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
Find the workflow or decision you need
Practical workflows, hosting guides, product comparisons and developer notes for evaluating and running Pepper.
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Workflows
Worked examples for milestone billing, recurring services, payments, purchases and accountant hand-off.
Browse workflowsPayments and corrections
Follow part payments and invoice corrections
Keep the invoice total, money received, credits and remaining balance clear without changing the issued original.
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.
Currencies
Invoice in more than one currency without hiding the amounts
Keep invoice, payment and purchase amounts in their original currency and prepare a clear hand-off for your accountant.
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.
Guides
Guides to hosting, source ownership, repeat billing, structured invoices and the hand-off to accounting.
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A permanent licence with yearly updates
Understand the license price, update access, support period and costs of running Pepper.
Guides
Check the invoice requirements that apply to you
Separate invoice fields, tax treatment, structured formats and delivery requirements.
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
Install on shared hosting
Check the host, prepare an empty database and run Pepper’s web installer.
Guides
Invoice regular work on a schedule
Choose draft review or automatic issue and sending for repeat invoices.
Client access
Let an external client prepare an invoice draft
Use owner-granted HTTP access for permitted reads, exact previews and draft preparation, with review and issuance left to staff.
Guides
Record reverse charge on an invoice
Apply a confirmed tax treatment and include the right customer details and invoice note.
Guides
Self-hosted or SaaS invoicing?
Choose where your records live and who handles hosting, updates and recovery.
Guides
Understand the UBL invoice export
Download a supported structured invoice while keeping network delivery and country requirements separate.
Source and ownership
What full source code lets you own
Understand the control, license limits and maintenance work that come with Pepper's source code package.
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?
Separate the accounting modules you need from the invoice records Pepper supplies.
Compare
Pepper or FusionInvoice?
Compare self-hosted billing, update terms and the exact document formats you need.
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.
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Pepper or QuickBooks Online?
Check accounting, payment and regional requirements before choosing an invoice system.
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Pepper or Tradeshift?
Check trading-partner and network requirements before choosing a local invoice system.
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Pepper or Wave?
Check regional eligibility, payment needs and accounting scope before choosing.
Accounting and invoicing
Pepper or Xero?
Compare a self-hosted billing and evidence workflow with cloud accounting, bank reconciliation and currency conversion.
Compare
Pepper or Zoho Invoice?
Compare your invoice workflow, customer access and hosting responsibilities.
For your business
Evaluate Pepper for freelance billing, fixed-price agency work or installations maintained by developers.
Browse for your businessFor your business
A source code package you can maintain
Laravel, React and exact business actions, with compiled assets for production installation.
For your business
Invoices and agreed work, on your server
For freelancers and consultants who want to keep billing, receipts and their records on their own hosting.
For your business
Keep the scope connected to the invoice
For small agencies billing fixed-price work, and teams maintaining installations for clients.
Developers
Developer notes on the released draft API, application source, customization and maintaining a licensed installation.
Browse developersHTTP integration
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.
Start with the job in front of you: bill agreed work, prepare a period for your accountant, choose hosting or connect an internal tool. These pages explain Pepper's released behavior with examples and the limits that affect the decision.
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