Keep Your WiFi for Paying Customers
Switch a venue into voucher mode and nobody gets online without a code. Generate codes in batches from the dashboard, or connect your till so a fresh code prints on every receipt. Each code carries its own access duration, and an unused code can be revoked the moment you hear it is being passed around.
- 1 to 100
- codes per batch
- 8
- characters per code
- Up to 50
- codes per till request
What is WiFi Vouchers and POS?
WiFi Vouchers and POS puts an access code between the guest and your network. Switch a venue into voucher mode and nobody gets online without one: generate up to 100 codes per batch in the dashboard, or connect your till so a fresh code prints on every receipt through the voucher API. Each code carries its own duration and can be revoked while active. For venues that want WiFi for paying customers only. Included on every plan, from Essentials up.
Before, and with CaptiFi
Before
Open guest WiFi does not stop at your front door. People sit outside on your bandwidth, buy nothing, and never appear in your guest data, while the customers who did buy something compete with them for the connection.
With CaptiFi
Vouchers put a code between the guest and the network. Your till generates one through the CaptiFi voucher API as the receipt prints, or staff hand out pre-generated codes on table cards. Each code is unique, lasts as long as you set, and can be revoked while it is still active. Switching back to free access is one setting.
What you get
Free or voucher access switched from one setting per venue, and reversible at any time (a third mode, paid passes, is its own feature)
Unique eight-character codes, generated up to 100 at a time, with a copy-all button for printing
Access duration set per batch, so a coffee-shop code and an all-day hotel code can live side by side
Revoke any unused code without touching the rest of the batch
A voucher API and per-venue key so your till creates codes automatically, printed on the receipt
Regenerate or disconnect the API key yourself: the old key stops working immediately
See it in your dashboard
Hand the till everything it needs
One page per venue holds the access mode and the POS integration. Your till provider gets the endpoint and a key, and prints a fresh code on the receipt. The key is shown once and stored hashed, so only you ever hold it, and you can regenerate or revoke it here.
- Switch between free and voucher access in one setting
- Keys stored hashed, regenerated or revoked on demand
What are CaptiFi WiFi vouchers?
A WiFi voucher is an access code a guest types on your splash page before they can get online. On the Voucher and POS Setup page a venue runs in one of two modes: free, where anyone can connect through the splash page, or voucher, where a valid code is required. Selling timed passes instead is a third mode, set up on the Paid WiFi page. Codes are unique eight-character combinations of letters and numbers, generated in batches of up to 100 from the dashboard, or created by your till through the CaptiFi voucher API, up to 50 a request.
Why gate WiFi behind a code?
Open guest WiFi reaches further than your customers do. People sitting outside, in the car park or in the flat upstairs use the same bandwidth as the table that just ordered. A code ties access to a transaction: the guest who bought something gets the code on their receipt, and everyone else sees a login screen they cannot pass.
Can I change my mind?
Voucher mode is one setting on the Voucher and POS Setup page, and switching back to free access is the same setting. Codes you have already generated stay in the table either way, so a venue can run voucher mode for a festival weekend and open up again on Monday.
CaptiFi is a guest WiFi marketing and captive portal platform for restaurants, bars, pubs, cafes, hotels, gyms, salons, retail and short-term rentals, built by CaptiFi Ltd in the UK and sold in GBP, USD, EUR, CAD, AUD and NZD to venues worldwide.
How to set up WiFi voucher codes with CaptiFi
Switch vouchers on
In the dashboard, open Integrations and switch on WiFi Vouchers and POS under Dashboard features. Two items appear under My Venues: WiFi Vouchers and Voucher and POS Setup.
Generate your first batch
Open My Venues, then WiFi Vouchers, and click Generate vouchers. Pick the venue, a quantity between 1 and 100, and the access duration each code should give. Click Generate and copy the whole batch in one click.
Turn voucher mode on
Once you have codes and a way to hand them out, open Voucher and POS Setup, set the access mode to Voucher and save. From that point only guests with a valid code can connect. Do this before you test a till integration: the voucher API answers 422 while the venue is still on free access.
Connect your till (optional)
On Voucher and POS Setup, generate your API key and note the endpoint shown beside it. Give both to your till provider so the POS can create a code per receipt, up to 50 codes a request. With the venue already in voucher mode, ask them to send a test request and check the code appears in your voucher table.
Manage codes as you go
Revoke an active code from its row in the voucher table if you hear it is being shared, generate a new batch when you run low, and switch the venue back to free access from the same settings page whenever you want.
What you can actually set
Codes per batch
1 to 100
Generated in one click, with a copy-all button for printing or emailing to staff.
Code format
8 characters
Unique letters and numbers, long enough not to be guessed and short enough to read off a receipt.
Codes per POS request
Up to 50
Your till calls the generate endpoint with its bearer token and gets codes back to print.
Access modes on this page
2
Free or voucher, one at a time, changed from a single setting and reversible. Paid passes are a third mode, set up on the Paid WiFi page.
Access duration
Set per batch
How long each code keeps a guest online, chosen when the batch is generated.
Till key storage
Hashed
Shown once when generated. Afterwards only a short hint identifies it, and you can regenerate or revoke it.
Venues where WiFi is worth something
Cafes with a queue for seats
A one-hour code printed on the receipt turns a table into a purchase. Laptop campers either buy another coffee or give the seat up, and neither outcome needs a member of staff to have the conversation.
Hotels and guest houses
Reception hands a code out at check-in with a duration that matches the stay, so the network belongs to guests rather than to the street outside. No shared password to change every time somebody leaves.
Pubs and bars on busy nights
Switch to voucher mode for a match day or a festival weekend and back to free access on Monday. Codes already generated stay valid, so the change is a setting rather than a project.
Venues with a till that prints
Your POS calls the voucher endpoint as the receipt prints and puts a fresh code on the bottom of it. Nobody has to remember to hand anything out, and every code is tied to a sale.
Voucher questions answered
How do WiFi voucher codes work?
Can my till print a WiFi code on the receipt?
What happens to guests already online when I turn voucher mode on?
Can I cancel a voucher code that is being shared around?
Is the POS API key safe to give to my till provider?
Do vouchers and paid WiFi work together?
WiFi vouchers and the till API on Essentials and every plan above
WiFi vouchers and the till API are an opt-in on Essentials and every CaptiFi plan above it: a switch on the venue, with no separate RADIUS product to buy.
What Our Customers Say
CaptiFi completely changed my business. Before, every guest was a one-time booki...
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