BillaBear vs BILLmanager
BillaBear
billabear.com
BILLmanager
ispsystem.comSide by side
| Figure | BillaBear | BILLmanager |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $1/mo | €50/mo |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 2 |
| Spec score · Subscription Billing Software | 8.7 (#9) | 8.5 (#15) |
| Purpose | BillaBear is a standalone subscription management and billing system that integrates with Stripe and provides a REST API. | BILLmanager automates service delivery, hosting sales, public cloud operations, and business workflows for cloud, service, and hosting providers. |
Plans
BILLmanager
- BILLmanager Hosting&Cloud — monthly€50 a month
- BILLmanager Hosting&Cloud — annualPrice not published
In their own words
BillaBear
BillaBear is a subscription management and billing system with Stripe integration, a REST API, and web, API, and self-hosted deployment options. It manages subscriptions, custom plans, add-ons, invoices, quotes, hosted checkouts, paylinks, vouchers, credit notes, dunning, and reports. Pricing models include fixed, usage-based, volume and graduated tiers, fixed-plus-unit, and per-seat charges. The system supports multiple brands and currencies, tax management, country and state rules, configurable thresholds, EU reverse charge, one-stop-shop, and VAT Sense integration. Workflows can retry failed tasks, including API requests. Invoice, quote, PDF, and email templates use Twig or email-service-provider templates. Integrations listed include Stripe, Slack, Freshbooks, Xero, Mailchimp, EmailOctopus, SendGrid, MailGun, and Postmark; Zendesk and Freshdesk integrations help agents find customer profiles. SDKs are listed for PHP, Java, Go, JavaScript, Ruby, and Python. The Starter plan is $1 a month, with $50,000 of revenue free. Managed cloud hosting is currently unavailable.
BILLmanager
BILLmanager has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.