For cafés
Guest Wi-Fi for the café — and the regulars you'd love to see more often.
Sign-in takes seconds, on a page that looks like your café — not ours. And the monthly bulletin finally gets an audience: people who've ticked a box asking to hear from you, every yes recorded.
£20 per site, per month + VAT
No setup fee
Two cafés = £20 × 2
Most venues are live within two working days
No. 01 · What you'd send
What you'd send, and when.
Take The Copper Kettle — an imaginary café with a familiar rhythm: a queue out the door at the weekend, empty tables once the school run clears. Its list is regulars who ticked yes at sign-in, so a short email lands with people who already know the way in.
- The monthly bulletin
- "This month at the Kettle — new bakes, new beans, longer hours on Friday." Once a month, to everyone who ticked yes to hearing it.
- The rainy-morning nudge
- "Raining out — the toastie and a flat white, £6 till eleven." A small nudge, sent at eight, on the morning that needs it.
- New menu week
- "The spring menu lands Monday." Regulars hear it first — before the chalkboard does.
Ideas rather than promises — what you send, and what comes of it, is yours. The arithmetic is the friendly part: if the bulletin brings back a couple of regulars a month, it's paid for itself.
No. 02 · The paperwork
A list you could show anyone.
A guest list comes with rules — UK GDPR, and PECR, the UK rules on marketing messages. The heart of them: consent that's a real choice, made by a box the guest ticks for themselves, and being able to show who agreed to what, and when. The roles are plain: your café is the data controller — the list is yours, collected under your policies. Netmo is the data processor — we handle guest data only to run Zest for you.
Zest is built to help you stay compliant — a well-kept record, not legal advice. If a guest ever asks what you hold, the answer is a lookup, not a scramble.
The record-keeping runs itself:
- The marketing opt-in is always separate — a guest who leaves it unticked still gets online
- Consent history can't be quietly edited — by your team, or by ours
- You set a window per venue; older records delete themselves on schedule, and every deletion is noted in the log
- Acting on a deletion request takes two clicks — including connected marketing tools
The rules themselves — consent, how long to keep records, what to do when a guest asks — are walked through in our plain-English guide to guest Wi-Fi and UK GDPR.
No. 03 · How it starts
It starts with an email.
Email hello@netmo.it
Tell hello@netmo.it the café's name and where to find you — that's the whole first step. Two sites? Say so. We reply within one working day.
Connect your Wi-Fi
Zest runs on UniFi — Ubiquiti's widely used business Wi-Fi kit — your installer will know. Setup is self-serve, done from your dashboard in one connection step, and the people who built Zest step in if you're ever stuck.
Design it, publish it, go live
Logo, colours, welcome message, sign-in form — drafted with a live preview, published when it looks right. Most venues are live within two working days.
Kit costs, straight. Already on UniFi: nothing to buy. Not yet: we'll tell you exactly what you'd need before anything is ordered. And if Zest is ever unreachable, guests still get online — connectivity comes first. The step-by-step detail lives at how it works.
No. 04 · The price
The price, in full.
£20 per site, per month + VAT · rolling monthly · cancel anytime
That's about 65p a day, plus VAT. No setup fee, no tiers — every feature is included, and a second café is simply £20 × 2.
Questions
Fair questions from behind the counter.
We send a monthly bulletin from Mailchimp. Will Zest feed it?
Your list downloads as a CSV whenever you like, so the bulletin goes out from Mailchimp just as it does now. That path works from day one, with nothing to connect. If you'd rather the list flowed on its own, webhooks are live today — a standard feed your marketing tools can read — and only guests who ticked the marketing box are ever synced. A direct Mailchimp connection is due in the coming weeks.
'No setup fee' — but is there kit we'd have to buy?
A fair thing to check, so here it is straight. Already on UniFi: nothing to buy. Not yet: we'll tell you exactly what you'd need before anything is ordered. Not sure what you run? A photo of your router in an email does the job — we'll tell you what it is and where you stand.
We know our regulars by face. What does a list actually add?
The faces you know are the ones already coming in. The list reaches the rest: the regulars you haven't seen since the mornings turned cold, the ones who only pass on Saturdays. A face gets the usual; a list gets the news. If one email brings a couple of them back in a month, it's done its job.
How much of my week does setting up take?
One email, one connection step from your dashboard, and however long you enjoy spending on colours and the welcome message. Setup is self-serve: you connect Zest to your UniFi network, and the portal designer gives you a live preview — nothing is published until it looks right to you. Most venues are live within two working days, and if you're stuck at any step, the people who built Zest step in.
We run a loyalty card — does this replace it?
No — they do different jobs, and they sit happily side by side. The card rewards the visit that's already happening; the list carries your news between visits — the bulletin, the new menu, the quiet-morning nudge. Keep stamping.