MountDev Ops
Business Apps That Run Inside Your Own WordPress Site
What makes it different
What it is
An ERP you can actually afford, built on WordPress
Running a business usually means renting a stack of software: one tool for the sales pipeline, another for invoices, another for staff, each billed per person every month. MountDev Ops puts those jobs inside the WordPress site you already run, as free plugins that share one set of records.
The suite
What you will be able to run
The plan is more than forty apps, grouped by the job they do. They are being released one at a time, and this page is the index as that happens.
Sales
Finding work and closing it.
- MountDev Ops CRMBuilding
- Quotes and proposalsPlanned
- Pipeline reportingPlanned
Money
Getting paid and knowing where you stand.
- InvoicesPlanned
- SubscriptionsPlanned
- ExpensesPlanned
Operations
The work itself, tracked properly.
- ProjectsPlanned
- TasksPlanned
- InventoryPlanned
People
Your team and the admin around them.
- Staff recordsPlanned
- Time trackingPlanned
- Leave and schedulesPlanned
Customers
Looking after people after the sale.
- Help deskPlanned
- Client portalPlanned
- Knowledge basePlanned
Marketing
Bringing people in.
- Email campaignsPlanned
- FormsPlanned
- ReviewsPlanned
How it works
Start with one app, add the rest when you need them
Install what you need
Each app is its own plugin. Start with the CRM, or start somewhere else. Nothing is bundled against your will.
They recognize each other
Apps share one customer list, one product list, one set of staff. Install a second app and it already knows your data.
Work in the front end
Admins use the WordPress backend. Everyone else, staff and customers, works in the front end of your site.
Grow without repricing
Adding an app or a person does not change what you pay for the free apps.
Why it costs less
The math that makes this worth doing
The usual way
- A separate subscription for each job: CRM, invoicing, projects, help desk, email.
- Most of them billed per user per month, so every hire raises the bill.
- Your records split across vendors, joined by integrations you maintain.
- Prices set by someone else, and they move.
- Leaving means exporting your business from someone else's system.
The MountDev Ops way
- Free plugins on a site you already pay to host.
- No per-seat pricing, so the team can grow without the bill following.
- One database holding one set of records.
- Open code you can read, on infrastructure you control.
- Leaving means keeping everything, because it was always yours.
Honest fit
Who this suits, and who it does not
A good fit if
- You already run a WordPress site and are comfortable in the admin.
- You are paying for several business tools and feel the per-seat sting.
- You want your customer data on your own server.
- Your hosting meets the requirements below, or you are willing to move.
Not the right call if
- You need every app today. The suite is being released one at a time.
- You want someone else to carry the uptime and backups without a managed plan.
- Your processes depend on a specific piece of enterprise software.
- Nobody at your business wants to own a WordPress install.
Questions
The things people ask first
Is it really free?
Every app in the suite is a free plugin. Paid features will come later as a separate plugin, and the free apps are not held back to push it.
What happens to my data if I stop using an app?
It stays in your database. Deleting a plugin does not delete your records.
Do I need a developer?
To install and run the apps, no. To move hosting or meet the requirements, you may want help, and we do that work.
Can my customers log in?
Yes. Admins work in the WordPress backend, while staff and customers work in the front end of your site.
How many apps are there right now?
MountDev Ops CRM is the first. The rest are being built and released one at a time, and this page lists them as they land.
Who is building it?
Cascadia Web Services. We have run managed WordPress and business systems for other companies since 2012, and we are replacing our own tooling with this.
Before you install
What your server needs
Our commitment
MountDev Ops is built security first. Your data stays on your server. Our plugins never phone home, and we never use analytics or tracking of any kind. The only exception is the MountDev Ops Pro license check, which sends only your license key and site address. Nothing else is sent anywhere unless you set it up yourself.
Keeping that promise takes a properly configured server. Here is what MountDev Ops needs:
- PHP 8.3 or newer
- WordPress 7.0 or newer
- MySQL 8.0 or MariaDB 10.6 or newer
- HTTPS across the whole site
- Scheduled tasks run by a server cron job. By default WordPress runs them only when someone visits your site, so they can run late or not at all.
MountDev Ops checks all of these under Tools > Site Health, and shows their status on the Ops home screen.