Captive Portal Software for UniFi

Who for

Whether you have your own UniFi WiFi network(s) and wish to collect email addresses and other personal information to increase the interaction with your guests, or are a service provider looking for an easy to deploy, scalable, and flexible solution to enhance the UniFi networks of your clients, our Captive Portal Software is the perfect solution for you.

Please contact us for more information and pricing details.

Benefits

The major benefits of deploying our Captive Portal Software for UniFi are:

• support multiple sites on multiple UniFi controllers from a single installation
• is installed on a (virtual) server under your own control:
  • you stay in charge of the server, the application, and the collected data
  • we recommend using the base DigitalOcean Droplet or similar
• interact with guests by capturing email addresses and other personal information
• support GDPR compliance when required
• white labeling; apply your own identity to the administrative pages
• leverage the collected data for your marketing campaigns
• improved data quality through the use of:
  • email address or mobile phone number verification using SMS and email
  • Facebook logins
  • Azure AD logins
• clear one-time costs

Easy integration with your own UniFi controller(s)

• once the software is installed, each site can be up and running within minutes because of our tight integration, see the linked video for a walkthrough of the integration steps
• when also using a UniFi gateway (USG, UDM, or UDR) and UniFi switches, the captive portal can be made available for both WiFi and wired guests
• UniFi controllers and UniFi OS Consoles are supported (version 6.5.50 has been confirmed to work)

Full support for GDPR compliance

• enable GDPR-related features:
  • require users to explicitly accept your Terms of Service
  • require users to explicitly accept your Privacy Notice
  • users can provide marketing consent
  • allow users to connect without sharing personal information
    • controls are available to define specific bandwidth limits for anonymous users
• ability to delete:
  • selected personal information
  • selected user history from the captive portal and the UniFi controller
• the option to enable a self-service dashboard where users can:
  • view their stored personal information
  • correct their personal information
  • download a copy of their personal data
  • delete their personal data

Choice of access methods

• Facebook login
• Instagram login
• Azure AD/Microsoft login, using a combination of :
  • Single-tenant
  • Multi-tenant
  • Personal Microsoft accounts
• Registration form
  • capture name, email address, and phone number
  • add custom fields of type:
    • text
    • numeric
    • date
    • dropdown
  • determine which fields to display
  • ability to mark each field as optional or required
• Sponsored Access
  • guest users request access to the guest WiFi network through the captive portal
  • their host or an assigned email address/Slack channel is asked to confirm the request
  • approval confirmations are sent to the guest user through email or SMS message
• Anonymous Access
  • guests gain WiFi access without sharing any personal information
  • use of this option can be restricted by time frame and by applying lower download and upload speed limits
• Whitelisted Access
  • manually whitelist devices for a specified time frame with manual overrides for upload and download speed limits
  • access can be revoked at any time
  • ideal for devices that are unable to access a captive portal such as TVs and game consoles
  • ideal for staff-owned devices
• UniFi Vouchers
  • allows users to gain access by using a UniFi voucher code that was generated through the UniFi controller built-in Hotspot Manager
  • ideal for staff-owned devices and for long-stay guests

Easy integration with Mailchimp

• optionally add collected email addresses to your Mailchimp mailing list
• optional double opt-in

Integrate with 3rd party applications

Use Webhooks to export the collected registration details to the application of your choice in real-time through:

• Zapier
• Automate.io
• Wyzebulb
• Integromat
• pipedream
• Microsoft Power Automate
• your own custom Webhook URL

Or download the collected registration details in CSV or Excel format.

Verify contact information

• send One-time passwords (OTP) for verification purposes
• easy integration with Twilio or many other SMS Gateways for outgoing SMS messages
• email verification using a customizable HTML template

Customize the captive portal splash pages

• customize for each site individually
• upload your own custom logo and background images
• modify the text strings used
• customize the Terms of Service and Privacy Notice
• customize the CSS styling

Screenshots