Anchor Captive Portal

Anchor is our subscriber captive portal that is now available to Admiral dedicated server deployments and compatible with hardware using RouterOS v7. To get started contact sales@remotewinbox.com to get your access setup on your server.

What is Admiral Anchor? #

Admiral Anchor enables you to display a user-friendly payment portal, allowing customers to subscribe to Internet access with ease. Whether they need access for a day, a month, or a year, Admiral Anchor seamlessly captures payments and manages subscriptions.

Getting started with a captive portal. #

Setup your payment processor. #

1. At this time Stripe is the only integrated payment option available. Sign up for an account at https://stripe.com/

Set up Stripe account: #

1. Navigate to your  Stripe  account > https://dashboard.stripe.com/
2. Go to the Developer’s dashboard
3. Click API Keys > you can see the publishable key here > click Create a secret key
4. Enable portal access and update payment processor credentials.

Enable Captive Portal Settings in Admiral #

To reach the captive portal settings page, user must have “Admin Settings” privileges or be a dashboard admin.

1. Navigate to Admin Settings> Captive Portals
2. Click the Enable Captive Portal Option
3. Select Payment Processor(Stripe is the only option at this time.)
4. Update Stripe keys to accept payments.
5. Copy your Publishable key from your Stripe account
6. Copy your Secret key from your Stripe account
7. Save Settings

Create Portal Products #

Once you have created a payment processor account and updated your credentials, you can create products for your subscribers to purchase.

1. Enter name – displayed to user on portal button.
2. Enter description displayed to user on portal form.
3. Select a one-time purchase or recurring subscription*.
4. Enter price without dollar signs in USD currency.
5. Select billing cycle.
6. Select Save

Please Note: with a subscription product a web hook needs to be added to the Stripe dashboard to update monthly billing. Contact support@admiralplatform.com for instructions on how to add.

Enable Captive Portal on Router #

The last step is to enable the router setting to apply configuration to the router that enables the captive portal.

1. Navigate to Router Listing->subscriber.
2. Click the toggle on the subscriber page to enable.

Anchor Reporting #

To reach the captive portal reports page, user must have “Reports” privileges or be a dashboard admin.

Look for the link under Reports drop-down menu.

Portal Reporting: Subscriptions #

Portal Reporting: Subscriber Details #

Click the View button to see billing details, create additional invoices or to cancel their subscription.

Create a one-time invoice to an existing customer.

Fill in the description, amount and days until due to generate a one-time invoice.

Portal Reporting: Unpaid Anchor Subscription and Invoices #

Click the link on the Subscriber listing page to view open invoices. Use the Invoice ID to investigate in the Stripe platform.