Retail Storefronts
Plan a visible, welcoming entrance around changing customer traffic, storefront glazing, deliveries, carts, and the side space available for door-leaf travel.
- Storefront visibility
- Customer flow
- Side space
Commercial Entrance Planning
Automatic Entrance Solutions for Commercial Buildings
The right automatic entrance depends on the building use, available space, required clear opening, pedestrian flow, access control, safety coverage, and architectural design. Explore six commercial entrance scenarios and identify the information needed for project review.
Solutions by Building Type
Choose a Commercial Entrance Scenario
Start with the way the entrance is used. Each scenario has different priorities for traffic, clear opening, access, appearance, environmental separation, and system coordination.
Hotel Entrances
Coordinate guest and luggage flow, lobby footprint, architectural appearance, outdoor exposure, and the operating needs of reception and service teams.
- Luggage flow
- Lobby planning
- Appearance
Office Buildings
Review employee and visitor flow together with reception, credentials, access logic, peak periods, façade integration, and system responsibilities.
- Access control
- Peak traffic
- Professional finish
Shopping Malls
Plan wide, readable routes for frequent two-way pedestrian movement, families, wheelchairs, strollers, carts, peak periods, and multiple entrances.
- Frequent traffic
- Clear passage
- Multiple entrances
Hospitals
Support public lobbies and suitable non-airtight corridors used by patients, visitors, staff, wheelchairs, trolleys, and transport equipment.
- Mobility access
- Presence safety
- Non-airtight areas
Public Entrances
Coordinate mixed visitor flow, luggage, queues, accessibility, security, emergency interfaces, façade design, and maintainable entrance operation.
- Mixed traffic
- Accessibility
- Security interfaces
Project Selection Factors
What Should Be Reviewed Before Choosing an Automatic Entrance?
The visible door type is only one part of the decision. Record the entrance geometry, user movement, controls, interfaces, appearance, environment, and service access before requesting a final configuration.
Explore Automatic Door Systems- Building Use
- Define whether the entrance serves retail, hospitality, office, healthcare, a shopping mall, transport, or another public-building operation.
- Available Side Space
- Record the wall or frame area available for sliding-panel travel and any fixed glazing, structure, or obstruction beside the opening.
- Required Clear Opening
- Confirm the usable passage needed for pedestrians, luggage, carts, equipment, accessibility routes, and grouped movement.
- Pedestrian Flow
- Describe daily use, peak periods, approach directions, continuous circulation, slower users, and movement after crossing the threshold.
- Access Control
- Identify credentials, reception release, security logic, locking, cabling, controller interfaces, and responsibility for integration.
- Safety Coverage
- Review activation, presence detection, approach zones, passage monitoring, anti-pinch planning, and the intended entrance behavior.
- Appearance and Façade
- Coordinate glass, frames, finishes, transparency, fixed panels, architectural lines, and the surrounding façade construction.
- Environment and Maintenance Access
- Consider exposure, air exchange, pressure conditions, cleaning, service clearance, installation access, and the agreed maintenance route.
Retail Storefronts
Automatic Entrance Solutions for Retail Storefronts
Retail entrances need to support everyday customer movement without losing the openness of the storefront. The opening must also work for bags, small carts, deliveries, security routines, fixed glazing, and the space available beside the passage. Selection therefore starts with the actual storefront geometry and operating pattern, not with a product name alone.
Project Priorities
- Visible and welcoming storefront access
- Smooth movement during changing customer traffic
- Suitable clear opening for shoppers, carts, and deliveries
- Coordination with glass framing and security requirements
Recommended Direction
Automatic Sliding Glass Door
A direct, transparent entrance direction for frequent customer access when the opening provides suitable sliding-panel travel.
Explore Automatic Sliding Door Products
Evaluate the independent Telescopic Automatic Sliding Door product when limited side space must be balanced with a larger clear opening.
Confirm Before Selection
- Storefront opening width and height
- Available side travel and fixed-glass arrangement
- Expected customer, cart, and delivery movement
- Complete-door or operator-system supply boundary
Hotel Entrances
Automatic Entrance Solutions for Hotel Entrances
A hotel entrance shapes the arrival experience while serving guests with luggage, visitors, service staff, and busy check-in periods. The suitable direction depends on the lobby footprint, approach route, façade, outdoor exposure, required passage, and whether the entrance should provide a direct opening or a continuous circulation path.
Project Priorities
- Guest, luggage, and service traffic
- Comfortable entry and reception-area movement
- Architectural appearance and finish coordination
- Lobby layout and outdoor building-interface conditions
Recommended Direction
Automatic Sliding Glass Door
A practical direct-passage direction for hotel entrances that need transparent access for guests and luggage.
Automatic Revolving Door
Evaluate a revolving entrance for a suitable main lobby with adequate footprint, continuous circulation needs, and a stronger architectural entrance identity.
Confirm Before Selection
- Peak guest, luggage, and service movement
- Lobby footprint and approach route
- Façade, glass, frame, and finish requirements
- External exposure and building-interface conditions
Office Buildings
Automatic Entrance Solutions for Office Buildings
Office entrances often combine concentrated arrival periods with visitor reception, staff credentials, security control, deliveries, and a professional façade. Door selection must therefore coordinate the physical entrance with activation, presence safety, locking, reception release, and the responsibilities of the door and access-control teams.
Project Priorities
- Employee, visitor, and delivery access
- Reception and access-control coordination
- Peak entry and exit periods
- Professional appearance and façade integration
Recommended Direction
Automatic Sliding Glass Door
A transparent direct-passage direction that can be planned around reception and project-specific access-control interfaces.
Automatic Revolving Door
Consider a revolving entrance for a suitable office-tower lobby with continuous traffic and sufficient dedicated entrance footprint.
Confirm Before Selection
- Access method, credentials, and operating logic
- Reception and security workflow
- Entrance dimensions and door-leaf requirements
- Responsibility for the operator, door body, sensors, and interfaces
Shopping Malls
Automatic Entrance Solutions for Shopping Malls
Shopping-mall entrances serve continuous two-way movement that may include groups, families, strollers, wheelchairs, carts, and maintenance activity. A useful recommendation must consider peak patterns, the required clear passage, the number and role of entrances, sensor coverage, exposure, and how the selected direction integrates with the wider glass façade.
Project Priorities
- Frequent pedestrian flow and peak periods
- Wide and clear passage planning
- Stroller, cart, wheelchair, and group movement
- Coordination across multiple building entrances
Recommended Direction
Commercial Automatic Sliding Doors
A direct-passage direction for commercial entrances that need coordinated opening, traffic, sensor, façade, and supply-scope planning.
Automatic Revolving Door
Evaluate revolving doors at selected main entrances when the building layout provides an appropriate dedicated footprint and circulation route.
Confirm Before Selection
- Traffic volume, direction, and peak patterns
- Entrance quantity and consistency requirements
- Required clear opening and side space
- Site exposure, façade, control, and service-access needs
Hospital Public Areas
Automatic Entrance Solutions for Hospital Public Areas
Hospital public entrances and suitable corridors must accommodate people moving at different speeds, including patients, visitors, staff, wheelchairs, trolleys, and transport equipment. Review the passage, side space, activation method, presence-safety coverage, hold-open behavior, access requirements, and local project obligations before selecting a direction.
Project Priorities
- Public lobby, outpatient entrance, and suitable corridor access
- Wheelchair, trolley, visitor, and staff movement
- Clear opening and presence-safety planning
- Simple, readable, and accessible entrance behavior
Recommended Direction
Automatic Sliding Doors
Evaluate suitable sliding-door products for public entrances and other non-airtight access points after reviewing the opening and movement needs.
Explore Telescopic Sliding-Door Direction
Review the independent Telescopic Automatic Sliding Door product where limited side space and a wider required opening must be balanced.
Confirm Before Selection
- Public entrance or suitable non-airtight corridor use
- Wheelchair, trolley, and pedestrian movement
- Required clear opening and available side space
- Local safety and accessibility requirements requiring project review
Public Entrances
Automatic Entrance Solutions for Public Entrances
Public-building entrances may serve concentrated visitor groups, luggage, queues, accessibility routes, events, security procedures, and extended operating periods. Airports, exhibition venues, civic buildings, and transport facilities each require the entrance geometry, circulation, controls, exposure, maintenance access, and project responsibilities to be reviewed together.
Project Priorities
- Mixed and concentrated visitor traffic
- Accessibility and clear-route planning
- Stable entrance operation during peak use
- Façade, security, and building-management coordination
Recommended Direction
Commercial Automatic Sliding Doors
A direct-passage direction for public entrances requiring project-specific traffic, access, safety, and façade coordination.
Automatic Revolving Door
Evaluate a revolving entrance for suitable civic, exhibition, terminal, or major public buildings with adequate planning space.
Confirm Before Selection
- Visitor, event, queue, and peak traffic patterns
- Entrance width, side space, and building footprint
- Security and access-control coordination
- Equipment, luggage, emergency, and maintenance interfaces
Entrance Direction Comparison
Compare Sliding and Revolving Entrance Directions
Use this qualitative comparison to frame an initial discussion. The final direction still depends on verified project conditions.
Selection FactorAutomatic Sliding DoorsAutomatic Revolving Door
Movement
Door leaves travel horizontally to create a direct passage.
Door wings rotate around a central axis to organize circulation.
Entrance route
Users pass through a direct opening when the leaves move aside.
Users follow a continuous rotating path through separated segments.
Space
Requires suitable panel-travel space beside the opening.
Requires a dedicated circular entrance footprint and approach route.
Traffic planning
Useful for regular and frequent direct access, carts, luggage, and equipment.
Considered for continuous organized pedestrian circulation.
Access and controls
Commonly coordinated with credentials, reception, locking, and entrance logic.
Requires project-specific control, safety, circulation, and accessible-route review.
Architectural role
Transparent, versatile, and adaptable to many commercial façades.
Creates a strong entrance identity where the building plan supports it.
System Coordination
Coordinate the Door, Operator, Sensors and Access Requirements
A solution recommendation is not based only on the visible door. The operator, controls, sensing, door structure, interfaces, drawings, and supply boundary must work as one agreed entrance scope.
Explore Automatic Door Systems- 01Door operator and drive
- 02Controller and operating logic
- 03Activation and presence-safety sensors
- 04Track, hangers, door leaves, and frame
- 05Access-control and locking interfaces
- 06Complete-door or operator-system supply scope
- 07Drawings, wiring information, and project responsibilities
Project Review Process
How SEPPES Reviews a Commercial Entrance Project
Move from available project information to an agreed direction, quotation scope, and technical confirmation without assuming unverified performance or delivery commitments.
- 01
Share Project Information
Send entrance dimensions, photographs, drawings, building type, destination, quantity, usage, and the information already available.
- 02
Review Entrance Conditions
SEPPES reviews side space, clear opening, pedestrian movement, door structure, safety, access, exposure, and installation conditions.
- 03
Confirm the Recommended Direction
The discussion identifies a sliding or revolving direction, the system and supply scope, alternatives, and the inputs still requiring verification.
- 04
Prepare the Quotation and Drawings
Quotation scope and technical details are prepared after the required project information and responsibilities have been reviewed.
- 05
Confirm Before Production
Structure, finish, components, interfaces, supply scope, drawings, packing, and support responsibilities are agreed before production.
Related Case Studies
Reviewed Commercial Entrance Projects
These owner-approved project examples show how entrance requirements, door direction, and supplied scope can be summarized without exposing private customer identities.
Automatic Sliding Door for an Office Building Main Entrance
- Project Type
- Office Building Main Entrance
- Door Type
- Automatic Bi-Parting Sliding Glass Door
- Entrance Requirement
- Support concentrated employee and visitor traffic while coordinating a wide clear passage, the glass curtain wall, reception, and access procedures.
- Supplied Solution
- A commercial bi-parting sliding glass entrance with coordinated activation, presence-safety detection, access-control interfaces, locking, and manual operating modes.
Automatic Sliding Entrance Doors for a Shopping Center
- Project Type
- Shopping Center Main Entrance
- Door Type
- Commercial Automatic Bi-Parting Sliding Doors
- Entrance Requirement
- Support continuous two-way traffic including families, wheelchairs, strollers, shopping bags, and maintenance carts at a wide glazed entrance.
- Supplied Solution
- A wide commercial sliding entrance coordinated around pedestrian approach, presence-safety coverage, opening timing, building interfaces, and the glass façade.
Automatic Sliding Doors for a Hospital Main Entrance
- Project Type
- Hospital Public Main Entrance
- Door Type
- Wide-Opening Automatic Bi-Parting Sliding Glass Door
- Entrance Requirement
- Provide hands-free public access for patients, visitors, staff, wheelchairs, stretchers, and transport equipment moving at different speeds.
- Supplied Solution
- A non-airtight public entrance coordinated around a wide passage, activation and presence-safety coverage, extended opening behavior, and emergency and security interfaces.
Project FAQ
Commercial Automatic Entrance Solution FAQ
Prepare the opening, movement, interface, and supply information needed for a project-specific entrance review.
The building type is only the starting point. Compare the available opening and side space, required passage, pedestrian route, traffic pattern, access and safety interfaces, appearance, exposure, and supply scope before confirming Sliding or Revolving direction.
Share the opening width and height, available side space, headroom, fixed glazing, surrounding structure, floor condition, and the clear passage you need. Plans, elevations, sections, and marked photographs help explain the geometry.
Sliding leaves need suitable travel space beside the passage. When side space is constrained, the project team can review the independent Telescopic Automatic Sliding Door product and other arrangements against verified dimensions rather than assuming a fit.
Describe daily and peak movement, approach directions, luggage or cart use, slower users, credentials, reception release, locking, operating modes, cabling, and responsibility for control integration. These inputs affect both physical selection and system coordination.
SEPPES can discuss a coordinated complete-door scope or an operator-system and component scope. Confirm which party supplies door leaves, frames, glass, sensors, access devices, wiring, structural support, installation, commissioning, and handover.
Provide the latest plan, elevation, section, opening schedule, façade detail, access-control notes, and clear photographs of the opening and surrounding construction. Mark known dimensions and identify assumptions that still require site verification.
Project Inquiry
Start Your Commercial Entrance Project
Send the entrance dimensions, building type, expected pedestrian flow, access requirements, drawings, and photographs already available. SEPPES will review the project conditions and prepare a suitable entrance direction and quotation scope.
- Opening width, height, side space, and required passage
- Building type, entrance role, traffic, luggage, or cart use
- Access control, sensors, locking, and operating requirements
- Drawings, photographs, quantity, destination, and supply scope