Saroh
One place a small business sells, takes bookings, follows up on enquiries,
bills its regulars and keeps a website in step.
सारोह (saaroh): sa, "with", and aaroh, "rising". Let's rise together.
Saroh is built for businesses like a gym, a yoga studio, a clinic, a design
studio or a shop: one login instead of four tools. It is source-available,
so you can use, modify and self-host it, including to run your own business
(licence).
Where it stands: early, and built in the open. The hosted service is not
open yet — join the waitlist at saroh.in. The whole
product runs on your machine today; running your own copy for real use works
but has no step-by-step guide yet
(what it takes).
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Watch it
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/196ad18e-6507-4cb5-bdb8-8848e5ef4d00
A four-minute tour of the workspace, with
voice-over: a shop's products and orders, a gym's members, memberships and
invoices, a yoga studio's courses and class packs, a team and its roles, and
the same person seeing less as a member of staff. Filmed from the running
product against the showcase seed, so every screen is real. The film is in the
repository too, at
docs/demos/tour/saroh-tour.mp4.
A two-minute look at one product, a boutique's dress: its page as the team
sees it and as a customer sees it, a quick edit in a sheet and its Undo, the
stock for each size, a new cover photo, and a reply to a review. At
docs/demos/tour/saroh-products.mp4.
What it does
A business turns on the parts it needs; each is a module it can switch on or
off. One login can hold several businesses, and the workspace changes shape
with the one you are in.
Website
Pages built from blocks — hero, services, booking, enquiry form, gallery, FAQ,
testimonials, rich text — plus posts, and publishing when it is ready. A site
can take a custom domain and verify it, and a draft can be shared as a private
preview link. Someone can be invited purely to review a site: they comment and
approve, and see nothing else of the business. Merchant sites carry the
business's own brand, never Saroh's.
Schedule
Services carry their price, length, capacity and the hours they are open.
People book from the business's own site; a class can be in person or online
with a meeting link sent to whoever books. Bookings can be moved, cancelled, or
marked with how they went, and the business is told when one arrives.
Courses and class packs
A course is a fixed set of sessions sold as one thing: enrolling someone books
them into every session still to come and invoices them once. Adding a session
later books everyone already on it, and an open course holds its unsold seats
so a walk-in cannot take them.
A class pack is classes bought ahead — ten classes to use within ninety days,
say. Selling one issues its invoice; booking spends a class; cancelling gives
it back; the balance is counted, never stored.
Sell
A catalogue with variants, SKUs and categories, and stock that knows what is
already promised to an order and warns before it runs low. Products and
customers can be brought in by CSV. Orders move forward only, one confirmed
step at a time, and can be printed. Payment is recorded by hand or taken
online through the business's own provider. Discount codes take a percentage
or an amount off, across the shop or limited to one storefront, collection or
product. After delivery a customer can be invited to review what they bought.
Billing
Plans and the memberships on them: subscriptions renew on their own, can be
paused, resumed, ended at the period's end or cancelled, and each renewal
writes its invoice. Invoices run from INV-0001 with no gaps, carry tax and due
dates, and are paid by hand or through a pay link on the business's own
provider. Overdue is worked out, never stored, and the money a person owes
shows on their contact page.
Contacts and leads
Everyone the business knows, and where they came from. Leads carry their value
and stage, with a pipeline board to move them along and follow-up tasks so
nothing waits on an enquiry nobody opened. A contact's page gathers their
leads, membership, packs, courses and invoices in one place.
Team and access
Owner, admin, member and reviewer, and a business can invent its own role and
tick exactly what it reaches. People are invited by email to one business only.
A role that cannot reach a page is refused it by address, not merely shown a
shorter menu.
Insights and the rest
Site visits, enquiries and sales over the last 7, 30 or 90 days. Home says what
needs doing today across everything at once. Alongside: notifications, payment
and messaging providers, and the modules themselves.
Messaging (with each contact's consent, over the business's own providers) and
automations exist in the API but have no workspace screens yet. Platform staff
have an admin app for feature flags and the audit log. The
roadmap tracks what is next.
Try it
pnpm install && cp .env.example .env # fill in DATABASE_URL and BETTER_AUTH_SECRET
npm install -g portless && portless service install --wildcard # once per machine
pnpm --filter @saroh/database build && pnpm --filter @saroh/database db:migrate:deploy
pnpm --filter @saroh/database db:seed:showcase && pnpm dev:app
Open https://app.saroh.localhost and sign in as [email protected] /
demo-password-123. The showcase gives that login a gym, a yoga studio, a
clinic and a shop to look around — the same businesses as the film above.
The password is for a database on your own machine only: seeding any other database (a shared dev one) needs SEED_PASSWORD, and the seed refuses the documented one there. Every
step is explained in setup-instructions.md.
How it is built
A pnpm + Turborepo monorepo:
- Nine Next.js apps (Next.js 16, React 19). The main ones are the merchant
workspace, sign-in, platform admin, the public renderer for merchant sites
and the marketing site.
- One NestJS API (
apps/api.saroh.in). It hosts Better Auth, and it is
the only service that reads or writes the database.
- PostgreSQL through Prisma 7. The Organization is the tenant root. Every
query is scoped to it, and PostgreSQL row-level security backs that up.
Find your way around
| Folder | Holds |
|---|
apps/ | The API and the Next.js apps |
packages/ | Shared code: auth, database, UI, site blocks, emails and utilities |
tooling/ | ESLint, Tailwind and TypeScript configuration |
e2e/ | Playwright tests against the running stack |
docs/ | Architecture, patterns and product docs, plus plans kept as history |
Licence
Saroh is licensed under the Elastic License 2.0.
| What you want to do | Allowed? |
|---|
| Read it, learn from it, take ideas from it | Yes |
| Modify it, self-host it, run your own business on it | Yes |
| Build client work on it, run it inside a company | Yes |
| Offer it to third parties as a hosted or managed service | Not without asking us |
There is no fee and no registration. Keep the licence and copyright notices in
the source, and mark any copy you modify. That is all the licence asks. Sites
built with Saroh carry no Saroh branding, and the licence doesn't change that.
The one restriction, on offering Saroh as a hosted service, keeps the hosted
service from simply being resold. If that is what you want to build,
get in touch.
The Open Source Definition doesn't allow limits on
how software is used, so Saroh is source-available rather than open source.
Saroh is built part-time. Issues and pull requests may wait a while, and a
nudge after a week or two is fair. Your first pull request needs the one-line
agreement in CLA.md.
Contact
[email protected]
