Invoicing & bookkeeping

Crater

Simple open-source invoicing.

open source self-hostable Crater project · ?

Invoices, expenses and payments in a clean Laravel app.

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How you can run it

Way	Where the data lives	Price basis	Verdict
Host it myself	your own server or hardware	free	green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure.

Facts

Company / project	Crater project (jurisdiction unknown)
Licence	AGPL-3.0
Self-hosting footprint	256 MB RAM · 0.25 vCPU · 2 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people
Commonly replaces	QuickBooks
Provenance	curated, verified 2026-09-04

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