checklist, then "I'm secured." Fire: their assembly zone on a map, worked out from their schedule, then a roster check that flags any missing student |
| What administrators see | The floor where an alert started, live student statuses, and partner maps on the dashboard where a district has them | Every room on the floor plan turns locked, unlocked or empty as teachers check in. Who has secured, who hasn't, and a one-tap re-send to anyone who hasn't answered |
| Updates and responders | Real-time group messaging in the Raptor Alert app keeps teams in touch through an incident | One thread per Alert that police, fire and EMS can join, plus a running summary for anyone joining late |
| Reaching 911 | Staff can call or text 911 from the app where supported. Alerts can go to 911 silently through RapidSOS with the school's address and the staff member's name; active-assailant alerts get a priority line, and several 911 centers can be notified at once | Dispatch sends Fire, Medical and Lockdown Alerts to 911 through RapidSOS. Switched on for each school with two people signing off |
| Drills | ||
| Planning the year | Drill Manager is set up to your district's protocols and reminds each school of upcoming drills | An annual planner built from your state's drill requirements, with prep briefs and NIMS-aligned roles for each drill |
| Running a drill | From any phone or computer, in the same interface as a real emergency, with live dashboards of who was accounted for and when | On the same phone flow as a real Alert, marked as a drill: fire, lockdown, weather, earthquake and AED drills, announced or unannounced |
| Proof for compliance | School and district reports show compliance with state and district requirements | Compliance reports show which required drills are done and which are still due |
| Every other day | ||
| Procedures (SOPs) | Not on Raptor's public pages* | On every staff phone, with read acknowledgments, version history and review reminders |
| Anonymous tip line | Stay Safe. Speak Up!: reports by website, iOS or Android app, phone tipline or transcribed voice message, reviewed 24/7 by a trained team | A web page in the reporter's own language. Each tip is scored 0–100 for urgency; the most urgent go to staff phones as a critical alert |
| Messages | Alerts reach staff by push and text, Raptor Connect links your mass notification system, and the Raptor Safe App handles parent pick-ups, dismissals and events | You choose who gets it (everyone, a campus, a group or one person), what kind of message it is, and how it's delivered, from a routine notice to a critical alert |
| Repair requests | Team Assist sends medical, behavioral and facilities calls to the right team. Tracking repairs: not on Raptor's public pages* | Ticketing: IT, facilities, nurse-supply and safety requests from the Panic app or Nexus, routed to the right team |
| Device monitoring | Raptor monitors its own badges, beacons and gateways around the clock. Monitoring your other devices: not on Raptor's public pages* | System health: a camera offline for five minutes opens a ticket, which closes itself when the camera comes back |
| Cameras | Raptor Connect links camera analytics partners, such as ZeroEyes | Up to four live cameras at once, picked from the floor plan. Threat detection (Beta) runs on the same cameras |
| Safety equipment | SmartAudit documents door checks. Other equipment: not on Raptor's public pages* | AEDs, extinguishers, alarms and exits as points on the floor plan, with inspection schedules emailed to the person who does them |
| Visitors | VisitorSafe: ID verification and screening against sex offender registries and the school's own lists, with tablet check-in, pre-registration and QR codes | Visitor management: kiosk sign-in |
| Setup and buying | ||
| Built for | Public, private and charter schools, childcare and youth programs; 60,000+ schools in 55 countries | Pre-K through 12 schools only |
| Floor plans | Maps from a Raptor mapping partner can show on the Raptor dashboard. For Badge Alert, the school provides its floor plans | QuickSecure draws them from your architectural drawings and updates them whenever you ask |
| Connects to | Student information systems through Clever or ClassLink, single sign-on with your identity provider, and Raptor Ready partners for cameras, access control, radios, PA, mass notification and displays | Your student information system, single sign-on, Axis, Avigilon, UniFi and RTSP cameras, Ubiquiti and Axis door control |
| How it's sold | Four suites (Emergency Management, Campus Movement, Student Wellbeing, Safety Training and Compliance) in tiered bundles. Badge Alert is a subscription that includes badges, equipment and installation | One module at a time, so you start with what you need and add the rest later |
* Checked against Raptor's public website on October 27, 2026. Raptor may offer it without describing it there; ask them, and tell us if we've missed something.
Where Raptor is the stronger fit
Your state law or district policy calls for a wearable
Badge Alert is a wearable panic button; a phone app is not a wearable device. Check your state's wording.
You want badge alerts that never touch your Wi-Fi
Badge Alert runs on Raptor's own long-range network, which Raptor installs, owns and monitors around the clock.
Visitor screening is your first priority
VisitorSafe checks every visitor against sex offender registries and any lists your school creates.
You want tips read by people around the clock
Stay Safe. Speak Up! reports are reviewed 24/7 by a trained team, and can come in by phone or voice message as well as online.
Where QuickSecure is the stronger fit
You want to see every room, not just the floor
Administrators see each room turn locked, unlocked or empty as teachers check in, not just the floor an alert came from.
You want your procedures where staff will read them
Procedures live on every staff phone, with read acknowledgments, version history and review reminders.
You want every connected device watched
Cameras, door controllers and panic buttons are all checked, and a repair ticket opens for the right team when one goes offline.
You'd rather buy one piece at a time
Each module is sold on its own and shares the same map, so you start with what you need and add the rest later.
Questions to ask any vendor
- After a teacher presses the button, what does the system tell them to do?
- Can administrators see which rooms are locked right now?
- During a fire evacuation, how do teachers account for every student?
- What stops a drill from ever reaching 911?
- Who builds our floor plans, and who updates them when a room changes?
- What happens when Wi-Fi, cellular or building power goes down?
- What hardware gets installed, and who maintains it?
See QuickSecure with your own campus
We set up your floor plans and maps, and walk your team through an Alert and a Drill.