Billing software your engineers can actually read.
PanelBill is modular, API-first billing and automation for hosting companies — built from plain, auditable code instead of an encoded core. Stripe, Authorize.net and PayPal for payments. eNom and OpenProvider for domains. One clean system, not a decade of bolted-on features.
No credit card. No sales call. Just tell us where to send it.
Billing software grew up. It didn't grow well.
Twenty-five years of "just add one more feature" has left hosting companies with platforms that are expensive to run, hard to secure, and harder to trust.
Nobody uses 90% of it
Legacy billing platforms ship hundreds of features because removing any of them might break someone's workflow from 2011. New staff need a manual to find the button they actually need.
— a recurring theme across independent hosting-software reviewsYou can't audit what you can't read
The market leader ships with an encoded, obfuscated core. Your security team can't review it, your engineers can't patch it themselves, and vulnerability disclosures arrive after the fact — if at all.
— common complaint in security-focused comparisons of billing platformsThe bill grows with your client list
What used to be a one-time license is now a subscription that climbs with every client you add — a tax on the exact growth the software is supposed to help you manage.
— a common frustration in hosting-provider communitiesFive decisions we made on purpose
Not features bolted on to win a checklist. Constraints we designed around from line one.
Modular
Payment gateways, provisioners and registrars are independent modules behind one contract. Nothing outside a module touches its vendor code.
API-first
Every action the admin UI takes goes through the same documented API you'd use to script it. There's no hidden path.
Security-first
Mandatory 2FA for staff, encrypted secrets at rest, scoped vendor tokens, and an activity log on every sensitive action. Not an add-on module — the foundation.
Least privilege
Every role, every module, every API token gets exactly the access it needs to do its job — nothing more, nothing standing.
Minimal by default
Core billing, provisioning, domains and support. That's it. We'd rather do less, extremely well, than everything, adequately.
AI belongs inside the workflow, not bolted on top
Hosting providers are already leaning on AI for support — and most are duct-taping it onto a legacy helpdesk. We think it works better designed into the ticket, billing and provisioning core from the start: drafting first-response replies with real account context, flagging fraud and payment risk before it costs you a chargeback, and giving clients a self-service portal good enough that most of them never file a ticket at all.
Not trying to out-feature anyone
The market leader has the biggest plugin ecosystem. The value leader has the most predictable pricing. We're the one built to be read, audited, and integrated — first.
| Legacy leaders | PanelBill | |
|---|---|---|
| Core source code | Encoded / obfuscated | Plain, auditable |
| Architecture | Monolith, bolt-on modules | Modular by contract |
| Primary interface | UI first, API added later | API-first, UI is a client |
| Access model | Broad admin roles | Least privilege, scoped tokens |
| AI in support | Third-party bolt-ons | Built into the ticket core |
| Feature surface | Everything, for everyone | Core billing, done well |
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We're building in the open and taking a limited number of hosting companies into beta before general release. Leave your email and we'll reach out when there's a seat.