The price anchor
| Clientdesk | Baremetrics | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $0 — no subscription | $50-100+/mo |
| Annual | $0 after purchase | $600 |
| 5-year total | $39 | $3,000 |
| 10-year total | $39 | $6,000 |
Subscription figures from the vendor's published pricing ($50-100+/mo, ~$600/yr); the Clientdesk column is the full price, paid once.
Break-even analysis
One month of ChartMogul more than covers Clientdesk, which then reads your Stripe data for free forever.
- After 1 year: Clientdesk has cost you $39 total — ChartMogul / Baremetrics has cost $600.
- After 3 years: Clientdesk is still $39 — the subscription is at $1,800.
- After 5 years: Clientdesk is still $39 — the subscription is at $3,000.
What you get for $39 once
- Revenue dashboard. MRR with trials excluded and yearly plans normalized, plus ARR, 30-day churn, LTV, ARPU and cash collected, with daily snapshots building trend history.
- Stripe webhook ingestion. Point /webhooks/stripe at your account and customers, subscriptions and invoices cache locally, with optional signature verification and no Stripe SDK or API polling.
- Customer portal. Per-customer tokenized portal links show plan, status, invoice history and usage bars, with strict isolation so a token only ever sees its own data.
- Usage metering. Your backend POSTs /api/usage with an ingest key and customers see how much of their allowance they have used next to their bill.
- Branded receipt emails. Optional SMTP sends payment-received and payment-failed notices in your name and color, and soft-fails so email problems never break webhooks.
- No renewal, ever. The license does not expire and there is no per-seat meter — $39 is the whole price.
Pricing questions
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes, Clientdesk is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/customer-portal-billing-mvp. The $39 buys the packaged Windows installer and 1-click setup; building from source is free.
Does Clientdesk touch my Stripe funds?
No. It only ingests webhook data from your own Stripe account into a local SQLite file, and it is 100% local with no telemetry.
Is this a subscription in disguise?
No. $39 once, no renewal, no per-customer or per-metric fees.
Clientdesk — $39, one time
Or get Clientdesk plus every other app in the suite: the OneTimeSuite bundle is currently $97, one time.