> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.wifipadi.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Operations and support

> What happened to the messages you sent, which sites went down, and your customers' support requests — in one place.

**Operations & Support** answers the questions you get asked when something goes wrong: *did my customer get that SMS?*, *when did that site drop?*, *who is handling this complaint?*

Go to **Operations & Support**. It has five tabs:

| Tab | What it shows |
| - | - |
| **Delivery history** | Every email and SMS WifiPadi sent for you, and what happened to it. |
| **Incidents** | Outages at your gateways, from the moment one goes offline until it recovers. Also where you schedule maintenance. |
| **Support tickets** | Requests your customers sent from the portal, and your replies. |
| **Internet quality** | Whether each site's internet connection is losing packets. |
| **Regional settings** | The timezone and date format this page uses, and SMS delivery reports. |

<Warning>
  **Nothing here emails or texts you.** A new incident, a new support ticket and a customer's reply all appear on this page and in the banner at the top of your dashboard — *Operations: 1 outage needs acknowledgment · 0 recovered in 24h · 2 open support tickets*. Check it the way you check your payments. Selecting the banner takes you to whatever needs you.
</Warning>

## Who can do what

| Action | Needs |
| - | - |
| See every tab | Any role |
| Reply to a ticket, change its status, assign it, acknowledge an incident | **Operator** or higher |
| Schedule or cancel maintenance | **Manager** or higher |
| Change regional settings or the SMS delivery report secret | **Owner** |

## Delivery history

Emails and text messages WifiPadi sends for your workspace are listed here — receipts, password resets, expiry reminders, announcements, team invitations and router alerts — with the recipient masked. Filter by status, by **Email** or **SMS**, and by date with **Since**. Select a message to see each attempt and anything the provider reported back.

| Status | What it means |
| - | - |
| **Accepted by provider** | Your email or SMS provider took the message. That is **not** proof it reached the inbox or phone — only that it left WifiPadi. |
| **delivered** | The provider confirmed it reached the phone. SMS only, and only once [SMS delivery reports](#sms-delivery-reports) are set up. |
| **retrying** | A temporary problem — the provider was busy or unreachable. WifiPadi tries again on its own: email up to five times, SMS twice. |
| **rejected** | The provider refused it for good — a wrong password, an unapproved sender ID, a blocked number. It is **not** retried. Fix the cause in [Email and SMS](/email-and-sms), then send again. |
| **failed** | It kept failing temporarily until the retries ran out. |
| **Acceptance unknown** | The connection dropped at the exact moment the provider was taking the message, so it may or may not have been sent. Check with your provider **before** you resend, or the customer may get it twice. |
| **bounced** / **deferred** | An email provider reported that the inbox refused it (bounced) or delayed it (deferred). |
| **skipped** | Nothing was sent, because no email or SMS account was set up to send it. |

<Tip>
  When you contact WifiPadi support about a message, quote the **Support reference** shown on it. It identifies the message without anybody needing the customer's contact details.
</Tip>

## Incidents

When a gateway goes offline, an incident opens here on its own — you do not create them. It stays open until the gateway comes back, and the whole history is kept: when it dropped, when someone acknowledged it, when it recovered.

| What you see | What it means |
| - | - |
| **Open** | The gateway is down and nobody has looked yet. |
| **Needs attention** | It has been down for about half an hour without being acknowledged. |
| **Planned maintenance** | It went down during a maintenance window you scheduled, so it does not escalate. |
| **Recovered** | The gateway is back. |

Select an incident to **Acknowledge** it — so the rest of your team can see someone is on it — and to set **Assigned staff**. The list shows open incidents by default; switch the status filter to see recovered ones.

### Planned maintenance

If you know a site will be down — the ISP is changing the line, you are moving the router — schedule it first. Under **Planned maintenance** on the **Incidents** tab, give a **Reason**, pick a **Location** (or **All locations**), and a **Start** and **End** in your own timezone. A window can last up to seven days. **Cancel window** ends one early.

An outage inside a window is labelled **Planned maintenance** and never escalates, so your team is not chasing work you planned.

<Note>
  A maintenance window does **not** tell your customers anything. To warn them, send a **Planned maintenance** [announcement](/announcements) as well.
</Note>

## Support tickets

Signed-in customers can ask you for help from the portal: they open their account, choose **Support**, and fill in a **Subject**, what happened, and — optionally — which purchase it is about. They can follow your replies on the same page.

Each request arrives on the **Support tickets** tab. Select one to read the conversation and answer under **Reply to customer**.

| Ticket status | Use it for |
| - | - |
| **open** | New, or still being worked on. |
| **Waiting for customer** | You have replied and need something from them. |
| **resolved** | Done. |

Set **Assigned staff** so two people do not answer the same customer. A ticket linked to a purchase shows which one, so you can check it under [Payments](/payments) before you reply.

<Tip>
  Customers only see your replies when they next open **Support** in the portal — WifiPadi does not email or text them that you have answered. If it is urgent, contact them directly as well.
</Tip>

## Internet quality

Your gateways check, every five minutes, whether they can reach two public addresses (1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8), and report how many of the checks were lost. Select a gateway to see the last day hour by hour.

* **Loss** near 0% is healthy. Steady loss usually means a problem upstream — the ISP, or the line into the building.
* A Nano Pi also reports **latency** (how long a reply takes). A MikroTik reports loss only, so latency reads *Latency not reported*.
* These are tiny checks, not speed tests. They use almost no data, and they cannot tell you how fast the line is.
* Some networks block these checks entirely. 100% loss with customers browsing happily means that, not an outage.

A gateway with no results has not been updated to report them yet: run **Agent update** on a Nano Pi, or **Update configuration** on a MikroTik — see [Looking after a gateway](/gateway-care#remote-actions).

## Regional settings

**Timezone** and **Date locale** decide how dates and times appear on this page and in your customers' **Support** page. They do not change billing, reports, or when anything happens — only how a time is written. The labels themselves are not translated.

They are set from your country when your workspace is created. Change them here if your venues are somewhere else.

### SMS delivery reports

If you send SMS through your own Termii account, Termii can tell WifiPadi when each message actually reaches a phone — that is what turns **Accepted by provider** into **delivered**.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Copy the callback address">
    **SMS delivery reports** shows a path that begins `/api/v1/billing/termii/`. In your Termii dashboard, set the webhook (delivery report) URL to `https://connect.wifipadi.com` followed by that path.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Set a signing secret">
    Choose a long random secret in Termii, then paste the same one into **New signing secret** here and select **Save secret**. WifiPadi ignores any report that is not signed with it.
  </Step>
</Steps>

The card reads **Signing secret configured** once it is saved. If saving fails, set up your SMS account under [Email and SMS](/email-and-sms) first.


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