Your guest Wi-Fi is your connect card.
A branded captive portal that captures every guest's name and contact info as they sign onto your Wi-Fi, drops them straight into Planning Center People, and triggers the follow-up workflow you already use for first-time visitors.
The problem
Connect cards get lost. Tablets at the welcome table get bumped, ignored, or run out of battery. By the time anyone enters guest info into Planning Center on Monday, most of it is illegible — and a third of your first-time visitors never get a follow-up email.
The fix
Every guest will, at some point in the service, look at their phone. When they connect to your Wi-Fi, our captive portal pops up — branded to your campus, with the fields you actually care about (first name, last name, email, optional phone, opt-in checkbox). Hit submit and three things happen at once: they get internet, you get a new record in PCO People, and your guest-follow-up workflow fires automatically.
Direct PCO People sync
New record created with a custom source tag ("Guest Wi-Fi — 2026-05-12"), instantly.
Workflow auto-assignment
First-time visitors drop into your existing follow-up workflow — no manual triage.
Returning visitor detection
Recognizes returning guests by email or phone and counts the Sunday, not the signup.
Your branding
Custom splash, logo, colors, welcome message, and consent language.
Sign-in options
Email, phone (SMS verification), or social — pick what matches your congregation.
Privacy-aware
GDPR-friendly consent, configurable retention, no third-party ad pixels.
What you need to run it
- A Wi-Fi system that supports an external captive portal — UniFi, Meraki, Aruba, OpenWrt, and most other modern controllers
- A Planning Center account with API access (any paid tier)
- About 30 minutes to set up the splash branding and pair the workflow
Where it's at
In active development with a launch waitlist. Churches on the waitlist help shape the first release and get founder pricing when it ships. Reach out and we'll save you a spot.
What guests see
A clean splash with your church's name and logo. Three or four fields. One button. Internet. The whole thing is shorter than filling out a paper card and feels like signing into any normal coffee-shop Wi-Fi — because that's what it is, with a much smarter back end.