Repeat billing
Bill a monthly service with a review step
Set up repeat service invoices, handle variable work and check delivery without treating the schedule as a payment processor.
The working library
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Agreed work
From agreed scope to a milestone invoice
Record a fixed-price agreement, approve completed milestones and prepare one invoice draft from the work.
Leads and deals
From enquiry to accepted quote
Collect an enquiry as a lead, qualify it into a customer and a deal, prepare the quote and record the acceptance without typing anything twice.
Projects and billing
From tracked time to invoice
Plan a task, record its hours, review a rounded invoice draft and keep each entry linked to its invoice.
Purchases and hand-off
Keep a purchase and its receipt ready for your accountant
Enter supplier amounts, attach the evidence, review period checks and export a package your accountant can inspect.
Currencies
Multi-currency invoicing in Pepper
Keep invoice, payment and purchase amounts in their original currency and prepare a clear hand-off for your accountant.
Payments and corrections
Partial payments and credit notes: a worked example
Keep the invoice total, money received, credits and remaining balance clear without changing the issued original.
Guides
Make a practical choice about customer services, ownership, hosting or your business records.
Browse guidesWidgets and customer services
Add customer services to the channels you already use
Use widgets to connect a customer’s next step to work in Pepper. Use forms, contact cards, quote requests, offers and loyalty services across your website and physical venue.
Guides
Buy a perpetual invoicing licence: what renews and what stays yours
Understand the license price, update access, support period and costs of running Pepper.
Accountant hand-off
Decide where invoicing ends and bookkeeping starts
Map the records Pepper supplies to your accountant's process, and identify the accounting work that stays elsewhere.
Guides
EPC QR codes on EUR invoices
Help customers fill a SEPA bank transfer from an eligible invoice PDF.
Guides
EU invoicing: four checks before choosing software
Separate invoice fields, tax treatment, structured formats and delivery requirements.
Guides
Install Pepper invoicing software on shared hosting
Check PHP and database requirements, choose SQLite or a database server, and run Pepper’s web installer.
Source and ownership
Invoicing software with full source code: what the licence allows
Understand the control, license limits and maintenance work that come with Pepper's source code package.
Client access
Prepare invoice drafts with an AI client or API
Connect an optional AI client or integration to prepare invoice drafts. A person reviews the work and must approve any client-issued invoice.
Guides
Record reverse charge on an invoice
Apply a confirmed tax treatment and include the right customer details and invoice note.
Guides
Recurring invoices for retainers
Choose draft review or automatic issue and sending for repeat invoices.
Guides
Self-hosted or SaaS invoicing?
Choose where your records live and who handles hosting, updates and recovery.
Guides
UBL invoice export in Pepper: file format and Peppol limits
Download a supported structured invoice while keeping network delivery and country requirements separate.
Operating Pepper
Who maintains a self-hosted invoicing installation
Assign the hosting, email, backup and update work before moving live invoice records onto your server.
Comparisons
Compare invoicing, accounting, customer workflows and hosting responsibility before choosing a product.
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Pepper or Akaunting?
Compare Akaunting’s accounting apps with Pepper’s self-hosted invoices, fixed-price work and accountant exports.
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Pepper or FusionInvoice?
Compare self-hosted invoicing, customer payments, e-invoicing delivery and update costs.
Leads, deals and quotes
Pepper or HubSpot?
Compare a sales pipeline inside your own business records with HubSpot's hosted Sales Hub, and check what each one includes.
Self-hosted billing
Pepper or Invoice Ninja?
Compare fixed-price billing with time tracking, customer portals and payment gateways, then choose the hosting model.
Self-hosted billing
Pepper or InvoicePlane?
Compare self-hosted invoice workflows, source rights and the person who will maintain the installation.
Accounting and invoicing
Pepper or Moneybird?
Compare self-hosted invoice records and accountant exports with Moneybird's bookkeeping and connected administration.
Leads, deals and quotes
Pepper or Pipedrive?
Compare a sales pipeline inside your business records with a dedicated sales CRM, and check what each one leaves to you.
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Pepper or QuickBooks Online?
Compare QuickBooks Online accounting with Pepper’s self-hosted billing and accountant hand-off.
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Pepper or Tradeshift?
Pepper cannot replace a required Tradeshift supplier workflow. Compare network delivery with local invoice records.
Boards and business records
Pepper or Trello?
Compare connected business records, board workflows, integrations and the work involved in moving a board.
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Pepper or Wave?
Compare Wave’s accounting and payment tools with Pepper’s self-hosted invoices and accountant exports.
Accounting and invoicing
Pepper or Xero?
Compare a self-hosted billing and evidence workflow with cloud accounting, bank reconciliation and currency conversion.
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Pepper or Zoho Invoice?
Compare Zoho Invoice’s hosted invoicing, time tracking and client portal with Pepper’s own-server approach.
For your business
Evaluate Pepper for freelance billing, fixed-price agency work or installations maintained by developers.
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Client work and invoicing for small agencies
Run client projects, time and invoices together. Deliver widget services from your own Pepper installation.
For your business
Pepper’s Laravel and React source code
Inspect and customize Pepper’s Laravel and React source, preserve its invoice and payment rules, and maintain a licensed installation.
For your business
Self-hosted invoicing for freelancers
For freelancers and consultants who want to keep billing, receipts and their records on their own hosting.
Developers
Developer notes on the released draft API, application source, customization and maintaining a licensed installation.
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Build an integration that stops at the invoice draft
Use exact monetary strings, scoped HTTP access and retry protection, then hand the draft to a person.
Source customization
Maintain a custom invoicing installation
Plan source changes around the licensed installation, exact financial actions, stored originals and a repeatable update process.
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