Thursday, March 26, 2009

Monthly Recurring Subscriptions

From now on you can create a monthly custom package with recurring payments.

This is very useful if you have long-term paying customers.

All you have to do is to select the "Recurring payment" option on the Create or Modify Custom Package page. Then your splash page will change automatically and the package will show "recurring payment" text so your users can easily identify that the amount will be charged in every month.

Your users can cancel the subscription any time on Worldpay's or PayPal's website, or we can cancel it for them too. Our refund policy says:

"If you have paid for HotSpot access through the system or paid for a service, you have right to cancel within seven days of the purchase in case you haven't used the service that you've paid for. If you cancel your order, you will have your payment returned."

So if a customer forgets to cancel the subscription, he/she can cancel it within 7 days and we will refund the amount of the last charge, if he/she didn't use the account during that period.

One more thing: credit card companies don't charge recurring users on an exact time when 1 month expires. So to ensure continuos hotspot access, users will get 1 month access until the end of the day. For example if they buy the monthly access at 13:00 PM on 26th March, 2009, they will have access until 23:59PM on 26th April, 2009. Their card will be charged at some time on 26th, April 2009 which will add an other month for them.

Recurring option is available only with monthly packages.

Friday, March 6, 2009

HotSpotSystem.com Presents: Skins

We have added a new level of customization for those who would like to modify their Hotspot Start pages further, called Skins.

You can now create your own Skins, insert HTML codes into templates, changing graphics etc.

You can even create different Skins for different locations.

For more information, please download the Skin Guide: http://www.hotspotsystem.com/deskpro/attachment_files.php?id=17

Please also visit our Knowledgbase articles at: http://www.hotspotsystem.com/deskpro/kb_cat.php?id=11

IMPORTANT: YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO REMOVE THE HOTSPOTSYSTEM.COM COPYRIGHTS FROM THE TEMPLATES. If you would like to use your own brand, you need to purchase the White Label option.

The Skin management can be found in the Operator Area, where the new Skins menu will appear.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Custom Login, Logout URL support for Custom APs/Routers

By default, our system is using http://192.168.182.1:3990/prelogin as a user login URL which is supported by DD-WRT/Chillispot/Coova.

Now you can customize this link if you're using an other device which is using an other URL format to call the login/logout pages.

You can find this option in the Operator Area > Hotspot Locations > click on location > Modify Hotspot Data > Start Page Settings section.

Support for CoovaAP

CoovaAP is an OpenWRT-based firmware designed especially for HotSpots. It comes with the CoovaChilli access controller built-in. CoovaChilli is an improved version of Chillispot which is included in DD-WRT.

Now you can use the CoovaAP firmware with the built-in CoovaChilli. The installation guide can be found on this page:

http://www.hotspotsystem.com/en/hotspot/install_guide_coova.html


For more information on CoovaAP, you can visit: http://coova.org/wiki/index.php/CoovaAP
For CoovaChilli, you can visit: http://coova.org/wiki/index.php/CoovaChilli