Plenty of businesses hand out free Wi-Fi, but very few actually manage it. Portalista is the platform that turns guest Wi-Fi from an open, uncontrolled service into something branded, secure, and measurable, all from a single web dashboard.
More than a login page
A captive portal is only the login screen a guest sees. Portalista is the whole system behind that screen. It handles user accounts, authentication, bandwidth and quota policies, reporting, and log storage, so the login page is just the visible tip of a much larger management platform.
The four core services
- Cloud dashboard: user management, content management, and analytics, all hosted in the cloud so there is nothing to install on site.
- External captive portal: a customizable login page that can meet corporate branding and policy requirements.
- Cloud RADIUS server: authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) for controlling internet access centrally.
- Remote log server: stores your internet access logs for months, which matters for public Wi-Fi compliance.
It works with the hardware you already have
Portalista does not lock you into one brand of access point. It integrates with EnGenius, MikroTik, Cisco, Aruba, Fortinet, Peplink, TP-Link, and Cisco Meraki, so you can add captive portal management on top of an existing network. See how this works in our guide to using one captive portal for any access point.
Cloud or on-premise
You can run Portalista fully in the cloud, or deploy it on-premise inside your own data center when local hosting is required. If you are weighing the two, read our comparison of cloud versus on-premise deployment.
Because it scales from a single cafe to hundreds of sites, Portalista fits hotels, retail chains, restaurants and co-working spaces, campuses, hospitals and clinics, government offices, and corporate workplaces alike.
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