BillingTrack (Wired)

The next generation of the BillingTrack v5.x.x software.
BillingTrack is a self-hosted billing system for freelancers, contractors and small businesses.

Includes:

• Client Management
• Quotes
• Workorders
• Invoices
• Recurring Invoices
• Payments
• Expenses
• Time tracking
• Purchase Orders
• Scheduling
• Reports
• Employees, Products, Vendors and more !!

Host on your own server.
Your clients can view and pay their invoices online using the built-in PayPal, Stripe and Mollie integrations.

Built with Laravel, Wired with Laravel Livewire
👍 If you find this software useful, feel free to make a donation: https://paypal.me/cytecheng

Prerequisites

Installation

Upgrade

IMPORTANT UPGRADING FROM BILLINGTRACK 5.X.X

Live Demo

Installation Prerequisites

BillingTrack is web-based software, so to install and use it, you must have a server environment of some sort. Please review the minimum requirements below to determine whether or not you will be able to install and use the software. .

• A web server of some sort - Apache, nginx, etc.
• PHP >= 8.1
• MySQL or MariaDB
• A modern and updated web browser
• BCMath PHP Extension
• Ctype PHP Extension
• cURL PHP Extensiom
• DOM PHP Extension
• Fileinfo PHP extension
• JSON PHP Extension
• Mbstring PHP Extension
• OpenSSL PHP Extension
• PCRE PHP Extension
• PDO PHP Extension
• Tokenizer PHP Extension
• XML PHP Extension

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PHP Extension list from "composer check-platform-reqs"

• ext-ctype
• ext-curl
• ext-dom
• ext-fileinfo
• ext-filter
• ext-iconv
• ext-json
• ext-libxml
• ext-mbstring
• ext-openssl
• ext-pcre
• ext-phar
• ext-tokenizer
• ext-xml
• ext-xmlwriter
• lib-pcre

Composer installed

Here is a good link with composer installation instructions for Ubuntu 20.04: Composer Install instructions

Sample Apache2 virtual host conf:

BillingTrack.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

	DocumentRoot /var/www/BillingTrack/public
	ServerName BillingTrack
	ServerAlias BillingTrack
	<Directory />
		Options FollowSymLinks
		AllowOverride All
	</Directory>
	<Directory /var/www/BillingTrack/public/>
		Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
		AllowOverride All
		Order allow,deny
		allow from all
	</Directory>

	ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
	<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
		AllowOverride None
		Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
		Order allow,deny
		Allow from all
	</Directory>

	ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

	# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
	# alert, emerg.
	LogLevel warn

	CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

    Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
    <Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
	Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
	AllowOverride None
	Order deny,allow
	Deny from all
	Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
    </Directory>


</VirtualHost>

Sample Nginx configuration:

server {
listen 80;
listen [::]:80;
server_name BillingTrack;
root /srv/BillingTrack/public;

    add_header X-Frame-Options "SAMEORIGIN";
    add_header X-Content-Type-Options "nosniff";
 
    index index.php;
 
    charset utf-8;
 
    location / {
        try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
    }
 
    location = /favicon.ico { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
    location = /robots.txt  { access_log off; log_not_found off; }
 
    error_page 404 /index.php;
 
    location ~ \.php$ {
        fastcgi_pass unix:/var/run/php/php8.1-fpm.sock;
        fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $realpath_root$fastcgi_script_name;
        include fastcgi_params;
    }
 
    location ~ /\.(?!well-known).* {
        deny all;
    }
}

How to Install BillingTrack

1. Clone or download the repository to a new web directory.
2. Run "composer install" in web directory
3. create a NEW BillingTrack database.
4. Copy .env.example to .env
5. edit .env and change:

• DB_HOST=
• DB_DATABASE=
• DB_USERNAME=
• DB_PASSWORD=
  to your **NEW** database settings.
  NOTE: Do not change APP_ENV=local. Changing this will cause migrations to fail without feedback. Changing this value to "production" has no beneficial effect on BillingTrack operation.

6. save .env file.

• Run "php artisan key:generate"
• This copies the app key into the .env file, attached to the APP_KEY= line.

7. Set permissions for your site.
8. Start YOUR_BILLINGTRACK_WEBSITE/setup
9. After database configuration finishes (this may take a while. 10 minutes is not unusual):

Note: In some instances a fresh install will throw an "unknown error" alert box. If this happens, dismiss the alert box and continue. In all reported cases the migration completed properly but some timeout was thrown that causes the error.

• Create new account -> creates fresh installation with account

10. sign in

How to Upgrade BillingTrack

Upgrade Existing v6.x.x installation

• NOTE: BillingTrack-wired v6.0.3 and later require PHP >= 8.1
• Git pull (if originally cloned) or download and overwrite existing installation.
• if downloading and extracting zip, delete the contents of:
  • "YOUR_BILLINGTRACK_WEBSITE/public"
  • "YOUR_BILLINGTRACK_WEBSITE/database/seeds"
  • "YOUR_BILLINGTRACK_WEBSITE/app"
    directories prior to extracting.
• Run composer update
• Start-> YOUR_BILLINGTRACK_WEBSITE/setup
• After migration completes, signin.

UPGRADE FROM BILLINGTRACK 5.X.X

Minimum PHP requirement for BillingTrack-Wired (v6.X.X) is PHP >= 8.1

• Create a new installation/site. (see How to Install BillingTrack)
• Although it is theoretically possible to do so, do not attempt to upgrade an existing BillingTrack 5.x.x Site.
• This is a new repository and existing cloners will not be able to pull the update.
• This will upgrade the existing BillingTrack database, but it is HIGHLY recommended to backup the existing database and copy to a new one.
• After copying old database to new and modifying the .env file per the installation instructions to reflect the NEW copied database:
• Start-> YOUR_BILLINGTRACK_WEBSITE/setup
• After migration completes (this may take a while. 10 minutes is not unusual), signin.