Six kinds of hotspot run NetOS. Which one is yours?

An estate or compound hotspot lives or dies on how little you have to touch it — residents want to connect and pay without finding you first.

NetOS gives you a branded captive portal where a resident picks a voucher — an hour, a day, a week — pays on M-Pesa, and is online before they have put their phone away.

Your MikroTik handles the hotspot; NetOS generates the configuration and keeps RADIUS authenticating every connection against a paid voucher.

When a voucher runs out, the customer is disconnected automatically. When they pay again, they are reconnected automatically — you are not the one flipping a switch at 11pm.

You see active sessions, revenue, and who is currently online from your phone, without walking round the compound.

A shopping centre hotspot sees hundreds of different phones a day — most of them once. The portal has to do all the selling, because you cannot.

NetOS puts your pricing and your branding on the captive portal a shopper sees the moment they connect: pick a voucher, pay on M-Pesa, get online.

Vouchers can be priced for a quick browse or a full afternoon, with a data cap that matches what you are willing to give away at that price.

A go-live check tells you the moment you set up whether your router is actually letting customers authenticate — so you find out from NetOS, not from an empty revenue day.

SMS and WhatsApp handle the payment confirmation, so you are not manually replying to "did my payment go through?" messages all day.

Student customers want WiFi priced by the day or the week, not a monthly contract they cannot commit to — and they want it to work the moment they pay.

NetOS vouchers are built for exactly that: set a price, a duration, and a data cap that matches what a student is actually willing to pay.

Add a whole block of tenants at once instead of creating accounts one at a time — useful at the start of a new intake.

When move-out happens, expired accounts stop pulling bandwidth without you having to remember to disable anyone.

M-Pesa is how students pay for everything else — it is how they pay for WiFi too, through the same portal, with no separate app to install.

A café or kiosk hotspot is a small, simple business — the WiFi should be too. A customer asks for the code, pays, and connects, without you doing anything more than pointing at the router.

NetOS vouchers can be short and cheap — an hour, a couple of hours — priced for the customer who is only there for a coffee.

The captive portal branding is yours, so it looks like your shop offered it, not a third-party tool.

Because RADIUS authenticates every session, a customer cannot stay connected after their voucher expires just by staying in their seat.

One dashboard shows you what the WiFi actually earned that day, next to everything else you are tracking.

Once you are running more than one hotspot — a second estate, a second kiosk — checking each one separately stops working.

NetOS supports multiple tenants under one account, each with its own customers, pricing, and captive portal branding.

You add staff with access scoped to what they need — someone who sells vouchers does not need access to your payment settings.

Revenue and active-customer counts roll up across every site, so you know which location is actually earning without visiting each one.

Adding a new site means registering a new router and creating a tenant — the platform does not need to be rebuilt for you to grow.

Some hotspot customers stop being occasional — a shop next door wants WiFi every day, not a voucher every day.

NetOS supports PPPoE alongside hotspot on the same router and the same account, so you are not buying a second platform to offer a dedicated connection.

The customer moves from a daily voucher to a monthly subscription; your billing, your RADIUS authentication, and your dashboard do not change.

Subscriptions renew and lapse automatically the same way vouchers do — you are not tracking due dates in a notebook.

You grow from hotspot vouchers into fixed-line customers at your own pace, on the platform you already know.