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Free Access
The Free Access System allows you to give your guests free access two different ways:
You can allow free access once per period, for example 15 minutes free every day, or 1
day free per week. This is great for a coffee shop or restaurant that wants to advertise
free internet access but prevent guests from taking up a table for hours upon hours. The
guests will still get your welcome screen when they first log on, and if they qualify for free
access (if they have not had free access already in the predefined period) then they will
be invited to try the access for free. Once the free period has expired the guest will be
required to enter a valid ticket number or credit card (if you have those options enabled)
and the free option will not be displayed for that guest.
If you wish to allow unrestricted free access to your customers, but still have the custom-
ers view your site welcome page, you can set the Trial Time and Trial Period time to be
the same. For example; by setting the Trial Time and Trial Period both to 60 minutes,
your clients will see the welcome page once every hour.
To enable Free Access, select
Access Controls
in the top menu
and then
Free Access Setup
on
drop down.
Select the Trial Time, how much
time you want to allow them on the
system, and then select the
Trial
Period
, the amount of time that
must elapse before they get a new
free trial.
Press
Update
.
You may also customize the mes-
sage your users see by selecting
Customize Site
on the top menu
and
Free Access Text
on the drop
down hand menu and editing the
message.
Note: Free Access users are treated differently than permanent, ticketed, permacode
and credit card users by the Client Usage Policy. Free Access users will receive one-half
of the bandwidth allotment of all other categories of users set in the Client Usage Policy.
