Imara Cloud vs BoxBilling / FOSSBilling
A fair look at both platforms — including what BoxBilling / FOSSBilling genuinely does well. If it fits your business better, you should stay on it.
Where BoxBilling / FOSSBilling is strong
- ✓ Free and open source, with an active community reviving the project as FOSSBilling
- ✓ Light footprint and easy to stand up for a first host
- ✓ Fully auditable code
We list these because they are true. A comparison that pretends a competitor has no strengths is not worth reading.
Where the platforms differ
Still rebuilding after the original BoxBilling project stalled; some areas are in flux.
A complete, current feature set — provisioning, billing, domains, support and reporting.
Fewer control-panel and registrar integrations.
cPanel/WHM, Plesk and DirectAdmin provisioning plus a global registrar directory.
No regional tax compliance features.
KRA eTIMS receipts and multi-currency tax handling built in.
Moving from BoxBilling / FOSSBilling
Export the client, invoice, invoice_item, transaction and client_order tables to CSV and import as one archive.
Ask us to run the migrationSee it for yourself
No licence metering, no per-module fees, and your data exports in plain CSV whenever you want it.