Tuesday, April 21, 2009

HotSpotSystem.com is on Twitter

We are now posting regularly on Twitter. You can receive instant status updates, tips, product deals, etc.

Follow us at http://www.twitter.com/hotspotsystem

Twitter is a unique approach to communication and networking based on the simple concept of status. What are you doing? What are your friends doing—right now? With Twitter, you may answer this question over SMS or the Web and the responses are shared between contacts.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Optional Voucher Registration

From now on you can force users with Pre-Paid or Free Vouchers to register before they can activate the voucher. This is required by the law in some countries, but you can also use it to collect personal information from your users, like e-mail addresses. Users personal data can easily be exported in the Transactions menu.

So here's how it works:

You can enable this option on a per location basis, just click on Hotspot Locations > Select Location > Manage Location > Require Registration of Vouchers in the Start Page Settings section.

After then the following will happen:

Users enter the code as before on the Hotspot Start page. If the code was valid, the same registration form appears as if it was a credit card transaction. Users have to choose a username, password, and fill out other registration details, like name, postal address, email address, etc. After users fill out the form, the activation link will be shown, along with the card details (expiration, bandwidth, etc).

The user registration is a system-wide process, so if the same user enters an other voucher code on the Hotspot Start page, then he or she can use the username and password which he/she has registered previously.

IMPORTANT: Users have to use their username and password instead of the voucher code when they log in to the Hotspot!

Optional Access to Vouchers For Secondary Operators


You can now grant access to Secondary Operators so they can access Vouchers for the location you specify. This means that they can print the Vouchers for themselves.
Additionally, you can grant/prohibit access to the Modify Vouchers' Layout page to allow/prevent to modify the Voucher prints.