Best guest WiFi for restaurants in 2026: the platforms compared

Ask a restaurant owner what their guest WiFi does, and most will say "lets people check their phones". That's the part nobody notices until it breaks. The sign-in screen is the interesting bit, because every guest who wants the WiFi passes through it, and it's a reliable chance to turn a walk-in into an email address, a repeat booking or a Google review.

The platforms selling this promise similar things and price them very differently. Some put a number on their website; others want a call first. So we've stuck to what each company says on its own pages, checked on 27 and 28 Oct 2026, with links at the foot of this post. We've left review-site star ratings out. CaptiFi is our product and this is our site, so it comes first; the others follow in alphabetical order, which isn't a ranking.

If you want the wider field beyond restaurants, the guest WiFi marketing platforms overview covers more venue types. This piece sticks to what a restaurant cares about: till links (Square and others), review requests, email capture, GDPR and cost.

What a restaurant needs from guest WiFi

Restaurants aren't hotels or shops. Dwell time is short, the guest is mid-meal, and the value sits mostly in the data you capture and the reviews you earn. Before you compare logos, decide what you're grading them on.

• A till link. If your WiFi knows who walked in and your till knows what they spent, joining the two lets you market on real spend. Check whether a connector matches spend to guests or only pushes contacts.
• Review requests sent after the meal. Check that every guest can still reach the public review page, because Google's policy prohibits review gating.
• Email capture with consent, and a clean sync to the email tool you use.
• GDPR and PECR consent built into the login if you're in the UK or EU.
• Price per site. Per-location pricing adds up across a group, and a price you can only get on a call is harder to compare.
• Hardware. Some platforms send their own box, others run on the access points you already have.

Our guide on how to capture emails from guest WiFi sets out the consent and friction trade-offs in more detail.

The restaurant guest WiFi comparison table

Every competitor cell comes from that company's own website as read on 27 and 28 Oct 2026, in the currency it lists. Integration lists change, so check the one you need is live on the plan you're buying.

CaptiFi

CaptiFi is a guest WiFi marketing platform and captive portal. It runs on the access points you already have, with setup guides for 9 vendor ecosystems (TP-Link Omada, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cisco Meraki, Aruba Instant On, MikroTik, Ruckus, Fortinet FortiGate/FortiAP, DrayTek and Cisco Catalyst), or on the CaptiFi device, which comes with every plan on a refundable deposit of $99. Prices are on the pricing page in your currency: Lite is $24.99/mo for one venue's guest list, Essentials is $69/mo with one venue included, and each extra venue is $35 a month. Every plan starts with a 30-day trial, and you add a card to start.

For restaurants the till links are the main thing. From Growth, the Square POS connector reads your orders every 15 minutes with read-only access to orders and matches each one to a WiFi guest through the customer record at the till, using the email on that Square customer profile, so you can see spend per guest and whether a campaign brought people back. For SumUp, CaptiFi sends each opted-in guest into Zapier, which passes the contact to your email tool or CRM; SumUp sends nothing back, so there's no spend matching. Review requests start on Essentials: a guest who rates at or above your minimum is sent on to Google, Tripadvisor or Yelp, and a lower rating opens a private feedback form that still shows the public links. Growth also adds table bookings with deposits, rewards and loyalty, and integrations such as Mailchimp, Klaviyo, HubSpot and Zapier.

The login page asks for marketing consent separately from getting online. In CaptiFi's own venue data, 55% of the new devices that joined CaptiFi guest WiFi in September 2026 signed in, and a typical venue gained around 50 new guest emails a month from April to September (350 or more at the busiest one in ten). Those are our figures, so treat them as a guide. CaptiFi doesn't offer WhatsApp messages, and the login page comes in English, French and Spanish. The restaurants page covers the detail, and CaptiFi vs Beambox compares the two.

Adentro (formerly Zenreach)

Zenreach's website now redirects to Adentro, which says it was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in San Francisco, with more than 6,000 locations; the customers on its home page include Ruth's Chris Steak House and Peet's Coffee. Its plans start at $25 a month. For a pilot at one to five locations it lists Capture at $25 a month and Full Platform at $49.99, and at 10 or more locations, pricing is scoped to your footprint. It also sells plans through the Verizon Business Marketplace, where it launched in June 2026, and the Premium plan adds reputation management that sends happy guests to public reviews and unhappy ones to you privately.

Adentro says it works with your existing access points, Cisco and Meraki included, through a remote configuration change, and that most locations are live within days. Its integrations page lists Clover, Square, Heartland and Genius tills, the Thanx, Punchh and Paytronix loyalty platforms, and Mailchimp and Constant Contact. Its main measure is Walk-Through Rate: the share of people who saw an ad and were later seen visiting a participating location. See the Zenreach review and CaptiFi vs Zenreach.

Caja de haz

Beambox's pricing page lists Essential at £29 a month, Growth at £45 and Pro at £60 per location on monthly billing, with yearly plans also available. Its help centre gives 15% off locations two to ten and 25% from the eleventh when they share the same branding, and plans include 1,000 guests, then a monthly charge per band (£10 a month a band in its help centre). It offers a 30-day trial, and the first Beambox access point comes with it; extra access points are a one-off fee. Beambox says more than 12,000 businesses use it.

Growth adds unlimited emails, automated emails through its Interactions feature (welcome, birthday and win-back messages among them) and integrations with Zapier, Mailchimp and Twilio. Pro adds the Review Automator, 250 free SMS a month and an API. Review requests go to Google, Tripadvisor, Yelp or Facebook, and guests who give 3 stars or less are sent to an internal feedback form. Its post on a Square POS integration is dated 11 March 2025. Alongside its own access point it has cloud integrations for UniFi, Meraki and Omada and self-install guides for Aruba, MikroTik, Ruckus and Cambium. The Beambox review goes deeper.

MyPlace

MyPlace, based in Dublin, lists Essentials at $49, Growth at $79 and Advanced (also called Reputation) at $159 per location a month, with a switch for pounds and euros. Each plan includes a monthly allowance of new guest emails per location, 100, 200 or 300, with extra bundles from $30 for 250. Essentials and Growth have a 14-day trial with no card.

Its review tool names Google as the main platform, with Tripadvisor also supported, and puts a "Contact us directly" option next to the review link in every email; it also suggests a reply to each review. Its integrations pages list Square, Mailchimp, Klaviyo, HubSpot and Salesforce among others, and it says it works alongside your email service provider. Its devices page lists eight hardware brands, among them UniFi, Meraki, Omada and Ruckus, it publishes a MikroTik guide too, and it can supply a pre-configured device. See the MyPlace review and MyPlace alternatives.

Purple

Purple's Connect plan is free guest WiFi with no card needed: a branded login page, social and email sign-in, splash pages in over 25 languages and network analytics. To collect contact lists, Purple says you need its Capture or Engage plan; it doesn't publish their prices, and both come with a 30-day free trial. They add CRM integration with tools such as Salesforce, HubSpot, Mailchimp and ActiveCampaign, and the Engage plan lists loyalty programme integration.

Purple also sells a small business plan, $13 a month or $130 a year, with a Purple Hub router at $129, and a separate marketing product, Purple Engage, with a free plan of 500 credits a month. Purple Engage reads tills without writing sales back (Square, Epos Now and Loyverse, with Lightspeed X-Series and Oracle Simphony in pilot), says it isn't a booking system, reads ResDiary bookings in a pilot, and lists reviews as in pilot. Its supported hardware list names 44 brands. The CaptiFi vs Purple comparison has the sources, and the Purple review and Beambox vs Purple go further.

Estampida

Stampede (Stampede AI Ltd, Edinburgh, founded in 2015) sells guest WiFi as one part of a hospitality platform with ordering, bookings, payments, marketing, loyalty and reviews. It doesn't publish a price. Its pricing page describes one flat price per venue, sized on a call, and shows it covering ordering, bookings, marketing, loyalty, reviews and WiFi, with onboarding and support included and no per-cover fee on bookings. Email has no per-message fee, and SMS runs on prepaid credits at "a few pence a text". The price is sized on a 30-minute call, and Stampede's referral page says a referred business starts a free trial of the full platform.

Its Square integration is two-way, and Stampede says Square spend and line items flow onto its guest profiles. It also connects to Stripe, Google Reserve and Google Business Profile. Reviews are managed across Google, Tripadvisor and Facebook, with post-visit review requests on Google and Facebook. Its WiFi runs on SNAPguard, a pre-configured MikroTik box. Stampede's documentation says SNAPguard is included by default and is not an optional add-on, so every set-up has one; ask what the box costs when you get your price. It works alongside your existing access points. See the Stampede review and CaptiFi vs Stampede.

How to choose for your restaurant

Strip away the logos and it comes down to what you need most.

• Marketing on till spend: CaptiFi matches Square orders to WiFi guests from Growth, Stampede puts Square spend on its guest profiles, Adentro lists Square, Clover and others, and Purple Engage reads Square, Epos Now and Loyverse. Ask each one what the connector syncs.
• A price before any call: CaptiFi, Beambox, MyPlace and Adentro publish theirs. Beambox and MyPlace price per location, CaptiFi includes one venue and charges for each extra one, and MyPlace sets a monthly allowance of new guest emails per plan.
• Bookings, payments and marketing in one system: Stampede sells them as one platform at a flat price per venue. CaptiFi has table bookings with deposits from Growth.
• Ad attribution in the US: Adentro is built around Walk-Through Rate.
• A free WiFi login page to start with: Purple's Connect plan costs nothing, and contact capture comes with its paid plans.
• Short-term rentals instead of a restaurant: StayFi was built for them and captures every guest, not just the booker. Our Airbnb WiFi guide covers that side.

For the money side, the pricing comparison lines up published prices across the wider field.

Where that leaves you

No single platform suits every restaurant, and the six here are built around different jobs: Stampede around a full hospitality platform, Adentro around ad attribution, Purple around a free WiFi tier with paid marketing on top, and Beambox, MyPlace and CaptiFi around guest WiFi marketing with published prices.

If you want to capture emails, ask for Google reviews and tie marketing to Square spend with the price on the website, CaptiFi does those things with prices from $69/mo for Essentials, its own device on a refundable deposit or your existing access points, and consent asked separately from getting online. The way to judge it is the 30-day trial on your own footfall. Then read the complete WiFi marketing guide to make the list work.

Competitor details are from each company's own website, checked on 27 and 28 Oct 2026; prices and plans change, so check them on the day you buy. Sources: Adentro, home page, Pricing, Integrations, Company info, Verizon plans, News, Privacy policy and Walk-through attribution; Beambox, Pricing, Pricing options, Guest database charges, How to grow your online reviews, Square integration and Installation methods; MyPlace, Pricing, Salesforce integration, Review generation, Devices, MikroTik guide and home page; Purple, Guest WiFi pricing, Connect, small business plans, Purple Engage, Purple Engage pricing and Supported hardware; Stampede, home page, Pricing, Referrals, SNAPguard, Email and SMS, Guest WiFi and product facts; StayFi, Pricing and Integrations. CaptiFi figures are from its own venue data and are not guarantees. Product names are trade marks of their owners; CaptiFi is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.