Management of Wi-Fi Hotspot access for clients not using Explorer Client.

Firewalls for ports, URLs and IPs.

Bandwidth limitations on uploads and downloads.

Re-charge using PayPal or credit card.

Pre-paid ticket.

"Navigate and pay" users.

Optional Smart Card support.

Complete management of registration data with the option of scanning directly from an identity document.

Complete integration with Internet Explorer.

Users organized into Groups with the option of setting permissions or the applications that Group members can run.

Enabling drives by type (floppy, internal hard disk, removable disk, etc.)

The option of creating a virtual User Drive inside which users can save their data and, possibly, preserve it.

The option of limiting user navigation to a limited number of sites and inhibiting external links.

Prepaid, post-paid or free navigation modes.

Hourly or "By Steps" rates.

Rate Plans: option of applying different rates based on the day of the week, the time of day or the customer.

Monitoring workstation usage in real-time.

Backing up archives directly to CD.

Monitoring printouts to automatically charge the customer for his printing.

Handling orders from workstations with the option of creating price lists for products for sale, organized into categories.

Archive Analysis: Statistics on workstation usage, customer recharges, credit used, printing, etc. and exporting the results in Excel, HTML or text format.

The option of stopping or starting workstations directly from the server.

An internal messaging system allows customers to communicate with the administrator.

Printing a customer list.

Manual or Automatic Backup with the option of burning the data directly to CD.

Utility for analysing and formatting Smart Cards.

A File Manager on the workstations allows users to copy or move the files they downloaded to their own user drive to other media (pen drive etc.).

Internet Cafè, Cyber Cafè: the program is ideal for these businesses because it has advanced credit management and workstation monitoring functions

Hotels and Libraries: the package is very useful, in Hotspot mode, for allowing customers to navigate or use common software (management, word processing or office) all in complete safety.

User Record
This function specifies the customer's master file data and the way he can use the workstation to navigate.
The window is divided into 4 pages:

 

Registration Data : The customer's registration data must be entered on this page. It is also possible to gather other data about his residence and possibly contact information (e-mail and telephone).

Document : This section allows gathering all the information on an identity document: type, number, date and issuing agency. The two sides of the document can be scanned in the pages "Front Image" and "Back Image".

Authentication : This section is used to specify if the customer must login with a username or password or if he can use a Smart Card. In the first case, it is necessary to set the Username and Password fields while, in the second, just click "Create Smart Card" to create the user's personal Smart Card.

Navigation : This page has options that control how the workstation is used. More...
 

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Workstation Management
All the network workstations can be monitored from Workstations section of the Main Window. There is a box for each computer with its name and status. There is also a tabular display with a line for each workstation. A workstation can have one of three statuses: connected, not connected and not enabled.

 

In the first case, the workstation's name will be displayed in red (workstation busy) and connection data (user, time and balance) will be displayed in the box. In the second case (work station not connected), the workstation's name will be displayed in green to indicate that it is free and, finally, in the case of a workstation not enabled, the computer's name will be displayed on a gray background to indicate that the workstation is not usable. More...
 

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User Management
This section of the main window displays the names of customers in the archive together with their balance due and navigation method (prepaid or post-paid). If the customer has a negative balance, the figures in the Balance Due column are red. This normally happens when customers are navigating in post-paid mode.

There is a search box in the upper part of this section that is very useful for quickly finding a customer by simply typing the first few characters of his name. More...
 

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Archive Backup
Backing up the program archives is of vital importance for a variety of reasons. In fact, in the case of lost data due, for example, to a hard disk failure (an event that is hardly rare), all the users' data would be lost. This could lead to more or less serious problems: for example, should all customer receivable data be lost, you would not be able to provide session data to the courts, not to mention scanned documents, registry master file data, etc.

For this reason, Explorer Manager provides a variety of functions dedicated to safeguarding the data and, thanks to which, it is possible to quickly restore the archives if they are damaged. More...
 

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Printing
Softvision Explorer monitors the customer's printing and automatically debits the cost to his prepaid or post-paid account.
For this function to work properly, the Explorer Printer Monitor must be installed on all computers where a printer is physically connected.

This program identifies the user that printed and charges him for the number of pages printed at his rate.  More...
 

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Rate Plans
The Rate Plans are entirely similar to those that phone companies use to decide what rates to charge the customer when he makes a phone call. Softvision Explorer uses them to determine the rate the customer will be charged when he accesses a workstation.

You can define different rates to charge your customers. For example, you can set one rate for students and another one for loyal customers, etc. The rate plan is associated to the customer in his personal user record.  More...
 

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Navigation Workstation
The program ExplorerClient.exe is the module that allows the customer's controlled access to the workstation. Once launched, the program takes control of the machine and prevents the user from doing anything that could damage the Windows configuration (deleting system files, accessing the hard disk, task manager, etc.).

On the left side of the TaskBar, the classic Windows Start button is replaced by a Programs button that allows access to a limited number of applications that are enabled for the user (the default is Internet Explorer, only).  More...
 

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User Groups
When using Softvision Explorer each user must belong to a Group. The user is assigned to a Group in his user record.
The user group defines what functions the client can access when he connects. In this way, for example, it is possible to define which programs the users in a certain group can run or which disks they are allowed, or denied, access to.
By defining several groups of users it is possible, for example, to group your clientele based on the level of trust you grant them.

By defining several groups of users it is possible, for example, to group your clientele based on the level of trust you grant them.  More...
 

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Archive Analysis
This function analyses the archive to derive a wide range of information about the data in the archive.

The information analysed can be of two types:

Navigation sessions: analyses all the customer's navigation sessions. The beginning and ending date, the workstation used, the sites consulted and the cost are shown for each session. The data displayed can be easily exported in Excel, HTML or text format.
Recharges, Printing, etc. : in this case, a complete list of all the printouts and recharges for each user, the credit used during the session and the duration of the session. More...