🔁 Billoop
Recurring billing on your own Stripe, owned forever.
Billoop at a glance
| Price | $49, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | Chargebee at $599+/mo — roughly $7,188 a year, every year |
| Type | Self-hosted web app |
| Platforms | Your own server (VPS / Docker), any browser |
| Category | Finance & Admin |
Billoop features
🔌 BYO Stripe (optional)
Drop in your own API key and plans become Stripe products, customers sync and the portal wraps Stripe's billing portal; without a key it runs the full engine in local mode, and it never touches funds.
🎟️ Plans, trials, coupons
Monthly and yearly plans, trial periods and percent or amount coupons (once or forever), all in integer cents, never floats.
➗ Real proration
Mid-cycle plan changes credit the unused fraction of the old plan and charge the same fraction of the new one as explicit line items, covered by exact-figure tests.
📧 Dunning that finishes
A failed payment triggers a templated email sequence at +0/+3/+7 days, then auto-cancels or auto-pauses after N attempts, and every send is logged.
🔄 Renewal sweep
Runs hourly or on demand to handle trial conversions, renewals with correct coupon semantics and cancel-at-period-end.
📊 Dashboard
MRR with trials excluded and yearly normalized, active/trialing/past-due counts, churn % and a cohort retention table.
$49 once — that's the whole pricing page
Chargebee charges $599+/mo — roughly $7,188 a year, every year. Billoop is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Billoop inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Billoop guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes, Billoop is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/recurring-billing-mini-mvp. The $49 buys the packaged Windows installer and updates; building from source is free.
Does Billoop touch my money?
No. It runs on your own Stripe account and never touches funds, and all data lives in a local SQLite file with no telemetry.
Is this a subscription in disguise?
No. $49 once, no renewal, and no percentage fee on the revenue you process.