Firms that cannot put the books elsewhere
Where a rule, a client contract or a straightforward preference says the financial data stays on infrastructure you control, this is the answer rather than a negotiation.
Run it on your own server
Moneman was written against ordinary shared hosting from the first commit. If your site runs on cPanel today, Moneman runs there too.
What it needs
- PHP
- 8.3 or newer, with the extensions any Laravel host already has
- MySQL
- 8.0 or newer (MariaDB 10.6+ works)
- Disk
- a few hundred MB, plus whatever your attachments come to
- Cron
- one entry, once a minute — the usual Laravel scheduler line
- Shell access
- not required
What it does not need
No queue worker, no supervisor, no daemon to keep alive.
No Redis, no Memcached, no search server.
No Node, no build step, no asset pipeline to run on deploy.
No Docker, no Kubernetes, no container registry.
These are not omissions. Background work runs off the one cron entry, the cache and sessions sit in the database, and the interface is served as plain compiled assets. It is the same code that runs the hosted version — there is no cut-down edition.
Who this is for
Accountants with a roster of clients
One installation, one corporate account per client, one permission matrix. The isolation boundary is the same one the hosted version runs on.
People who would rather own it
The intent is that you own what you run rather than rent it. The licence terms are being written down properly rather than improvised in an e-mail — ask and we will send you what exists today, before you commit to anything.
Talk to us about a licence
Tell us roughly how many companies and how many people, and we will come back with a price and an installation checklist. There is no sales process to sit through.
Write to ushello@moneman.com