InvoiceShelf vs Stripe Invoicing
InvoiceShelf and Stripe Invoicing are both invoicing software. InvoiceShelf is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 1.9k GitHub stars. Stripe Invoicing is a commercial product from Stripe, Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick InvoiceShelf when
- You need straightforward invoicing on your own server and do not need full accounting.
- Pick Stripe Invoicing when
- You already take payments through Stripe and want invoices that collect card and bank payments automatically.
Side by side
A self-hosted invoicing app for freelancers and small businesses: estimates, invoices, payments, expenses and customer records, forked from Crater.
Stripe's invoicing product for creating and sending invoices, hosted payment pages, automatic reminders and dunning, tied to Stripe payments and Billing.
No double-entry accounting or tax filing, and AGPL licensed.
A per-invoice fee applies on top of payment fees, and it ties your billing to Stripe.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Cloud service
PHP, Laravel and Vue
Not published
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Stripe, Inc.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
1.9k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release 2.4.7.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.