Within Onboarding, splash pages allow you to manage every step of your visitor WiFi experience, from login methods and beautifully designed splash pages, to branding, promotions and advertising that encourage spend and help drive revenue. You can create splash pages for the following access journeys:
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Offline - This page is always required as part of the onboarding to WiFi. These pages appear before the user logs in and authenticates the user onto the network. The page can display limited content, but it cannot include external links/resources as the user is still in the Walled Garden.
- Online - Appears after the user successfully logs in to the WiFi, these pages are optional as an access journey may redirect the user to a URL instead. As these pages appears after the login you can display external links and media such as promotions and offers, upcoming event information and links to your website.
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Out of hours - A special type of offline page to prevent logins outside of configured business hours. Similar to an offline splash page the user is in the Walled Garden and therefore you can only display limited content.
Splash pages are built using either a standard type where you can use a simple form to choose which elements to include or the HTML type which gives you access to custom HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Once you have created your splash pages you can then create the customer access journey.
New Splash Page
All pages you create are stored in Your templates, we also provide some templates within System templates. You can use an existing template and customize this to your requirements as this provides you with a base template which includes a lot of the content you need.
Existing template
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Choose a template, click on the ellipsis and select Duplicate, enter the details as follows:
Name
Enter the name of the splash page, for example the branch or venue name. Use
Determines the use for the splash page:
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Offline - The user sees the page before they connect to the WiFi
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Online - The user sees the page after they connect to the WiFi
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Out of Hours - The user sees the page out of hours.
Ownership scope
Determines the ownership level for the template. For example, venue level gives venue managers and above access to the template. Owned by
Applies an owner to the template, for example, a particular venue. -
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Select Create New you can now edit the template as required.
The next screen opens either the standard splash page builder or the HTML splash page builder depending on the selected Type.
New template
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Within Onboarding > Splash pages select Create new template.
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Complete the fields as follows:
Name Enter the name of the splash page, for example the branch or venue name.
Use Determines the use for the splash page:
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Offline - The user sees the page before they connect to the WiFi
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Online - The user sees the page after they connect to the WiFi
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Out of Hours - The user sees the page out of hours.
Ownership scope Determines the ownership level for the template. For example, venue level gives venue managers and above access to the template.
Owned by Applies an owner to the template, for example, a particular venue.
Type Determines if the template is:
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Standard - Provides you with a simple user interface to choose what elements you would like to include on your splash page.
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HTML - Provides you with an HTML interface when you can customize the page to your requirements as well as add custom CSS and JavaScript.
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Select Create New to build your splash page.
The next screen opens either the standard splash page builder or the HTML splash page builder depending on the selected Type.
Language settings
Splash pages have elements that are applied on a per template basis. Any text boxes on the splash page can have a customized language version.
When logging into Wi-Fi, default text on the splash page will be determined by the user's browser language settings. Purple translates all fixed elements on a standard (template) splash page. Custom text you might have set on the page will not update with the browser's language settings.
There is the option to set splash page messaging to a preferred language, in order to cater to a multilingual user base. This can be updated by creating a new language version in your access journey.
If you are using an online splash page as your redirect you may need to create a new translated version of this so the appropriate language displays. This would be carried out the same way, as detailed here.
Data Collected
Purple collects data about the client's device as soon as the client loads a splash page. This data is
passed by the network controller as URL parameters to the splash page or is taken from HTTP
headers passed by the browser.
For web authentication:
At the splash page, the end user is invited to enter data to authenticate to the WiFi. The exact data collected differs according to the configuration defined by the customer, and at a minimum the data collected may be no more than an acceptance of the terms and conditions of joining the WiFi.
For more information on data collection, click here.