How to monetize guest WiFi with paid access

Guest WiFi is usually a cost. With a paid captive portal it becomes a small revenue line: guests buy a block of time, and the router enforces it.

The pieces you need

• A payment path. Card or mobile money (M-Pesa and similar), handled by a processor you already trust.
• Access grants. A signed, time-limited token the router can verify without phoning home.
• Delivery. The grant reaches the router automatically — carried by the guest's browser or fetched by the router — so a sale works even when nobody is watching the desk.

Vouchers for the cash desk

For venues that sell over the counter, printed voucher codes work offline: the router recognises a typed code with no network. That keeps sales flowing during an internet outage.

Spekii Edge Shield bundles the portal, the payment rails and the router enforcement into one install. See how it starts with a captive portal.