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WiFi for pubs, bars and managed pub estates

Turn match nights and quiz nights into guests who come back

Every guest who joins your WiFi is someone you can recognize, thank and invite back. Purple turns the sign-in moment into consented guest data, schedules promotions per brand and per pub, and keeps tills and card machines on their own network. On the access points you already own.

  • Consented guest data for your CRM
  • Promotions scheduled per brand and per pub
  • Content filtering by time of day
  • xPSK for tills, card machines and screens
Friends sharing drinks and food around a table in a busy pub on a match night
Welcome back, JamieRecognized from last match night, opted in to offers
Quiz night offer liveShowing at 12 pubs from 7pm to 9pm
Trusted by pub groups and hospitality brands includingStonegateGuinness StorehouseMetropolitan GamingKingsbarns DistilleryPizza ExpressMcDonald'sThe K Club
The gap

Your busiest night of the week tells you nothing about who was there

A packed pub on a Saturday is a room full of people you could bring back on a Tuesday. Most pub WiFi lets them in anonymously, slows down when the match kicks off and shares a network with the tills. That gap usually shows up in four places.

A typical pub today

  • A WiFi password chalked behind the bar, and no idea who used it
  • Promotions on posters and beer mats that reach whoever happens to read them
  • A network that crawls at kick-off when the whole room starts streaming
  • Tills, card machines, jukeboxes and screens on the same network as guests

With Purple

  • A branded sign-in moment that builds consented guest data your CRM can use
  • Offers scheduled per brand and per pub, on the screen guests are already holding
  • DNS filtering that blocks ads and heavy content, cutting downloaded data by up to 40%
  • Every device on its own key and VLAN, kept apart from guest traffic
One platform for the whole estate

Everything a pub group needs from its WiFi, from one dashboard

Four jobs that usually mean four suppliers, run across every site by your marketing and operations teams, with IT signing off once.

Guest data

Know who is at the bar, not just how many phones are in the room

Guests sign in once through a branded welcome page and opt in to hear from you. Unified Accounts remember them on the next visit, at any pub in your estate, so the data builds with every round. Stonegate lifted its opt-in rate by 17% on Purple, and collected 32,000 survey responses in a single month.

  • One-line sign-in that recognises returning guests across every site
  • Email addresses verified with NeverBounce, so fake and disposable sign-ups never reach your list
  • In-venue microsurveys that ask guests what brought them in, with a 77% response rate at Stonegate
  • CCPA/CPRA consent with a full audit trail, ISO 27001 certified underneath
Explore guest data
A guest at a pub table signing in to WiFi on her phone while friends chatGuest data
Sports nights and events

Promote the match, the quiz and the band to the pubs that are showing them

Set a campaign once and Purple shows it only at the sites taking part, only while it is running. Guinness Storehouse scheduled its St Patrick's weekend welcome page in advance, reached all 4,281 visitors without anyone switching pages by hand, and saw a 39% marketing opt-in rate.

  • Welcome pages scheduled by brand, by pub and by date, with LogicFlow choosing what each guest sees
  • A family-friendly network in the afternoon and a different policy after 9pm, set by venue, time and day
  • Ad blocking at the DNS layer loads pages 3.5x faster when the whole room is online
  • QR codes on in-venue signage take guests straight to the right network, as Metropolitan Gaming found with 25.5% more sign-ins

Content filtering is IWF and Friendly WiFi certified with enforced SafeSearch, so you can keep a family pub family-friendly without a separate filtering supplier.

Explore guest WiFi
A crowded pub watching a football match on large screens, guests holding drinks and phonesMatch nights
Loyalty and apps

Turn a WiFi sign-in into a loyalty member

The moment someone joins your WiFi is the moment they are most open to your app, your season pass or your loyalty scheme. Stonegate used its welcome pages to promote the MiXR Season Pass across the brands taking part, earning 129,183 impressions and 1,478 click-throughs in four weeks.

  • Ask whether a guest is already a member and send everyone else to sign up, as Metropolitan Gaming does
  • Opted-in guests flow into Airship, SevenRooms, Braze, Bloomreach, HubSpot or Iterable
  • SecurePass connects returning guests automatically, with no form to fill in again
  • 400+ data connectors for your CRM, email platform and loyalty scheme
See the integrations
Two friends at a bar, one showing the other an app on her phone as their drinks arriveLoyalty
Tills and devices

Tills, card machines and the jukebox, each on a network of their own

EPOS terminals, card readers, kitchen screens, TVs, music systems and CCTV cannot sign in with a username. xPSK gives each one its own key and its own VLAN, so a password shared with a guest never reaches your payment kit, and a lost device can be cut off without re-keying the pub.

  • Separate guest traffic from card machines, the segmentation PCI DSS assessors look for
  • Revoke a single key without touching any other device on site
  • Time-limited keys for contractors, engineers and agency staff, with no MDM needed
  • Works under your vendor's name: iPSK on Cisco Meraki, DPSK on Ruckus, MPSK on HPE Aruba, PPSK on Ubiquiti UniFi
Explore xPSK
Behind a pub bar, a touchscreen till and card terminal beside a bartender pouring a drinkxPSK
More than free WiFi

What pub WiFi usually does, and what it does with Purple

The same access points and the same busy Friday. A different return for your marketing, operations and IT teams.

What you need
Typical pub WiFi
With Purple
Getting online
A password on the chalkboard, shared by everyone
A branded sign-in moment that remembers returning guests
Guest data
None, or a spreadsheet of unverified emails
Verified, consented records sent to your CRM
Promotions
Posters, printed and swapped by hand at every pub
Scheduled per brand, per pub and per date from one dashboard
Match nights
Slows to a crawl when the room starts streaming
DNS ad blocking cuts downloaded data by up to 40%
Tills and card machines
On the same network as guests
Each on its own key and VLAN with xPSK
Hardware
Tied to whatever the installer fitted
Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi and more
A pub general manager and an area manager reviewing a guest dashboard at the bar before opening
Proof from hospitality

Measured in sign-ups, members and return visits

Pub groups and hospitality operators use Purple to grow their guest data, fill their loyalty schemes and keep WiFi off the IT team's to-do list. These are results they have measured.

17%
increase in marketing opt-in rate at Stonegate
129k
impressions in four weeks for Stonegate's MiXR Season Pass promotion
25.5%
more WiFi sign-ins at Metropolitan Gaming after in-venue QR signage
90%
fewer WiFi-related on-site IT visits at McDonald's Belgium

Figures from Purple customer results: Stonegate, Metropolitan Gaming and McDonald's Belgium.

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How it works

Live across your estate without new hardware

  1. 1

    Connect your access points

    We point the access points you already run at Purple, site by site, with no rip and replace.

  2. 2

    Brand the sign-in moment

    Each brand gets its own welcome page, consent wording and campaigns, connected to your CRM and loyalty platform.

  3. 3

    Roll out pub by pub

    Start with a handful of sites, prove the numbers with our onboarding team, then switch on the rest of the estate.

Talk to our hospitality team

See what your pubs could know about their guests

Tell us about your estate and we will show you how guest data, scheduled promotions and device keys would work on your hardware, with the results Stonegate and others already see.

  • Works with Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cambium, Extreme and Fortinet
  • Opted-in guests sent to Airship, SevenRooms, Braze, Bloomreach, HubSpot or Iterable
  • ISO 27001 certified, CCPA/CPRA compliant, zero data breaches since 2012

Book a pub estate demo

A 30-minute call with someone who knows pubs and bars.

Pub and bar WiFi questions, answered

What operations, marketing and IT teams at pub groups ask us most

Do we need to replace our access points?

No. Purple layers on top of the access points you already own, including Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cambium, Extreme and Fortinet.

Can each brand in our estate have its own WiFi experience?

Yes. Each brand gets its own welcome page, consent wording and campaigns, and LogicFlow decides which pubs show which page and when. Stonegate runs promotions only at the sites taking part.

Will guests actually opt in to marketing?

A clear, branded sign-in moment and a reason to opt in make the difference. Stonegate increased its opt-in rate by 17%, and Guinness Storehouse saw 39% of visitors opt in over its St Patrick's weekend.

Does it connect to our CRM and loyalty platform?

Yes. Opted-in guests flow into Airship, SevenRooms, Braze, Bloomreach, HubSpot or Iterable, or into Purple's built-in CRM, and 400+ data connectors cover the rest of your stack.

How do tills, card machines and screens connect?

With xPSK. Each device gets its own key and VLAN, bound to the first device that uses it and kept apart from guest traffic. You can revoke one key without touching any other device.

Can we make the WiFi family-friendly during the day?

Yes. DNS content filtering lets you set policies by venue, time and day, for example enforcing SafeSearch in the afternoon and relaxing it after 9pm. It is IWF and Friendly WiFi certified.

Is our guest data secure?

Purple is ISO 27001 certified, Cyber Essentials Plus accredited, and CCPA/CPRA compliant, and has had zero data breaches since 2012. Every opt-in is recorded with a full consent audit trail.

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