Rhinvoice

Open source · Self-hosted

Invoicing for Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Germany and Austria.

Rhinvoice follows the Rhine from Switzerland along Liechtenstein and Austria into Germany, understanding the invoicing requirements of all four countries. Open source. Self-hosted.

Try the demo Install with Docker
  • Swiss QR-bill
  • ZUGFeRD & XRechnung
  • AGPL-3.0
The Rhinvoice overview: revenue against last year, open and overdue amounts, open quotes

Four countries along the Rhine

The invoice editor with its live paper previewThe overview of a German company in dark mode

Features

Everything a small business invoices with

  • Quotes, invoices, cancellationslive preview, numbers without gaps, issued documents locked
  • Tax treatment by countrydomestic, reverse charge, intra-Community, export, small business
  • Goods and serviceskept apart, also on mixed invoices
  • Swiss QR-bill and EPC QRthe right code for the currency and the customer
  • ZUGFeRD and XRechnungvalidated with KoSIT and Mustang
  • Remindersthree levels, fees, new deadlines
  • Recurring invoicesmonthly to yearly, as draft, issued or sent
  • Sending by e-mailthrough your own mail server
  • ImportCSV and Excel with column mapping and test run
  • Backupsencrypted with restic, to S3, SFTP, Dropbox or Google Drive
  • Keyboard first⌘K, shortcuts, light and dark
  • On the phonecheck status, mark as paid, share the PDF

Free, and staying that way

Open source, with no paid version planned

No hosted service planned

Rhinvoice is free to use, change and share under the AGPL. There are no plans to turn it into a paid service.

Want it hosted?

Tell us in the GitHub discussions. If enough sponsors come together to carry the running costs, a hosted Rhinvoice is conceivable.

Commercial interest

Interested in a commercial licence, a partnership or taking over the project? Write to us at hello@rhinvoice.com.

Install

Running in five minutes.

On a server, a NAS, a Raspberry Pi or your own laptop with Docker Desktop (macOS, Windows, Linux).

# a folder of its own
mkdir rhinvoice && cd rhinvoice

# the compose file and the settings
curl -fsSLO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhinvoice/rhinvoice/main/deploy/compose.yml
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rhinvoice/rhinvoice/main/.env.example -o .env

# in .env, set POSTGRES_PASSWORD to a long random value, then start
docker compose pull
docker compose up -d

# open http://rhinvoice.localhost:8000, the first visit sets up the first user

# optional, next to other installations: a name and a port of its own
# (in .env: RHINVOICE_PORT=8100, then add -p rhinvoice-test to every docker compose command)
docker compose -p rhinvoice-test up -d

# optional, only on your own laptop: the short address http://rhinvoice:8000
echo "127.0.0.1 rhinvoice" | sudo tee -a /etc/hosts
# and in .env: RHINVOICE_COOKIE_SECURE=false, then docker compose up -d again

On a server: HTTPS and backups, see the install guide.