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2 self-hosted PayPal alternatives

Online payments platform that enables consumers and businesses to send and receive money, accept card and digital wallet payments, manage checkout, invoicing, subscriptions and merchant accounts, and process cross‑border transactions.

Alternatives to PayPal

Hyperswitch is an open-source payments switch and orchestrator that connects multiple payment processors through a single API, with modules for routing, vaulting, retries, and reconciliation.

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43.5k stars5.1k forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

Self-hosted open-source billing, invoicing, payments, and client management platform for hosting and online service businesses.

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1.7k stars343 forksApache-2.0last commit Actively maintained

What replacing PayPal actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 2 of 2 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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