Guest WiFi for Social Housing & Housing Associations
Inclusion, safely delivered.
A resident with no home broadband is a resident who cannot take a video appointment or finish a course. Purple is the platform 80,000+ venues run on, in 90+ countries, and the network in your communal spaces is already most of the answer. Filtered browsing, resident records kept on their own lane, and contractor access that ends when the job does — over the access points already installed.
What are you here to solve?
Four ways into social housing. Pick the one that sounds like your week.
The scheme-wide WiFi Purple already runs
Online without a broadband contract
A branded sign-in page puts a resident online in the communal spaces in one tap. No credit check, no contract, and no password queue at the housing office.
Filtered by default
Shield filters unsafe sites and forces safe search, which matters where children use a shared community room. Licensed from the Capture plan up.
Fair speed across the scheme
Bandwidth is set per access point, per scheme or across every scheme at once. One heavy user in a community room cannot take the whole building down.
Records kept on their own lane
Resident and housing-office systems run isolated from the network residents connect to, so a resident's phone never shares a lane with a case file.
Privacy a resident controls
ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified, POPIA (South Africa's privacy act) and GDPR aligned. A resident can view or delete their own record by self-service, not through their housing officer.
And the same login can do more than connect. Step inside for ten seconds.
The ten seconds your resident never notices.
A resident joins a video appointment from the community room.
One tap on a branded sign-in page — no contract and no credit check. Shield filters the browsing, and bandwidth is set per scheme so one heavy user does not take the room down.
A support worker arrives for a scheduled visit.
Beyond can tie their access to the visit record, so it is live for the appointment and closed when it ends. Their lane is kept apart from the one carrying resident case files.
The officer needs evidence for a digital-inclusion bid.
Communal-space usage becomes connections and sessions per scheme, from the access points already installed. Beyond can shape it into the form the funder asks for.
Your resident never noticed the tech. Your team never lifted a finger.
Enables remote learning and telehealth · fewer IT calls via self-service.
Proven platform, deployed on the ground
Purple runs the guest WiFi for some of the biggest names in retail, banking, hospitality and sport. Beyond's own team deploys it on the hardware you already own, wires it into the systems you already run, and supports it from South Africa — not from a call centre in another timezone. Your social housing run on that team.
Built on Purple. We take that foundation and make it yours — the login becomes part of your building.
What Beyond adds with your housing and repairs systems
The resident
Beyond can wire the sign-in to your tenancy record, so a resident is recognised at any scheme you run rather than registering again at each one.
A private network per flat
Per-flat isolated networks use iPSK and sit on the Engage plan, a tier above this page's Capture baseline. Worth naming honestly: it is the step up, not something already included.
The visiting support worker
Beyond can tie access to the visit record. A support worker or contractor is on for the appointment and off when it closes, with nobody remembering to revoke it.
The housing officer
Beyond can trigger a short resident survey through the same login. Insight Surveys is Engage-only, so on the Capture plan this is the reason to step up rather than something included.
The funding case
Beyond can turn communal-space usage into the evidence a digital-inclusion bid asks for — connections and sessions per scheme, not a claim about need.
You keep your housing-management system, your repairs platform and the access points already installed. Beyond wires into what is there — no forklift upgrade, and no resident has to sign anything new.
Where this venue fits
Connect
- Branded captive portal in 25+ languages
- Frictionless entry on hardware you own
- Network health & coverage analytics
Capture
- Guests choose to share their details — and mean it
- Verify — the digital bouncer that blocks fake emails
- Sync to 70+ CRMs (Salesforce, HubSpot, Zoho)
Engage
- SecurePass frictionless auto-connect
- Location & time-triggered journeys
- Insight Surveys — Engage only
Power-Ups for this venue
Bolt-on licences that switch on more without a new platform:
- Shield
Where to go next
The Purple features underneath
Frequently asked
Are residents monitored on this network?
No. Recognition starts once someone signs in, it is opt-in and timestamped, and a resident can view or delete their own record by self-service. Browsing is filtered, not inspected by staff.
Do we have to replace our housing-management system?
No. Beyond wires into the housing and repairs systems you already run, over the access points already installed.
Can every flat have its own private network?
Yes, using iPSK — but that sits on the Engage plan rather than the Capture baseline most schemes start on. It is a deliberate step up, and we will say so before you budget for it.
Isn't this just WiFi analytics? We already have that.
Analytics tells you what happened. This acts on who is here now — a contractor's access ending with the job, a resident recognised at a second scheme. A report versus a response.
Who actually built the WiFi part?
Purple — the platform running 80,000+ venues in 90+ countries. Beyond is a Preferred Purple Partner and authorised distributor, and we wire it into your housing systems.
See a resident get online without a contract, and a contractor's access end with the job.
Book the 30-minute walkthrough and leave with a mapped rollout for your schemes, your housing system and your repairs platform. Not ready for that? Start with the scoping list for one scheme.