InvoicePlane
by InvoicePlane · Self-hosted open source quoting, invoicing and payments
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Overview
InvoicePlane is a self-hosted open source application for managing quotes, invoices, clients and payments. It offers CRM-like client records with notes and custom fields, basic project and task management, and customisation of themes, amount formats, email and PDF templates. From version 1.6.2 it can create eInvoices that can comply with European Union standards.
- Best for
- Small businesses that want to self-host quoting, invoicing and payment tracking.
- Pricing
- No prices are shown; the application is described as free and open source and is downloaded for self-hosting.
- Runs on
- Self-hosted
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Free and open source, self-hosted on your own server
- Covers quotes, invoices, payments and client records
- Online payments through PayPal and Stripe
- Community translations give a multilingual interface
Trade-offs
- Self-hosting only; you provide and maintain the server
- Latest version listed is a release candidate, v1.7.2-rc-1
- Support is community-run: forum, Discord and GitHub issues
- Only PayPal and Stripe named for online payments
Pricing
Published plans and prices from InvoicePlane’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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Where this comes from
The InvoicePlane pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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