What's new in Own It 3.1
The limitation-smash release: your tools now write to the people they serve — client emails through your own SMTP, calendar feeds, attachments, export presets — every one of them off until you switch it on.
Own It 3.0 gave your tools an agent door. 3.1 is about something more ordinary and, for most
businesses, more valuable: the tools now write to the people they serve — and every single
one of those new outbound paths ships switched off.
As always: nothing taken away, nothing moved behind a paywall, no subscription. If you own a
tool, the 3.1 files are the same one-time purchase you already made.
The counterparty finally hears from the software
Until now, every email an Ownware tool sent went to you, the operator. 3.1 lets the tool write
to the other side of the transaction — through your own SMTP server, never a bundled mail
service, and only after you turn each message type on:
- Invora emails an invoice to the client — one button per send, every attempt logged.
- Rentara sends a tenant their payment receipt with the live outstanding balance —
and never asks them to pay, because it cannot take money.
timesheet is decided. Rostera mails each person their own shifts on publish.
- Complia sends a complainant their receipt and tracking link — carrying not one
word they wrote, because a register must never become the leak it exists to record.
- Certora delivers certificates as private links, in bounded batches.
- Waiverly sends the signer their own copy. Vendra emails receipts
and the day-close report. Commissa mails a rep their own statement.
- Tokora can text a waiting visitor when they are nearly up — through your own
Twilio account, if you connect one.
The design rule across all 37: **off by default, your own credentials, one honest refusal when it
cannot send, and a mail failure never breaks the thing that triggered it.**
Calendars, files, and the export your accountant's software imports
- Calendar feeds — token-guarded, read-only
.icsfeeds your calendar subscribes to:
bookings (Slotly), rotas, who's-off, planned maintenance (Fixora),
contract renewals (Supplia), permit expiries (Permora). Every feed
is revocable; the URL is the credential and only its hash is stored.
- Attachments where the paper lives — the signed contract on the contract, the receipt photo
on the payout (Cashora), the permit PDF on the permit, work-order documents,
complainant evidence. Files are judged by their bytes, never their names.
Confida goes further: reporter photos are rebuilt without their hidden metadata
(EXIF, GPS, camera, author) and sealed with AES-256-GCM at rest.
- Named export presets — CSVs shaped exactly the way QuickBooks and Xero importers expect
(Expensa, Ledgira, Extracta, Assetora),
supplier and goods-received layouts (Restock, Cargora), documented
column-for-column. The default export stays byte-identical, so nothing you built breaks.
Doors for the other people in your business
- Leavora's flagship: employee self-service — invite a person from their record
and they get their own login: their balances, their history, a request form. They can ask;
only an administrator can decide — including their own request.
- Approva: per-cost-centre approval rules through the same chain engine, with
the rule frozen onto each request at submission — an auditor sees the rule that was in force,
not today's.
- Gymora: a member-facing check-in kiosk on a tablet at the door.
- Consigna: consignor statements as real server-generated PDFs on the read-only
portal link. Votera: voters can opt in to one "it shipped" email per idea.
- Revup: the send window can release itself at an hour you choose, plus one
follow-up to silence only — and the page shows when the runner last ran, in red if it stopped.
Prices changed too — here is the honest version
3.1 is the release where the catalogue grew real counterparty features, and we repriced it:
single licences now run $59–$129 by product family, and every product gained an **extended
licence** tier for client work. If you already own a tool, nothing changes for you — your licence
and your upgrades are unaffected. The rent-vs-own math
still lands the same way: one licence costs less than a quarter of most tools' first year of rent.
Honesty pass, included
Every product page's Honest limitations list was rewritten against the shipped code — lines
that had become false were deleted, lines that remain are the design. If a limitation matters to
your use case, read that list before buying; it is kept true on purpose.
The rest of the catalogue, honestly
Not every tool needed a new outbound path, and we did not invent one to have something to announce.
Specta gained an import-header check that tells you whether an export will land in your
store before you try it; Packora a deadline reminder ladder that reaches the people who
file; Lendra an overdue notice safe to leave switched on; Safora a chase for
the breach nobody closed; Secreta team management that no longer means editing the
database; Privara correspondence attachments on the request they belong to; the
SaaS Kit carries the same 3.1 layer into every instance it provisions.
Menura and Nexura got the other kind of pass: their limitation lists were
rewritten against the shipped code and their export columns documented, because a product that is
already complete is better served by true copy than by a feature it does not need. Deliora
— this store — gained provider-applied discount codes.
Upgrading
As with every wave: replace the files, load any page, the database migrates itself additively.config.php, uploads and data untouched. Store buyers: your download already serves the 3.1
files.