Where bundled website and plugin-based setups start breaking downA bundled website or plugin-based setup can look fine on the surface.
Behind it, the day-to-day work starts to split apart. When something crosses those boundaries, the system stops helping. The website still works. The operations underneath get harder to trust.
01Memberships live in one plugin.
02Billing runs through another.
03Reservations and waivers live somewhere else.
04Email and marketing happen in a separate tool.
05Staff check multiple tools to answer one question.
06Staff rebuild context across systems.
07Data gets connected manually even when it should already be connected.
08Updates and broken integrations create new cleanup work.