Install Invoice Plane - Invoice and Payment Manager - On Windows 🌱

What is Invoice Plane?

[Invoice Plane is a] self-hosted open source application for managing your invoices, clients and payments.-https://www.invoiceplane.com/

Installation

  1. Download XAMPP Download
  2. Download Invoice Plane Download
  4. Install Microsoft Visual C++
  5. Right click the downloaded XAMPP file > Extract All...
  6. Right click the downloaded Invoice Plane .zip file > Extract All...
  7. Rename the extracted folder invoiceplane
  8. Cut the invoiceplane folder inside the XAMPP/htdocs directory
  9. Copy the extracted XAMPP directory to a safe location to run from, C:\Program Files for example
  10. Navigate into the XAMPP/htdocs/invoiceplane folder
  11. Make a copy of the ipconfig.php.example and rename it ipconfig.php
  12. Edit ipconfig.php in a text editor
  13. Set the IP_URL value to http://DNSorIP/invoiceplane

    IP_URL=http://localhost/invoiceplane

  14. Save the changes to ipconfig.php and close the text editor
  15. Run XAMPP/setup_xampp.bat to update the configuration files with the new server location
  16. Run XAMPP/xampp-control.exe
  17. Click the Start button next to Apache and MySQL
  18. Navigate to XAMPP/mysql/bin
  19. Hold the SHIFT key and right click in the white space > Open PowerShell windows here...
  20. Type the following in the PowerShell window to setup the database
    .\mysql -u root
    CREATE DATABASE invoice_plane;
    CREATE USER 'invoice_plane_rw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'Inv0!c3Pl@n3!';
    GRANT ALL ON invoice_plane.* TO 'invoice_plane_rw'@'localhost';
    FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
    exit;
    exit

Invoice Plane Web Installer

  1. Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP/invoiceplane
  2. The Invoice Plane Installation web installer should be load
  3. Click the Setup button
  4. Select a Language > Click Continue
  5. Click Continue on the Prerequisites page
  6. Complete the Database Details form as follows

    Hostname: localhost
    Port: 3306
    Username: invoice_plane_rw
    Password: Inv0!c3Pl@n3!
    Database: invoice_plane

  7. Click the Try Again button then click Continue
  8. Complete the Create User Account form > Click Continue
  9. Back in File Explorer, navigate to XAMPP/htdocs/invoiceplane and edit ipconfig.php
  10. Find the DISABLE_SETUP setting and change the value to true
  11. Save the changes to ipconfig.php and close the text editor
  12. Back in the browser, click the Login button
  13. Login with the Email and Password setup during the installation
  14. Welcome to Invoice Plane

Source: https://wiki.invoiceplane.com/en/1.0/getting-started/installation