One tap gets a guest their free hour, and you get their number if they say yes to offers. Nobody camps on one laptop all afternoon. And when the slow hour comes, you can text everyone who said yes.
SMS · to guests who said yesSlow afternoon? 2-for-1 cappuccinos at Kahawa Tamu, 3–5pm today ☕ Reply STOP to stop.
An example
Sound familiar?
Five things café Wi-Fi gets wrong, and what changes.
Most cafés live with at least one of these. Flip the switch to see each one fixed.
← You're looking at today. Try the switch.
The chalkboard passwordToday's code
The password is on the chalkboard. The shop next door knows it too.
If you want, the Wi-Fi asks for today's code. It changes every morning.
So do the people on the pavement outside. Your line is shared with people who never ordered a thing.
A 4-digit code that renews by itself at opening time, printed on the receipt or the menu board. Anyone who types yesterday's code is told it has expired.
FREE WI-FIkahawatamu2024same password since 2024
Also used next door and on the pavement
KAHAWA TAMU · THU
TODAY'S WI-FI CODE4821
Renewed 07:00 · yesterday's code has expired
The laptop campersA free hour each
One coffee, one table, one laptop, all afternoon.
Every phone and laptop gets a free hour a day. Then it's someone else's turn.
Meanwhile the Wi-Fi is slow for everyone else, and the guests who'd order a second round give up.
Time, data and speed are your settings: 1 hour, 500 MB and 5 Mbps to start. The same device twice is told "back tomorrow from 07:00". Sell more time by M-Pesa if you like.
Your internet line · 14:3094% used
One laptop, Table 4, since 10:00Everyone else
Table 9 · 14:32"Is the Wi-Fi down?"
Online now5 Mbps each
Phone · Table 2free hour · 41 min leftonline
Phone · Table 9free hour · 12 min leftonline
Laptop · Table 43 more hours · KES 50, if you sell itback tomorrow 07:00
Nobody to call backVisitors
Hundreds of guests a week. Not one number to show for it.
A visitor list that builds itself, one row per person.
They came, they liked it, they left. If they don't come back by themselves, you'll never know who they were.
A phone number or an email, how many visits, first and last visit, and whether they said yes to offers, with the date they said it.
Guests through the doorevery day
Numbers you kept0
Ways to reach themnone
VisitorsOffers
Ann Wairimu · 0712 448 12023 visits · since June · last today 08:41yes · 14 Jun
Empty tables at 3pm, and no way to reach your regulars.
Send an offer to the people who said yes. Only them.
You could post on social media and hope. The people who already love your mandazi won't see it.
By SMS or email, each the way they left their contact. Send yourself a test first. Every SMS says how to stop, and a STOP reply takes them off the list.
Thursday · 15:002 of 12 tables
Your regulars are out there. You can't reach them.
Send an offer
To the guests who said yes · SMS to numbers, email to the rest
2-for-1 cappuccinos at Kahawa Tamu, 3–5pm today ☕ Reply STOP to stop.
Send me a test firstSend now
GuessworkToday and Reports
You guess when you're busy, and who comes back.
Busy hours and returning guests, on the first screen you open.
Is it really lunch? Do Saturdays beat Fridays? Are people coming back, or is it always new faces? Right now, nobody knows.
Today shows who's online now, visits so far (new and back) and the busy hours. The visits report opens on the month: visits, people, new and back, how many came back within 30 days, and the busiest hours.
Busy at lunch… I think?the owner's guess
Regulars? Maybe Ann.the waiter's guess
No numbers, only guesses
Today · Thursday 13:10
14online now
31visits · 19 back, 12 new
27by now on a usual Thursday
071013161921
Visits report · September: 41% came back within 30 days
An example: a Thursday at Kahawa Tamu
Watch a day run itself.
An 80-seat café in Kilimani, open from 07:00. What the guest sees on their phone, next to what your staff see in the console.
or choose any moment
What the guest seesWhat your staff see
Kahawa Tamu
Free Wi-Fi for our guests
Phone number0733 905 214
Today's code7390
That was yesterday's code. Today's is on your receipt.
Get my free hour
Today · Thursday
4821
Today's coderenewed 07:00, at opening
Yesterday's codeexpired
Print the code card
Code card printed at the counter · 07:03
Kahawa Tamu
Free Wi-Fi for our guests
Phone number0745 210 337
Today's code4821
✓Send me offers from Kahawa Tamu
Get my free hour
1 free hour a day
Visitors · new today
0745 210 337
First visittoday 10:15
Visits1
Offersyes · today 10:15
Free hour started · 1 hour, 500 MB, 5 Mbps
Kahawa Tamu
✓
You're online
38 minutes left of your free hour
Continue to the internet
See our menu →
Today · 13:00
Lunch rush
Online now38
Each deviceup to 5 Mbps
Visits today64 · 37 back, 27 new
The line is shared fairly. Nobody waits for one laptop.
Kahawa Tamu
Your free hour is used for todayIt's back tomorrow from 07:00.
3 more hoursKES 50
Pay with M-Pesa
Only if the café sells more time
Today · more time sold
KES 150
3 more hoursKES 50 each
Sold today3
Paid byM-Pesa, on the Wi-Fi page
M-Pesa · 3 more hours · KES 50 · 15:02
Messages
Kahawa Tamu Slow afternoon? 2-for-1 cappuccinos at Kahawa Tamu, 4–6pm today ☕ Reply STOP to stop.
16:00
Visitors · send an offer
2-for-1 cappuccinos
Goes toonly the guests who said yes
HowSMS to numbers, email to the rest
Testsent to you first · 15:55
Sent 16:00 · "Reply STOP to stop" added. A STOP reply takes a guest off the list.
The network underneath
The same Speedy Connect, set up for how a café runs.
Every edition shares one network platform. Here's what each part does for a café.
01 RoutersYour MikroTik at the counter, watched.
Set up with one paste. You get an email if it goes quiet, and you can swap it without your guests noticing.
02 AccessA free hour, today's code, or a table code.
One tap for the free hour. Add today's code if you want only paying customers online, table codes if you ever need them, and paid passes if you sell more time.
03 ControlTime, data and speed, per visit and per device.
An hour, 500 MB and 5 Mbps to start. Change any of them, so the line is shared fairly when it's busy.
04 MoneySell extra time by M-Pesa, if you want to.
Off until you turn it on. Guests pay on the same Wi-Fi page, and you see what sold today.
05 GuestsA contact list, and offers that respect it.
A phone number or an email, kept only with a yes. Offers go by SMS or email to the people who said yes, and STOP takes anyone off.
06 VisibilityBusy hours, regulars and a visits report.
Today shows who's online and how the day is going. The monthly report shows visits, new and back, and the busiest hours. Export it as CSV.
Getting started
Live the same day you decide.
You keep your router. We set up the rest with you on a call.
1A call with us
We look at your café, your router and how you'd like the free hour to work.
30 minutes
2Choose your free hour
How long, how much data, and what you ask guests: a phone number, an email, either, or nothing.
minutes
3Connect your router
Paste one line into your MikroTik. That's the whole install.
minutes
4Print today's code card
If you use today's code, print the card for the counter. Guests are online.
same day
First sign-in? The console's Today screen walks you through a three-step set-up.
Is it allowed to collect guests' numbers?
With the guest's consent, yes, and Speedy Connect is built around that, as Kenya's Data Protection Act asks. The offers box is unticked until the guest ticks it, and their yes is kept with the date they gave it. Offers go only to people who said yes, every SMS says how to stop, and a STOP reply takes them off the list. You can also forget a person: their contact, visits and devices are removed.
Can I charge for Wi-Fi?
You can, but you don't have to. The free hour stays free. If you want, sell more time as passes on the same Wi-Fi page, like 3 more hours for KES 50, paid by M-Pesa. It's off until you turn it on.
Do I need a new router?
Not if you have a MikroTik: you keep it, and connecting it is one line pasted into it. If you don't have one yet, we'll talk through it on the call.
I have more than one branch.
Each branch's router joins the same account, grouped by location, so you run every branch from one place.
Book a café demo
See your own café running on Speedy Connect.
30 minutes on a call or video. We'll set up a demo with your café's name and show you the free hour, today's code and sending an offer.