Integration requires you to set up your online shop where you sell access codes using your own payment gateway. This needs to be combined with our Voucher API to get access codes out of our system and deliver it to your customers.

We have prepared a knowledgebase article with more details: Use your own payment gateway.

• 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 authorize them first on your own site
• You may want them to fill out a survey before you give access to the hotspot

These situations can easily be accomplished by the combination of walled garden and the newly released voucher API.

Here are the steps to do it:

1. Create a Hotspot FREE location with a subscription or Pay As You Go (or Hotspot PRO and turn off the credit card and prepaid modules so you will have the login module only)
2. Setup the location with Walled Garden
3. Create your own splash page on your server as you wish
4. After the rules are matched, generate an access code with the voucher API and display it on screen to your customer
5. Create a link back to the splash page ( use the format https://customer.hotspotsystem.com/customer/prelogin.php?nasid={NASID} (replace NASID with your operator username followed by and underscore plus your location ID, for example: abc_5 represents the 5th location for operator ‘abc’)

This way your customer will land on your own server first, then they can log in on the normal splash page after your rules are matched.

For example if you wish to use Surveymonkey to collect surveys before you give access to the hotspot, you need to forward users to your survey URL ( Step #3 ), then you need to edit the survey completion preferences to go to your page where you display the access code via the Voucher API (Step #4).

So what is it good for?

For example you can generate a code from the hotel’s own software and print it on to the receipt. Or set up a walled garden, create your very own splash page and give out the code based on your own rules (for example the user has to see 3 page of ads, then you can generate an access code so the user can log in). There are lots of use cases and we will post some examples in the following weeks. For example you can use your own payment gateway to sell access codes in your hotspots.

How about the pricing?

Using the API is free, however you need to have voucher credits under your account to be able to generate access codes with the API. For free codes the system deducts 1 credit, for pay per use codes 2 credits are deducted. In case you have a Hotspot Free Voucher subscription, you can also use those credits (50, 300, 600 based on your package) to generate the codes.

We are very excited about how our hotspot operators will use this to create their very unique hotspot solution. If you are one of them, feel free to share your ideas with us