Product facts, not vendor averages
Every tool a bar owner needs to fill
seats, grow reviews, and build regulars
Your guest list is your most valuable business asset. VoqadoWiFi builds it automatically every night, then helps you activate it with SMS, email, and targeted campaigns.
Event Promotion Campaigns to Your Guest List
Every time a guest connects to your bar WiFi, they join your marketing database. When you've got a themed night, a DJ residency, or a private hire coming up, you have a ready audience who've already been through your door. Targeted event promotion emails drive measurable ticket sales and covers.
Slow Night Promos That Fill Midweek Seats
Schedule a campaign to your segmented guest list for the mornings before your quiet nights, with whatever offer you choose, a happy hour, a two-for-one, a returning-guest discount. The platform handles the scheduling and the segmenting. Whether midweek fills is down to the offer, and we cannot promise you that part.
Birthday Club Automation: One Setup, Runs All Year
Capture birthdays at WiFi login and a scheduler sends a personalised invite ahead of each one, every year, with no further work from you. Birthdays are a good bet for a bar because the guest arrives with a group, but the size of that bet depends on your offer, not on our software.
Phone Capture at the Portal
You can add a phone number field to the login form and collect numbers alongside emails, with consent logged the same way. Be clear on what that gives you today: VoqadoWiFi stores the numbers and exports them, but does not send SMS campaigns itself. To text that list you would use your own SMS provider, fed by export, webhook, or the Enterprise API.
Guest CRM With Visit History & Frequency Data
Build a genuine understanding of your regulars. Know which guests visit weekly, which come for special occasions, and which you haven't seen in 60 days. Segment your marketing precisely, reward the regulars, re-engage the lapsed, and nurture the first-timers into loyal patrons.
GDPR-Compliant Data Capture & Consent Management
Every guest profile is built on explicit, timestamped consent captured at the portal, stored on EU infrastructure, with unsubscribe and erasure handled from the dashboard. That record is what makes the list usable, and it is the difference between a marketing asset and a liability.
From first visit to lifelong regular, automated
Setup in under an hour. Guest data captured from the first night. Campaigns running before you close.
Connect Your Bar WiFi
Point your TP-Link Omada or Ubiquiti UniFi controller at VoqadoWiFi. Your doors never close for it and no cabling changes. Those two platforms are the whole compatibility list, so confirm yours before you plan around it.
Guests Connect, You Build Your List
Every guest who wants WiFi sees your branded portal. They enter their details, consent to marketing, and get online. A busy Friday is the cheapest list-building night you will ever run, because the guests are already asking you for something.
Automated Campaigns Run While You Close Up
Birthday invites go out ahead of the date. Scheduled campaigns hit your segments before quiet nights. Event announcements target guests who came recently. Review requests land on the delay you set. All of it by email, which is the channel the platform sends on.
What a Friday night actually leaves behind
Two hundred guests in, and normally nothing out
A packed room is worth one night's takings and no way to reach anyone in it again. Here is precisely what the portal does to change that, and where its limits are.
A guest asks bar staff for the WiFi
They get your portal instead of a password shouted over the music. That redirect is the whole mechanism, and it works without any staff involvement on a busy night.
Email, optional phone, and consent are logged
Timestamped and stored together. The phone field is optional and the numbers are yours, though the platform will not text them for you, that needs your own SMS provider.
Regulars match to one growing record
Visit count and last-seen date increment instead of duplicating. This is how you find the people who came four weekends running and then stopped, which is the segment worth having.
A review request queues on a delay
Set in hours, so it lands the next morning rather than at closing time. Asking a guest for a review while they are still in the room is not a mistake you have to make twice.
Birthdays and quiet nights get scheduled sends
The birthday scheduler runs ahead of each date, all year, from one setup. Slow-night campaigns go to the segment you pick, on the morning you pick, by email.
The list leaves with you if you go
Contacts sync to Mailchimp, events fire over HMAC-signed webhooks, and you can export the whole database whenever you want. An owned list is only owned if you can take it.
A worked example, not a measured result
Suppose two busy nights a week bring 150 guests each, and 40% connect and complete the form. That is roughly 480 consented contacts a month. If a birthday campaign reaches 40 of them a month and one in eight comes in with a group of four spending £15 a head, that is £300 from an automation you configured once.
Every figure in that paragraph is an assumption chosen to show the arithmetic, not a measurement, and not a promise. Your door numbers, connection rate and spend per head are the only ones that matter.
Model it with your own door numbersThe hardware question, answered plainly
VoqadoWiFi works with TP-Link Omada and Ubiquiti UniFi, and nothing else. Plenty of bars are running a consumer router behind the bar, which will not work, worth establishing on day one rather than day thirty.
Bar WiFi marketing, your questions answered
From SMS campaigns and guest data ownership to event promos and hardware compatibility.
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