Blogs

It’s been a very busy month for Purple. We have released a number of new features and reports within the platform and have introduced some great updates to enhance our current reporting suite. Here’s what we have been working on. New features & reports Custom field selection Custom field selection…

With great data, comes great responsibility… Since Purple’s beginning in 2012, data security has been at the forefront of our business and we’ve always gone a step further by providing guests the moment they log in with an easy to read and digestible terms of business and privacy policy which…

We work with a number of enterprise-sized businesses across the world, many of which have thousands of access points across multiple locations. Manually configuring that many access points is a daunting task for any engineer. So, to help our customers tackle this issue, we have introduced automatic provisioning for Meraki…

Reflections Holiday Parks has committed almost $1 million to create a new WiFi infrastructure across four of its holiday parks along the NSW North Coast, partnering with Vertel and Purple. Reflections Holiday Parks CEO, Steve Edmonds, said the new WiFi infrastructure was successfully up and running at Forster Beach, Seal…

Purple, Cisco and AT&T have partnered with property development company, Related, to bring next generation visitor analytics to their Hudson Yards project in New York City.  At 28 acres and 18 million square feet, Hudson Yards is the largest private development in the history of North America. The ‘city within…

As the digital world evolves, citizens and visitors of towns and cities expect and demand to be served and communicated to in a way that reflects the world around them. Access to digital services is no longer a-nice-to-have, but a necessity.  When out in public, people expect the same level…

Gone are the days where you could pepper your customers with emails, SMS and other forms of communication.  Spray and pray marketing techniques will now alienate your customer base, see your email domains blacklisted and could very well land you in deep trouble with regulators, not to mention the potential…

Here at Purple we understand that users consume information differently. So with this in mind, over the last few months, we have made some significant changes to our training content and how it can be accessed.  Before we jump into the changes, I just want to clarify that we still…

Social login capabilities on captive portals are a great way of increasing login rates. By using pre-existing social network logins such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn, you allow users to seamlessly connect to your guest WiFi network. Simply speaking, social login takes all the effort out of signing into…

Location data provides more intelligence than just x and y. Yes, it can tell you how many people visit your venue, but did you know it can also be used to track visitor movement throughout your venue? Opening the doors for proximity marketing, way-finding, personalized customer engagement and more. The…

It’s no secret that one of the hottest questions in the boardroom of each business is “what will give us the competitive edge?” But in a hyper-competitive world, where technology is evolving at a faster rate than many businesses can keep up with, and customers are continually demanding more… How…

The next-generation customer is tech-savvy, well connected, and holds high expectations. A restaurant’s brand is no longer only about food. Don’t get me wrong; food is obviously very important, but it’s the digital experience that will leave a lasting impact on customers and ultimately allow restaurants to differentiate themselves from…

In this blog, we cover what is WiFi Analytics, WiFi analytics data, WiFi analytics for business, and why it is such a necessity for venues.

Looking for new ways to capture customer data? In this blog, we'll reveal the best methods of capturing customer data as well as their pros and cons.