Hey everyone, I’ve been working on a self-hosted invoicing app called Rachoon (the name comes from the Bosnian word račun, which means invoice). I built it because I wanted something lightweight, fully under my control.
It all started back in 2016 when I became self-employed where I needed something to create invoices. At first I used a proprietary SaaS product, which was a good product itself, but their support was miserable - to say the least. I looked at self-hosted alternatives which - at that time - looked to basic for my needs. So I took matters into my own hands, and started working on Rachoon.
I got it to a point where it served my needs more than well, and kept using it privately, hosted on my HomeLab. Now that I have more time, I decided to make it production ready for everyone else to use.
Here’s what it does:
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Create and manage invoices and quotes
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Keep track of clients and payments
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Highly customizable invoice templates with your branding using nunjucks
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Generate PDFs and previews
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Support for multiple currencies and taxes
It’s open source, so I’ve been able to tweak things to fit my workflow, and I can see how it would be useful for freelancers or small teams who want to keep everything local.
If you’re into self-hosting and want to avoid subscription invoicing tools, it might be worth checking out: https://github.com/ad-on-is/rachoon
I’m happy to answer questions about setup or how I’ve been using it in my own workflow.
Whether you can access these devices or not depends on your firewall rules.
The usual (very simplifed) setup is as follows
VLANs:
Firewall rules:
VLAN_Trusted: Can access everything, WAN (internet) as well as devices on VLAN_Untrusted and VLAN_IoT. Usually, your PC or smartphone is here
VLAN_IoT: can only access WAN (internet), but none of the other VLANs, usually connected devices, like smart appliances that you control via their dedicated apps, like Philips HUE lamps, etc
VLAN_Untrusted: Can not access anything. Usually devices that you don't want to allow to access anything, lika a TV, or a printer to prevent automatic firmware updates.
Some people also hav a VLAN_Guests, which is similar to IoT, where devices can only access the internet.
I hope this helps