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Centipid alternative
If you are weighing Centipid against ISPman, this is what separates them — and the honest version of what Centipid is, from their own site.
Centipid is a Kenyan ISP billing system covering PPPoE accounts and hotspot vouchers, with M-Pesa through Daraja, MikroTik RADIUS setup and a brandable client portal. Its own blog describes cloud billing that runs without a local server; it publishes no technical detail on tenancy, uptime or how it scales.
Also written Centipid Billing. From their own site — check it for anything current. Not affiliated with Centipid.
Every claim below is about ISPman and is checkable — in the product, in our guides, or in the architecture we publish.
The platform runs across more than one cloud and more than one region by design, so a single provider's bad afternoon is not your outage. Nothing about your ISP depends on one machine staying up.
Routers reach us over WireGuard — a modern, lightweight protocol that costs a NAS far less CPU and memory than the legacy VPNs most billing systems still ask for. Your router spends its resources forwarding customer traffic instead.
Subscriber data is held in the region you operate in, with replicas in the same jurisdiction, so answering a regulator about where customer records live is a short conversation.
Logins are served from the live record, so a subscriber who paid seconds ago is online seconds later — not after the next sync. Speed here is a design constraint, because a person is standing there holding a phone.
Month-end reports, usage analytics and fair-usage metering run clear of the path that gets subscribers online, so pulling a year of revenue cannot cost somebody their connection.
Capacity is something we add, not something you replan for. Going from hundreds of subscribers to tens of thousands is a number changing, not a move to a bigger server.
One system, one login, one database of record — not a billing panel with add-ons bolted to the side.
Switching billing systems is mostly a data problem, so that is the part we built first. ISPman imports customers from a spreadsheet, straight off a MikroTik's PPPoE secrets and hotspot users, or both together — matching the two so a subscriber who exists in each is not created twice. You map their packages onto yours, review exactly what will be written, and only then apply it.
Read the migration and onboarding guides →Onboard one router and a handful of subscribers. Take a real payment. That settles it faster than any comparison page, including this one.