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Invoice Ninja — invoicing, quotes, projects, and time tracking in one business app

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Stars
10,094
Primary language
PHP
License
Elastic-2.0
Repository last updated
Sep 18, 2026

Overview

Invoice Ninja is a Laravel-based business application covering invoices, quotes, expenses, projects, tasks, time tracking, and payments, available as hosted SaaS or for self-hosting.

Features and best fit

Based on official documentation; not hands-on tested · Content checked:

Connect invoicing with quotes, expenses, projects, and time tracking

The product covers the broader billing workflow rather than limiting itself to invoice generation.

Sources: [2][3]

Integrate through APIs and run it on your own infrastructure

Official API, developer, and self-hosting guides cover servers, VMs, Docker, and other deployment paths.

Sources: [2][4]

For businesses consolidating billing and project operations

It is relevant when invoices, quotes, payments, projects, and time records should live in one application.

Sources: [2]

Treat it as source-available under Elastic License 2.0

Elastic License 2.0 restricts offering a substantial set of the software's functionality as a hosted or managed service to third parties.

Sources: [5]

Official sources

  1. [1]invoiceninja/invoiceninja repository(2026-09-20)
  2. [2]Invoice Ninja README(2026-09-20)
  3. [3]Invoice Ninja developer guide(2026-09-20)
  4. [4]Invoice Ninja self-hosting guide(2026-09-20)
  5. [5]Invoice Ninja Elastic License 2.0(2026-09-20)
Supplemental curator note

Invoice Ninja covers a broad operational scope and includes hosted Pro/Enterprise features in the self-hosted source. It is source-available under Elastic License 2.0, which restricts third-party hosted or managed services that expose a substantial set of its functionality.

Try it in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Get the source

    git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja.git
  2. 2

    Enter the repository

    cd invoiceninja
  3. 3

    Check the official steps

    Continue with the commands in the README Installation, Quick Start, or Getting Started section.

    find . -maxdepth 1 -iname 'README*' -exec sed -n '1,220p' {} \; -quit
Check the official README

Growth

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10,094 Stars

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Development activity

Last 90 days · weekly

Commits (last 30 days)
173
Open PRs
10

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GitHub Topics

  • php
  • expenses
  • javascript
  • invoices
  • tasks
  • laravel
  • payments
  • time-tracker
  • kanban
  • invoice
  • flutter
  • hacktoberfest
Stars
10,094
Forks
2,706
Watchers
208
Open issues
198
Contributors
110
Primary language
PHP
Repository last updated
Sep 18, 2026
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