How much is your POS vendor taking?
Retail margins are already thin. Per-transaction POS fees, per-seat inventory software, marketing SaaS, CRM, and accounting stack up. Most of it has a self-hosted equivalent that does the job without the per-seat or per-transaction tax.
R 141K
Typical annual licence spend
Across 8 common retail tools
R 127K
Recoverable each year
After self-hosted OSS migration
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Sector pain points we cover
From licensing to compliance to access control
The retail stack, on the books
Tap a tool. See the open-source swap and the saving.
Bars show what the typical retail firm spends annually on each licence. The sage portion is what the hosted open-source equivalent costs.
Typical Retail stack
8 tools · R 141K/yr in licences
Replace
Salesforce
CRM · R 54K per year
With
SuiteCRM
Self-hosted on your infra
Annual savings
R 49K
After hosting · approx 90% reduction
Current annual spend
R 141K
Estimated OSS hosting
R 14K
Annual savings
R 127K
Tap any tool to see the open-source replacement and the per-tool saving
Where the retail bleed starts
Three things we hear on every retail discovery call.
Per-transaction and per-seat SaaS fees
POS systems, inventory, loyalty, and e-commerce platforms all charge by volume. Self-hosted Odoo Retail or Dolibarr removes the volume tax.
Email marketing per-contact pricing
Mailchimp, HubSpot, and friends charge per contact. Self-hosted listmonk or Mautic costs a server.
Data locked in vendor silos
Customer data, purchase history, loyalty points. Vendor migrations are painful because the vendor wants you locked in. Open source means your data in open formats from day one.
How we handle the retail edges