Your club. Your rails. Your code.
Haptera builds membership and club programs that run on the payment account you already own. One-time build, open source, no platform skimming every member — forever.
Why Haptera
Haptera are the finger-like structures a kelp uses to grip bedrock. They look like roots but aren't: they contain no vascular tissue, and the kelp takes no nutrition from the rock it holds. It anchors without extracting.
That's the design constraint. Haptera runs on your accounts — your Square, your Stripe, your database, your domain. It holds your club, your waitlist, your comms. It takes nothing from the transactions passing through, because it never touches them. Apache-2.0. Your code, your data, your customers.
The platform tax
A subscription platform takes a cut of every member. Every month. Forever.
Platforms like Table22 charge around 10% of top-line plus processing. Your members sign up on the platform's domain, live on its list, and route support through it. Leave, and the club can't come with you cleanly.
Haptera is the other model: the club runs on your Square or Stripe, signup lives on your site, and the code sits in a repo with your name on it.
Illustrative: 60 members × $60/mo. Card processing (~2.9%) applies either way, since platforms charge 10% on top of it. Real figures come from your dashboard.
How it works
Everything lives in an account you own.
Haptera isn't a platform you log into. It's a standard web app wired to the services you already trust — nothing runs through us.
Your processor
Recurring charges run on your own Square or Stripe. Checkout happens on their hosted pages, so no card data ever touches the site and there's no PCI burden.
Your domain
Members join on your own site and manage their own pauses, cancellations, and card updates. No app link to a platform you don't control.
Your code
The build lives in a GitHub repo in your account, licensed so anyone can maintain it. Hand it to any developer — no permission from us required.
Open source
The engine is public. So "you own it" isn't a promise — it's a license.
Haptera's core is released under Apache-2.0. Read it, fork it, deploy it yourself, or hire anyone to. The value we sell is the program design and the build — not lock-in.
$ git clone https://github.com/koda-wzkp/Pleco-Codec # Square adapter, Stripe adapter, member events, comms. # Your keys, your accounts, your data. $ cat LICENSE Apache License, Version 2.0 — Copyright 2026 Pleco LLC # You may use, modify, and deploy this. Nobody can # take it back, reprice it, or shut it off from you.
Not a developer? That's what the build is for. The open license just means you're never trapped — the thing you paid for can be maintained by anyone, forever. See the repo →
What a build includes
One-time build. You keep everything.
Priced by scope, not by member count. No rev-share, no per-member fees — ever.
- Program design workshop
- Billing + signup page on your rails
- Launch campaign to your list
- 30 days of adjustments
- Everything in Launch
- Member login
- Self-serve subscription management
- Member perks display
- Everything in Portal
- Full custom website
- A CMS you can edit yourself
- Fast, modern, yours
Optional care plan: $100–200/mo — monitoring, updates, small changes. Cancel anytime; everything keeps working.
Live now
Running in the wild.
The Sunset Wine Club
A pickup-only wine club with a founding-member waitlist, billing that starts only when the first pickup is ready — on the venue's own Square.
The Outer Heaven Bean Club
A monthly coffee subscription with pickup timed to the roast, so members take home beans at their peak — on the roaster's own Square.
Stop renting your regulars.
Tell me about your shop and the kind of club you'd want. I'll tell you what it takes to own it.