Own the stack: which self-hosted app bundle fits your business
Nine bundles group the tools a specific business actually runs on — compliance, restaurant, retail, workforce, and more — at ~25% off buying separately, self-hosted, one payment.
Most businesses do not need one tool. They need three or four that quietly run the same corner of the operation — and each one is usually a separate monthly subscription with a separate login and a separate copy of your data on someone else's server.
The suites here group the tools that belong together, sell them at one price (roughly 25% below buying each separately), and hand you the whole stack to run on your own box. Each app still installs standalone, so you can adopt them one at a time — the bundle is just the cheaper door in.
Pick by the job your business does
- Compliance Suite — GDPR data-request portal, whistleblowing channel, licence tracking, packaging-EPR reporting, and sales-tax nexus. Five record-keeping duties that arrive one law at a time; one purchase instead of five SaaS bills.
- Restaurant Ops Suite — menu-margin engineering, a HACCP food-safety diary inspectors accept, and review-request automation. The back office of a food business.
- Retail Suite — an oversell-proof POS with inventory, moving-average reorder forecasting, and a waiting-room queue display. The front of a shop.
- Workforce Suite — staff leave and PTO, the weekly shift rota, and approved timesheets. The three things every team-of-more-than-a-few has to track.
- Finance Ops Suite — a petty-cash ledger, sales-commission statements, and a fixed-asset register. Penny-exact, integer-cents money record-keeping.
- Studio Suite — online booking, digital waivers, and membership management. A gym, studio, or spa in three apps.
- Property Suite — rental and lease management with a tenant portal, plus a consignment/resale ledger. Tools for tracking money that is not all yours.
- Field-Service Suite — a CMMS with usage-based preventive maintenance and an equipment checkout log. Keep machines running and know who has the gear.
- AI Document Suite — five bring-your-own-key document tools (invoices, receipts, spec sheets, freight docs, bookkeeping). The one bundle that calls an outside model — the one you configure, with your key, and nothing else.
Why a bundle instead of five subscriptions
The pitch is not "cheaper this month". It is the same argument as owning any single tool here, multiplied: you replace a stack of recurring fees with one payment, you keep every tool's data in your own database, and the break-even against the SaaS equivalents arrives fast and then never comes back around. The three-year rent-vs-own math runs the numbers; suites just make the starting price lower per tool.
Every app in every suite ships the same way — plain PHP with a two-minute web installer, MySQL or SQLite, no build step. If the operational side is what is holding you back, the self-hosting walkthrough shows how small it actually is. And each product page lists its honest limitations in plain text before you spend a cent — the bundle does not hide any of them.
If none of the nine is an exact fit, the full catalog is 38 individual apps you can assemble into your own stack. The suites are simply the combinations we saw businesses reaching for most.
Every vendor figure in this category also lives in the Price Observatory — verified, dated, and source-linked, free to cite — and the calculator turns those figures into your own three-year number in ten seconds.