🔁 Billoop
Recurring billing on your own Stripe, owned forever.
Chargebee charges you again, on top of Stripe's fees and a cut of your revenue, to manage subscriptions Stripe already tracks. Billoop is a self-hosted subscription layer for your own Stripe account with proration, dunning and churn analytics. $49, once, no fee on your revenue.
Billoop screenshot is being captured — the app is shipped and real.
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.
Billoop vs Chargebee
Chargebee at $599+/mo runs roughly $7188/year — $14,376 over two years. Billoop is $49, once.
| Billoop | Chargebee | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $49 once | $599+/mo |
| Fee on your revenue | Never | 0.75%+ overage |
| Plans / trials / coupons | Yes | Yes |
| Proration on plan change | Yes | Yes |
| Dunning emails + auto-cancel | Yes | Yes |
| MRR / churn / cohorts | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted, data stays yours | Yes | No |
| Works without a processor | Yes | No |
Billoop costs less than a single day of Chargebee's starter tier, and never skims your revenue.
Three steps, no subscription
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 and run it yourself for free.
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.
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.
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes, Billoop is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/recurring-billing-mini. 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.
Own Billoop forever
$49 once. Deploy on your own server — your data never leaves it. No renewal, no account with us, no meter. Or build it yourself from the MIT source — it's the same app.