3.9k stars · AGPL-3.0 · v0.25.41, read from /releases/latest, shown as '17 Sep' with no year and therefore 17 September 2026. Code pushed 29 August 2026, proved via ungh.cc; default branch is develop · Track this in Scout
Double-entry accounting for a small business that you host yourself, with invoicing, bills, inventory and the standard financial statements.
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What it is
A web application for small-business accounting, with a chart of accounts, invoicing, bills, expenses, inventory and the standard statements. There is a paid hosted version from the same people, and the code is AGPL-3.0.What it is good for. A founder or a freelancer whose books currently live in a spreadsheet and a folder of PDFs. This radar has covered payments (Polar, Lago, Hyperswitch), invoices (InvoiceShelf), usage metering (OpenMeter), personal budgeting (Actual), a plain text ledger (hledger) and what you hold (Ghostfolio). None of those is a set of business accounts. This is.
- Real double-entry accounting with the standard reports, rather than a list of transactions with charts on top.
- It handles the whole sales cycle: quote, invoice, payment, and the customer record behind them.
- There is a hosted version if you would rather not run it, and the same code underneath.
- AGPL-3.0. Running it for your own business is fine. If you build a product on it and offer that product as a service, you owe your changes to your users.
- Accounting software is only as good as the person entering the data, and it will not stop you recording something in the wrong place.
- It is a multi-service application. Read the project's Docker guide before starting; this is an evening, not ten minutes.
- firefly-iii/firefly-iii
Personal finance rather than business accounting: it tracks your own accounts and budgets and does not do double-entry books for a company.
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Small-business accounting of the same shape, and it ships under the Business Source License, so it is not plainly open source.
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A whole enterprise system with accounting inside it, under GPL-3.0, and far more than one person needs.
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git clone https://github.com/bigcapitalhq/bigcapital.git cd bigcapital
