Recurring billing on your own Stripe, owned forever.
Freelancers expense a dozen subscriptions — proposals, contracts, invoices, time tracking — against irregular income. Owning the tools outright removes a whole line of fixed costs.
The tool this job usually means renting is Chargebee, at $599+/mo — roughly $7,188 a year, every year. Billoop does the job for a one-time $49 — running on infrastructure you control.
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.
For freelancers, BYO Stripe (optional) pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $49, not metered per month.
Monthly and yearly plans, trial periods and percent or amount coupons (once or forever), all in integer cents, never floats.
For freelancers, plans, trials, coupons pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $49, not metered per month.
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.
For freelancers, real proration pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $49, not metered per month.
One payment of $49 gets the packaged Windows installer, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/recurring-billing-mini-mvp and run it yourself for free.
Docker-compose onto a $5 VPS to run it public, or run the desktop build locally with an auto-logged-in window.
Drop in your own API key so plans sync and webhooks keep invoices current, or skip it and run the full engine in local mode.
Billoop is $49, once. Chargebee at $599+/mo — roughly $7,188 a year, every year. Billoop costs less than a single day of Chargebee's starter tier, and never skims your revenue.
Billoop costs less than a single day of Chargebee's starter tier, and never skims your revenue. Billoop costs $49 once; Chargebee charges $599+/mo — about $7188 a year. For freelancers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
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.
No. It runs on your own Stripe account and never touches funds, and all data lives in a local SQLite file with no telemetry.