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WiFi for retail brands and store chains

Know the shoppers who walk into your stores, not just the ones who shop online

Your ecommerce team knows every visitor by name. Your stores see thousands a day and remember almost none of them. Purple turns store WiFi into consented first-party data, loyalty sign-ups and app growth, on the access points you already own.

  • One-line sign-in with marketing consent
  • 400+ CRM and martech connectors
  • Store insight from every visit
  • Tills and colleagues on their own secure networks
Shoppers browsing in a bright flagship store, one checking a phone by a display table
Welcome back, AmiraFourth visit this month, opted in to offers
Loyalty sign-upEmail pre-filled, sent to your CRM
Trusted by retail brands includingHarrodsMichael KorsJimmy ChooUnder ArmourHome Depot MexicoGrupo SanbornsAvocaMAJA Sportswear
The gap

Most of your sales happen in store. Most of your shopper data comes from online.

Retail marketing teams can name, segment and re-engage every website visitor. The same people walk into a store and become anonymous the moment they cross the threshold. That blind spot usually shows up in four places.

A typical store estate today

  • Free WiFi with a password on a card by the till, and no idea who connected
  • Sign-up forms that shoppers abandon halfway through, with no marketing consent at the end
  • A loyalty scheme and app that store visits never feed into
  • Card terminals, handheld scanners and shoppers' phones sharing one network

With Purple

  • Every connection becomes a named, opted-in shopper. Jimmy Choo moved its opt-in rate from 60% to 90%.
  • Consented records flow straight into your CRM through 400+ data connectors
  • The sign-in moment invites shoppers into loyalty and your app. Harrods added 4,453 loyalty members in a year.
  • Shoppers, colleagues and store devices each on their own network, kept apart from the payment network
One platform, four jobs

Everything your stores need from WiFi, run centrally for the whole estate

Four jobs that usually sit with four different suppliers, managed from one dashboard by your head office marketing and IT teams.

Shoppers

The first impression on the screen they are already holding

A shopper who signs in to your WiFi is making a choice, not clicking past a form, so the list you build is opted in and accurate. Purple puts that moment in your brand, keeps it to one line for returning shoppers and asks for consent in plain words. Jimmy Choo moved its opt-in rate from 60% to 90% after switching on one-line sign-in.

  • Sign in with email, social login or a short form, in the languages your shoppers speak
  • Returning shoppers reconnect in one line and are recognised on every visit
  • UK GDPR and CCPA consent recorded with a full audit trail
  • Ask only for what you will use, and build profiles over later visits

Avoca moved its opt-in rate from 48% to 72% in the first week of one-line sign-in.

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A shopper signing in to store WiFi on her phone beside a rail of clothesShopper sign-in
Loyalty and CRM

Turn store visits into loyalty members and repeat sales

WiFi data only pays when it reaches the systems your team already runs. Purple sends every opted-in shopper to your CRM, email platform and loyalty scheme, and uses the sign-in moment to invite them further in. Harrods asked shoppers one extra question at sign-in and added 4,453 loyalty members in a year. Michael Kors added a date of birth field and its birthday campaign drove €216,515 in sales.

  • 400+ data connectors, including Salesforce, HubSpot, Braze, Mailchimp and dotdigital
  • Send shoppers straight to loyalty sign-up with their email already filled in
  • Promote your app at the moment of visit. Under Armour passed 3 million rewards sign-ups against a goal of 1 million.
  • Trigger birthday, welcome-back and lapsed-shopper messages from real store visits
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A shopper at a till tapping her phone to join a loyalty scheme while a colleague packs her bagLoyalty
Store insight

Audience intelligence from every store, not just the flagship

Head office sees sales by store. Purple adds who came in: how many shoppers were new or returning, how long they stayed and what they told you. One-question surveys at sign-in reach people while they are standing in your store. Home Depot Mexico collected 120,800 responses at a 96% response rate across 27 stores.

  • New and returning shoppers, visit frequency and dwell time for every store
  • Surveys at sign-in to test ranges, opening hours and store events
  • Compare stores, regions and formats from one dashboard
  • Every figure based on consented, permission-based data
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A store manager and a regional manager reviewing a tablet on the shop floor before openingStore insight
Store network

A secure network for the people and devices that run the store

Shop floor colleagues, card terminals, handheld scanners, digital screens and stockroom printers all need a connection, and none of them belong on the shopper network. Purple gives colleagues sign-in with their work account and gives every device its own key, so a leaked password never reaches the tills.

  • Colleagues sign in with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta or Google Workspace, and leavers lose access when their account is disabled
  • xPSK gives EPOS, scanners and screens their own key and VLAN, revocable one at a time
  • Shopper traffic kept apart from the payment network, the separation PCI DSS asks for
  • DNS content filtering on the shopper network keeps family-friendly stores family-friendly
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A store colleague scanning stock with a handheld device in a tidy stockroomStaff and devices
More than free WiFi

What store WiFi usually does, and what it does with Purple

The same access points, doing a different job for your marketing and IT teams.

What you need
Typical store WiFi
With Purple
Getting online
A shared password on a card by the till
One-line branded sign-in, recognised on return
Shopper data
Anonymous connections, or an export nobody opens
Named, opted-in shoppers sent to your CRM
Consent
Unclear, and hard to evidence if asked
UK GDPR and CCPA consent with a full audit trail
Loyalty and app
Promoted on posters and receipts
Invited at the moment of visit, with details pre-filled
Tills and devices
One shared key across terminals, scanners and screens
A private key and VLAN for every device
Hardware
Tied to one vendor, store by store
Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi and more
A retail marketing team reviewing a calm shopper dashboard in a bright head office
Results from retail brands

Measured in sales and sign-ups, not connections

Retail brands use Purple to fill their CRM, grow loyalty and bring shoppers back. These are the results they have measured.

£4.2m
in sales from WiFi-opted-in shoppers and loyalty sign-ups in 12 months at Harrods
90%
marketing opt-in rate at Jimmy Choo, up from 60%
3m
rewards sign-ups at Under Armour, against a goal of 1 million
649%
return on a WiFi-driven birthday campaign at Michael Kors

Figures from Purple's work with Harrods, Jimmy Choo, Under Armour and Michael Kors.

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How it works

Live across your estate without new hardware

  1. 1

    Point your access points at Purple

    We configure the shopper, colleague and device networks on the access points already in your stores.

  2. 2

    Design the sign-in and connect your CRM

    Your brand, your consent wording and your data fields, sent to your CRM, email platform and loyalty scheme.

  3. 3

    Roll out store by store

    Start with a pilot group of stores, measure opt-ins and sign-ups, then switch on the rest of the estate.

Talk to our retail team

See what your stores could know about their shoppers

Tell us about your estate and your CRM, and we will show you how sign-in, loyalty, insight and the store network would work on your hardware.

  • Works with Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cambium, Extreme and Fortinet
  • 400+ data connectors, including Salesforce, HubSpot, Braze, Mailchimp and dotdigital
  • ISO 27001 certified, UK GDPR and CCPA compliant, zero data breaches since 2012

Book a retail demo

A 30-minute call with someone who knows retail CRM and store networks.

Retail WiFi questions, answered

What retail marketing, CRM and IT teams ask us most

Do we need to replace the access points in our stores?

No. Purple layers on top of the access points you already own, including Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cambium, Extreme and Fortinet. There is no rip and replace.

Is the shopper data we collect GDPR compliant?

Yes. Shoppers give consent in plain words at sign-in, and every record carries a full audit trail. Purple is ISO 27001 certified, UK GDPR and CCPA compliant, and has had zero data breaches since 2012.

Which CRM and marketing platforms do you connect to?

Purple has 400+ data connectors, including Salesforce, HubSpot, Braze, Mailchimp and dotdigital. Opted-in shoppers flow into the platforms your team already uses, so there are no exports to manage.

Can WiFi help grow our loyalty scheme and app?

Yes. The sign-in moment can invite shoppers to join your loyalty scheme with their email already filled in, or promote your app. Harrods added 4,453 loyalty members in a year this way, and Under Armour passed 3 million rewards sign-ups.

How do we run this across hundreds of stores?

Everything is managed centrally from one dashboard. Head office sets the sign-in, consent and connectors once, and you can tailor offers or surveys by store, region or format. Home Depot Mexico runs it across 27 stores and MAJA Sportswear across 102.

How do we keep tills and payment devices separate from shopper WiFi?

Shoppers sit on their own network, apart from the payment network, which is the separation PCI DSS asks for. Card terminals, scanners and screens each get their own key and VLAN through xPSK, and colleagues sign in with their work account.

Can store colleagues use the same platform?

Yes. Colleagues sign in with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta or Google Workspace and get a certificate-based WiFi pass. When someone leaves and their account is disabled, they cannot reconnect, and there is no shared password to change.

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