Bigcapital Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Bigcapital hosting keeps your books on your own server and domain. Deploy Bigcapital v0.15.43 as self-hosted accounting software: xCloud runs the pinned web app and API with a private MariaDB 10.11 database, Redis, a Gotenberg PDF renderer and Garage file storage, restricts sign-up to the owner email you enter, mounts persistent volumes and publishes it over HTTPS on your own domain.

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What is Bigcapital?

Self-hosted Bigcapital is accounting software. Its README calls it smart, open-source accounting and inventory software for small and medium businesses that keeps all business finances in one place and automates accounting processes to produce financial statements and reports. The template lists invoices, bills, inventory and multi-currency support, and the README describes a headless accounting API. Businesses run it in place of QuickBooks Online or Xero when they want the books on their own server, under the AGPL.

On xCloud the template runs the bigcapitalhq web app and server v0.15.43 with a private MariaDB 10.11 database, Redis, a Gotenberg PDF renderer and Garage S3-compatible file storage, every image pinned by immutable digest. The bigcapital_db and Garage volumes persist your books and attachments. HTTPS is published on your domain, and sign-up is limited to the owner email.

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.

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.
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.
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
Choose your server region
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 vs Alternatives

QuickBooks Online: QuickBooks Online is a hosted accounting subscription. Bigcapital's README describes open-source accounting and inventory software under the AGPL that you run yourself, with the books in a MariaDB database on your own Cloud VPS.
Xero: Xero is another hosted accounting service. With this template the ledger, invoices and attachments stay on volumes you control, and the API described in the README lets you connect your own systems.
InvoiceShelf: InvoiceShelf is an invoicing app with its own xCloud template. Bigcapital pairs invoicing with double-entry books, inventory and financial statements, and runs a larger stack of services to do it.
ERPNext: ERPNext is a broad open-source business suite with its own xCloud template. Bigcapital focuses on accounting and inventory for small and medium businesses.

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

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.

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Bigcapital on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
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From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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

How much RAM does Bigcapital need?

The manifest asks for 1 CPU core, 1024 MB of RAM and 5 GB of disk, and QA measured roughly 420 to 830 MiB across all services. The 6 GB tier on offer here sits well over that, which matters because MariaDB, Redis, a PDF renderer and file storage all run beside the app.

Is Bigcapital free and open source?

Yes. Bigcapital's README says it is available open-source under the AGPL licence, and the LICENSE file at the v0.15.43 tag confirms it. There is no licence fee; xCloud's only charge is the dedicated Cloud VPS, and your books stay in your own volumes.

Can you run Bigcapital with Docker?

Yes, and this is Bigcapital Docker hosting prepared for you. Upstream documents Docker and Docker Compose; the template runs the bigcapitalhq web app and server images, MariaDB, Redis, Gotenberg and Garage, all pinned by immutable digest, on a private network with HTTPS on your domain.

Who can register on a self-hosted Bigcapital?

Only the owner email entered at install. Open your HTTPS URL, choose Sign up and use exactly that address to create your organization and become its administrator. Add more addresses in the Environment editor to allow more organizations; teammates you invite from inside Bigcapital need not be listed.

Does Bigcapital have an API?

Yes. The README describes headless accounting: you can integrate the Bigcapital API with your own system to organize transactions in a double-entry ledger and get financial reports, and it links an API reference. The API is served by the same app from your domain, with no extra gateway.

Do Bigcapital invitation and password-reset emails work?

Not until you add SMTP. Both need a mail server, so uncomment and fill the MAIL_ settings together in the Environment editor, then redeploy. Until then, invitations and password-reset messages are not sent, so keep the owner credentials somewhere safe.

Does Bigcapital support attachments and PDF invoices?

Yes. Sales invoices download as PDF, rendered by the bundled Gotenberg service, and attached files are stored in the bundled Garage S3-compatible store and download from your own domain. Both services run privately with no published ports.

Does Bigcapital collect analytics data?

The upstream analytics store, ClickHouse, is not included in this template. As a result upstream logs a few harmless analytics-store connection errors per ledger write. They do not affect your books, and nothing about your data is sent to an analytics service by the template.

What should I back up on a Bigcapital server?

A backup is 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 and with the copy, and test a restore before you rely on it.

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How do I upgrade Bigcapital?

Nothing upgrades it for you: the template pins v0.15.43 by immutable digest. To upgrade, back up the database and file-storage volumes, read the upstream release notes, then adopt a newer template version when one is published; do not edit the image tags or digests yourself. Check sign-in and a report afterwards.

Is this Bigcapital cloud hosting?

It is your own Bigcapital on a dedicated Cloud VPS provisioned by xCloud, not a hosted accounting subscription. The MariaDB database, the file store and the owner account belong to your install, and the web app is served over HTTPS on your domain.

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.