You may want to charge for access to your WiFi network or, operate on the basis of free for “X” amount of time, and then paid thereafter.
1. Select "WiFi" from the left-hand side of the screen and select your venue. Then select "Configuration"
2. In the "In the Wifi portal settings" section, you will find 3 options for Wifi. Free, paid and hybrid.
- Free: Customers have free access to the network
- Paid: Customers will be required to pay a fee for access to the network
- Hybrid: Customers have a free limited amount of data usage, paid thereafter
3. When selecting paid/hybrid access, select the the payment methods you will use to charge customers. Then you can select the '+' symbol to set up your plan.
4. This will take you to the plan menu where you can set the price of logging into the wifi, price of access, how many devices can be set and how long a plan will last per customer.
Fill in the details
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Plan Name - We’d recommend naming it the duration of the plan
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Duration - Set in hours
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Price - ex VAT
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Devices Allowance - How many individual devices someone can have as part of the plan i.e. 3 would mean that one customer can have two phones and one tablet.
You can set it to pay for as little as 1 hour right up to several years! Here are some handy figures:
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1 week = 168 hours
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1 month = 730 hours
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1 year = 8760 hours
5. Click on the '+' button to create new plans for your customers. You can always edit and delete existing plans.
Editing existing plans
If you want to edit or remove a plan, click on the plan name (highlighted in blue) then you’ll be able to edit it as desired:
Hybrid
1. When choosing what type (Free, Paid or Hybrid) of Network in the “Setup” tab, choose “Hybrid”.
2. Two new speed and session time bars will appear. With these, you can edit how long and how fast the temporary free network will be.
3. Proceed as Payment Setup above to create your plans.