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Sign-in method · Self-provision via email

Anonymous Wi-Fi
is a missed opportunity.

One verified email, two jobs: BYOD onboarding for schools and workplaces, and loyalty sign-in for hotels, restaurants and fuel retail. Users manage their own devices, stay on policy, and never need a help-desk ticket.

Identity Verified email
Loyalty & marketing Opt-in list, GDPR-clean
BYOD Self-managed devices
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One method, two jobs

The same sign-in serves your people and your guests

An email address is the one identity everyone already has. Verify it once and it can onboard a student's laptop for the semester, or tell your CRM that a loyalty member is back in the building.

BYOD onboarding

Your people bring their own devices

Students, staff, and contractors verify an email address once, then manage their own phones and laptops within the policy you set. No directory account, no pre-registration, no help-desk ticket.

  • Per-cohort policies: semester-long for students, per-day for visitors
  • Device quotas per identity, with the full device set visible per email
  • Sessions expire on schedule and users re-verify to renew, so leavers age out on their own

Already run SAML SSO? BYOD with SSO onboards through your IdP instead.

Schools · Universities · Offices · Contractor sites
Loyalty sign-in

Your guests become known regulars

The Wi-Fi login becomes the loyalty touchpoint. A guest signs in with email and explicit opt-in, and the same address maps to the same guest record on the next visit, at any of your sites.

  • Branded portal with explicit consent for marketing and the loyalty programme
  • Returning-visitor recognition: one email, one record, every location
  • Webhooks feed sessions to your CRM or loyalty platform, exports cover campaigns
Hotels · Restaurants · Fuel & convenience · Retail
What's broken today

Open Wi-Fi is a cost center

You give away bandwidth for free, learn nothing about who's using it, and have nothing to show for it when compliance asks.

No identity, no traceability

Anonymous sessions are great for users, terrible for compliance. You can't answer "who connected" because nobody told you.

Marketing learns nothing

Thousands of guests pass through. None of them turn into a contact, and the loyalty programme never hears about it.

Devices linger forever

Once a device is on, it's on. No way to enforce a session length or revoke access cleanly.

Mixed-purpose policies clash

Students, staff, guests: all on one open SSID with one set of rules. Nobody gets exactly what they need.

The sign-in flow

Four steps. Most happen quietly.

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Guest enters email

One field on a branded captive portal. Optional newsletter opt-in checkbox.

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Short window of access

Immediate connection for a configurable preview period, long enough to read the verification email.

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One-click verification

The guest clicks the email link. Access extends to the full session length per policy.

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Auto-revoke at end

Session expires per policy. Guest re-verifies for the next visit.

See everything that matters

Users onboard themselves. Marketing and IT both benefit.

The guest experience handles itself. Marketing gets opt-in contacts they can actually use. IT gets verified identities and per-policy session limits.

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Every email, every session

Verified identity tied to every session. Search by email, filter by domain, export per period.

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Session length per identity

How long each guest stays. Spot the heavy users, the one-off visitors, and the regulars.

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Devices per identity

Phone, laptop, tablet: see the full device set per email and enforce quotas if you want.

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Where they connected

Site, building, AP. Multi-location reporting per identity, per domain, per policy.

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Marketing-ready exports

Opt-in lists per period plus session webhooks. Feed the CRM, the campaign tool, or the loyalty platform.

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GDPR-ready, audit-ready

Configurable retention, per-user delete, and audit trails for every consent and session.

Where it fits

From the front desk to the campus

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Hotels & resorts

Loyalty capture at the front desk: verified guests, explicit opt-in, and a session feed your CRM can act on.

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Fuel & convenience

Forecourt Wi-Fi that recognizes returning customers across every station, and turns opt-ins into campaign lists.

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Corporate BYOD

Personal devices and contractor laptops get verified access without directory accounts or a queue at IT.

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Schools & universities

Students onboard their own devices for the semester, visitors get a day. Same portal, different policies.

Pair it with

Different audiences, different identity channels

Sign-in method

BYOD with SAML SSO

When your users already hold Microsoft, Google or Okta identities, onboard BYOD through the IdP instead.

Read more →
Sign-in method

Self-provision via SMS

For venues where phone numbers are easier to capture than email. Same self-onboarding model.

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Sign-in method

Click-to-Connect

For places where you want frictionless access plus a brand redirect, without collecting identity.

Read more →

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