One small computer
A mini-PC is ideal — about the size of a hardback book, silent, and cheap second-hand. It sits in the office and stays switched on. A spare PC or laptop works to try it out.
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Getting it running at your masjid
One small computer, one afternoon, and one willing person. There is nothing to sign up for, no card to enter, and no decision here that costs money.
- Free forever, not a trial
- Runs at the masjid, not on our servers
- No account, no card, nothing to cancel
What it takes
Three things, and none of them are complicated
This is the whole list. If your masjid has these, it can run its own software.
A network cable to it
It plugs into your router or a network socket, the same as a printer. It does not need to be reachable from the internet, and nothing on your router changes.
One willing person
Somebody who can follow written steps carefully for an afternoon. No experience with servers, no coding, and nothing to learn beforehand. Or somebody else can do it for you — see below.
You do not need to understand servers, networks or code — and once it is running, you use a web page like any other, on your phone or a laptop.
How to get there
Three ways, and two of them are free
Every route ends at the same place, with the same software. Pick by how much of it you want to do yourselves.
Do it yourself
An afternoon
Follow the guides. They assume nothing, name every button, and tell you after each step what you should be seeing — so you always know whether it worked.
Open the guidesDo it with company
An afternoon, with someone on hand
Start the guides and keep the Discord open beside them. The people who wrote this are in there, and other masjids who have already done it are too. Ask before you get stuck, not after.
Join the DiscordHave it done for you
You plug it in
Our partner AsmaTec Inc. tells you exactly what to buy, ships the machine already set up with your masjid's details in it, and stays with you until everything works. Optional maintenance afterwards.
What that includesWhichever route you take, this is the whole install
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenMasjid-Solutions/OpenMasjidOS/master/install.sh || wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenMasjid-Solutions/OpenMasjidOS/master/install.sh)"It asks nothing while it runs, and prints the address to open when it finishes. The guides walk through it a step at a time, with a picture of what you should see.
Starting on your own and asking for help later is normal, and so is starting on your own and handing it to AsmaTec Inc. halfway. Nothing you do in one route is wasted in another.
The day it is running
What the masjid actually has
From this point on it is a web page, not a computer you maintain. Anyone on the committee you give the password to can use it.
- A web address of its own on the masjid’s network. You open it in any browser, on a phone or a laptop.
- An admin account you create yourself, with a password of at least twelve characters. Nobody reaches the dashboard without it.
- The App Store, open and ready. That is the whole setup — there is nothing else to configure first.
- Prayer times and location are not asked for here. Each app collects what it needs when you install it.
What you supply
Three accounts in the masjid's own name
This is the difference between running it yourself and paying a monthly fee. There is no plan to select and nothing to unlock. You supply three things of your own, one time, and every feature a hosted platform charges for is then available. All three are free to open, and all three stay yours.
You set each one on the platform, not in each app. An app you install later can then send email and take a card payment straight away. You never configure it again, and the app never sees the credentials.
See what it will run
Prayer displays on every screen, a donation page on your own domain, a giving kiosk by the door, and madrasa fees. All of them free, all of them one click.