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The self-hosted Zoho Billing 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 Zoho Billing every month.

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Stop renting Zoho Billing.

Rented Zoho Billing Standard $25 per Organization per Month billed annually, $29 paid monthly; Premium $59 annually, $69 monthly. Per ORGANIZATION, not per seat - but users are a paid add-on at $9 user/month ($7.5 billed annually), so the headline is not the whole bill ^[1] billed every month, for as long as you use it; your data in their cloud

Yours

Invora

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

4 months of Zoho Billing costs what Invora costs once.

Buy once

How we counted: The stored figure is Standard at its lowest published price, $25 per organization a month billed annually ($29 monthly; re-read 2026-10-11 in the page's own regional price data, which gives the same numerals for the US and the EU). The page's HTML also carries $50/$39 and $100/$79 placeholders that its script replaces with the visitor's regional prices. Users are an add-on, so every extra person adds to the bill.

How Zoho Billing pricing grows

Zoho Billing meters per organization per month and then charges per user on top as an add-on, so the published tier price is a floor rather than the bill.

“USERS $9 user/month”, their own page, read 2026-09-26

What Zoho Billing does that we don't

Zoho Billing is part of a large, mature finance suite and carries subscription-management depth — dunning, proration, revenue reporting — that a single self-hosted product does not match.

“Reduce failed payments with dunning management”, their own page

Who should stay with Zoho Billing

Stay with Zoho Billing if you run a real subscription business and need its metering, dunning and revenue recognition, or if you are already inside the Zoho suite. Invora is for the smaller case that a subscription tool is expensive for: recurring invoices drafted on a schedule for you to approve and send, with a payment link on them, on your own server, bought once.

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

Why owning beats renting Zoho Billing.

One payment

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

Your data stays on your server

It never lives in Zoho Billing'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 Zoho Billing.

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

Zoho Billing: price checked 2026-10-11, source“Monthly Yearly (Save More) ... STANDARD $29 $25 per Organization per Month (Billed annually) ... PREMIUM $69 $59 per Organization per Month (Billed annually) ... USERS $7.5 user/month ... [Monthly] STANDARD $29 per Organization per Month ... PREMIUM $69 per Organization per Month ... USERS $9…”

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.

Replace Zoho Billing with Invora.

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