Billcraft is self-hosted invoicing for freelancers and small studios. FreshBooks Lite costs $19/month — $228 a year, forever — to store your client list, cap you at 5 billable clients, and send your invoices from their servers. Billcraft is $39 once: unlimited clients, professional PDFs, shareable payment links, and recurring billing, with every byte of client data on hardware you control. Two months of FreshBooks pays for it outright.

• Business profile with logo upload, tax ID, currency, and payment/bank instructions on every invoice

• Clients with full CRUD; invoices with line items (qty x rate), tax %, discount %, due dates, configurable numbering

• Draft / sent / paid statuses with overdue computed automatically

• Professional server-side PDFs (pdfkit — no headless browser)

• Public share links: clients view and download at /inv/under tokenover , no login

• Dashboard: outstanding total, paid this month, overdue list

• Recurring monthly invoices that auto-create drafts, optionally auto-emailed via your own SMTP

• One-click email with PDF attached (Gmail app password, Mailgun, Postmark...)

Runs as a Windows desktop app or on a $5 VPS (Docker included).

What's included:

• Windows installer download (Invoice Generator Setup 1.0.0.exe)

• Full source access — https://github.com/bensblueprints/invoice-generator (MIT)

• Lifetime v1 updates

• Setup guide (README quick start)

• Premium tiers coming later