Vivid Connect turns a Starlink dish or any internet line into a paying WiFi hotspot: customers buy data with Mobile Money in seconds, vouchers arrive on WhatsApp, and your earnings from every sale settle into your own MoMo or bank account — automatically, every day.
| Customer paidMTN Mobile Money · 32 seconds | GHS 1.00 |
| Your earningssplit out at the moment of payment | GHS 0.93 |
| Platformyour agreed rate — nothing else deducted | GHS 0.07 |
| Customer online | ✓ |
That's how long a real customer took to go from "no internet" to online — picked a bundle on the WiFi login page, approved the MoMo prompt, got the voucher on WhatsApp, connected automatically.
If you've run an internet hotspot business before, you've lived in at least one of these columns. Here's what each way really costs you — and what changes when the system runs itself.
| Capability | Sharing the password“Come, I'll type it in for you” | Printed ticketsa MikroTik you configure yourself — by WinBox or a helper app — plus a ticket roll | App on a PCa billing app self-hosted on a computer at the site | Vivid Connectthe hotspot that runs itself |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Selling while you sleep | ✗You are the vending machine. No you, no sale. | ✗Tickets run out while you're away — sales stop until you print more. | ~Only while the PC and the power hold. One outage, zero sales. | ✓The login page sells 24/7. The voucher generates and activates itself the moment payment lands. |
| How customers pay | Cash in your hand, then you type the password into their phone. | Cash for a paper code — and only when you're around to sell it. | Cash, or the vendor's own payment setup. | ✓MoMo or card right on the WiFi login page. No app, no account, no you. |
| What the customer gets after paying | ✗A whispered password. No receipt, no record, nothing to show for it. | ✗A slip of paper to lose. No receipt, no warnings — the first sign the bundle is finished is the internet dying. | ~An on-screen or printed code. After that, silence. | ✓Voucher code and package details land on their WhatsApp the moment payment clears — plus usage warnings before the bundle runs out and a nudge to renew, so they top up instead of dropping off. |
| Where your money goes | A pocket and a memory. | A cash box you count at night. | Often through the vendor's gateway — operators commonly wait for a weekly payout. | ✓Split at the moment of payment, settled to your own MoMo or bank daily. Or plug in your own gateway. |
| Packages & speeds | ✗One "package" per SSID — your access point decides how many plans you can sell. | ~User profiles you build by hand in WinBox, one per speed tier. | ~Whatever got set up on install day. | ✓Time, data, both or unlimited — each with its own speed and price, created or changed from your phone in seconds. |
| Time & data limits | ✗None. Customers stay online until you notice and block them. | ~Time mostly. Data caps are a DIY project — and whether time burns while they're offline depends on settings most sellers never checked. | ~Depends entirely on the app. | ✓Enforced at the network by RADIUS — cut off at the limit, to the second and the megabyte. Online time pauses when they disconnect. |
| One code, one customer? | ✗One password feeds the whole street — and everyone they text it to. | ~One login at a time, if you configured it right. | ~Depends on the app. | ✓Device slots per voucher — you decide how many devices a code can feed. |
| Coming back online | They never really left — that's the problem. | ~Re-enter the code and hope the clock wasn't burning while they were away. | ~Usually re-login. | ✓Recognised and reconnected automatically — timed plans only count while they're actually online. |
| Accounts & unlimited plans | ✗No accounts. "Unlimited" means they have your password forever. | ✗No self-registration — every unlimited customer is a login you create and chase by hand. | ~Accounts exist, but the admin creates them at the shop. | ✓Customers register themselves, renew, pause, queue the next bundle — or just buy as guests. |
| Setup & repairs | Nothing to set up — and nothing working for you either. | You, WinBox and long evenings. Or a paid technician. | ✗The vendor comes to install. PC dies, Windows update bites — you pay for the visit and the hardware. | ✓The router onboards itself from your phone in minutes. Router dies? Onboard a replacement from your dashboard. No visits, ever. |
| What must stay powered on | Just the access point. | Just the router. | ✗The PC too — a power cut takes your sales down with the lights. | ✓Just the router. Everything else lives in the cloud — send the router anywhere with internet and it sells there. |
| Sale alerts & the books | ✗You are the notification system. Records live in your head. | ✗A notebook, if you're disciplined. | ~Reports on the PC — hope it doesn't crash. | ✓Every sale pings your own WhatsApp as it happens — and every sale, split and settlement sits on a live ledger you can open from anywhere. |
| Customers before it breaks | 5–10then the manual blocking beats you | As many as your evenings allow | As many as the PC allows | As many as your bandwidth allows |
Recognise your column? Move to the last one free for a week — your routers and customers come with you.
Download your onboarding kit and run it against a factory-fresh MikroTik. It configures the hotspot, the secure tunnel and the login page by itself — no networking degree required. Your dashboard confirms the moment it's live.
Create data bundles, timed passes or unlimited day plans at your own prices, with your own speed tiers. Flag any of them to sell right on the WiFi login screen — no account needed to buy.
Customers pay by MoMo or card. The money splits automatically the second it's charged — your earnings go to your own bank or MoMo wallet, with a clean ledger of every sale behind it.
This is the feature operators switch for. No waiting on an admin to "do transfers". No registering with a payment gateway, no API keys, no verification paperwork. You tell us the MoMo wallet or bank account that should receive your earnings — that's the whole setup.
If you'd rather have full control, plug in your own payment gateway keys and customer payments land directly in your own account — Vivid Connect keeps the books and the network enforcement, you keep the rails.
No WhatsApp Business API fees, no chatbot builders, no extra subscriptions. We connect your business's WhatsApp number during onboarding, and from then on the platform does the talking — to your customers and to you.
VC-72QK-1188. You're already connected — keep this code to log in on another device.09:41 ✓✓Try the full platform free for a week: onboard your router, set your packages, and sell to actual customers. If it's not for you, you've lost nothing — the WiFi keeps working either way.
Create your business account in two minutes — verify it, pick the free trial package, and you are in. Your router onboards itself and you can be selling the same day. Prefer a human? We onboard on WhatsApp too.
Start my free week Or set up on WhatsAppNo card required. After the week, continue on a paid package or walk away — your routers stay yours.
Every online sale is split the moment your customer pays. Your earnings settle directly into your Mobile Money wallet or bank account automatically, typically the next business day — no manual transfers from an admin, and no waiting on anyone.
No. Vivid Connect runs the payment rails for you — you just tell us the MoMo wallet or bank account that should receive your earnings. If you want full control, you can optionally plug in your own payment gateway keys and collect payments directly on your own account.
A MikroTik router, a WiFi access point (or the router's own built-in WiFi to start), an internet source such as Starlink or any ISP line, your phone or a computer to onboard the router — the Vivid Connect app does it in one tap, and the dashboard runs in any browser — and a WhatsApp number for your business.
Yes — Vivid Connect was built running on Starlink. It works with any internet line that has bandwidth to spare: Starlink, fibre, fixed wireless or mobile broadband.
Right on the WiFi login page: MTN, Telecel and AirtelTigo Mobile Money, or bank cards. No app and no account needed — they pick a bundle, approve the payment prompt, and they're online. Cash and voucher sales are supported and tracked on the same books.
Yes — one week, free, on the full platform: onboard your router, create your packages, and sell to real customers. If it's not for you, you've lost nothing.
Manage packages, routers, vouchers, customers and your income from the business dashboard.
Business loginCheck your balance, see what's left on your bundle, buy your next one, or redeem a voucher.
Customer portalCall, text or WhatsApp — whichever you prefer. We onboard every operator personally.