Safe customer WiFi for high-street shops, set up with one router change
On the high street, the shop WiFi often runs on the same broadband line as the till, the card reader and the music. Shield gives customers a family-safe network with ads stripped so pages load faster. Your tablet till, card reader and back-office laptop run on threat-first rules. Independents set it up with one router change, and chains set one policy for all their branches.
Guest WiFi policy
- Adult contentBlocked
- GamblingBlocked
- Safe Search on Google, Bing and YouTubeEnforced
- Streaming at busy timesLimited
Allow list
bookings.examplemenu.exampleBlock list
rival-venue.exampleWhat is at stake
Small shops, the same threats as big ones
One line, everything on it
Customer phones, the card reader and the stock tablet often share one router, so each needs its own policy.Phishing in the shop inbox
Owners handle supplier invoices, courier notices and marketplace orders from one inbox, and fake login pages target exactly that.Teenagers after school
After school your shop fills with teenagers on the free WiFi, and their parents expect it to be safe.
How Shield fits
Customers on one policy, the till on another
- Customer WiFiFamily-safe categories and Safe Search, with ads stripped so product pages load faster.
- Tablet till and card readerThreat-first rules, with phishing, malware and domains registered in the last 7 days blocked.
- Back-office laptopPhishing and ransomware blocked at the lookup while it is on the shop network, with nothing to install.
- Branch by branchChains set one policy for all branches, with exceptions for a shop next to a school.
Ads, trackers and bloatware load on every page
Ads and trackers stripped before they load
Proof
Proof that fits a shop, not only a head office
- 500%
- faster page loads, once ads and trackers are stripped out
- 44%
- less data used, by Purple's own measurements
- Friendly WiFistandard met by Shield's filtering for family-safe public WiFi
- Cyber Essentialscertification held by Purple, alongside ISO 27001, GDPR and CCPA
FAQ
Questions we hear from teams like yours
Do I need an IT person to set this up?
No. You change the DNS setting on your router, or ask your broadband provider to, and point it at Shield. There is no hardware and nothing for customers to install. Most of the work is choosing which categories to block.
Will the till slow down with Shield on?
No. Shield answers the DNS lookup the till makes anyway, and only blocks domains your policy rules out. On the customer WiFi it strips ads, which Purple's own measurements show cuts data use by up to 44%.
Can customers get round it with a VPN?
You can block VPN and proxy apps in one click on the customer network, which closes the usual route round family-safe filtering. Your own devices sit on a separate policy, so the till and your laptop keep working.
Does it help with PCI DSS for card payments?
It helps you meet PCI DSS rather than making you compliant. Your card reader and till sit on a threat-first policy, Shield blocks phishing and malware at the lookup, and scheduled PDF reports give you evidence of what was stopped.
I have five shops. Can they share one policy?
Yes. Set one policy for all your shops and adjust any site, SSID or VLAN where it needs something different. You can also change rules by time of day, and see each shop's reports in one dashboard.
Other industries
Retail
Family-safe shopper WiFi across the estate, with ePOS, handhelds and head office on threat-first rules.Big-box retail
Family-safe shopper WiFi on the shop floor, with ePOS, scanners and self-checkouts on threat-first rules.Shopping centres
Family-safe public WiFi across the centre, with management and building systems on threat-first rules.
Decide what your network reaches, free for 30 days
Tell us which networks and sites you run and who is on them. We map a policy to each one: staff, guests, students, residents and IoT. Then point one network at Shield and see what it stops for 30 days, before you pay anything. Running change control? We plan a pilot on one site with your team instead. No hardware to install.
- We map your networksA Purple expert maps your networks, your venues and the people on each, and answers your questions on bypass, outages, data handling and integrations.
- You get a policy for each oneStaff, guests, students, residents, IoT and paid tiers, each with the policy it needs.
- You prove it, then get your tailored quote30 days free on one network, or a pilot on one site planned with your team, then Shield priced standalone or as an add-on to your Access plan.
Your policy map
Tell us your networks. We map a policy to each one.
A Purple expert comes back with a policy for every network and group you run, from the team that has run content filtering since 2012 and runs WiFi for 80,000+ venues in 90 countries.