Network Management & Billing System
GOINBOX Network Management Suite
- Version: v1.1.3
- Author: GONLINE AFRICA
- Created: March, 2022
- Last Updated: Dec, 2025
GONLINE AFRICA
GONLINE AFRICA is a social enterprise whose focus is to create an enabling environment where an African child, woman, or youth has equal access to digital opportunities irrespective of their socio-economic, cultural and educational background.
Our Vision
To create a connected and empowered Africa, where every individual in rural and marginalized communities has equal access to digital opportunities, enabling them to thrive in a rapidly evolving world.
Our Mission
Our mission is to empower individuals with digital literacy, affordable internet access, and valuable online resources, fostering socio-economic development and inclusive growth.
Our Committment
We are committed to empowering rural and marginalized communities with affordable and accessible digital infrastructure, comprehensive digital literacy programs, and inclusive online platforms. Through our unwavering commitment to social impact, we seek to create a continent where everyone has equal access to information, communication, and opportunities, thus catalyzing sustainable growth and transforming lives.
Our Programs
Our programs are designed to promote and help communities thrive in the digital world. We present opportunities and change communities into digital hubs for socio-economic realization. Below are our major programs:-
CONNECT AFRICA
This is providing low-cost internet solutions to remote and rural communities. We are implementing a low-cost solution that is addressing the challenge of connectivity in remote areas in Africa where other traditional Internet Service Providers have not reached or are hesitant to explore due to low profit margin. Our solution referred to GONLINE AFRICA INTERNET BOX (GOINBOX) is a solution that not only address the problem of access but presents an environment in which we build and promote job opportunities to the locals by them either being trained on digital literacy, entrepreneurship, Internet governance and also innovative skills. GOINBOX presents a model that turns communities into local entrepreneurs as they can own the box and become rural ISPs.
NOSHUT AFRICA
NoShut is a network configuration command that instructs network device ports to remain active. This program sends a voice command to Internet ecosystem players to always avoid Internet shutdowns, censorship, and disinformation so that our communities can always connect online. We bring together policy-makers, users, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and the citizens in a forum to discuss safety measures that can be taken to strengthen the Internet and maintain the Internet's original design - borderless, neutral and secure.
HAKI ONLINE AFRICA
We champion online safety, online hygiene, and cyber security awareness among youth and young women from within Africa. As internet penetration expands to rural communities where the level of digital literacy is still low, we as well experience increased risks which are related to cybercrimes in the rural communities. This is potentially one of the factors that play a big role in keeping our communities outside the digital space because they are scared of the attacks related to online space. We conduct community-specific awareness training on how to stay safe and practice cyber hygiene while online and how the internet can be used as a tool to change and improve livelihoods.
I KNOW HER
We are empowering young women to make a step towards using technology to create impact in the society . We create an environment which enables youthful women to share and get mentored with women who have made it in the tech space. It is just a small story of a one successful woman in tech that can change hundreds of lives of many other young ladies. - Giving women a spanner to mend their safe spaces online.
We use Participatory Action Learning Methodology (PALM) which gives young women an opportunity to learn by observation, visualization, and interaction with learning technology and digital resources to co-create and co-design enabling safe spaces and innovative ideas that models their mind into local tech innovators.
GONLINE CLOUD
As technology continues to evolve, cloud computing has now surpassed the legacy computing hence improving flexibility, agility, scalability, fault tolerance and data recovery. Cloud comes wrapped differently as one can have both legacy and cloud side(hybrid implementation), creating one's own cloud (private cloud) and utilizing the available public cloud service providers such google, amazon and microsoft (public cloud).
There are more advantages attached to cloud computing that we as GONLINE will help you realize and help you tap into it to enable your business to evolve and grow.
Here we handle Google cloud platform (GCP), Amazon web services (AWS), Oracle cloud, MIcrosoft Azure and VMware.
We also handle the Modern Workplace arena which entails Using Google Workspace, Zoho and MIcrosoft 365.
We also help in mail management i.e microsoft exchange, gmail and zoho mail and also help in migrating emails from webmail to either gmail or outlook and vice versa.
We offer mentorship and talks on cloud so as to help organization stay on track with the growing technology. We help in application migration to cloud and app modernization and also offer consultancy in regards to cloud.
GOINBOX SUITE
GOINBOX (Gonline Africa Internet Box) is a low-cost, simple, portable, and low-power internet technology solution that uses locally available resources to provide internet access to the community living in rural, remote, and marginalized areas where connectivity and digital literacy is a major challenge in order to improve their livelihood and access to digital opportunities. It is a connectivity project in the rural communities of Nyatike that connects over 1,000 community members to the internet, and trains 500 community members on digital literacy.GOINBOX Suite is a comprehensive, multi-user network management system that helps Internet Service Provider to manage their network infrastructure and all components of the network. It has been designed based on the real-world needs in the Telecom space.
USE CASES
We have made this system to be replicable and platform independent. It is a web-based application can can run in all webservers such as Apache, Nginix and many others and therefore can be deployed in any web server. It can be used to manage clients , customers, staff, revenue, assets, network resources (bandwidth, security etc) with a CRM functionality, to manage network Points of Presence (POPs) or Nodes , Finance functions such as invoicing, Return On Investoment projection.
It is completely at your discretion on how and where to include this system in your business structure.
SYSTEM FEATURES
GOINBOX SUITE has the following features that gives it its robustness and flexibility to be used in all kinds of organzational sizes. It has been designed meet every ISP needs.
<<1>> Realtime Network Monitoring Provisioning
<<2>> Inventory Management
<<3>> Finance and Billing Management
<<4>> In-app Advertising Services
<<5>> CRM Services
<<6>> Front Office Services
<<7>> Ticketting, Bulksms & Emailing Services
<<8>> Network Security Analytics
<<9>> Customized Branding services
SYSTEM REQUIREMENT
While this system is plafrom independent, it does require some specifications to be met for optimal operations.
System Requirement
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<<1>> 2GB RAM Server (RasberyPi 4+)
<<2>> 8GM Storage (ROM)
<<3>> Core i5+
Software Requirement
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<<1>> SQL / MSQL Database Server
<<2>> Web Server (Apache / NGINIX)
<<3>> PHP 7+ (Curl supported)
Other Requirement
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<<1>> Mikrotik RouterOS <!--RB951Ui / RB2011 / RB4011 / CCR-Series -->
<<2>> Pblic IP Address <!-- This is the IP given by your ISP -->
<<3>> M-PESA PAYBILL (B2C & C2B) <!--Optional for shared pool where we handle payments-->
SYSTEM SETTINGS
We have made this process simple and easy for you. Once you have purchased the system, you will be allocated a system admin whose job will be to ensure that yor application is configured and is running as expected.
Our responsibility is to give you a fully working system.
We offer after-sale services for as long as you are using our product.
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GETTING STARTED
We do installation for you!
Our responsibility is to give you a fully working system.
We offer after-sale services for as long as you are using our product.
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System Customization
You can be able to customize the system by activating modules that you need, updating your brand
System Customization
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<<1>> You can change your logo
<<2>> You can change your theme colors based on your branding schemes
<<3>> You can change your address details and brand name
System Modules
It has 5 major modules with several other sub-modules that gives it the ability to handle serveral functions.
<<1>> Network Monitoring Module
<<2>> Messaging Module
<<3>> Finance and Billing Module
<<4>> HR & CRM Module
<<5>> Reporting Module
Content Modules
System Billing Module
This system provides major billing functionalities such invoicing , payments, and revenue analytics
System Finance Module
This system provides major finance and accounting functionalities such as M-PESA PAYMENTS, Return On Investment (ROI) and revenue analytics
System Reporting Module
This system provides view of the network resources such as power usage, bandwidth, devices and many more
System Communication Module
We provide you with a a platform to send messages to your clients. This can be inform payment reminders, holiday wishes, invoices, recieved payments and many more. All is inclusive!
FAQ
A FAQ is a list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) and answers on a particular topic.
Support
If this documentation doesn't answer your questions, So, Please send us Email via support@gonline.africa
We are located in GMT +3:00 time zone and we answer all questions within 12-24 hours in weekdays. In some rare cases the waiting time can be to 48 hours. (except holiday seasons which might take longer).
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GOINBOX by Alphonce Odhiambo is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at www.gonline.africa