Set up your account

Complete these steps on the Get started page after you create your account. You can complete them in any order.

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Step 1: Add a location

A location is one site where you sell WiFi access — for example, one campus, one hotel, or one café branch. Each location tracks its own revenue, data use, and gateways.

1. Go to Locations.
2. Select Add location.
3. Enter a name and an address.
4. Select Add location to save.

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Step 2: Create a WiFi plan

A plan is what a customer buys on your captive portal. Create at least one before you connect a gateway.

1. Go to Plans.
2. Select Create plan.
3. Fill in the basics: a Name your guest will understand, a Price, a Duration, and a Data limit in GB — or leave the data limit blank for unlimited.
4. Select Create plan to save.

That is enough to start selling. Designing your plans covers every field, how to price the same plan differently per location, and one rule about device limits on capped plans that is worth reading before you write your price list.

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Step 3: Connect a payment provider

WifiPadi supports Paystack, Monnify, and Flutterwave. Connect at least one. Payments go directly to your own account — WifiPadi does not hold your money.

1. Go to Settings → Payments.
2. Find your provider’s card and enter its keys.
3. Select Save.
4. Copy the Webhook URL shown below the form and paste it into your provider’s dashboard.

See Connecting a payment provider for which keys each provider needs, where the webhook URL goes in each dashboard, and how to check it is actually working.

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Step 4: Brand your captive portal

The captive portal is the page your customer sees when they connect to your WiFi.

1. Go to Captive Portal.
2. Enter a business name and welcome text.
3. Select a primary color.
4. Enter a logo URL.
5. Enter a support email, a call number, and a WhatsApp group link. Customers use these to reach you for help.
6. Check the preview on the right side of the page.
7. Select Save changes.

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Next step

Go to Onboard a gateway to connect your router.

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Worth doing early

These are not on the Get started checklist, but they save trouble later:

• Understand your subscription — your free trial runs for 21 days, and knowing what happens at the end of it is better than finding out.
• Turn on the gateway offline alert so you find out when a location stops earning before your customers tell you.
• Invite your staff with the smallest role that lets them do their job. Payment keys and billing stay owner-only.
• Connect the WhatsApp assistant so customers can check data and renew without loading the portal — useful precisely when they have run out of data.
• Add your own email and SMS accounts if you plan to send announcements. Broadcasts need them; receipts do not.
• Turn on two-factor authentication on the owner account, which is the account that can change your payment keys.