Bigcapital Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Bigcapital hosting and keep your books on your own server and domain. xCloud runs the pinned Bigcapital v0.15.43 web app and API with a private MariaDB 10.11 database, Redis, a Gotenberg PDF renderer and Garage file storage, generates the credentials, mounts persistent volumes and publishes it over HTTPS. Sign-up is limited to the owner email you enter at install, so nobody else can create an organization on your server.

  • No terminal
  • No technical skills needed
  • No lock-in, cancel anytime

What is Bigcapital?

Bigcapital is open-source accounting and inventory software. Its upstream README describes it as keeping a business's finances in one place and automating accounting processes to produce financial statements and reports.

It is released under the AGPL-3.0 licence, and upstream also offers an API for integrating it with other systems. On xCloud it runs with its database, queue, PDF renderer and file storage already wired together.

From Sign-Up to Your First Invoice In Just 3 Easy Steps

A Bigcapital stack normally means a web app, an API server, a database, a queue, a PDF renderer, file storage, a domain and a certificate before the first invoice. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

  1. Step 01

    Sign Up

    Create your xCloud account and pick Bigcapital from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and enter the owner email address — the one address allowed to register.

  2. Step 02

    We Deploy It For You

    One click. We bring up the pinned Bigcapital web app and API server with private MariaDB 10.11, Redis 6.2, Gotenberg 7.10.2 for PDFs and Garage 2.3.0 for attached files, none of them on a public port, mount the bigcapital_db, bigcapital_redis, bigcapital_garage_meta and bigcapital_garage_data volumes, generate the credentials, and publish it over HTTPS. The first start creates the databases, so allow two to three minutes.

  3. Step 03

    Create Your Organization

    Open your HTTPS Bigcapital URL, choose Sign up with exactly the owner email, create your organization, then add your first customer and sales invoice.

Everything Bigcapital Does, On Your Own Server

Bigcapital runs in full here: invoicing, bills, inventory and reports on your own domain, backed by databases you own.

  • Sales Invoices As PDF

    Create customers and items, issue sales invoices and download them as PDF, rendered by the bundled Gotenberg service.

  • Bills, Vendors And Expenses

    Track purchase invoices, vendors, expenses and manual journals alongside your sales.

  • Financial Statements

    Produce reports such as the trial balance and balance sheet from your double-entry ledger.

  • Inventory And Multi-Currency

    Upstream describes Bigcapital as accounting and inventory software, and the template lists inventory and multi-currency support.

  • File Attachments

    Attach files to records; they are stored in the bundled Garage S3-compatible store and download from your own domain.

  • Owner-Only Sign-Up

    Registration is restricted to the install-time owner email. Teammates you invite from inside Bigcapital do not need to be listed.

Everything You Need To Run Your Accounting 24/7

Managed hosting for Bigcapital, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

  • Bigcapital v0.15.43 deployed instantly
  • Official images pinned by digest
  • Database and storage credentials generated for you
  • Services kept off public ports
  • Free SSL certificate
  • Server backups and snapshots
  • Server security updates included
  • 30+ server locations
  • Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Bigcapital

  • Invoice customers and send PDFs

    Keep customers and items in one place, issue sales invoices and download each one as a PDF.

  • Track what you owe

    Record purchase invoices, vendors, expenses and manual journals so payables sit in the same ledger as sales.

  • Read your financial position

    Run statements such as the trial balance and balance sheet from the books you keep yourself.

  • Keep records with their paperwork

    Attach files to records, with downloads served from your own domain.

  • Run books for a small team or client

    Restrict sign-up to the owner, then invite the teammates who need access from inside Bigcapital.

Bigcapital Screenshots

Bigcapital dashboard after sign-in on a self-hosted install
Bigcapital sales invoices list

Bigcapital vs Alternatives

QuickBooks Online
Intuit's proprietary subscription accounting service. Bigcapital is open source under AGPL-3.0, and here it runs on a server you control.
Xero
A proprietary subscription cloud accounting service. Bigcapital gives you the application and its databases on your own server instead.
Invoice Ninja
Self-hosted invoicing with quotes, recurring billing and expenses, also available as a OneClick app on xCloud.
InvoiceShelf
Invoicing with estimates, expenses, payments and reports, also available as a OneClick app on xCloud.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Bigcapital hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Most popular

Books for one business or a small team.

$24.99per month

  • 6 GB RAM
  • 4 vCPU cores
  • 100 GB NVMe SSD
  • 30 TB
  • Unlimited
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Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Bigcapital sits alongside other business tools.

$59.99per month

  • 16 GB RAM
  • 6 vCPU cores
  • 200 GB NVMe SSD
  • 30 TB
  • Unlimited
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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Bigcapital itself is licensed by its maintainers under AGPL-3.0.

Already Have a Server? Bring Your Own

Connect any VPS — DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode, AWS, Hetzner or bare metal — and deploy Bigcapital on it through the same panel, for a per-server management fee instead of a Cloud VPS rental.

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The same platform, discounted at 6–10 servers.

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The same platform, discounted at 11+ servers.

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Priced per connected server, so your rate adjusts automatically as you add or remove servers. You pay your own provider for the server itself.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Who can register?

Only the owner email entered at install. Add more addresses in the Environment editor to allow more organizations; invited teammates do not need to be listed.

What runs alongside Bigcapital?

A MariaDB database, Redis, a PDF renderer and an S3-compatible file store, all on the private network with no published ports.

Do attachments work?

Yes. Files are stored in the bundled file store and download links open on your own domain.

How do I sign in the first time?

Open your HTTPS URL, choose Sign up and use exactly the owner email you entered at install. That creates your organization and you become its administrator.

Why does the site take a few minutes to load after install?

The first start creates the databases and runs migrations, so allow two to three minutes before the page loads.

Do password reset and invitation emails work?

Both need an SMTP server. Uncomment and fill the MAIL_ settings together in the Environment editor, then redeploy.

What should I back up?

The database and file-storage volumes, together: bigcapital_db, bigcapital_garage_meta and bigcapital_garage_data, and optionally bigcapital_redis for queued jobs. Keep the generated credentials private.

What survives a restart?

Organizations, invoices and attachments survive an xCloud restart, because they live on persistent named volumes.

Can I change the database password in the Environment editor?

Not to rotate it. The database credentials apply on first start of an empty volume only, so editing them later does not change the running database.

Is any analytics data collected?

The upstream analytics store is not included. Upstream logs a few harmless analytics-store connection errors per ledger write because of that.

Does xCloud automatically back up or update Bigcapital?

No. The template pins Bigcapital v0.15.43 by immutable digest; existing sites are not automatically upgraded. Back up first, read the upstream release notes, then bump the readable tag and digest together on your own schedule. Server-level backups and snapshots are available on every Cloud VPS.

What are the server requirements, and why does this page sell 6 GB?

The template's baseline asks for 1 CPU core, 1024 MB of RAM and 5 GB of disk; measured use in QA was roughly 420 to 830 MiB across all services. This page sells the 6 GB tier as the entry rung, with real headroom above that baseline.

Is xCloud officially partnered with Bigcapital?

No. No official partnership or endorsement between xCloud and the Bigcapital project has been verified. This is a deployment and server-management option for the open-source Bigcapital project.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.

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