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WiFi for places of worship

WiFi that welcomes everyone who comes through your doors

Churches, cathedrals, mosques, gurdwaras, synagogues and temples welcome worshippers, tourists, families and community groups, often in the same week. Purple gives visitors a filtered welcome in their own language, gives staff and volunteers their own sign-in, and keeps livestream and AV kit on a network of its own.

  • Sign-in in each visitor's own language
  • DNS content filtering for families
  • Volunteer access that expires on its own
  • Runs on the access points you already own
Visitors of different ages walking quietly through a bright, high-ceilinged place of worship, one glancing at a phone
Welcome page in SpanishOpening times and visitor guide on screen
Family filter onYouth group network, kept apart from staff
Runs on the access points you already ownCisco MerakiHPE ArubaRuckusJuniper MistUbiquiti UniFiCambiumExtremeFortinet
The gap

Your building serves a whole community. Your WiFi was set up for the office.

A single place of worship can host services, school visits, tourists, a food bank, a youth club and a wedding in the same week, run by a small staff team and a rota of volunteers. A router in the vestry or office was never built for that. The gap usually shows up in four places.

A typical place of worship today

  • One password, written on a card by the door and shared with everyone
  • No filtering on the network children and young people use
  • Volunteers who still have the password years after they stopped helping
  • The livestream camera and the card reader on the same network as every visitor

With Purple

  • Visitors join through a welcome page in their own language, with what is on today
  • DNS content filtering with Internet Watch Foundation integration on the public network
  • Staff sign in with their own account, and volunteer keys expire when the rota ends
  • Every device gets its own key and VLAN, kept away from the public
One platform, four networks

Everyone and everything in your building, each on the right network

Four networks that would normally need four suppliers, run from one dashboard on the hardware you already have, whether you look after one building or a hundred.

Visitors

Turn a visit into a lasting connection

Tourists at heritage sites, families at a baptism or naming ceremony, guests at a wedding and people looking in for the first time all reach for their phones. Purple greets them with a welcome page in your name and in their own language, shows what is on today, and asks permission before anything is sent to your CRM. Glasgow Life uses the same sign-in to run short surveys of tourists and residents across its venues.

  • Sign-in follows the language set on each visitor's phone
  • Today's services, events, tours and ways to give on the screen they are already holding
  • Separate opt-ins for event news and giving, with UK GDPR consent and a full audit trail
  • Sign-ups sent to your CRM and email platform through 400+ data connectors
Explore guest WiFi
A visitor holding a phone with a welcome screen in a quiet, sunlit place of worshipVisitors
Congregation and community

Filtered WiFi for every group that meets under your roof

Youth clubs, parent and toddler groups, study circles, food banks and support groups all use your building, and many of them include children and vulnerable adults. Purple Shield filters the public network at DNS level, so you decide which categories, apps and sites load and harmful content is blocked before it reaches a screen.

  • DNS content filtering with phishing and malware protection
  • Internet Watch Foundation integration on every public network
  • You choose what the sign-in asks for, and ask for no more than you need
  • Community groups kept on the public network, away from staff, office and devices

Data minimisation is built in: ask only what you need, keep every consent on record, and nothing reaches your mailing list without a clear opt-in.

Explore the captive portal
A community group of parents and young children gathered in a bright hall beside a place of worshipFiltered WiFi
Staff and volunteers

Access that starts and ends with the rota

Clergy, administrators, caretakers and finance staff connect with the account they already use. Purple syncs with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, Okta and JumpCloud over SCIM, so when someone leaves their access goes with them. Volunteers who have no work account get a time-limited key instead, with nothing to install.

  • Staff sign in with Entra ID, Google Workspace or Okta, with no shared password
  • Access ends when an account is disabled in your directory
  • Time-limited keys for volunteers, contractors and visiting speakers, with no device management
  • Every session logged with person, device, time and location
Explore staff WiFi
A small team of staff and volunteers preparing a hall for a community event, one checking a laptopStaff and volunteers
Devices

A private key for the livestream, the sound desk and the card reader

Livestream cameras, sound and AV systems, screens, card readers for giving, CCTV and door controllers cannot sign in with a username and password. xPSK gives each one its own key and VLAN, with its own firewall and bandwidth settings, so a visitor on the public network cannot reach them and a leaked key affects one device, not the building.

  • Revoke a single key without re-keying every device
  • MAC binding ties each key to the first device that uses it
  • Works under your vendor's name: iPSK on Cisco, DPSK on Ruckus, MPSK on HPE Aruba and Juniper Mist, PPSK on Extreme and UniFi
  • No per-device licence and no cap on devices per key
Explore xPSK
A volunteer at a sound desk beside a livestream camera on a tripod at the back of a quiet worship spacexPSK
One platform instead of four

What it takes to build it yourself, and what it takes with Purple

Everything a large venue's network team would build and run, delivered as a service on the hardware you have.

What you need
Build it yourself
With Purple
Visitor welcome
A password on a card, in one language
A welcome page in your name, in each visitor's own language
Content filtering
A separate filtering appliance, or none at all
DNS content filtering with Internet Watch Foundation integration
Staff and volunteers
One shared password, never changed
Directory sign-in for staff and time-limited keys for volunteers
Livestream and AV kit
On the same network as every visitor
A private key and VLAN for each device
Event and giving sign-ups
Paper forms and a spreadsheet
Consented sign-ups sent to your CRM through 400+ data connectors
Hardware
Often tied to one vendor's licence
Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi and more
A church administrator and a volunteer coordinator reviewing a calm network dashboard in a small office
Built for small teams

Run every network with the people you already have

Most places of worship have no IT department, just an administrator, a caretaker and a few willing volunteers. Purple takes the WiFi off their list, from the visitor welcome to the filtering and the volunteer keys, and lets a diocese, trust or association see every building from one dashboard.

99.9%
RADIUS uptime SLA, with UK, EU and US regions
400+
data connectors to send consented sign-ups to your CRM
90+
countries where Purple is deployed
0
data breaches since 2012. ISO 27001 certified.

Figures from Purple platform data and service terms.

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How it works

Live without new hardware

  1. 1

    Tell us about your building

    Who visits, which groups meet, what devices you run and the access points you already have.

  2. 2

    Point your access points at Purple

    We set up the visitor, community, staff and device networks on the hardware you own, with nothing installed on site.

  3. 3

    Switch on, network by network

    Start with the visitor welcome and filtering, then add staff, volunteers and devices with our onboarding team.

Talk to our venues team

See your building on one network platform

Tell us about your place of worship and we will show you how visitor, community, staff and device access would work on your hardware.

  • Works with Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cambium, Extreme and Fortinet
  • DNS content filtering with Internet Watch Foundation integration
  • ISO 27001 certified, UK GDPR compliant, UK RADIUS region

Book a demo for your venue

A 30-minute call with someone who understands places of worship.

Place of worship WiFi questions, answered

What administrators, trustees and estates teams ask us most

Do we need to replace our access points?

No. Purple runs on the access points you already own, including Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cambium, Extreme and Fortinet. There is no server to install in the building.

Is the public network safe for children and young people?

Purple Shield filters the public network at DNS level, with phishing and malware protection and Internet Watch Foundation integration. You choose which categories, apps and sites load, and staff and devices sit on separate networks.

Do visitors have to hand over personal details to get online?

You decide what the sign-in asks for. Ask only what you need, keep separate opt-ins for event news and giving, and every consent is recorded with a full UK GDPR audit trail. Nothing reaches your mailing list without a clear opt-in.

How do we give volunteers access without sharing a password?

Give each volunteer, contractor or visiting speaker a time-limited key that stops working when it expires, with no app or device management needed. Staff with a work account sign in through Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace or Okta instead.

How do livestream cameras, AV and card readers connect?

With xPSK. Each device gets its own key and VLAN, with its own firewall and bandwidth settings, bound to the first device that uses it. Visitors on the public network cannot reach it, and you can revoke one key without touching any other device.

We look after many buildings. Can we manage them together?

Yes. A diocese, trust, association or group of congregations can run every building from one dashboard, with the same filtering and sign-in everywhere or different settings per site. Purple is licensed per access point and per venue, not per device.

Where is our data held?

Purple has RADIUS regions in the UK, EU and US, is ISO 27001 certified and UK GDPR compliant, and has had zero data breaches since 2012.

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