Your dashboard

Besides packages, sales and payouts, your dashboard shows who is on your Wi-Fi and how your routers are doing, and makes vouchers to sell for cash. The menu groups it: Hotspot, Network and Money.

Overview

Your earnings today, over 7 days and over 30 days with a chart, each hotspot's status, and the Get started checklist until its steps are done.

Sales

Every paid purchase, newest first: when it was paid, the customer's number and Mobile Money network, the payment's Transaction ID, the hotspot, the package, the amount, your share, the code it got, and whether it has been paid out to you. Use it to answer a customer who says they paid: ask for their number or the transaction ID.

  • Waiting (code hotspots): the customer paid but the package had no codes left. Add codes and they get theirs automatically.
  • Mark refunded: if you gave such a customer their money back yourself, mark the order refunded so it stops waiting. The sale stays paid to you, since the refund came from you.

Payouts received at the bottom lists what has been sent to you, with references.

Active users

Every device online on your MikroTik hotspots: its code, MAC and IP address, which router, the package and time left, how long it has been online and the data it used. Search by code, MAC or IP, or pick one router.

Disconnect logs a device off within 10 seconds. It can log back in while its purchase still has time; it only stays off once the purchase ends.

Routers report every minute. Routers installed before script version 6 show "needs the new install command": run their install command again (Hotspots › Router setup).

Customers

Everyone who has paid on your Wi-Fi, by the Mobile Money number they paid with: how many purchases, how much they spent, their latest package and where, and since when they're a customer.

  • Online: customers whose purchase is logged in on one of your routers right now (a green dot).
  • Top spenders: who spends the most.
  • Came back: how many bought more than once.

Vouchers

Codes to print and sell for cash at your MikroTik hotspots, for customers without Mobile Money or to sell through a shop.

  1. Vouchers › Generate vouchers.
  2. Pick the router and the package: time, data, speed and devices come from the package.
  3. Choose how many (up to 500), the length, an optional prefix (such as WIFI), letters and/or numbers, and upper or lower case. Codes leave out 0/O and 1/I/L, which get misread off paper. Numbers-only codes have at least 8 digits, so nobody can guess one.
  4. Print gives a sheet of cards to cut out (or save as a PDF). CSV downloads the list for your own printing.

The vouchers are on the router within seconds. A customer joins the Wi-Fi, opens any website, taps Have a voucher code? and enters the code. The package's validity starts at first use.

Each voucher shows as Active (not used yet), In use, Used (time, data or validity used up) or Disabled. Disable stops one at once, also for someone using it. Disable unused stops a whole batch's unused vouchers, for a lost or stolen sheet.

Voucher sales are cash in your hand, so Tuvorlink's usual 4% commission is taken from your next payout instead, and only for vouchers a customer has used (unsold or lost vouchers cost nothing). Each payout shows what was taken off. If no payout covers it in a month (for example you have no Mobile Money sales), it's invoiced on the 1st of the next month and shows under Invoices.

Promotions

Offers that show on your Wi-Fi page by themselves for a while; nobody types a code (for codes, see Discounts).

  • Percentage off (up to 90%) or amount off: customers see the badge, the old price crossed out and the new one, and pay the new price. Tuvorlink's fee is on what they pay. A price never goes below GHS 0.50.
  • Bonus data: extra data on top of a package's data, for packages with a data limit on MikroTik routers (codes made on other devices keep their own limits).
  • Choose the packages (or every package), the start and end, and if you like only some days of the week: tick Saturday and Sunday for a weekend deal.

When several promotions apply, the customer gets the biggest price cut and the biggest data bonus. Pause, End now or edit a promotion any time; one nobody bought with yet can be deleted.

Fair usage

Purchases close to (80% or more) or past their package's fair usage amount, on your MikroTik routers, with the data used and the customer's number.

  • Slow down now: applies the package's slower speed straight away.
  • Reset: gives a slowed purchase its full speed back, and its fair usage amount starts over from the data used so far.

The router applies either within 10 seconds; the device reconnects once at the new speed. Set fair usage on a package under Packages: see Packages.

IP binding

Devices your MikroTik lets through without the login page, by MAC address: a printer, a POS, a staff phone, an access point extending your Wi-Fi (see MikroTik), or a regular customer who paid you in cash.

  • From a package: the device gets the package's speed, and its time or validity as the end date (no payment is taken).
  • Custom: a speed such as 2M/5M (upload/download; empty for full speed) and a number of days (empty for no end).
  • Add several devices at once with one MAC address per line. The MAC address is in the device's Wi-Fi or network settings.
  • Pause cuts a device off at once; Resume lets it through again until its end date.

Pause internet

Cut the internet on a router from anywhere and bring it back; the router and its Wi-Fi stay on.

  • Pause the hotspot: customers lose internet; your own devices on other ports keep it.
  • Pause the whole router: every device behind it loses internet.

Customers are logged off when you pause, and purchases with a time limit keep counting while paused, so pause for short spells.

Policies

Simple rules for your MikroTik routers, on every router or the ones you choose, all the time, in the evenings (6 to 11 pm) or on weekdays (8 am to 6 pm):

  • Block sites: up to 100 site names, such as sportybet.com (subdomains are blocked too). Ready-made lists for social media, video streaming, betting and adult sites help you start.
  • Router DNS for everyone: every device has to look sites up through the router, so customers can't dodge blocks with their own DNS settings or Android's "private DNS". Blocking sites switches this on by itself.

Blocking works by site name: apps that use their own connections may still get through.

IP binding, Pause internet and Policies need the router script from version 7. Routers apply changes within 10 seconds.

Network status

Your MikroTik routers right now:

  • Online / offline: a router counts as down after 3 minutes without contact.
  • Last outage and uptime over 24 hours, and the outages of the last 7 days.
  • Health: CPU, memory, model, RouterOS version and how long since the router restarted.
  • Needs attention: offline routers, no hotspot running, an older router script, a router whose CPU or memory is nearly full.
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