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The self-hosted Invoicely 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 Invoicely every month.

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Rented Invoicely Free $0 (5 invoices and 3 clients a month, PayPal only); Basic $9.99/month (100 invoices, 25 clients, 2 team members); Professional $19.99; Enterprise $29.99 (unlimited invoices, 25 team members) ^[1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud

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

10 months of Invoicely costs what Invora costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: The invoice and client caps appear on the page only as isolated cells in a comparison table, so this row cites the metered dimension the page names rather than stitching a sentence out of them. Invoicely has a genuine free tier capped at five invoices a month; the figure cited is the first paid tier, capped at a hundred. Invora has no invoice cap and no monthly fee.

How Invoicely pricing grows

Invoicely meters by INVOICES PER MONTH and clients saved: the cap rises with the tier.

“Monthly Invoices”, their own page, read 2026-08-30

What Invoicely does that we don't

Invoicely is cheap, hosted, and free for a very small practice.

“Free Plan $0.00 per month”, their own page

Who should stay with Invoicely

Stay with Invoicely if five invoices a month covers you — its free tier is a fair deal at that size. Invora is for the practice that sends more than that and wants the ledger on its own server.

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

Why owning beats renting Invoicely.

One payment

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

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in Invoicely'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 Invoicely.

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

Invoicely: price checked 2026-09-03, source“'$0.00 per month' ... '5 monthly invoices' ... '$9.99 per month' ... '100 monthly invoices' ... '$19.99 per month' ... '$29.99 per month' ... 'Unlimited monthly invoices'”

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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