Invoice Ninja
Full-featured invoicing, quotes, and payment platform for freelancers
Overview
Invoice Ninja is a PHP/Laravel invoicing and billing platform covering invoices, quotes, recurring billing, expense tracking, time-tracking, client portals, and payment gateway integrations (Stripe, PayPal, and many more). It has native mobile apps for iOS and Android and a Flutter-based desktop client. Self-hosting is via Docker Compose or a standard LAMP stack; a managed cloud SaaS tier is available.
Where it falls short of QuickBooks
- Elastic-2.0 license prohibits competing SaaS offerings; not truly open-source
- Full accounting (P&L, balance sheet, general ledger) is not available; it is invoicing-focused
- Advanced inventory management absent compared to QuickBooks
- Some enterprise features (white-labelling, advanced reports) require a paid plan even self-hosted
We list the gaps honestly so you can decide if the trade-off is worth owning your data.
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