Under-$100 Monthly

Keep a small operator toolkit below a planning ceiling through selective self-hosting

A budget-target architecture combining a simple public site, lightweight CRM, scheduling, invoicing, email, and monitoring while explicitly counting hosting and labor.

Budget band

under-200 · self-host heavy

Components

Tool	Role in stack	Required
wordpress	Public website and landing pages	yes
twenty-crm	Lead and relationship record	yes
cal-com	Tour scheduling	yes
invoice-ninja	Invoice preparation and status tracking	yes
brevo	Optional consented email delivery	optional
uptime-kuma	Public service monitoring	yes

Assumptions

• Low usage and selective self-hosting can meet the operator’s local target.
• Manual handoffs are acceptable at current volume.

Risks

• Delivery, storage, tax, or currency changes can exceed the target.
• Manual duplication can create stale customer or invoice records.

Getting started

1. record-current-spend
2. define-source-records
3. pilot-with-test-data
4. verify-backups
5. measure-maintenance-time

Audience

Roles: owner-operator, sales-manager, finance, technical-operator

Problems: reduce-software-cost, grow-pipeline, replace-spreadsheets, reduce-manual-admin

Workflows: tour-to-close, invoice-collections, marketing-campaigns, incident-response

Last reviewed: 2026-07-18