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A few ideas explain almost everything in OMNI. Read this page once and the rest of the panel will make sense.

Accounts

An account is one business. Everything belongs to an account: its contacts, conversations, broadcasts, balance, team and settings. Nothing is shared between accounts. People sign in as members of an account. Each member holds one or more roles, and the roles decide what they may see and do. See Plans and roles. Each account has its own business name, timezone and date format. The timezone is used for scheduled broadcasts and for dates written into messages.

Resellers and their customers

Some accounts are resellers. A reseller sets up accounts for businesses of its own, its customers. It puts each one on a plan, funds them with credit from its own balance, and can add a markup on top of its prices.
  • A reseller’s customer is an ordinary account. It runs its own team and sees the panel under the reseller’s brand: name, logo, colour and, once set up, its own web address.
  • A customer can never do more than its reseller can. Its roles are limited to what the reseller’s account may do.
  • A reseller’s customer can’t have customers of its own.
  • FireFlo turns an account into a reseller. It isn’t something an account can switch on for itself.
See Resellers and Branding.

Plans and features

A plan is what an account has bought. It is made of features. Some features are switched on or off (custom roles, API access, reseller accounts, each channel). Others are limits (how many team members may sign in). FireFlo decides what each plan includes and what it costs. FireFlo can also change one feature for one account without changing its plan. The panel always shows the result: what your account has today. A plan has a monthly price and, often, a trial. Payment is offline (bank transfer or cheque). Your paid time starts once FireFlo records the payment. If a payment falls due, sending, campaigns and agents pause until it is recorded. See Plan and modules.

Roles and permissions

A role is a set of permissions, such as “send messages”, “manage contacts” or “see the balance”. OMNI starts every account with six shared roles: Owner, Admin, Billing, Support, Viewer and Reseller. On a plan that includes them, an account can also make custom roles of its own. Permissions decide what you can do. The plan decides what the account has. A screen appears only when both allow it. That is why two people in the same account can see different menus.

Modules

OMNI is built from modules, in three kinds.

Channels

SMS, WhatsApp, RCS and Voice. How messages and calls leave and arrive.

Batteries

AI Agents, Calendar, Catalogue, Customer data, Pipelines and Tickets. More the panel can do.

OMNI API

A plugin that opens the account to your own systems.
A module is part of your account when your plan includes it. A channel also has to be connected before it sends. The Inbox, Contacts, Broadcasts and the Delivery report work the same however many channels are on, and they grow as you add more.

Connections: FireFlo’s or your own

Each channel needs a connection to the networks that carry its messages. For most channels there are two choices:
FireFlo provides the connection. Nothing to set up: for SMS it is included, and for WhatsApp FireFlo hosts a number for you, with no Meta setup. Messages are priced from your account’s price list and shown under Billing.
Which choices you have depends on what FireFlo offers on your platform and, for a reseller’s customer, on whether the reseller allows its own connection. Each channel’s page explains its options: see Channels. A contact is one person, identified by their phone number. They are the same contact on every channel, with one thread in the Inbox. OMNI checks every message against what the person has said before it sends: An opt-out is kept even if the contact is deleted and later added again, and an import never removes one. Each broadcast says whether it is marketing or an update the person expects. Marketing skips people who stopped offers; an update skips only people who stopped everything. The Customer data battery adds finer control on top: stops per channel and per purpose, opt-in for marketing, and a preference page.

Plans and roles

What each role may do, and how plans are put together.

Quickstart

Your first hour: connect a channel, add contacts, send, reply.