Have you many locations?
If you have many locations to create, please contact our support team and we'll help you to bulk upload all of them.
The APIs for creating locations are also available upon request.
When a new Location is created, the Organization Manager has administrator rights to create Splash Pages, Internet Plans and manage end-user sign-up processes. With the creation of a new Location, an account for a Location Manager is also created. This credential can be used to log in to the Cloud4Wi Dashboard and depending on the Location profile assigned, the Location Manager will be able to customize and manage the Location or will have restricted access to view certain functionalities
Before creating a new Location, please make sure to have the following information:
- An access point configured to use the Splash Page (see our compatibility list here)
- The "identifier" of this access point (if required, click here for explanation)
- The MAC address of the access point (optional for some vendors)
You can create a new Location by clicking Manage → Locations from the quick access toolbar on the left and then clicking Add. Follow the wizard and fill in all the information as described below, the data entered in this step can be subsequently modified.
Step 1 - General
The first step to creating a new Location is to provide inventory information such as:
Location details
- Name: the unique name for the Location. This field is mandatory.
- Business name: the name of the business which the Location belongs to. This field is optional.
- Description: a short description of your Location.
- Category: the merchant category which represents the Location. It is strongly recommended to set this value since some applications need this value set in order to correctly work. This field is optional.
- Country: the country of the Location. This field is mandatory.
- Tags: one or more keywords that describe the Location and allow you to simplify some operations (search, fast splash portal/login profile assignment operations). This field is optional.
- Address: the address of the Location. This field is mandatory.
- City: the city of the Location. This field is mandatory.
- State/province/region: further geoLocation data of the Location. This field is mandatory.
- ZIP/postal code: the ZIP or the postal code of the Location. This field is mandatory.
- Time zone: defines the timezone for the Location. Recurring Internet Plans automatically reset at 00:00 AM of each day and in order to ensure that end-user is able to utilize corresponding internet plans, it is necessary to set the correct timezone. This field is mandatory
Location administration
- Location Profile: indicates access rights assigned to Location Managers. See the following article for more details: Location profiles. This field is mandatory
Admin
- First name: the first name of the Location Manager. This field is mandatory.
- Last name: the last name of the Location Manager. This field is mandatory.
- Email: the email address of the Location Manager. This field is mandatory.
- Phone number: the phone number of the system user. This field is mandatory.
- Send activation details by email: if the box is checked, Cloud4Wi Dashboard username and password are emailed to the specified address.
- Send activation details by text message: if the box is checked, login credentials to access the Cloud4Wi Dashboard can be sent by SMS if service is active.
Step 2 - Services
The second step requires the configuration of basic options for the service management:
- Devices: indicates the device types the Location will be supporting (Access Point, FogSense, Sensor, etc.).
- Service status: indicates if the Location is currently active (Enabled) or not (Disabled).
- Identity domain: indicates if end-users are provided with Internet only for the current Location (Locations) or for all the Locations under the main Organization (Organization).
- Login Profile: indicates the sign-up and social login options assigned to the Location. See the following article for more details: Login Profile configuration and options. This field is mandatory.
- Splash Page: identifies the Splash Page assigned to the Location. See the following article for more details: Different methods to create a Splash Page. This field is mandatory.
Internet access policies
- Internet Plans Domain: indicates if the Location inherits the Internet plans from the main Organization (Organization), or has its own standalone set of Internet plans (Location). If you are choosing Location, then you can select between a set of Internet plans. Anyway, the Location Managers will be able to create or edit Internet plans, according to the Location profiles settings.
- Default Internet Plan: Indicates which internet plan is assigned to the Location. This field is optional.
Step 3 - Device
The third step of this guide shows how to activate the first access point in the Location. It is mandatory to add at least one access point during the creation of a Location. If you don't have the necessary access point information, choose Chillispot/Coovachilli as the hardware manufacturer, since this allows fake data to be entered for the MACService status address and the identifier field.
- Name: the unique name for the access point. This field is mandatory.
- Type: through this field, it is possible to select the type of device. This field is mandatory.
- Description: an optional short description of the access point.
- Hardware manufacturer: this field identifies the vendor or one of supported firmware. This field is mandatory.
- MAC address: the MAC address belonging to the access point. This field is mandatory.
- Identifier: the Identifier used by the platform to identify the access point, depending on the access point vendor, this field is optional.
- Country: the country of the access point. This field is mandatory.
- Address: the address of the access point. This field is mandatory.
- City: the city of the access point. This field is mandatory.
- State/province/region: further geoLocation data of the access point. This field is mandatory.
- ZIP/postal code: the ZIP or the postal code of the access point. This field is mandatory.
The ‘Same as Location address’ checkbox lets you use the same Location data provided during the first step
