Validation rules block the most obvious fake or invalid guest sign-in entries. They cannot prevent all fake data, but they significantly reduce the most common occurrences.
📌 Note: You cannot completely prevent fake data from being entered. Only a verification email with a clickable link could achieve this, but guests may not have internet access while signing in to Wi-Fi.
Validation rules
The following validation rules apply during the guest login process.
Email addresses
We apply the following checks to email addresses entered during sign-in:
We reject emails that appear on our list of clearly fake addresses. This list currently contains around 200 commonly used fake entries - such as [email protected], and is updated over time based on reports from our own systems.
We reject any email containing invalid characters.
We reject any email where the same character appears four or more times consecutively, for example, [email protected].
Names
We apply the following checks to names entered during sign-in:
We reject names containing invalid characters - such as numbers or dollar signs.
We reject names where the same character appears four or more times consecutively, for example, aaaaa.
We reject names entered as 'test', 'testing', 'unknown' or 'none'.
We reject names fewer than two characters long.
Postcodes
We reject postcodes entered as 'test', 'testing', 'unknown' or 'none'.
What guests see
If a guest enters any invalid information, an error message appears beneath the field on the login form, asking them to enter valid information.
An example of an incorrect email address: