Paymenter Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Paymenter hosting gives you self-hosted hosting billing software on your own domain: a storefront and invoicing for the hosting products you sell. Deploy Paymenter and xCloud runs the pinned Paymenter v1.5.8 image with a private MariaDB 11.8.3 database and Redis 8.2.1 cache, creates the administrator account with a generated password, mounts persistent volumes for application state, uploads, themes and extensions, and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes.

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What is Paymenter?

Paymenter is an open-source billing and storefront platform for selling hosting products, with orders, invoices, payment gateways and customer services. Upstream describes it as open-source billing built for hosting, to automate subscriptions without vendor lock-in, and it gives a hosting business a customer-facing store and an administration area. A self-hosted Paymenter is an alternative to a commercial billing platform such as WHMCS, released under the MIT licence.

On xCloud it is Paymenter v1.5.8 from the official image, pinned by digest, with a private MariaDB 11.8.3 database and Redis 8.2.1 cache. Seven volumes hold application state, logs, uploads, themes, extensions, the database and the cache. xCloud creates the administrator at install and disables public registration. No payment gateway or outbound email is configured for you.

From Sign-Up to a Live Billing Portal In Just 3 Easy Steps

A Paymenter stack normally means an app container, a database, a cache, volumes, an administrator account, a domain and a certificate before the first product. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Paymenter from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and enter the administrator's first name, last name and email — the password is generated for you.
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Paymenter image, pinned by immutable digest, with a private MariaDB 11.8.3 database and Redis 8.2.1 cache that have no host ports, mount the paymenter_var, paymenter_logs, paymenter_uploads, paymenter_themes, paymenter_extensions, paymenter_db and paymenter_redis volumes, create the administrator account, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In At /admin
Save the administrator password from the protected installation credentials, open your HTTPS Paymenter URL and go to /admin. Create your product categories and products first, then enable only the payment gateways you need.

Open Source Billing For Hosting Companies: Paymenter On Your Own Server

Paymenter runs in full here: a billing and storefront platform for hosting products on your own domain, backed by a database you own.

Orders And Invoices
Sell products and services with orders, invoices and customer accounts from one admin area, with categories, products, coupons and currencies configured in the dashboard.
Payment Gateways You Choose
Connect the payment gateways and service integrations you want from the admin area; none is preconfigured, and the provider credentials are yours.
Customer Support Tickets
The admin dashboard includes tickets alongside invoices, orders, products, users and services.
Themes And Extensions
Themes and extensions each live on their own persistent volume, so customisations are kept apart from the application state.
Administrator Ready, Registration Off
The administrator account is created at install and public registration is switched off from the start; the register page returns 404.
Private MariaDB And Redis
MariaDB 11.8.3 and Redis 8.2.1 run alongside the app on the install's private network, with no published ports.

Everything You Need To Run Your Billing Portal 24/7

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

Paymenter v1.5.8 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Private MariaDB and Redis included
Admin password generated for you
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Paymenter

A storefront for your hosting plans
Publish categories and products so customers can order the hosting services you sell, on your own domain rather than a third-party marketplace.
Invoicing and customer accounts
Keep orders, invoices and customer services in one admin area, with products, coupons and currencies managed from the dashboard.
Your own choice of payment providers
Enable only the payment gateways you need and keep the provider credentials under your control.
A private billing back office
Start with a single generated administrator and registration disabled, then create or enable customer accounts as your business needs them.

Paymenter Screenshots

Paymenter's administration dashboard after sign-in, showing revenue, tickets and services panels and the Administration menu with invoices, orders, products, tickets, users, services and categories

Paymenter's Categories list in the admin area showing a newly created category with its slug

Paymenter vs Alternatives

WHMCS: As a self-hosted alternative to WHMCS, Paymenter is an open-source option under the MIT licence that runs on your own server. It is not a migration tool, so move customers yourself.
FOSSBilling: FOSSBilling has its own OneClick page. In a Paymenter vs FOSSBilling comparison, both are open-source billing apps for hosting providers; Paymenter is built around a storefront of hosting products.
Invoice Ninja: Invoice Ninja has its own OneClick page. It is self-hosted invoicing for freelancers and small businesses, while Paymenter is built around selling hosting products from a storefront.
InvoiceShelf: InvoiceShelf has its own OneClick page. It is another self-hosted invoicing app to compare if you need invoices rather than a hosting storefront.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

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

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Paymenter sits alongside other business apps.

$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. Paymenter itself is licensed by Paymenter's maintainers under MIT.

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

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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.

Self-managed hosting

Ready To Run Your Own Billing Platform?

Paymenter 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.
Intuitive Control Panel
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 do I sign in to the Paymenter admin?

Open your domain's /admin page and use the administrator email you entered at install and the generated password from the protected installation credentials. The account is created once, at install, and the register page stays closed.

Can visitors register on Paymenter?

Not by default. Public registration is disabled at install and the register page returns 404, so you create or enable customer accounts as your business needs them, from the Paymenter administration area, rather than letting strangers sign up.

Can you self-host Paymenter with Docker?

Yes. Upstream ships an official Docker deployment, and this template is Paymenter Docker hosting without the setup: the v1.5.8 image with MariaDB and Redis, pinned by digest, seven volumes and HTTPS on your own domain.

How much RAM does Paymenter need?

The manifest asks for 1024 MB of RAM, 2 CPU cores and 10 GB of disk; QA measured about 255 MiB idle across the three containers. Customers, extensions, queues and uploads raise that, so the 6 GB plan leaves headroom.

Is Paymenter free?

Yes. Paymenter is released under the MIT licence, so there is no licence fee for the software. Your cost is the Cloud VPS that runs it, which makes this a Paymenter cloud of your own, plus any payment-gateway fees.

Is Paymenter an alternative to WHMCS?

It covers the same ground, billing and a storefront for hosting products, as an open-source option. It is not a drop-in replacement and has no WHMCS migration tool here, so test your products and gateways first.

Is a payment gateway or email already set up?

No. Outbound email and payment-provider credentials are yours to configure from the Paymenter admin area. Gateways come from extensions, so enable only the ones you need, keep the credentials private, and test a payment before you go live.

How do I back up Paymenter?

Back up all seven volumes together: paymenter_var, paymenter_logs, paymenter_uploads, paymenter_themes, paymenter_extensions, paymenter_db and paymenter_redis, plus an application-consistent MariaDB dump taken while writes are quiet. Keep off-server copies of the file and Redis volumes, restore the full set into a clean install, and test sign-in and a sample order.

Backup and restore Docker apps

How do I upgrade Paymenter?

The install stays on its pinned v1.5.8 image until you adopt a newer template version. Back up every volume and read the upstream release notes first, since the image runs database migrations at startup. Nothing upgrades automatically.

What happens if I change the domain?

Paymenter also stores the site URL as App URL in its admin settings. If you change the domain, update App URL there as well, so links in emails, invoices and the storefront keep pointing at the right address.

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.