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MyWiFi Networks Zapier integrationAutomate MyWiFi Networks with Zapier.

The MyWiFi Networks Zapier integration gives you 4 triggers, 0 actions and 0 searches. Each one starts a Zap from your guest Wi-Fi: a guest meeting an automation rule, or a new guest connecting to a campaign, a device or a location.

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Overview

What the MyWiFi Networks Zapier integration actually does

It turns guest Wi-Fi activity into the start of a Zap. MyWiFi Networks runs a platform that earns value from guest Wi-Fi, capturing social data, automating marketing and analyzing traffic as it happens. On Zapier, it only sends data out: guests and their connections go to the tools you pick.

Three results stand out. A rule-based list: WiFi Guest Automation Trigger sends each guest who meets one of your automation rules to the tool you pick. A per-campaign record: New WiFi Guest Connection (Campaign) adds every new guest of a campaign to a sheet. A per-site view: New WiFi Guest Connection (Location) or (Device) gives you the guests of one place or one access point.

The one thing to know before you choose: of the four triggers, WiFi Guest Automation Trigger is the only instant one. It reacts right away, even on the free plan, while the three connection triggers wait for the interval of your plan. If speed matters, build on it.

What Zapier does not do for this app matters too. There is no action, so a Zap cannot create, change or tag anything in MyWiFi Networks. There is no search, so a Zap cannot look up a guest who already exists.

To weigh the other two tools for the same job, see our n8n vs Zapier and Make vs Zapier pages.

Vocabulary

The Zapier words you will meet

Eight terms, in plain words. They come back all through this page.

Zap
The automation you build on Zapier: one trigger, then one or more actions that run each time that trigger event happens.
Trigger
The event that starts the Zap, such as a new guest connecting to your Wi-Fi. Once the Zap is on, Zapier waits for it.
Action
What the Zap does after it starts: the step that writes, sends or moves something in another app for you.
Task
The unit Zapier bills. One task is one action your Zap completes successfully, and your plan counts those.
Polling trigger
A trigger Zapier checks on a timer: it asks the app for new items at a fixed interval and keeps only what it has not seen yet.
Instant trigger
A trigger the app reports itself: it calls Zapier the moment the event happens, so nothing waits for the next check.
Filter
A step that lets the Zap go on only when what arrived meets the condition you set, and stops it otherwise.
Multi-step Zap
Any Zap beyond one trigger and one action. A second action or a filter makes one, and it then needs a paid plan.
Cost

What a MyWiFi Networks Zap costs

The triggers cost nothing, however often Zapier checks for new guests. Only the actions that follow are counted.

  • Trigger0 tasks
  • Each action that succeeds1 task
  • Action that failsNot counted
  • Free plan100 tasks a month, two steps per Zap

One guest sent to one app is one task; sent to two apps in the same Zap, two tasks. An action that fails is not counted. The free plan gives 100 tasks a month and unlimited Zaps, each capped at two steps. A filter or a second action makes the Zap multi-step, which needs a paid plan. MyWiFi Networks itself is open on the free plan.

The grid below is how often Zapier checks a polling trigger on each plan. It applies to the three connection triggers, not to WiFi Guest Automation Trigger, which is instant.

Connect

Connect MyWiFi Networks to Zapier

  1. 01

    Open your Apps page

    In your Zapier account, open Apps and click + Add connection. A dialog opens with a search box: type MyWiFi Networks in it and pick the app from the results.

  2. 02

    Sign in and grant access

    Click Add connection. A new tab opens on MyWiFi Networks: sign in with the account whose guests the Zap should receive, then grant Zapier access to that account.

  3. 03

    Check the prerequisites

    You need an account on MyWiFi Networks, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch. Once linked, the connection is reused by every step that calls the app.

First Zap

Your first Zap: guests who meet a rule, logged in a sheet

GoalEvery Wi-Fi guest who meets one of your MyWiFi Networks automation rules, and the condition you set, is added as a row in a spreadsheet.

  1. 01

    Pick the trigger

    Create a new Zap, choose MyWiFi Networks as the app that starts it, then WiFi Guest Automation Trigger as the event. Select your connection, or add it from that screen.

  2. 02

    Name the integration and test

    Type the integration name you created in the MyWiFi Networks control panel, then test. Zapier brings back the three most recent items, so you map on a real guest.

  3. 03

    Add the filter

    Add a Filter step from the plus icon and set the field to look at, the rule and the value. Use a text rule for text and a number rule for numbers. This step needs a paid plan.

  4. 04

    Add the spreadsheet step

    Choose your spreadsheet app and its add-a-row action, then place the values the trigger test brought back in the columns you want. Test this step once and read what came back before going further.

  5. 05

    Publish

    Click Publish to switch the Zap on. From then on, each guest who passes both the rule and the filter is written to the sheet, with no polling interval in between.

Triggers

The 4 MyWiFi Networks triggers

4 events start a Zap when something happens in MyWiFi Networks, and one of them is instant: the app calls Zapier straight away, whatever your plan.

1

WiFi Guest Automation Trigger

Instant trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a WiFi Guest satisfies an automation rule.”

You set the automation rules in MyWiFi Networks; this trigger starts your Zap each time a Wi-Fi guest satisfies one of them, with that guest in hand.

How it fires
the app tells Zapier the moment it happens, so the Zap starts right away, whatever your plan.
When to use it
when only some guests matter, the ones your rule singles out, and they should reach your marketing tools without delay.
Watch out
the MyWiFi Networks Integration Name field is required, so create the integration in your control panel first.
2

New WiFi Guest Connection (Campaign)

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new WiFi Guest connects to a campaign.”

Pick a campaign and this trigger hands each new guest who connects through it to the rest of your Zap.

How it fires
Zapier goes and looks at regular intervals, and how often depends on your plan: every 15 minutes on the free one.
When to use it
when you want to measure or follow up one campaign on its own, in a sheet or a CRM.
Watch out
the Campaign field is required, so the trigger only covers the campaign you choose there.
3

New WiFi Guest Connection (Device)

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new WiFi Guest connects to a device.”

Rather than a campaign, this one watches a single device: every new guest who connects through it starts the Zap.

How it fires
Zapier goes and looks at regular intervals, and how often depends on your plan: every 15 minutes on the free one.
When to use it
when one access point deserves its own follow-up, for instance to compare it with the others.
Watch out
the Device field is required; pick the device in the trigger setup before you test.
4

New WiFi Guest Connection (Location)

Polling trigger

In Zapier“Triggers when a new WiFi Guest connects to a location.”

Location by location, this trigger reports each new guest who connects at the place you selected.

How it fires
Zapier goes and looks at regular intervals, and how often depends on your plan: every 15 minutes on the free one.
When to use it
when each of your venues has its own list or its own team to notify.
Watch out
the Location field is required, so the Zap only sees the location you set there.
When it breaks

When a MyWiFi Networks Zap goes wrong

Zapier attaches no help article to this app and lists no limit of its own, so what can go wrong comes from how Zapier works in general.

Three cases are worth knowing before you publish. If a run still behaves oddly, see our Zapier troubleshooting guide.

  • Past guests are not sent

    A Zap only reacts to what happens after you switch it on. Guests who connected before that are not picked up; moving that backlog is a separate job.

  • A big batch can be held back

    If a trigger suddenly returns a huge batch of guests, after a bulk import or a migration, Zapier's flood protection can hold the run back.

  • The same guest connection does not run twice

    On the three polling triggers, Zapier remembers what it has already seen, so the same item does not start the Zap a second time.
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FAQ

MyWiFi Networks and Zapier: common questions

01Is the MyWiFi Networks Zapier integration free?
Yes, for a simple Zap. MyWiFi Networks is not one of the apps Zapier keeps for paid plans, so any of its four triggers followed by one action runs on the free plan. That plan gives you 100 tasks a month and an unlimited number of Zaps, each limited to one trigger and one action. The ceiling shows up once you want more: a filter that keeps only some guests, or a second action that sends each guest to two tools, makes the Zap multi-step, and a multi-step Zap needs a paid plan. The triggers never cost a task.
02How many tasks does a MyWiFi Networks Zap use?
One task per guest and per action that succeeds. Receiving the guest costs nothing, whether the trigger is instant or checked on a timer. A Zap that writes each guest to a sheet uses one task per guest. If the same Zap also posts a message to your team, each guest costs two tasks, because every successful action is counted on its own. An action that fails is not counted against your plan. Compare your expected monthly number of guests with the 100 tasks of the free plan first.
03Does MyWiFi Networks send guests to Zapier in real time?
One trigger does, three do not. WiFi Guest Automation Trigger is instant: MyWiFi Networks calls Zapier itself when a guest meets your rule, on every plan, and the Zap shows a lightning bolt in the editor. The three New WiFi Guest Connection triggers are polling triggers: Zapier checks every 15 minutes on the free plan, every 2 minutes on Professional, every minute on Team and Enterprise. The type is set by the app and cannot be changed in the editor; on a paid plan you can change how often polling triggers are checked.
04What does it take to connect a MyWiFi Networks account to Zapier?
An account on MyWiFi Networks, plus read or write access on anything you do not own yourself and want the Zap to touch. The link is made once from the Apps page of Zapier: click + Add connection, search for MyWiFi Networks, sign in on the tab that opens and grant access. After that, every step that uses the app reuses the same connection. For the instant trigger, also prepare the name of the integration you created in your MyWiFi Networks control panel, since the trigger asks for it.
05Why does each guest connection trigger ask for a campaign, a device or a location?
Because each one is tied to a single scope, and the field is required. New WiFi Guest Connection (Campaign) needs a Campaign, the (Device) version needs a Device, and the (Location) version needs a Location. The trigger then reports new guests of that campaign, device or location only. Pick the value in the trigger setup, then run the test: Zapier brings back the three most recent items, which shows you whether you picked the right scope before you map any field or publish.
06What if the MyWiFi Networks operation you need is not there?
Then this integration cannot do it for now. On Zapier, MyWiFi Networks offers four triggers and no action or search, so a Zap cannot create, update or look up anything inside MyWiFi Networks. The app's page on Zapier shows the current list of operations, so check it before you plan a Zap around one that is missing. What you can build is anything that starts from a guest: a row, a message or a record in another tool, as long as that tool offers the action you want.
07Zapier, Make or n8n for MyWiFi Networks?
It depends on your criteria, not on a winner. Coverage first: on Zapier, MyWiFi Networks offers four triggers and nothing else, so check whether the other tool lists the app and which events it covers. Delay next: on Zapier, WiFi Guest Automation Trigger is instant on every plan, while the three connection triggers are checked every 15 minutes on the free plan, so the trigger you need shapes the plan you need. Billing last: one task per successful action, and a filtered Zap needs a paid plan.
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