Paystack
Sell WiFi with Paystack
Guests on your WiFi pay with Paystack by card, bank transfer or USSD, and the money settles to your bank. WifiPadi runs the login page, the plans and the router, and takes nothing out of the payment.
How a guest pays
- The guest joins your WiFi and your login page opens.
- They choose a plan and pay on Paystack's checkout by card, bank transfer or USSD.
- Paystack confirms the payment and WifiPadi lets the phone online in seconds.
- The money settles to your bank on Paystack's schedule.
Set it up
- Create your WifiPadi account. It is free for 21 days, no card needed.
- In Settings, then Payments, paste your Paystack public and secret keys and save.
- Copy the webhook URL shown under the form into your Paystack dashboard, so payments confirm in seconds.
- Connect your MikroTik on RouterOS 7.3 or newer, or an OpenWrt router, with the one command from the dashboard. It also lets guests reach Paystack's pages before they have paid, with no walled garden entries to type.
What it costs
WifiPadi takes nothing out of a Paystack payment. Paystack charges its own fee on each payment. WifiPadi bills ₦10,000 per location a month in Nigeria, or 2.5% of WiFi sales, never more than ₦10,000 per location for new accounts.
No Paystack account?
Use Instant Payments instead. You need no registered business and no payment account, just your name and a bank account, and you withdraw your sales whenever you like.
Questions hotspot owners ask
Do guests need a Paystack account to pay?
No. They pay on Paystack's checkout by card, bank transfer or USSD, like any online purchase.
Why does the webhook matter?
The webhook is how Paystack tells WifiPadi a payment succeeded. With it the guest is online in seconds. Without it a fallback check runs a few minutes later, and some guests give up before it does.
Can I use Flutterwave or Squad instead?
Yes. In Nigeria you can connect Paystack, Flutterwave or Squad, or more than one of them.
Which routers work with WifiPadi?
MikroTik routers on RouterOS 7.3 or newer, Nano Pi routers, and other routers running OpenWrt. You connect a router by pasting one command we give you in the dashboard.