We are working on a new Splash Page Analytics which replaces the current Start Page Conversions Report. It’s like google analytics for your splash pages and offers tons of new functionality. Here are the core functions: Interactive charts in Javascript / HTML5 format Can be generated for each location in 4 categories: User Visits, Engagements, […]
In some cases you may wish to give free accesses to your hotspot based on your very own rules, for example: Customers need to see some full screen advertising, before they can access the internet They have to watch a video ad You wish to give access to your own members so you wanted to […]
As an operator you may want to interact with your guests. You may want to personally reach out to your guests or receive feedback for various purposes. You may want to welcome each user, let them know about any special deals, promotions or happenings around the area. You may want to capture user input, perhaps for […]
We have received a very good suggestion from one of our operators (thanks Erich) that we should install the codewarrior query plugin which would make the editing of the skin templates easier. We have checked it and within a few hours we managed to make it work. This is a good example that sometimes there […]
In some cases you may wish to sell longer accesses than 1 month. Typical case is when you sell accesses for residents or for long-term rentals, give access for a full semester for students, etc. Now it’s possible to create a custom package which has an expiration of 3, 6 or 12 months. You can […]
We have posted a new guide about how to setup a hotspot on Ubiquiti Edgerouter. The EdgeRouter is a powerful piece of hardware, advertised as “The world’s first million-packet-per-second router priced under $100“. Hardware Details: Dual-core MIPS64 processor with hardware acceleration for packet processing and encryption/decryption 3 RJ-45 Gigabit Ethernet ports 512 MB DDR2 RAM (Layer-3 […]
We have released a new voucher API which allows you to create access codes on the fly and deliver them to your customers. So you can now integrate almost any application to work together with your hotspot. You just have to make an API call to our servers and you will get an access code in the reply. […]
In the 1st part of our campground installation post we wrote about how we set up the Edgerouter Lite as a gateway and used mostly Ubiquiti Nanostation M2 access points to cover the area. In the 2nd campground we could choose the equipment and we needed to come up with a cost effective solution. We […]
Our operators often ask, why are we using multiple payment processors, and why can’t they just use PayPal to accept payments in their hotspots. When we started HotspotSystem, it worked with PayPal only. We thought it was easy, no hassle with wire transfers, multiple currencies, etc, seemed to be perfect. Then we started to get […]
Recently we have set up hotspots in 2 campgrounds. Both of them were quite large, one of them already had the equipment (Linksys WRT54GLs, Ubiquiti APs mostly), the other one had no equipment so we could buy anything we wanted (with a restricted budget of course). Here’s how we solved the installation in the 1st […]