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WPWaaS

Launched this week

Turn every WordPress website into a subscription business.

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Turn every WordPress website into a subscription business.

13 followers

WPWaaS helps WordPress agencies add industry-specific portals to the websites they already build. Design the frontend as usual, then upsell a branded dashboard to your clients. Most WordPress dashboards are built for developers, not for the people actually using them day to day. WPWaaS is infrastructure sold to agencies, not directly to end clients. You subscribe, deploy on your own domain, set your own prices, and keep everything you charge - we never take a share of your client revenue.

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Hey Product Hunt! 👋 I'm the founder of WPWaaS. The idea came from something I kept seeing over and over. An agency builds a great WordPress website for a client. A few weeks later the client asks for something more: "Can members log in?" "Can we manage donations?" "Can parents see school updates?" "Can patients access their records?" The answer is usually another SaaS platform. The agency sends the client there...and that's the end of the opportunity. I kept thinking... Why can't agencies offer that themselves? WPWaaS is our answer. It doesn't replace how agencies build websites. Instead, it adds another layer. Build the website exactly as you always have, then add a branded portal your client actually uses every day. We're launching with our Church Portal because that's where we started. But our vision is much bigger. We want agencies to have a growing library of industry-specific portals they can add to almost any WordPress project. I'd really appreciate your feedback. If you could have us build one portal next... what would it be?

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3d ago

@davidkaruri Hi there, fantastic idea. I'd love to know how this differs from existing membership plugins that allow WordPress site owners to manage subscriptions. Thanks!

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2d ago

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@thebeachbell Thanks! There are actually a few important differences.

1. Membership plugins are generic. They're useful if you simply want to add memberships or subscriptions to a WordPress site, but that's only one piece of what a business may need. For example, our first portal is for churches, where you might need memberships, groups, giving, attendance, events, prayer requests, communication, sermons, etc. With a traditional WordPress setup, you're often stitching several different plugins together to create that experience.

2. That setup can get complicated quickly. More plugins means more configuration, updates, compatibility issues and potential debugging headaches. WPWaaS packages the functionality into a purpose-built portal rather than making an agency assemble and maintain a stack of unrelated plugins.

3. The end-user experience is completely different. WordPress is incredibly powerful, but the standard WordPress admin wasn't designed to be a beautiful, engaging daily dashboard for the people actually using the software. WPWaaS provides a modern, app-like interface designed around the end user, including PWA support, rather than expecting them to navigate a technical WordPress backend.

4. There's also a big difference in the agency business model. A membership plugin is typically something the agency configures as part of a website project and hands over. WPWaaS is designed to let an agency deploy a complete, white-label portal in minutes and sell it as an ongoing subscription. They keep the website project and create a recurring revenue stream from the software.

And churches are just where we've started. We're building more industry-specific portals for other verticals, so the long-term idea is to give WordPress agencies a growing library of software they can add to the different types of websites they already build.

So we're not trying to be a better membership plugin.

We're trying to give agencies ready-made, industry-specific software they can add to their existing WordPress projects, white-label, and keep earning from long after the website launches.

Hope this helps!

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1d ago

Hi @davidkaruri ,

I appreciate you going into such detail. Thank you so much.

I am with you on a lot of that. WordPress is indeed powerful but plugin conflicts are such a headache. Over the years with my sites, I resorted to using custom snippets to reduce my plugin stack.

Congratulations on creating this great product and wishing you the best of luck!

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1d ago

@thebeachbell Thanks! There are actually a few important differences.

So we're not trying to be a better membership plugin.

We're trying to give agencies ready-made, industry-specific software they can add to their existing WordPress projects, white-label, and keep earning from long after the website launches.

Hope this helps!