# WifiPadi

> Help center for WifiPadi — set up your WiFi hotspot gateway, manage your account, and configure your WhatsApp assistant.

- [Welcome to WifiPadi](https://docs.wifipadi.com/introduction.md): What WifiPadi does, and the shortest path from signing up to your first paying customer.
- [Create your account](https://docs.wifipadi.com/create-account.md): Sign up for WifiPadi and create your business account.
- [Confirm your email](https://docs.wifipadi.com/verify-email.md): Why WifiPadi asks you to confirm your address, and what stays locked until you do.
- [Set up your account](https://docs.wifipadi.com/account-setup.md): Add a location, create a WiFi plan, connect a payment provider, and brand your captive portal.
- [Onboard a gateway](https://docs.wifipadi.com/gateway-setup.md): Connect a Nano Pi or MikroTik gateway to your WifiPadi account.
- [Read your dashboard](https://docs.wifipadi.com/dashboard.md): What each number on the home page, location page, and usage page means.
- [Designing your plans](https://docs.wifipadi.com/plans.md): Every field on a WiFi plan, what it does to the customer, and the one rule that surprises people.
- [Payments and revenue](https://docs.wifipadi.com/payments.md): Check payment status, record a cash sale, and reconcile against your payment provider.
- [Promotions and discounts](https://docs.wifipadi.com/promotions.md): Put plans on sale until a date, give WhatsApp buyers a discount, or hand out promo codes, without changing your plan prices.
- [Customers, devices and sessions](https://docs.wifipadi.com/customers.md): Find a customer, check what they bought, and see who is online right now.
- [Operations and support](https://docs.wifipadi.com/operations.md): What happened to the messages you sent, which sites went down, and your customers' support requests — in one place.
- [Vouchers and agents](https://docs.wifipadi.com/vouchers.md): Sell prepaid access codes, and let agents sell them on your behalf.
- [Recurring data grants](https://docs.wifipadi.com/automations.md): Give a fixed group of people an allowance every month or every week, automatically.
- [Announcements](https://docs.wifipadi.com/announcements.md): Tell your customers about an outage, planned work, or anything else — by email and SMS.
- [Portal ads](https://docs.wifipadi.com/portal-ads.md): Show your own promotions, or a sponsor's, on the screens your guests already look at.
- [Looking after a gateway](https://docs.wifipadi.com/gateway-care.md): What you can do to a router once it is online: reboot, back up, update, re-provision, and monitor your access points.
- [Connecting a payment provider](https://docs.wifipadi.com/payment-providers.md): Add your Paystack, Monnify or Flutterwave keys so customers can pay you directly.
- [WhatsApp assistant](https://docs.wifipadi.com/whatsapp.md): Let customers check their data and buy plans by messaging your business on WhatsApp.
- [Email and SMS](https://docs.wifipadi.com/email-and-sms.md): Send receipts, reminders and announcements from your own email and SMS accounts.
- [Use your own domain](https://docs.wifipadi.com/custom-domains.md): Serve your WiFi portal and dashboard on your own web address instead of a wifipadi.com one.
- [Your WifiPadi subscription](https://docs.wifipadi.com/subscription.md): The free trial, the two ways to pay for WifiPadi, and how to keep your workspace running.
- [Refer and earn](https://docs.wifipadi.com/referrals.md): Two separate reward programmes: one for the businesses you refer to WifiPadi, and one your customers run among themselves.
- [Workspace and security](https://docs.wifipadi.com/workspace.md): Your business details, portal look, sign-in security, and how to close the account.
- [Team and security](https://docs.wifipadi.com/team.md): Invite people to your workspace, choose what they can do, and turn on two-factor authentication.
- [Alerts and notifications](https://docs.wifipadi.com/notifications.md): Choose which alerts reach you when something needs your attention.


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