Free, and open source
GPL-2.0 on GitHub, by Laksamadi Guko. It runs on a laptop, a small server or an Android phone through Termux, and needs nothing on the router but API access.
Mikhmon and Centipid
A voucher tool and a billing platform
Mikhmon prints hotspot vouchers from your MikroTik. Centipid sells the access and collects the money for it. Mikhmon talks to each router over the RouterOS API and keeps its users on that router, with no RADIUS server behind it. For a café or a small neighbourhood hotspot selling printed vouchers for cash, that is often all the job needs. This page is what each one ships, for the operator who has outgrown the printer.
What Mikhmon gets right
It has been the first tool most MikroTik hotspot operators install since 2017, above all in Indonesia, and it earned that.
Vouchers in minutes
Generate a batch of hotspot users, set the selling price and print them on your own template, over Bluetooth if you like. For a small hotspot, that is most of the job.
A live view of the router
Active users, traffic and a live sales report, with expiry handled by RouterOS scheduler scripts. No database and no RADIUS server to look after.
What each one ships
The Mikhmon column is what its own repository and the author’s site say about Mikhmon V3; where it reads “not in the project”, that means there is no code for it there.
| Mikhmon | Centipid | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A web app that manages hotspot users on a MikroTik over its API | A hosted billing platform that also answers the routers |
| Licence | GPL-2.0, open source | Commercial, closed source |
| Where it runs | Your PC, server or Android phone, with PHP | Ours. Nothing to install, tune, patch or back up |
| Where users live | On each router, as hotspot users and profiles | In one account across every router, answered over RADIUS |
| Access types | Hotspot | Hotspot, PPPoE and vouchers |
| Collecting money | Not in the project. Vouchers are sold for cash with the price printed on them | 24 payment gateways, M-PESA, Airtel Money and MTN MoMo among them |
| Telling the subscriber | A button that shares a voucher through your own WhatsApp. No SMS in the project | 25 SMS providers, WhatsApp and email, sent from the billing event |
| After a payment lands | There is no payment to land. Someone hands over a voucher | Matched to the account, and the customer is online without an operator |
| Several routers | Each router is its own session you switch between | Every router in one place, with monitoring, alerts and configuration backups |
| Updates | Last V3 release is V3.20, June 2021. V4 is listed as a beta | Released continuously, with nothing for you to install |
| Support | Community groups and forums | Email and priority support, onboarding, and migration off your current system |
| Price | Free, plus the device it runs on | 3% of hotspot revenue, or $0.25 per active PPPoE subscriber |
What is still yours to do
A Mikhmon hotspot has vouchers and a live view. These are the parts that are left, and each one grows with every router you add.
- 01
Sell without a printer
A customer who wants to pay by mobile money at midnight has no one to hand them a voucher. The hotspot page has to take the payment and log them in itself.
- 02
Keep track of agents
Once resellers sell your vouchers, someone has to know who sold which batch, and who owes you for it.
- 03
Keep one record per customer
Hotspot users live on each router. A router that is reset or replaced takes its users, and their history, with it.
- 04
Bill monthly customers
Home and business subscribers on PPPoE need invoices, reminders and a disconnect when they do not pay. Mikhmon does not manage PPPoE.
What Centipid costs instead
Mikhmon costs nothing and collects nothing. Ours is priced on what the network earns, after a trial long enough to run real customers through it.
Free trial
14 days
The whole product, with no card required, on your own routers.
Hotspot
3%
Of the hotspot revenue collected in a month. A month that sells nothing costs nothing.
PPPoE
$0.25
Per subscriber active that month. Routers, staff and vouchers are never metered.
Where to go next
The pages that carry this further, from the billing model to what it costs.
Common questions
Mikhmon V3 still works on many routers, but its last release is V3.20 from June 2021, and the author lists V4 as a beta. Check the author’s site for the current state rather than taking our word for it.
Not if it does what you need. If you run one or two routers and sell printed vouchers for cash, Mikhmon is free and does that well. The operators who move are the ones who want customers to pay by mobile money without a voucher, or who have started selling PPPoE.
Yes. The router keeps running its hotspot and asks Centipid over RADIUS whether each login is allowed, instead of holding the users itself.
Yes. Users and packages migrate from your current system, and we plan the cutover with you so nobody is cut off in the middle of a sale.
Not through an Indonesian gateway yet. In Indonesia Centipid collects through PayPal, and vouchers sold by your agents work anywhere. If your customers pay by QRIS or bank transfer, talk to us before you move.
No. It is a hosted commercial platform, and that is the real trade: you give up owning the code and paying nothing, and you get payment collection, reconciliation and support you do not maintain. If owning the code matters more, Mikhmon is the honest answer.
3% of hotspot revenue or $0.25 per active PPPoE subscriber each month, after fourteen days free with no card required. Run both and the two fees add up on one invoice.
Sell access without the voucher printer. Free for fourteen days.
Fourteen days with no card, on your own MikroTik routers, with hotspot payments landing and customers going online on their own.