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Purple Engage vs Beambox

Beambox and Purple Engage compared on WiFi capture, email, SMS, reviews, measurement and pricing. Every statement about Beambox comes from its own website and links to its source.

Last checked October 15, 2026

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Beambox or Purple Engage: which fits your venue?

Choose Beambox if you run a small venue and want guest WiFi, email, SMS and review prompts on one rolling subscription, with a Plug & Play access point included in the trial if you have no compatible hardware. 2

Choose Purple Engage if you want POS spend on the guest record, offers redeemed at the POS, WhatsApp, and each campaign measured against a held-back group.

How do Beambox and Purple Engage compare, feature by feature?

Checked on beambox.com on October 15, 2026. The Beambox column says only what its own pages state, each with a numbered source. Where its site does not mention something, the cell says “Not listed on their site”, which is not the same as “No”.

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Beambox and Purple Engage, feature by feature, checked October 15, 2026
Feature	Beambox	Purple Engage
Guest WiFi capture	A brandable WiFi login with social and form logins, on their own Plug & Play access point or on UniFi, Omada, Meraki, Aruba and other networks. 1 2	Every guest WiFi sign-in becomes a contact with a visit history, from Purple WiFi, Cisco Spaces, Cisco Meraki or Juniper Mist.Also runs without Purple WiFi: venues can be created in Engage.
Foot traffic, dwell and occupancy	Footfall and demographic analytics. 2	No people counting, dwell time or occupancy. Visits come from WiFi sign-ins, so they are a lower bound.
POS integrations	Not listed on their site	Sales from Square, Lightspeed X-Series, Epos Now, Loyverse and Oracle Simphony.Toast and Lightspeed K-Series check offer codes at the POS.
Offers redeemed at the POS	Not listed on their site	Codes pushed into Lightspeed X-Series and Shopify, checked live at Toast and Lightspeed K-Series, and read back from Square, Epos Now, Loyverse and Oracle Simphony sales. A pilot the Purple team sets up with you.
Table bookings	Not listed on their site	No native bookings.Booking data from ResDiary, and a completed booking can start a journey.
Hotel PMS	Not listed on their site	Mews and apaleo: stays land on the guest record, and a hotel checkout can start a journey.
Email marketing	Behavioral email and one-off campaigns with a drag-and-drop designer, from the Growth plan. 2	A drag-and-drop builder on a brand kit, a send preview with exclusions by reason, A/B tests and journeys.
SMS	SMS on the Pro plan, with 250 free SMS sends a month. 2	Through your own Twilio account, at Twilio's price with no Purple markup, and one credit a segment.
WhatsApp	Not listed on their site	Template campaigns through your own Twilio account, at one credit a message. No marketing templates to US numbers, which Meta has paused.
Automated journeys	Interactions: emails and texts triggered by guest behavior. 1 2	Started by a WiFi visit, a purchase, a completed booking, a hotel checkout, a birthday and more, with split paths and held-back groups.
Loyalty	Not listed on their site	No points or stamps loyalty.Rewards are single-use vouchers with caps, a cooldown and a budget.
Review management	Review Automator: rating emails after a first visit, positive reviews published, negative reviews deflected to an internal form. 1	A “leave a review” button on surveys, shown to every respondent.Review requests to every guest after a recorded visit, by email or text, with no score gating and nothing offered in return.
Guest surveys	Configurable data capture and surveys at WiFi login. 2	16 question types, with answers written to the guest profile and NPS tags.
Results against a held-back group	Engagement analytics and campaign result tracking. A held-back group is not listed on their site. 1 2	The extra share of guests who came back, booked or bought against a held-back group, with a 95% range and sales for each group. “Not measured yet” when fewer than 50 are held back.
AI assistant	AI-generated email and SMS templates from a prompt. 1	An AI team that raises ideas every night and stages work for a person to approve. By default, nothing is sent until a person approves it.
MCP server	Not listed on their site	A remote MCP server: a scoped key can read, draft and ask for approval. No scope can send.
Zapier and automation apps	Zapier, Mailchimp, Twilio and more, from the Growth plan. 2	Apps for Zapier, Make, Pipedream and Microsoft Power Automate, all in beta; Zapier access is by invitation.
Public API	The Beambox API, on the Pro plan. 2	A public REST API with 31 paths and 14 scopes, and signed webhooks.

How are Beambox and Purple Engage priced?

Beambox

Beambox publishes three plans in US dollars, billed yearly, with prices that rise with locations and guests: Essential from $40, Growth from $60 and Pro from $80 a month. 2

There is a 30-day trial, no set-up cost, and subscriptions roll with no contract. 2

Beambox plans, starting price a month billed yearly, in US dollars 2
Plan	From, a month	Adds
Essential	$40	Branded WiFi login and guest database
Growth	$60	Email marketing, segments and integrations
Pro	$80	Review Automator, SMS and the API

As shown on beambox.com on October 15, 2026. Prices change, so check their site before you decide.

Purple Engage

Purple Engage publishes its prices. You pay for credits, the monthly usage unit, and contacts are unlimited*. The free plan is listed at 500 credits a month with no card, and paid plans are listed from $16 to $1,280 a month. Each text segment or WhatsApp message uses one credit, and Twilio also bills it on your own account, with no Purple markup.

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When is Beambox the better choice?

When one of these describes your venues, going by what Beambox's own site says.

You have no compatible WiFi hardware and want an access point supplied: the first Plug & Play Beambox is included with the trial. 2
You run a small venue and want a rolling subscription you can switch or cancel at any time. 2
You want positive reviews pushed to TripAdvisor, Google and Facebook, with a dashboard of past ratings. 2

Where Beambox is ahead

Their own Plug & Play access point, which connects to an existing router. 1Purple Engage:Engage supplies no WiFi hardware. It reads sign-ins from Purple WiFi, Cisco Spaces, Cisco Meraki and Juniper Mist, and venues can also be created in Engage without any of them.
A reputation dashboard of past ratings and reviews. 2Purple Engage:Review requests to every guest after a recorded visit, with no score gating and nothing offered in return.

When is Purple Engage the better choice?

When one of these describes your venues.

You want POS spend on the guest record: sales from Square, Lightspeed X-Series, Epos Now, Loyverse and Oracle Simphony, with offers redeemed at the POS.
You want each campaign measured against a held-back group (5% of every new campaign and journey by default): the extra share of guests who came back, booked or bought, with a 95% range and gross sales for each group.
You want WhatsApp campaigns as well as email and SMS, sent through your own Twilio account.
You want review requests sent to every guest after a recorded visit, with no score gating and nothing offered in return.
You want to start on a free plan, listed at 500 credits a month with unlimited* contacts and no card needed.

How do you switch from Beambox to Purple Engage?

Switching from Beambox: what changes, step by step.

Moving from Beambox

There is no ready-made Beambox connector. Bring guests in by CSV import, CSV over SFTP, the public API or Zapier.
If your access points are Cisco Meraki or Juniper Mist, or you use Cisco Spaces, Engage reads WiFi sign-ins from them directly. Otherwise create your venues in Engage.

Create your venues in Engage, or connect Purple WiFi, Cisco Spaces, Cisco Meraki or Juniper Mist.
Import your contacts by CSV. Engage records which channels each contact's consent covers and who attested to it.
Connect your POS, booking system or PMS, so spend, bookings and stays land on the guest record. Visits come from a connected WiFi system.
Set up your own sending domain for email, and your own Twilio account for SMS and WhatsApp.
Rebuild your automations as journeys by hand. Campaigns your AI team stages hold back 5% of guests, so your first one can be measured against a held-back group.

Questions

Is Purple Engage an alternative to Beambox?

For email, SMS, journeys, surveys and offers, yes, and Engage adds WhatsApp, POS data and measurement against a held-back group. Beambox runs the WiFi login itself, including on its own Plug & Play access point. Engage reads sign-ins from Purple WiFi, Cisco Spaces, Cisco Meraki and Juniper Mist. 1

Can I bring my Beambox guests to Purple Engage?

Beambox's pricing page lists exporting your data as CSV. Import the CSV into Engage, which records which channels each contact's consent covers and who attested to it. 2

Does Purple Engage gate reviews by score?

No. Review requests go to every guest after a recorded visit, with no score gating and nothing offered in return. Beambox's site lists deflecting negative reviews to an internal feedback form. 1

Where do these facts come from?

Every statement about Beambox on this page comes from beambox.com, read on October 15, 2026. Each source below lists the words we relied on. Purple Engage facts come from our own product pages.

Beambox home pagehttps://beambox.com/Beambox is the all-in-one platform built for brick-and-mortar businesses.Join over 12,000 businesses growing with BeamboxConnect directly to your existing UniFi controllerIntegrate with your existing Meraki DashboardTrigger emails and texts based on guest behaviorAutomatically send rating emails to guests after their first visit.Deflect negative reviews with an internal feedback formTrack the results of your marketing campaignsAI Marketing Template GenerationNatural language promptsWe'll send you a free Beambox access point that connects to your existing router,Accessed October 15, 2026
Beambox pricinghttps://beambox.com/pricingall Beambox subscriptions are on a rolling basisyour first Plug & Play Beambox is included with your trial.You can switch plans or cancel at any time.Push positive reviews to TripAdvisor, Google and FacebookProactively manage your reputation with a dashboard of your historical ratings and reviewsPER MONTH, BILLED YEARLYSet number of LocationsSet number of Guests30 day trialNo set-up costsFully brandable WiFi loginSocial and form loginsFootfall and demographic analyticsIncrease repeat business with behavioural email marketing.Drag and drop email designer and templating250 free SMS sends per monthUse Interactions to automate behavioural emailsConfigurable data capture and surveysEngagement analyticsIntegrate with Zapier, Mailchimp, Twilio and thousands moreUse the Beambox API to add your own custom featuresEssential From $ 40Growth From $ 60Pro From $ 80Export your data as CSVAccessed October 15, 2026

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The free plan is listed at 500 credits a month, with unlimited* contacts and no card needed.

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Purple Engage vs Beambox

Beambox or Purple Engage: which fits your venue?

How do Beambox and Purple Engage compare, feature by feature?

How are Beambox and Purple Engage priced?

Beambox

Purple Engage

When is Beambox the better choice?

Where Beambox is ahead

When is Purple Engage the better choice?

How do you switch from Beambox to Purple Engage?

Moving from Beambox

Questions

Where do these facts come from?

Purple Engage sources

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