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Not an ERP · small, sharp tools you own
Own It 3.0 is here — every tool now has an MCP endpoint your AI can use under the same guards you face, plus roles with invitations, an append-only audit trail, printable PDFs, your branding, guided backups & restore, and optional single sign-on. What changed →
Business tools you own, not rent.
Complete, self-hosted software you buy one time and run on your own server. No monthly bill that never ends. No company holding your data hostage. It's yours to keep, brand, and extend.
38 tools · one-time purchase each
One-time price. No subscriptions.
Runs on your server. PHP · MySQL · Docker
Your data never leaves. No cloud lock-in.
Installs as a mobile app. Straight from the browser — no app store (PWA).
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Every monthly price is a cited competitor price — sources included. No estimates.
Browse them all in the Price Observatory — every vendor price we track, verified & dated.
New · Ownware Cloud
Don’t want to host it yourself? We run it for you from $12/month — rent the hosting, own the software.
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One of the 38 is free. No catch, no trial — it’s yours.
Tokora — Self-hosted queue & token display — issue numbers, call them to counters, run the waiting-room board.
01The idea
Rent forever, or own it once.
Most business software charges you every month, forever, and keeps your data on their servers. Ownware tools are the opposite: a single purchase, hosted wherever you want, fully yours.
Renting SaaS
- $40–100+ every month, forever
- Your data lives on their cloud
- Prices rise; features get paywalled
- Locked in — leaving means losing everything
Owning Ownware
- Pay once, use forever
- Runs on your own server, your data
- No surprise price hikes, no paywalls
- Yours to brand, modify, and keep
02Why self-hosted
Software that answers to you.
You keep the data
Everything runs on your own server. No third party can read it, lose it, or lock you out of it.
No forever-bill
One purchase. The tool keeps working whether or not anyone's charging you a subscription.
Yours to extend
A clean, standard stack (plain PHP + MySQL, Docker-ready) you can actually maintain. Brand it, tweak it, deploy it however you like.
03How it works
From checkout to running in minutes.
01
Buy once
Every purchase delivers an instant download and a license key — one payment, no renewal date, no seat counting.
02
Install in minutes
Upload to any PHP host — shared hosting included — or a Docker box, and a short web installer walks you through the rest.
03
It’s yours
Your server, your database, your rules. Full source included — brand it, modify it, and run it as long as you like.
04The tools
Complete apps, not starter kits.
Each one is a finished product a real business can run today — not a template you have to assemble. Sold once, downloaded instantly: every purchase comes with a license key and a secure download link.
05Suites
Buy the whole workflow.
Each suite bundles the tools one business actually runs together, at one price — grouped, never entangled: every app still runs standalone.
The flagship · the anti-ERP
Ownware OS — the whole shelf, one payment.
Every app in the catalog plus the SaaS Kit console that provisions and runs them on your server.
$499 once
38 products · save $1,789.00
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Compliance Suite
GDPR requests, whistleblowing, license tracking, packaging EPR, and sales-tax nexus — the five compliance duties, self-hosted.
$249.00 · 5 products · $365.00 separately
save $116.00
Restaurant Ops Suite
Menu engineering, food-safety logs, and review requests — the back office of a food business, self-hosted.
$149.00 · 3 products · $172.00 separately
save $23.00
Field-Service Suite
Maintenance management plus equipment checkout — keep machines running and know who has the gear.
$149.00 · 2 products · $163.00 separately
save $14.00
Property Suite
Rental property management plus consignment-grade ledger math — for operators who track other people's money.
$149.00 · 2 products · $203.00 separately
save $54.00
AI Document Suite
Five BYO-key AI document tools — invoices, receipts, spec sheets, freight docs, and bookkeeping — on your own server.
$199.00 · 5 products · $290.00 separately
save $91.00
Workforce Suite
Staff leave, shift rota, and timesheets — the three workforce record-keeping tools, self-hosted.
$119.00 · 3 products · $157.00 separately
save $38.00
Studio Suite
Online booking, digital waivers, and membership management — run a studio, gym, or spa on your own server.
$99.00 · 3 products · $132.00 separately
save $33.00
Finance Ops Suite
Petty cash, sales commissions, and a fixed-asset register — penny-exact finance record-keeping, self-hosted.
$109.00 · 3 products · $147.00 separately
save $38.00
Retail Suite
POS with inventory, reorder forecasting, and a queue/token display — the front of a shop, self-hosted.
$99.00 · 3 products · $123.00 separately
save $24.00
06The catalog
Every tool, by the job it does.
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Run the front office
Invoices, bookings, sales, members, rentals, the waiting-room board — the daily engine of a service business, owned outright instead of rented monthly.
Gymora
Self-hosted gym membership manager with front-desk check-in guards and class-pack credit tracking.
From $59.00
Rentara
Automatic rent posting, late fees, and a tenant self-service portal for the portfolio you already manage.
From $119.00
Tokora
Self-hosted queue & token display — issue numbers, call them to counters, run the waiting-room board.
FREE
Consigna
Self-hosted consignment shop software with penny-exact payouts — an open alternative to SimpleConsign.
From $84.00
Approva
Route purchase requests through amount-based approvals and issue numbered POs before the money is spent.
From $39.00
Commissa
Penny-exact commission statements — flat, tiered, or per-category — owned outright.
From $69.00
People & workforce
Leave balances, shift rotas, timesheets — the staff record-keeping every team needs, on your own server instead of a per-employee meter.
Leavora
Self-hosted staff leave & PTO — accruals, working-day requests, approvals, and live balances.
From $49.00
Rostera
Self-hosted staff shift scheduler — a weekly rota, exact hours, double-booking caught.
From $59.00
Clockora
Self-hosted staff timesheet — hours by project, exact totals, approvals. No invoicing.
From $49.00
Compliance & records
Consent, contracts, policies, credentials, audits — the paperwork that can sink a small business. These tools keep the records straight on your own server, where compliance data belongs.
Privara
Self-hosted GDPR DSAR portal that tracks every request against its statutory deadline.
From $49.00
Confida
Self-hosted whistleblowing channel that tracks the EU Directive's 7-day and 3-month clocks.
From $119.00
Complia
A self-hosted complaints register with an acknowledgement timer and audit export. Ships set up for the UK 30-day duty.
From $69.00
Packora
Self-hosted per-SKU packaging register for state EPR reporting — exact math, one-time price.
From $79.00
Nexura
Track revenue and transactions per US state against Wayfair nexus thresholds, with alerts before you must register.
From $49.00
Safora
Replace the paper food-safety diary with auto-flagged deviations and an audit-ready PDF and CSV export.
From $44.00
Waiverly
Self-hosted digital waivers with a minor/guardian gate and tamper-evident records.
From $39.00
Secreta
Self-hosted, zero-knowledge one-time secret links — your server can't read what it stores.
From $44.00
Certora
Batch-generate certificate PDFs with unique verify codes and expiry tracking — on a verify page you host.
From $34.00
Supplia
Self-hosted supplier & contract register — renewal alerts, expiry warnings, committed spend by category.
From $59.00
AI document tools
Point them at the paperwork you already have — receipts, statements, menus, manifests — and let the model you configure do the typing. Your own API key, your own server: you control the data and the costs.
Extracta
Extract invoice & receipt data with your own AI key — self-hosted, human-reviewed.
From $44.00
Expensa
Batch-upload receipts and let your own AI key extract, categorize, and total them into an accountant-ready report.
From $49.00
Specta
Batch-process up to 20 spec sheets with an AI queue, then review only the fields confidence-scoring flags.
From $99.00
Cargora
Extract POs and packing slips with your own AI key, then catch short shipments and price gaps automatically.
From $49.00
Ledgira
Upload bank or card statements and let your own AI key extract every line and auto-reconcile the balance.
From $49.00
Menura
Photograph a menu, extract every item and price with your own AI key, review, then export POS-ready data.
From $59.00
Field, stock & service
Repairs, equipment lending, asset registers, replenishment, reviews — operational tools for businesses that move physical things and want the ledger kept at home.
Fixora
Self-hosted CMMS with usage meters, parts inventory, and a maintenance calendar — an open alternative to MaintainX.
From $129.00
Lendra
Log who has which laptop, tool, or camera checked out, and get automatic overdue flags on a live dashboard.
From $34.00
Restock
Import your sales history and get reorder points, days-of-stock, and suggested order quantities per SKU.
From $89.00
Revup
Self-hosted review-request software with a rating gate — an open alternative to NiceJob, one-time price.
From $69.00
Permora
Track permits and inspections across every job — exact date-math alerts, owned outright.
From $89.00
Assetora
Self-hosted fixed-asset register — depreciation to the exact cent, book value as of any date.
From $39.00
For builders & product teams
The infrastructure behind this very store: sell downloads with license keys, run a catalog as your own multi-tenant SaaS, or run your product's public roadmap.
Deliora
A self-hosted digital product store, delivery, and license-key manager — a Gumroad alternative you own.
From $99.00
SaaS Kit
Turn any single-tenant PHP app into a multi-tenant SaaS with its own database per tenant.
From $79.00
Votera
Your own feedback board, public roadmap, and changelog — unlimited voters, no per-user monthly bill.
From $59.00
07Questions
Answered straight.
Is it really a one-time price?
Yes. Each product is a single purchase that delivers the complete app, a license key, and a download link. There is no subscription, and nothing switches off if you never pay again.
What do I need to run these?
Any PHP 8 host with MySQL or SQLite — ordinary shared hosting works — or a Docker box. Each app ships with a short web installer.
Do I get the source code?
Yes — every purchase is the full, unobfuscated source. The license lets you modify and brand it for your own installation; it doesn’t allow reselling the code itself.
Where does my data live?
In your own database on your own server. The AI-assisted tools talk only to the model provider you configure with your own API key — nothing is routed through us.
Does it work on phones?
Yes — every product is a Progressive Web App: open your own instance in the phone’s browser, choose “Add to Home Screen” (iOS) or “Install app” (Android), and it runs full-screen with its own icon, served entirely from your server. No app store involved, and business data is never cached on the device.
Can I see a product before buying?
Every product page shows real screenshots, pricing, and an honest list of limitations — and live demos are coming online product by product.
Can you host it for me?
Yes — Ownware Cloud runs selected apps for you from $12/month: your own private instance, nightly backups, one-click full export plus the source code any time, and after 12 paid months the perpetual self-host license is yours regardless. How it works — the honest version.
Own your tools
Stop renting your own business.
Every tool on this page is a one-time purchase. Pick the one that hurts most every month, install it in minutes, and keep it forever.