Access point for small business hotspot

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I'd like to create a free hotspot wifi in my cafè to get email/phone number (previous agreement of the user) from my clients. In other words, I want an access point with costumizable captive portal. I see that exists the Ubiquiti access point but they require to buy the Cloud key to work correctly, right? Otherwise there is the TP-Link EAP 245/225 that are compatible with Facebook Wifi (to get like on a facebook page) but I don't understand if I can set a personalized authenticathion page where I can get all data that I need.

Another lowcost solution for do that is using a raspberry with a custom OS as ZeroShell but I don't know if the performance is good or not.

There is also MikroTik that sell some low cost access points but with good performance.

There are others simple systems to do that? I search a low cost solution. I expect to have a load of 25-30 person simultaneously.
 
Solution
Build your own router using old hardware and Pfsense distro, then hang a decent AP off it. You will need to know some html coding but its not that difficult.