Nebula [Captive Portal] - How to create Wi-Fi Voucher within the Nebula Cloud Solution?

Hotel applications and other WiFi setups, catered toward guest visits, often require Voucher services. It's an easy way to have the receptionist simply print the vouchers and distribute them to the clients, without having too much networking experience. In this guide, we will show you how to get a WiFi Voucher configuration within our Nebula Cloud solution.

Function description

• The voucher provides network access for a limited time period

Scenario

A customer goes to a hotel and wants to purchase 24 hours’ wireless network to use. The reception provides the customer a voucher code to login the wireless network after he/she pays.

Configuration

Go to Site-wide -> Configure -> Access points -> SSID advanced settings

• Select the SSID you want to set Voucher, and there’s only one SSID in a site able to use Voucher

• Enable the sign-in method to "Voucher", and click "Save"

• Create or manage vouchers. Сlick on the hyperlink as in the photo. These settings can also be found at the address in the highlighted area below

Go to Site-wide -> Configure -> Access points -> SSID advanced settings

• Click "Create" and the "Create Voucher" form will open
• Fill in the required fields and click "Create"

• The voucher passcode can be printed

•  You can customize the information printed on the voucher setting page

Go to Site-wide -> Monitor -> Access points -> Vouchers: Settings

Result

When the customer pays and gets the passcode to access WiFi, he/she connects to the SSID “Voucher” and the connected device, like NB, pop-up the login page as you set. After successful authentication, you will be prompted with the "Success!"-Message.

• After the customer login, you can check the client information in

Go to Site-wide -> Clients

• The clients login with Voucher will show in the Authentication column.

• You can also check the event log in

Go to Site-wide -> Monitor -> Access points -> Event log

• The passcode started to count and the status is “Activate”

• It’s available to Reset, delete, or print the voucher code. When you reset the voucher passcode, it will become unused status

Here’s the status of the Voucher passcode for your reference.

• Unused - This passcode is just created and hasn’t used for authentication
• Active - This passcode is used for authentication with duration remaining
• Expire - This passcode reaches the duration period and can’t be used for authentication again
• Delete - This passcode hasn’t been used and reaches its purged period

Note:

• The maximum is 1024 users to log in through captive portal per site, including all sign in methods. When user number is exceeded, disassociate the station with the longest idle time.
• Because Voucher is a feature in Nebula Professional Pack, when license is expired, the related setting is greyed out from web GUI, and SSID that using voucher will be disabled.