Self-hosted front-office software
Invoices, bookings, sales, members, rentals, the waiting-room board — the daily engine of a service business, owned outright instead of rented monthly. Every tool below is a one-time purchase — no subscriptions, and your data lives on your own server.
Self-hosted without the assembly
The other answer to “self-hosted” is a repository: clone it, read the compose file, provision a database, wire up mail, then keep it patched yourself. That is a fair answer when running infrastructure is already your job, and we would rather say so than pretend otherwise. Everything on this page is the other kind — all 14 of them. Each is bought once, the full PHP source is in the download, and the web installer finishes on ordinary shared hosting in about two minutes. No Composer, no Node, no build step, nothing to compile, and nothing that phones home.
Invora — Recurring Invoicing with Client Payment Links (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted)
Self-hosted recurring invoicing for freelancers and small firms: every cycle lands as a draft you approve before it goes out, and each unpaid invoice carries your own payment link.
Slotly — Appointment & Booking System (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted)
Self-hosted appointment booking engineered so it can't double-book.
Vendra — POS & Inventory System (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted)
Self-hosted POS & inventory engineered so overselling is impossible.
Gymora
Self-hosted gym membership manager with front-desk check-in guards and class-pack credit tracking.
Rentara
Automatic rent posting, late fees, and a tenant self-service portal for the portfolio you already manage.
Tokora — Queue & Token Display System (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted)
Self-hosted queue & token display — issue numbers, call them to counters, run the waiting-room board.
Consigna — Self-Hosted Consignment & Resale-Shop Manager
Self-hosted consignment shop software with penny-exact payouts — an open alternative to SimpleConsign.
Approva — Amount-Based Purchase Approval Chains (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted)
Self-hosted purchase approvals for finance teams and cost-centre owners: requests route to one, two or three approvers by amount, and the rule that applied is frozen on the record at submission.
Cashora — Petty Cash Ledger Software (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted)
Self-hosted petty cash ledger software for the cash box you already keep: an imprest float, categorised disbursements, and a balance that proves out at month-end.
Commissa — Sales-Commission Calculator (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted)
Penny-exact commission statements — flat, tiered, or per-category — owned outright.
Visitora — Visitor Evacuation List & Fire Roll Call (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted)
Self-hosted evacuation list for reception and site safety: one page naming everyone still inside, derived from the sign-in log and kept on the device for when the network dies.
Membora — Self-Hosted Membership Register: Standing, Quorum, Motions
Self-hosted membership register for clubs and associations: who is in good standing, whether a meeting was quorate, and whether a motion actually carried.
Loyalora — Self-Hosted Loyalty & Rewards Register: Points, Rewards, Redemptions
Self-hosted points register with a ledger you can replay: no stored balance, no order ceiling, no monthly fee.
Helpora — First-Response Clock for Internal Requests (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted)
Self-hosted first-response tracking for internal teams: the clock starts when a request arrives and stops only when a human actually answers — and nothing can be closed that was never answered.
Front-Desk Suite
Sign-in, membership, loyalty and the request queue — the counter where an organisation meets everyone it deals with, bought once. — 4 of the tools on this page are in it.
Year one, rented
- Qminder — $10,428.00 in year one at $869.00/month (their own page, read 2026-09-03; replaced by Tokora)
- QuotaPath — $6,300.00 in year one at $525.00/month (their own page, read 2026-09-03; replaced by Commissa)
Every tool on this page is one payment; the figures above are the vendors' own published monthly prices multiplied by twelve, nothing else.
Replacing what you rent now
Read before you buy
Invoices out, approvals in, suppliers on record and permits on file: $356.00 as four separate licences, $269.00 as one suite. The arithmetic, the two rented equivalents with the dates they were read, and the businesses that should buy an accounting system instead.
What the Field-Service Suite bundles and why the five are five: Jobora for quotes, scheduling and costing; Fleetora for the van's expiries; Lendra for the kit; Fixora for the plant; Inspectora for what is due. Each product's refusals, the hand-offs, and the arithmetic beside buying them separately.
Every Ownware app answers the Model Context Protocol on your own server. The whole recipe for pointing any assistant — Claude, ChatGPT, an agent in n8n or a model on your own machine — at your invoices, what it can and cannot do, and why the key you hand it should usually be read-only.
An Ownware licence is not an open-source licence, and this page quotes the clause that says so in full. What the single and extended tiers grant, the continuity clause that answers the abandonment question, and who should choose an open-source project instead.
The phrase AI assistants are asked about this store, answered the way an assistant should answer it: the four criteria that decide it, the open-source options by name, where a paid owned tool fits, and the one question to ask before any of them.
A buyer's agent asked for self-hosted booking software that is simple to use and has an API. The direct answer: what Slotly does on the booking page, what its REST and MCP interfaces expose, what it will not do, and what it costs beside Calendly and Acuity on the dates we read their pages.
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