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The self-hosted FreshBooks alternative

Invora: Self-hosted recurring invoicing for freelancers and small firms: every cycle lands as a draft you approve before it goes out, and each unpaid invoice carries your own payment link. Own it once, run it on your own server, and stop paying FreshBooks every month.

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Stop renting FreshBooks.

Rented FreshBooks Lite $23.00/mo, Plus $43.00/mo, Premium $70.00/mo paid monthly (the page's regular 'Was' prices); yearly 'Was $276.00', '$516.00', '$840.00'; Select quote-only; each extra team member $11/mo. Offers on the day: Lite '$1/month for your first year', Plus and Premium '80% Off for 3 Months' ^[1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud

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Invora

$99 once · self-hosted · your data on your server

5 months of FreshBooks costs what Invora costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: Calculator uses the regular Lite price, $23.00/mo, which the page prints as the 'Was' figure beside the offer; offers are temporary and are noted, not used. Re-read 2026-09-26 in both billing states: the 2026-09-03 promo (quoted then as 'Lite $2.30USD/mo') is replaced by '$1/month for your first year' on Lite and '80% Off for 3 Months' on Plus and Premium, and the quote now carries the regular price the row stores.

How FreshBooks pricing grows

FreshBooks tiers its plans by client volume and charges an additional per-user fee for every extra team member added to an account.

“Team Members ($11/mo per user)”, their own page, read 2026-09-26

What FreshBooks does that we don't

FreshBooks provides dedicated customer support to help users transition from spreadsheets or other accounting software.

“Our support staff is with you every step of the way, starting the moment you make the switch from spreadsheets or any other accounting software.”, their own page

Who should stay with FreshBooks

If you want stored client cards, scheduled late fees and a mobile app in one hosted service, stay with FreshBooks — Invora emails invoices and scheduled reminders through your own SMTP server and takes no card payments itself.

What Invora deliberately doesn't do is on its product page.

Why owning beats renting FreshBooks.

One payment

No monthly, per-seat or per-location fees. The license is perpetual.

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in FreshBooks's cloud.

No plan ceilings

Records and users are limited by your hosting, not by a pricing tier.

It keeps working if the vendor doesn't

Self-hosted software can't be sunset or repriced out from under you.

The fair trade-offs: you host it, back it up and apply updates yourself. See the product page for its limits, and the full Invora vs renting comparison.

Questions about moving off FreshBooks.

Does Invora support recurring invoices?

Yes — weekly, every two weeks, monthly, quarterly or yearly schedules. Each cycle generates a draft for your review, and nothing is sent until you press Send.

Does it email invoices automatically?

It emails an invoice when you press Send — through your own SMTP server, with the client's public link and your payment link. Since 3.2 it can also send payment reminders on a schedule you approve once: off until you switch it on, with a preview of exactly what would go out today, stopping when the invoice is paid, and paused per invoice or per client. Every attempt is recorded in a send log.

Can it collect online payments?

Invora never touches a card. Paste your own Stripe Payment Link, PayPal.me or bank page and it becomes a Pay button on the client's invoice; you record the payment when it lands. Nothing to PCI-certify, nothing to breach.

What do I need to run it?

PHP 8.1+ with PDO and MySQL/MariaDB or SQLite, on Apache/LiteSpeed (mod_rewrite) or Nginx/VPS.

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Sources

FreshBooks: price checked 2026-09-26, source“Lite ... $ 1 .00 USD/mo $1.00 USD/mo for one year Was $23.00 | Save $22.00 ... Plus $ 8 .60 USD/mo 80% Off for 3 Months Was $43.00 ... Premium $ 14 .00 USD/mo 80% Off for 3 Months Was $70.00 ... Team Members ($11/mo per user) ... [Yearly] $ 12 .00 USD/yr ... 10% discount included in price Was…”

Competitor prices change, so always confirm on the linked page. We only print figures we could verify on the date shown. This vendor is tracked in the Price Observatory: every figure verbatim, dated, re-checked quarterly.

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