ButterflyMX

ButterflyMX provides video intercoms with smartphone-based entry, published alongside QR code intercoms, access control, package rooms, security cameras, keypads, vehicle access control, smart locks, elevator controls and self-guided tours, serving multifamily housing, homeowner associations, gated communities, commercial offices, student housing, senior living, non-profit and industrial property.

Publishing hardware cost openly is unusual in building access and worth crediting, since this category normally routes buyers through a dealer network where the price depends on who is asking.

Replacing the intercom handset with a smartphone is the design decision, and its significance is about property operations rather than convenience.

A traditional intercom runs dedicated wiring to a physical handset in every unit. That wiring is expensive to install, expensive to repair, impossible to extend without construction, and unusable when the resident is not at home. A smartphone-based system removes the in-unit hardware entirely, which changes the economics of retrofitting an older building from a major works project to an entry-panel replacement.

It also changes what the system can do. A resident can admit a visitor while at work, delivery drivers can be granted timed access, and every entry event carries a photograph and a timestamp. That audit trail matters more than the convenience does, because disputes about who let somebody into a building are otherwise unresolvable.

Package rooms addressing parcel delivery is a genuine operational problem in multifamily housing, where deliveries arrive continuously to people who are out, and staff time spent handling them is a real cost.

Self-guided tours point at leasing operations, letting prospective residents view units without a leasing agent present, which changes the staffing model for showing property.

Pricing is published on a cost page with hardware figures at $3,995, $4,995 and $6,995 across configurations, each including a two year warranty with expedited options.