diff --git a/core/openwrt/src/tollgate/mod.rs b/core/openwrt/src/tollgate/mod.rs
index 8017f8f0..d92b1c55 100644
--- a/core/openwrt/src/tollgate/mod.rs
+++ b/core/openwrt/src/tollgate/mod.rs
@@ -48,6 +48,15 @@ pub async fn provision(router: &Router, config: &TollGateConfig) -> Result<()> {
     nodogsplash::install_and_stop(router, pkg_mgr)
         .context("install nodogsplash — tollgate-wrt cannot gate clients without it")?;
 
+    // Wire NoDogSplash's webroot to TollGate's actual payment portal instead
+    // of the generic stock splash page it ships with. Confirmed live: without
+    // this, "click continue" on the stock page authorizes the client via
+    // NoDogSplash's own built-in handler with zero payment involved.
+    nodogsplash::install_captive_portal_symlink(router).context(
+        "wire up TollGate's captive portal — without it NoDogSplash serves its own \
+         generic splash page, which authorizes clients on click with no payment",
+    )?;
+
     config::apply(router, config)?;
     wifi::provision_ssid(router, config)?;
     // Must come after provision_ssid (which creates br-tollgate) and before
diff --git a/core/openwrt/src/tollgate/nodogsplash.rs b/core/openwrt/src/tollgate/nodogsplash.rs
index 887cb144..82bafed4 100644
--- a/core/openwrt/src/tollgate/nodogsplash.rs
+++ b/core/openwrt/src/tollgate/nodogsplash.rs
@@ -29,6 +29,45 @@ pub fn install_and_stop(router: &Router, pkg_mgr: PkgManager) -> Result<()> {
     Ok(())
 }
 
+/// Point NoDogSplash's webroot at TollGate's own splash page instead of the
+/// generic stock one NoDogSplash ships with.
+///
+/// Confirmed live: without this, NoDogSplash serves its own bundled
+/// click-to-continue splash page — clicking "Continue" calls NDS's built-in
+/// auth handler directly and authorizes the client with zero payment
+/// involved. TollGate's actual payment UI (a QR/Cashu-token entry SPA) lives
+/// at `/etc/tollgate/tollgate-captive-portal-site` — the .ipk's data payload
+/// stages it there (see `packaging/files/tollgate-captive-portal-site/` in
+/// the upstream repo), it's just never wired up as NoDogSplash's webroot.
+///
+/// Mirrors upstream's own `90-tollgate-captive-portal-symlink` uci-defaults
+/// script exactly (symlink swap, not a `webroot` UCI override) — confirmed
+/// live that setting `option webroot` directly instead causes NoDogSplash to
+/// 500 on every request, for reasons not fully understood (worth filing
+/// upstream, but the symlink approach is what's actually shipped/tested).
+pub fn install_captive_portal_symlink(router: &Router) -> Result<()> {
+    let (_, exists) = router.run("test -d /etc/tollgate/tollgate-captive-portal-site")?;
+    if exists != 0 {
+        anyhow::bail!(
+            "/etc/tollgate/tollgate-captive-portal-site missing — expected to be staged \
+             by the tollgate-wrt package install"
+        );
+    }
+
+    router.run_ok(
+        "if [ -L /etc/nodogsplash/htdocs ]; then \
+             true; \
+         else \
+             if [ -d /etc/nodogsplash/htdocs ]; then \
+                 mv /etc/nodogsplash/htdocs /etc/nodogsplash/htdocs.backup; \
+             fi; \
+             rm -rf /etc/nodogsplash/htdocs; \
+             ln -sf /etc/tollgate/tollgate-captive-portal-site /etc/nodogsplash/htdocs; \
+         fi"
+    )?;
+    Ok(())
+}
+
 /// Configure NoDogSplash to gate the dedicated `br-tollgate` bridge (see
 /// `wifi::provision_network`), not `br-lan` — the paid SSID here lives on its
 /// own isolated network/subnet rather than the canonical upstream layout
@@ -80,6 +119,14 @@ pub fn configure(router: &Router, cfg: &TollGateConfig) -> Result<()> {
     router.uci_add_list("nodogsplash.main.users_to_router", "allow tcp port 2121")?;
     router.uci_add_list("nodogsplash.main.users_to_router", "allow tcp port 2050")?;
 
+    // Post-auth (paid) clients get full access — matches the stock package
+    // default (`list authenticated_users 'allow all'`), which our from-scratch
+    // named section never carried over. Under this router's default-ACCEPT
+    // FORWARD policy an empty list happens to behave the same, but that's an
+    // accident of this specific setup, not something to depend on.
+    let _ = router.uci_delete("nodogsplash.main.authenticated_users");
+    router.uci_add_list("nodogsplash.main.authenticated_users", "allow all")?;
+
     router.uci_commit(Some("nodogsplash"))?;
     Ok(())
 }