The part everyone dreads is the part we deleted
Starting a paid hotspot, the usual way
On XenFi
Apply for M-PESA API credentials and wait
Skip it. M-PESA is already wired in
Hire a developer to integrate payments
Nothing to integrate. Create an account
Read till messages back to customers
Sessions start themselves on payment
Reconcile the float book every evening
Every shilling matches itself to a sale
M-PESA from day one
Customers pay from their phones and come online in seconds. No paybill paperwork stands between you and your first sale.
No monthly fee right now
Kenya currently runs on XenFi with no monthly charge and 0% per transaction. The fees page says so in writing.
Any router you own
MikroTik, UniFi, Omada and Ruijie are first-class; anything RADIUS-capable joins through the cloud core.
Hotspot and PPPoE
Walk-in bundles and monthly home clients, billed side by side in Kenyan shillings.
Vouchers and agents
QR voucher batches for the counter, SMS codes for agents selling in the field.
A dashboard that keeps score
Sales, sessions, router health and top users, live from any phone or laptop.
Lipa na M-PESA. Mtandao unajiendesha.
Pay with M-PESA. The network runs itself.