Voucher hotspots, hotel and lodge WiFi, café and campus WiFi in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa and across the continent - captive portal, vouchers, per-user limits and records, managed remotely by iberry.
Across much of Africa, WiFi is sold by the hour, the day or the bundle - through printed vouchers at a counter, by agents in an estate or market, or as part of a room rate at a hotel or safari lodge. The system behind it has to do three things well: generate and track vouchers, share a limited line fairly, and keep a record of who used it.
iberry does exactly that from the cloud. Your MikroTik, Omada or UniFi equipment sends each login to the iberry platform, which checks the voucher, applies its time, speed and data limits, and records the session. You print vouchers in batches, hand them to your agents or front desk, and see sales and usage per site on one dashboard. There is no billing server to buy, patch or keep powered through a load-shedding night.
Operators selling hourly, daily and weekly WiFi in estates, markets, hostels and towns, with batches of vouchers per agent and per site.
City hotels, beach resorts and safari lodges, with vouchers per room or login by room and surname where the PMS allows.
Customer WiFi with a time limit per voucher, kept apart from the POS and the staff network.
Personal logins for students and staff, data caps per term and filtering of unsafe sites. See WiFi for schools.
Short sessions for many visitors, each one recorded. See airport WiFi.
Staff and guest networks separated, with day passes on vouchers for visitors.
Nairobi, Mombasa, Kisumu, Nakuru, Eldoret, Diani
The largest market for voucher hotspots we see searched for. Vouchers work from day one; SMS one-time passwords need an SMS route to Safaricom, Airtel or Telkom subscribers, which we confirm before you rely on it. Regulator: the Communications Authority of Kenya.
Kampala, Entebbe, Dar es Salaam, Arusha, Zanzibar
Hotspot businesses and tourist lodges on lines that are often small and costly - per-user data caps are what keep them usable. Regulators: the Uganda Communications Commission and the Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority.
Accra, Kumasi, Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt
Hotels, campuses, estates and hotspot resellers, where many sites on one dashboard and per-agent voucher batches matter most. Regulators: the National Communications Authority (Ghana) and the Nigerian Communications Commission.
Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, Harare, Victoria Falls, Lusaka
Guest houses, lodges and venues that need WiFi to keep working through power cuts and line drops: a second line with automatic failover and a login page served by the router itself.
Logging and licensing rules differ by country. Tell us what your licence or regulator expects and the records are set up to match; we do not give legal advice on them.
Payment by M-Pesa, MTN MoMo or Airtel Money on the login page is not built into the platform today. Vouchers sold for cash or mobile money by your agents and front desk work from the first day. If automatic mobile-money payment on the portal is essential for you, say so at the start and we will tell you plainly whether we can do it for your network.
Yes. Generate vouchers in batches with their own time, speed and data allowance, sell them through agents or a counter, and see usage per site and per batch on one dashboard. The hotspot runs on MikroTik, TP-Link Omada or Ubiquiti UniFi equipment.
No. Authentication, voucher checking and records run in the iberry cloud. On site you only need the router or controller and the access points.
A local electrician or IT partner, following our plan, with us on the call. We then configure the hotspot, the portal and the limits remotely. On-site installation by iberry engineers is offered in India only.
With two lines, traffic moves to the second automatically and comes back when the first recovers. With one line, the router can still show its own login page, so guests see a page rather than an error.
Published plans in India start at ₹30,000 one-time with ₹15,000 yearly maintenance; properties outside India are quoted per project, because the hardware is usually bought locally.
Tell us the country, the number of sites and how you sell access today. New to this? Read how to start a WiFi hotspot business. In Swahili: biashara ya WiFi; in French: wifi zone et tickets WiFi.
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