GoStore Self Storage has been a part of the landscape of Chesterfield since May, 2018, with the opening of their first facility in Grassmoor. From there, they’ve continued to grow – with a second Chesterfield site, a third in Hope Valley, and a fourth being negotiated on the south side of Manchester. “In total, that would mean GoStore has around 90,000 square feet of space between our sites,” Steve tells us. “All of our facilities are owned and not leased, which leaves us with a great financial footing for more expansion in the future!”. 

Since their inception, GoStore has used Storman as their management software. “We started operations on Day 1 with Storman One – and moved across to Storman Cloud as soon as it was released,” Steve recalls. “Using the Cloud platform was a huge benefit to us, especially as we manage multiple sites – I remotely oversee management for them all, and the ability to access and use the system from anywhere has been game-changing. We wouldn’t be able to operate without it – managing hundreds of customers without something purpose-built and easily accessible would be a nightmare!”. 

Paxton’s access control systems have also been a part of GoStore’s operations from the very start. The Paxton Net2 product is designed with both scalability and security in mind, making it the perfect fit. But until recently, it didn’t integrate with Storman Cloud – which made life harder than it needed to be for GoStore. “Operating an access control system independent of our management system wasn’t ideal as everything had to be done manually outside of Storman,” we hear from Steve. “Entering customers, issuing codes, blocking access if needed, removing the customer after the account was closed – it all needed to be done in two separate systems. We were needing to train staff in both, and it was taking up valuable time.”.

As part of our mission to help make self-storage management simple, the team at Storman got to work developing a cloud-to-cloud integration for the two products. The brief was short and sweet – to make it easy for self-storage facilities to manage all elements of their storers’ access within Storman Cloud, and have it communicate automatically with Paxton’s Net2. In August of 2021, that integration was completed by Storman and certified by the Paxton team – making Storman an official approved integration partner!