Captive portal

    The page where a customer decides whether to buy. It is the only part of your network most of them will ever see.

    ✓ Your branding and prices✓ M-Pesa at the portal✓ Voucher entry✓ Custom domain available

    What the customer does

    They connect to your Wi-Fi, and instead of the internet their phone opens your login page. Your packages are on it with your prices. They pick one, enter their number, approve the M-Pesa prompt, and they are online — or they type a voucher code if they bought one over a counter.

    It is yours, not a stock MikroTik page

    The default RouterOS login page tells a customer nothing and sells nothing. Yours carries your name, your colours, your packages and your support number, and it can run on your own domain so the address bar does not say somebody else's.

    • Your logo, colours and business name.
    • Your packages and prices, in the order you want them.
    • A support number customers can actually call — and a second one, because the first is often busy.
    • Your own domain, so the portal reads as part of your business.

    Watched, because a broken portal is silent

    A portal that stops working does not generate complaints — customers connect, see nothing useful, and go elsewhere. Portal health is monitored separately from router uptime for exactly that reason, because a reachable router can still be serving a page that no longer sells anything.

    Common questions

    Can customers pay directly on the login page?
    Yes, and it is the whole point. They enter their number, an M-Pesa prompt arrives on their phone, and access opens when Safaricom confirms. No Paybill number to find, no code to be handed.
    Can I use my own domain for the portal?
    Yes. The portal can be served on a domain you own rather than a shared one, which matters if you want the page to read as your business rather than your supplier's.
    Why does the portal not open on some Android phones?
    Usually the walled garden. Android checks a specific address to decide whether a network needs a login, and if that check is blocked the phone concludes there is no portal and shows nothing. It is the most common cause of a hotspot that appears to work but sells nothing, and it is a configuration problem rather than a device fault.
    Do customers have to log in again every time?
    Not within a session they have paid for. A device that has already been authorised reconnects without being asked again until the time they bought runs out.

    See it on your own network

    Seven days free, on the MikroTik routers you already run, with your own customers.