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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 customers 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 message 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.
Bandwidth Tiers
- You can set the amount of bandwidth that Free Access users
receive relative to others (ticketed, PayPal and Permanent users). Bandwidth Tiers
allow you to provide a basic level of service free to customers while providing other
users a higher level of service. If you set the
Bandwidth Tier for Free Clients
to 100%,
then users pushing the Free Access button will get the same amount of bandwidth as
all other users. You can also select 50% or 25% bandwidth level, providing Free
Access users 25% or 50% of the bandwidth other users get, as determined your
setting under the Client Usage Policy setting.
