Selling VPS hosting through Paymenter means connecting your billing panel to your hypervisor so that a paid order becomes a running virtual machine without you touching anything. For Proxmox, that connection is the Paymenter Proxmox extension , a paid module that costs $24.99 on BuiltByBit.
It is worth knowing how popular this path is before you commit to it. With 316 purchases , the Proxmox extension is the best-selling resource in the entire Paymenter marketplace, ahead of every theme and every other extension we checked on 10 September 2026. Whatever else is true, you will not be the first person down this road.
What You Need Before You Start
- Proxmox VE 8.4 or higher. The extension does not support older releases.
- QEMU/KVM virtual machines. LXC containers are not supported. If your plan was to sell cheap container-based VPS, this extension will not do it.
- A working Paymenter install. If you are not there yet, start with our guide to installing Paymenter.
- At least one VM template in Proxmox to clone from, and its VM ID.
- A block of IP addresses you can hand to customer servers.
Self-Host or Resell? What the Market Actually Does
You have two ways to sell a VPS through Paymenter: run your own hardware on Proxmox, or resell capacity from a provider through a reseller module. The marketplace numbers make the community's preference very clear.
| Module | Approach | Price | Purchases |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paymenter Proxmox | Self-hosted | $24.99 | 316 |
| Datalix VPS Reseller | Reseller | $24.99 | 27 |
| Hetzner Cloud Module | Reseller | $4.99 | 20 |
| HetznerCloudAdvanced | Reseller | $27.99 | 16 |
| OVHcloud VPS Reseller | Reseller | $34.99 | 15 |
| Linode VPS Reseller | Reseller | $5.00 | 8 |
Every reseller module combined does not come close to Proxmox on its own. That is not proof that self-hosting is right for you, but it does tell you where the community support, the bug reports, and the shared experience are concentrated. Reselling avoids capital outlay and rack space; self-hosting keeps the margin and the stock decisions in your hands.
The Setup Order That Works
The configuration is hierarchical, and doing it out of order is where most people get stuck. Server, then location, then node, then IP pool, then product.
- 1. Install the extension. Buy and download the zip from BuiltByBit, then go to Admin, Extensions, Install Extension and upload it.
- 2. Create a Proxmox API token. In the Proxmox web interface go to Datacenter, Permissions, API Tokens, and click Add. Disable Privilege Separation when you create it. A token with privilege separation left on will authenticate and then fail to do anything useful, which produces confusing errors later.
- 3. Add the server. In the Paymenter admin panel, open the Servers tab and configure your Proxmox server.
- 4. Configure a location. The location holds the URL, the API token, and your OS templates. Templates are referenced by the VM ID of a template you built in Proxmox. The display name is yours to choose, but the ID has to be right.
- 5. Add a node. Under the Nodes tab, press Add Node, select the correct node, and set up its OS templates.
- 6. Configure an IP pool so provisioned machines have addresses to claim.
- 7. Create the product and, in its settings, assign the node and the bridge it should use.
The Step That Locks Customers Out
This one deserves its own section, because it is the difference between a working shop and a support queue full of angry people.
The root password is never shown in the Paymenter panel. The only way a customer receives it is through the email template on the product. If you skip that template, the order completes, the VM boots, the customer sees their server in the dashboard, and they cannot log in to it.
Set the email template on the product with the IP and password variables in it, something along these lines:
- IP Address: {{ $ip }}
- Root password: {{ $password }}Then place a test order yourself and confirm the email actually arrives before you take real money.
Letting Customers Build Their Own Plan
Rather than creating a separate product for every size, you can expose configurable options and let the customer assemble the VPS. The Proxmox extension supports these options:
location_id
,
ipv4
,
ipv6
,
pool
,
cpu
,
cores
,
sockets
,
memory
,
disk
,
backups
,
cache
,
model
, and
ratelimit
.
Two of these are quietly commercial rather than technical. Charging for backups turns a feature you already run into recurring revenue, and ratelimit lets you sell bandwidth tiers instead of giving every plan the same pipe.
What Your Customers Can Do Themselves
The extension puts a control panel inside Paymenter, which matters because every action a customer can take is a ticket you do not answer. They can start, stop, and reinstall the VPS, watch performance graphs, create and restore backups, and open a VNC console straight from the billing panel.
Reinstall is the important one. Roughly speaking, "I broke my server" stops being your problem and becomes a button.
Keeping Stock in Line With Reality
Nothing in the base setup stops you selling a VPS your hardware cannot fit. Once orders come in faster than you check capacity, you need stock control, and there are two community extensions for it:
- Proxmox Autostock at $9.99, 16 purchases. Automates stock levels for Proxmox.
- StocksPlus at $20.00, 5 purchases. Checks resources for both Pterodactyl and Proxmox and blocks checkout when there is not enough capacity.
Be aware that both have very thin review histories, one and three reviews respectively, and the ratings on those tiny samples are mixed. Treat them as worth testing rather than as proven. If you would rather not gamble, monitor capacity manually until your order volume justifies the risk.
Is There a Free Way to Do This?
It is one of the most common searches on this topic, so here is the straight answer: no, there is no free Proxmox module for Paymenter. The official documentation states plainly that the extension is a paid resource and requires a license.
What you can do instead:
- Use a panel Paymenter supports natively. Paymenter ships built-in server modules for cPanel, Convoy, DirectAdmin, Enhance, Plesk, Pterodactyl, VirtFusion, and Virtualizor. Those integrations cost nothing, though VirtFusion and Virtualizor are themselves commercial products, so the cost moves rather than disappears.
- Provision manually while you are small. At low volume, automation is a convenience, not a necessity. Our Manual Servers extension at $4.99 gives manual products a real workflow: define the setup steps once, work through them as a checklist, and let the customer watch the progress from their dashboard instead of opening a ticket to ask where their server is.
Manual provisioning also stays relevant after you automate, because Proxmox cannot automate everything you sell. Colocation, dedicated boxes, managed services, and custom installs all still need a human, and those are exactly the products that otherwise fall back to a ticket and a spreadsheet.
After the First Sale
Once orders are flowing, the gaps tend to be commercial rather than technical. Worth looking at:
- Statuspage , so a node going down does not generate fifty identical tickets
- Helpcenter , to answer the same VPS questions once instead of individually
- RenewAhead , for customers who want to pay early rather than risk suspension
The full range is on our Paymenter resources page, and we rank the most useful ones in the best Paymenter extensions.
Stuck on the API token or the IP pool? Ask in our Discord community and someone who has already done it will walk you through it.