Your WiFi password is the most-asked-for thing in your rental — stop giving it away for free. Guests scan a card, enter their name and email, and get online. Every sign-in is matched to the stay and tagged booker vs guest, in a list you own.
Start free — one property, no hardware How it worksStart with the card. Add forced sign-in when you want every guest — same account, same list, nothing to migrate.
*Industry-reported capture rates for WiFi sign-in in forced-portal mode. A QR card cannot reach that number and we won’t pretend otherwise — your own figures show live in the dashboard.
Every August the same families come back to the lake — and every August we found out through Airbnb, paying the fee again. The tools that fix this quote you a price on a call and ship you a $284 router.
So we built our own: a QR card on the fridge, a sign-in page, and a list that knows which stay each person belonged to. It runs on the Bell router the cottage already had. Then we opened it up.
Free for one property, because that’s how we’d have wanted to try it.
Replace the laminated password card with a QR code. Guests scan it with their camera — no app.
Name, email, optional mobile, a required WiFi-terms box and a separate, unchecked marketing opt-in. Then the password appears with a one-tap “Add WiFi to iPhone”.
Each sign-in is matched to the reservation from your PMS or iCal, tagged booker vs guest, with proof of consent. Export it, or let the automations send the welcome, the review ask and the winter offer.
The password-gate mode works on any router — Bell, Rogers, Deco, eero, whatever came with the internet. Want forced sign-in today? Any OpenWrt router works with our installer. A pre-configured $79 box is coming soon.
Hospitable connects directly (it's what we run). Any iCal feed works too — Airbnb, Vrbo, every PMS exports one. Hostaway, Guesty, OwnerRez, Lodgify and Smoobu direct connections are in beta. Sign-ins land on the right stay automatically.
Your list grows every week. Nobody should charge you more because it did.
Opt-in is a separate unchecked box, never a condition of WiFi, every consent logged with time, IP and wording. CASL, CAN-SPAM and GDPR-ready out of the box.
Who came, when, which property, whether they opted in, and which reservation they belonged to. Filter, export, or send.
| Name | Marketing | Last seen | Property | Stay | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Priya & Dev M. | priya.m@… | opted in | Aug 30 | The Water’s Edge | airbnb · Aug 29 → Sep 1 (booker) |
| Jordan K. | jordan.k@… | no | Aug 30 | The Water’s Edge | airbnb · Aug 29 → Sep 1 |
| Sam & Lee T. | sam.t@… | opted in | Aug 23 | The Nest | vrbo · Aug 22 → 25 (booker) |
| Ana R. | ana.r@… | opted in | Aug 23 | The Nest | vrbo · Aug 22 → 25 |
An illustration of the contacts view, not a screenshot — names are made up. We’ll swap in real (redacted) numbers from our own cottages once we have a season’s worth.
The QR card, the sign-in page, consent records. No card needed.
Start freeEverything, plus the automated email that wins the direct booking.
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Get in touchNo per-contact fees, ever. Full pricing and what’s still coming →
It’s the same ten seconds as hotel WiFi, and the password is the reward. A clear “we’ll send you the guest guide” line turns it into a perk. You control every word, and you can make email optional.
No. The free plan works with any router because the card leads to a page, not a network. If you later want guests to be forced to sign in before they get online, a $79 plug-in box does that on your existing WiFi name.
Yes, done properly. CASL needs express consent for marketing email, so our opt-in is a separate unchecked box, never required for access, and every consent is recorded. That’s the default, not a setting you have to find.
They don’t see the page in password-gate mode. In box mode they’re allow-listed once and never prompted.
Everything except printing the card. A cleaner or co-host can put it on the fridge.