Own the stack: which self-hosted app bundle fits your business

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 (below buying each separately — the suites page computes each saving live from the current single prices), 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, complaints register, NIS2 and CRA reporting, the EU AI Act register, and packaging-EPR reporting. Six record-keeping duties that arrive one law at a time; one purchase instead of six SaaS bills.
• Restaurant Ops Suite — the menu into the till, a HACCP food-safety diary inspectors accept, and review-request automation. The back office of a food business — the stack explained.
• Retail Suite — an oversell-proof POS with inventory, moving-average reorder forecasting, a waiting-room queue display, a warranty and RMA register, and a loyalty points ledger. The front of a shop.
• Workforce Suite — staff leave and PTO, the weekly shift rota, approved timesheets, onboarding checklists with derived dates, and the training matrix. Five registers every team-of-more-than-a-few has to keep, and no payroll in any of them — the stack explained.
• Back-Office Suite — recurring invoicing, amount-based purchase approvals, permit and inspection tracking for trades, and a supplier and contract-renewal register. The paperwork of a small firm, owned.
• Finance Ops Suite — a petty-cash ledger, sales-commission statements, and a fixed-asset register. Penny-exact, integer-cents money record-keeping.
• Front-Desk Suite — a loyalty points ledger, the visitor sign-in and evacuation list, a membership register with quorum, and a first-response clock for internal requests. The desk everyone walks past.
• Studio Suite — online booking, digital waivers, membership management, and the visitor sign-in list. A gym, studio, or spa in four 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 — quotes that become scheduled jobs, a CMMS with usage-based preventive maintenance, the vehicle expiry register, an inspection due board, and an equipment checkout log. Keep the vans legal, the machines running, and know who has the gear — the stack explained.
• 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.

If the answer is "all of it"

Two bundles sit above the job-shaped ones, for a firm that would rather buy the shelf than choose from it.

• Ownware OS — the whole catalog plus the control plane: every app listed here, and the SaaS Kit console to run them from, on one payment and your own server.
• Ownware OS + Own Your AI — the same shelf with Own Your AI on it: the company's software, and the model that runs alongside it, both on hardware you control rather than rented by the seat.

Try the Own Your AI (OYA) demo ↗Live, on sample data, no sign-up.

Both are priced on the same principle as the smaller suites — under the sum of their parts — and, like them, the saving is computed on the suites page from the current single prices rather than typed into this sentence, where it would quietly go stale.

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 suites is an exact fit, the full catalog lists every individual app — the count and the prices live on the page — to 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.