Metal Door Release Button – Stainless Steel Access Control Exit Switch (3X2)

The Metal Door Release Button is a heavy-duty exit switch designed for professional access control installations.

Built with a solid stainless steel faceplate and metal push button, this unit ensures durability and long-term performance in commercial and industrial environments.

It supports NO (Normally Open), NC (Normally Closed), and COM contacts, making it compatible with magnetic locks, electric strike locks, and drop bolt locks.

Its clean silver finish and engraved “Door Release” marking provide a professional appearance suitable for offices, banks, hospitals, and corporate buildings.

The standard commercial exit button, and our usual recommendation. If you are fitting an ordinary access controlled door and want something that simply works for years, this is it. The 3x2 stainless steel plate fits the standard back box used in most Pakistani commercial installations, and at this price there is little reason to specify anything more elaborate unless you have a particular requirement.

The 3x2 plate format. This is the common fitting for standard single gang back boxes on office, shop, and internal doors. If your door has only a narrow mullion with no room for this plate, our slim 1x3 curved button is the alternative. If you need a larger and more obvious target for elderly users or staff carrying boxes, our green press to exit button has a much wider strike area.

We stock two metal buttons at this price, and here is the difference. This version carries the branded logo faceplate. Our other metal door release button is the same price and function with a plain stainless face. Choose on appearance rather than performance: the logo plate suits general commercial and industrial use, while plain stainless suits hotels, clinics, and premium offices where a branded plate would look out of place. Both are mechanically identical.

Stainless steel for high traffic. An exit button on a busy corridor is pressed hundreds of times a week. Stainless steel handles that and still looks presentable after a year, while plastic faces discolour, wear, and eventually crack. For anything beyond an occasionally used store room, metal is the sensible specification.

Flush or surface mount. It can be recessed into a back box for a flush finish, or surface mounted where there is no box and chasing the wall is impractical. That flexibility makes it suitable for both new installations and retrofits into finished buildings, which is most of the work in established premises.

NO, NC and COM output. All three contacts are provided, and which you use depends entirely on the lock. Magnetic locks hold while powered, so releasing requires the circuit to break, meaning NC. Electric bolt and strike locks generally use NO. Wiring this backwards produces a door that never releases or never locks. It is the most common error on access controlled doors, so confirm with us if you are unsure rather than guessing.

Every access controlled door needs one. The reader outside decides who may enter; the exit button inside lets anyone leave. This is not an optional accessory. A door requiring a credential from both sides is impractical and, on many doors, a safety problem. Budget for the exit button in the same order as the keypad or reader.

Mounting and cable. Fit on the secure side at waist to chest height, where a person naturally reaches, not behind the door swing. Run the cable in conduit, since an accessible exit button cable is an easy way to release the door from outside and defeats the point of the access control.

Not an emergency exit device. It releases the door under normal conditions and depends on the system having power. Escape route doors generally also need an emergency break glass release that works regardless of power or system state.

Which of your two metal buttons should I buy? Same price, same function. Logo faceplate here, plain stainless on the other. Choose on how it should look in the space.

Does it need power? No, it is a switch. The lock needs power.

Which contact for a magnetic lock? NC.

Can it be surface mounted? Yes, flush into a back box or surface mounted.

Buying from ZZ Marts. In stock at our Karachi (Saddar) and Lahore stores with nationwide delivery, supplied by Zam Zam Traders, trading in access control since 2005. We also stock plain stainless buttons, slim 1x3 curved buttons, large green press to exit buttons, touchless infrared units with and without remote, key operated switches, break glass releases, locks, power supplies, and keypads. Tell us your door and lock and we will confirm the right button and wiring.