Small Business Owners

Billoop for Small Business Owners: Recurring billing on your own Stripe, owned forever

Recurring billing on your own Stripe, owned forever.

Small businesses get nickel-and-dimed by per-user pricing on helpdesks, forms, signatures and scheduling. One-time software makes the toolset a capital expense instead of a creeping payroll line.

The tool this job usually means renting is Chargebee, at $599+/mo โ€” roughly $7,188 a year, every year. Billoop does the job for a one-time $49 โ€” running on infrastructure you control.

Fit check

Why it fits how small business owners work

๐Ÿ”Œ 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.

For small business owners, BYO Stripe (optional) pays off without adding another line to the monthly overhead โ€” and it's covered by the same one-time $49, not metered per month.

๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Plans, trials, coupons

Monthly and yearly plans, trial periods and percent or amount coupons (once or forever), all in integer cents, never floats.

For small business owners, plans, trials, coupons pays off without adding another line to the monthly overhead โ€” and it's covered by the same one-time $49, not metered per month.

โž— 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.

For small business owners, real proration pays off without adding another line to the monthly overhead โ€” and it's covered by the same one-time $49, not metered per month.

Workflow

A typical workflow

STEP 01

Buy once on Whop

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.

STEP 02

Deploy or run desktop

Docker-compose onto a $5 VPS to run it public, or run the desktop build locally with an auto-logged-in window.

STEP 03

Connect your Stripe key

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.

What it costs, honestly

Billoop is $49, once. Chargebee at $599+/mo โ€” roughly $7,188 a year, every year. Billoop costs less than a single day of Chargebee's starter tier, and never skims your revenue.

FAQ

Small Business Owners ask

Is Billoop worth it for small business owners?

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 โ€” about $7188 a year. For small business owners, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.

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.

Own Billoop forever โ€” $49