Getting started

WIFI.OS gives every ISP its own console at your-name.wifios.co.ke. Everything you do — plans, customers, payments, routers — lives under your own subdomain and is visible only to you.

Signing in

1. Go to your console address, e.g. homelink.wifios.co.ke.
2. Enter your phone number and password.
3. You land on the Dashboard.

There’s no separate app to install and nothing is stored in your browser — the session lives in a secure cookie, so signing in on a new device just works.

Just exploring?

The live demo is a complete console filled with realistic data. Log in and click anything — it’s read-only, so nothing you do changes the data.

Your first day, in order

Setting up a new ISP usually goes like this:

1. Add a router — Settings → Routers. This is the MikroTik (or other gateway) at your site. WIFI.OS talks to it over a secure tunnel.
2. Turn on payments — verify your M-Pesa settlement details so money can reach you. Until you do, the console shows a banner explaining exactly what’s left. See Billing & payments.
3. Create plans — the packages you sell (a 3-hour hotspot bundle, a Monthly 8 Mbps line). See Plans.
4. Start selling — issue vouchers, point customers at your captive portal, or add broadband clients.

Finding your way around

The left sidebar is grouped by what you’re doing:

• Dashboard — the health of the business at a glance.
• Hotspot — prepaid Wi-Fi: plans, vouchers, the portal.
• PPPoE — broadband lines: clients, invoices, plans.
• Active Users — everyone online right now.
• Payments / Wallet — money in, money owed to you, payouts.
• Settings — routers, messaging, billing, developer tools, security.

Badges on the sidebar show live counts (people online, open tickets, vouchers in stock) so you can see where attention is needed without opening each page.

Next

• The dashboard →