Self-hosted retail & shop software
POS with oversell-proof inventory, reorder forecasting, a queue and token display, consignment payouts, supplier contracts, and sales-tax nexus tracking — the whole shop counter, self-hosted. 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 7 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.
Vendra — POS & Inventory System (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted)
Self-hosted POS & inventory engineered so overselling is impossible.
Restock
Import your sales history and get reorder points, days-of-stock, and suggested order quantities per SKU.
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.
Supplia — Supplier Register & Contract-Renewal Tracker (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted)
Self-hosted supplier & contract register — renewal alerts, expiry warnings, committed spend by category.
Assetora — Fixed-Asset & Depreciation Register (PHP + MySQL, Self-Hosted)
Self-hosted fixed-asset register — depreciation to the exact cent, book value as of any date.
Warrantora — Self-Hosted Warranty & RMA Register: Expiry and Claims
Self-hosted warranty register: what you sold, when the cover ends, and every claim with the reason for each decision — computed, never stale.
Retail Suite
POS with inventory, reorder forecasting, and a queue/token display — the front of a shop, self-hosted. — 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)
- WarrantyHub — $6,588.00 in year one at $549.00/month (their own page, read 2026-08-22; replaced by Warrantora)
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
What the Restaurant Ops Suite bundles — Safora for the temperature diary and deviations, Menura for getting a menu into the POS, Revup for asking the right customer for a review — with each product's refusals, the hand-offs between them, and the arithmetic beside buying them separately.
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.
Most self-hosted apps offer both, and most advice reflexively says "MySQL for production." SQLite's documentation gives a specific traffic figure — and for a small business app, it is not close. Here is the honest threshold.
Cogsy was $199 a month until it was withdrawn. Sage's Inventory Planner won't publish a price. Both will tell you what to reorder; neither shows you the arithmetic. Here is why that matters, and the four formulas the whole category is built on.
Five verified SaaS list prices, sourced and dated, multiplied by 36 months — next to the one-time price of owning the equivalent self-hosted tool. Arithmetic, not a quote.
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.
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