01
User & Unit Directory
Claim-code onboarding binds every resident to a real unit, from Location to Building to Block to Room. Owners, occupants, and representatives are tracked separately with full history.
Claim codesOwnership transferSub-users
Est. 2026 · Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
The Condo
Operating
System
for Ethiopia.
gibi digitizes every layer of condominium life: fee collection, financial ledger, governance, and resident communication, all in a single mobile platform built for Addis Ababa.
5 Modules
Platform coverage
99.5%
Target uptime
6 Roles
Role-based access
Resident dashboard
Fee collectionImmutable ledgerTelebirrCBE BirrGovernanceDocument vaultDigital receiptsReserve fundAnnouncementsMulti-tenant
The five modules
Every layer of condo life, one platform.
02
Fee Collection & Payments
Invoices generate automatically on the 1st of every month. Residents pay in-app through Telebirr or CBE Birr, and webhooks settle the bill and issue a digital receipt in seconds.
From weeks to seconds
Gateway webhooks credit the ledger the moment a payment settles. No treasurer approval queue, no paper receipts.
TelebirrCBE BirrLate-fee engine
03
Ledger & Reserve Fund
A write-once, read-many ledger every resident can see. Expenses require receipt photos, and the reserve fund lives in its own sub-account, always visible.
Immutable entriesExpense photosETB reserve
04
Governance & Communication
Committee terms with expiry alerts at 30, 14, and 7 days. Targeted announcements reach every phone. Urgent notices go out by SMS, and minutes are archived forever.
Term trackingUrgent SMSMeeting minutes
05
Document Vault
Bylaws, title deeds, and contracts move out of the damp storage room into an access-controlled vault. Public folders for residents, private ones for the committee.
Role-based accessVersioningAudit trail
80%
of manual cash collection moved to in-app digital payment within 6 months of onboarding a building. That is the goal.
How it works
From paper receipts to a verified ledger, automatically.
The wax seal that once made a paper receipt official is now a webhook. Here is the full life of one condo fee inside gibi.
1
Invoice generated
On the 1st of every month at 00:00 EAT, the billing engine creates invoices for every active unit. Residents get a push notification, and unrepresented units get an SMS to the owner.
2
Resident pays in-app
Three taps from the bill to checkout. Telebirr or CBE Birr, inside the provider flow the resident already trusts.
3
Webhook settles it
The gateway calls back with a signed settlement. Idempotent handling means a duplicate callback can never double-credit an invoice.
4
Ledger credit written
Exactly one immutable credit entry, linked to the payment reference. Write once, read many. Nobody can quietly edit history.
5
Receipt issued
A permanent digital receipt lands on the resident's phone. The treasurer just watches collection status roll in, read-only, with zero paperwork.
Settlement in near real-time. What used to take a treasurer entire weekends of matching bank SMS messages now completes before the resident closes the app.
For who
Six roles. One building.
Role-based access keeps every screen honest. The treasurer cannot edit the ledger, the manager cannot settle payments, and residents see everything they deserve visibility into.
Resident Representative
Pays invoices in-app, gets permanent digital receipts, reads minutes, and sees exactly where the building's money goes.
Finance Officer / Treasurer
Logs expenses with receipt photos, manages the reserve fund, and watches collections settle without approving a single payment by hand.
Condo Manager
Provisions units, issues claim codes, records elections, publishes announcements, and keeps the document vault in order.
Committee Member
Writes minutes, posts announcements, and audits financial summaries with read-only clarity.
Unit Owner
Stays attached to the unit even when it is vacant or rented out. Ownership transfers are recorded, never lost.
Family Sub-User
Reads announcements and invoices under the unit's account. Informed, without payment authority.
Voices from the pilot personas
“I pay my fee by bank transfer and still get accused of not paying. What I want is simple: an official, permanent digital receipt that nobody can dispute.”
Aster Tekle
Resident Representative · Bole Arabsa
School teacher, 48. Pays with Telebirr on a mid-range Android.
“I spend whole weekends matching bank statement lines to unit numbers and writing paper receipts. gibi settles payments before I have even opened my ledger book.”
Kebede Assefa
Treasurer · Retired accountant
Elected treasurer, 55. Hundreds of payment SMS on his personal phone, until now.
“Residents claim they never saw the notice on the board. Now every announcement and every meeting minute lands directly on their phones, with read receipts.”
Yonas Hailu
Committee Chairman · Businessman
Chairman, 35. Tracks committee terms and expenses from one dashboard.
About gibi
A digital seal for Ethiopian condominium life.
gibi (ግቢ) is the operating system for residential communities in Addis Ababa. We exist because condo fees still move in cash, ledgers still live in notebooks, and official notices still disappear into Telegram groups. Trust between residents and committees should not depend on a paper receipt that can be lost.
The product vision is simple: become the definitive digital OS for residential communities in East Africa, starting with one pilot building and a ledger every resident can see.
Established
2026
Home
Addis Ababa
Formerly
CondoPay
Language
English first · አማርኛ next
The gate
A peaked frame over a single ground line: the threshold of a condominium, the moment a resident steps inside a building that finally has a record of itself.
The seal
A small dot at the center of the mark stands in for the wax stamp that once made a paper receipt official. In gibi, that moment is a webhook, verified into the ledger.
The ledger
Write once, read many. No quiet edits. Every collection, every expense, every reserve allocation is visible to the people who pay for the building.