You can set daily, weekly or monthly reports and you can choose which statistics you want to include.

What’s new?

• Added Social Attributes to Customer/Subscriber API calls
• New API call: Transactions (please check API Reference). Get all new accesses by type (mac, voucher, social, paid). A new transaction is created whenever a user or device gets a new access.
• Custom data for data capture is now available with Mac based Transaction API
• New authentication method: Authentication moved to the header (please check docs)

Webhooks

Along with the new API, a new function is released, called Webhooks. Webhooks are ‘HTTP callbacks’, that are triggered by specific events. You can use them to send customer/transaction data to your servers. So every time there is a new customer registration/subscription, or a new transaction, our system can call an external page (defined by you) and send user/transaction data there. So these are PUSH functions (on the contrary API calls are triggered by you so those are PULL functions).

You can define webhooks from the Control Center under Tools & Settings > Webhooks menu. Webhooks are also available for secondary operators if you gave access for them to check users & transactions data.

You can check webhooks documentation here.

Zapier updates

New functions are availabe at Zapier. Currently the new ZAP is invite only, so be sure you try it out by following this link.

• $lat – current latitude
• $long – current longitude
• $vspd – vehicle speed in the format in km/h
• $fixt –  last GPS fix time in the format 1463041736000
• $sigs – mobile signal strength in dBm
• $oper – mobile network operator
• $cont – wireless wide area network type

These data will update the coordinates of the location (will be represented on the map), and you can also see other information on the device page in the Control Center.

We have updated our Mikrotik Installation guide to reflect the changes. If you still wish to set it up manually, you can do it with the old guide.

Now it is possible to turn on the “Simplified Login” feature, which only asks for a password from customers. It is available for locations with the Voucher & SMS Plans, or Hotspot PRO where you are not using the online payments.

You can turn it on from Modify Hotspot Data > Splash Page Settings.

Specifications:

• Dual SIM/USIM,  LTE/DC-HSPA+/HSPA+/HSPA/UMTS/GSM/GPRS/EDGE
• 4G LTE performance up to: 100 Mbps downlink and 50 Mbps uplink (CAT3)
• Automatic WAN failover and failback
• 4 Ethernet 10/100 LAN/WAN ports
• Wi-Fi® (802.11 b/g/n) supports up to 128 concurrent connections

Best thing about the hotspot part that it is officially supported by MultiTech.

You can find the MultiConnect rCell 500 Installation Guide here.

Please note that this is a Premium Feature so you are required to upgrade to Basic or Social plus to use this feature. It is included for all paid plans (PRO, Voucher, SMS) for free.

Built-in and Custom backgrounds for responsive skin

• it comes with an easy color and background image selector
• it automatically scales based on the user’s device so there is no need to use a different mobile skin anymore
• it also has a “flat” layout for easy viewing and navigation
• error messages are more user friendly
• it has a clean code, all style edits can be done via css

Here’s how it looks from the Control Center:

Example of the initial Splash Page with a custom background:

Example of “Data Capture”:

Example of “Pay by Credit Card”:

Example of a Social Location:

You can set this new Skin from Manage > Locations > click on name > Modify Hotspot Data > Splash Page Settings > Select Responsive 2015 Skin.

You must not incentivize people to use social plugins or to like a Page. This includes offering rewards, or gating apps or app content based on whether or not a person has liked a Page. It remains acceptable to incentivize people to login to your app, checkin at a place or enter a promotion on your app’s Page. To ensure quality connections and help businesses reach the people who matter to them, we want people to like Pages because they want to connect and hear from the business, not because of artificial incentives. We believe this update will benefit people and advertisers alike.

Basically Facebook wants users to like brand pages because they actually “like” them, not because they were promised some freebie or contest entry for doing it.

The suggested method now is Checkin/Wallpost which will also grow your userbase. More check-ins and engagement with your Page will improve how it ranks in search too.

And you can still put the LIKE button on the page after successful login and ask people to LIKE your page if they want. But they cannot be forced to do so.

You can read more about new Social Options here

If you are a White Label operator and you have your own facebook app, you need to send it for review to Facebook if you wish to use the Checkin feature. The process is described here (you don’t have to create a new app, you need to edit your existing one!)

If you are using custom skins and edited the main_social.inc.html, you need to make some changes in that template:

Search for this code:

hotsposystem.socialWifi.accept();

Replace with:

window.location='facebook/{LANG}/redirect/login?uamip={UAMIP}&uamport={UAMPORT}&mac={MAC}&pwd={PWD}&useurl={USERURL}&chal={CHALLENGE}&nasid={NASID}&operator={OPERATOR}&location={LOCATION_ID}&lang={LANG}';

We are also about to announce a new pricing plan (which you will definately LIKE so stay tuned…