Akaunting
Akaunting's core version manages invoices, income and expenses through a web interface. Its source code is available under the Business Source License, but it is not open source.
You can run it On-Premises / Self-hosted or use it as SaaS. The software is actively maintained and licensed under the Business Source License 1.1. It uses PHP, MySQL and MariaDB.
Fact Sheet
- Categories
- Status
- Actively maintained
- License
- Business Source License 1.1
- Operation
- On-Premises / Self-hosted
- SaaS
- Technologies
- PHP
- MySQL
- MariaDB
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Unknown: not specified
- MCP server
- Unknown: not specified
Additional Apps & Hosting
The official apps add features such as double-entry bookkeeping, bank connections and other workflows. Check their availability and license separately from the core installation. A cloud plan or an app purchase does not automatically lift the BSL limits for every use. The respective agreement determines any further rights.
License Restrictions
Akaunting's Business Source License 1.1 is not an open-source license. The source code is publicly available. The license terms allow copying, modifying and redistributing the software as well as non-production use.
The «Additional Use Grant» also allows production use for your own business purposes, but limits it to a total of two users, one company and 1,000 invoices. It excludes a commercial «Accounting Service» in which third parties benefit directly from the accounting or invoicing features. Your own employees and contractors do not count as third parties.
The license also prohibits removing the name, logo, copyright or other branding to distribute a rebranded or white-label version as part of a commercial or nonprofit product or service. Any use outside these terms requires a commercial license.
The designated «Change License» is GPLv3. The change applies to each version separately four years after its release, at the latest on the fourth anniversary of its first public distribution under this license. Until then, the BSL restrictions apply.
Open-Source Alternatives
Match in All Categories
The following products are assigned to the categories «Accounting» and «Invoicing», just like «Akaunting», and match all of them.
Further down, you can find alternatives per category that do not share all categories with «Akaunting».
Aureus ERP
Aureus ERP combines finance, inventory, human resources, customer relationships, and projects through modular apps.
- Accounting
- CRM
- ERP
- Invoicing
- Projects
Dolibarr ERP/CRM
Dolibarr combines customer management, quotes, invoices, accounting, and inventory. Modules add management of subscriptions and contracts.
- Accounting
- Contracts
- CRM
- ERP
- Invoicing
ERPNext
ERPNext combines accounting, quotes, invoices, and time tracking with subscription and contract management in one web application.
- Accounting
- Appointment Scheduling
- Calendar
- Contracts
- CRM
- ERP
- Invoicing
- Project Time Tracking
LedgerSMB
LedgerSMB manages receivables, payables, and invoices and creates reports for financial accounting.
- Accounting
- ERP
- Invoicing
metasfresh
metasfresh brings together purchasing, sales, warehousing, logistics, production, and finance for companies in trade and manufacturing.
- Accounting
- ERP
- Invoicing
In the Category «Accounting»
Aureus ERP
Aureus ERP combines finance, inventory, human resources, customer relationships, and projects through modular apps.
- Accounting
- CRM
- ERP
- Invoicing
- Projects
Bigcapital
Bigcapital combines financial accounting, payment reconciliation and reports for small and medium-sized businesses.
- Accounting
Dolibarr ERP/CRM
Dolibarr combines customer management, quotes, invoices, accounting, and inventory. Modules add management of subscriptions and contracts.
- Accounting
- Contracts
- CRM
- ERP
- Invoicing
ERPNext
ERPNext combines accounting, quotes, invoices, and time tracking with subscription and contract management in one web application.
- Accounting
- Appointment Scheduling
- Calendar
- Contracts
- CRM
- ERP
- Invoicing
- Project Time Tracking
LedgerSMB
LedgerSMB manages receivables, payables, and invoices and creates reports for financial accounting.
- Accounting
- ERP
- Invoicing
metasfresh
metasfresh brings together purchasing, sales, warehousing, logistics, production, and finance for companies in trade and manufacturing.
- Accounting
- ERP
- Invoicing
In the Category «Invoicing»
Aureus ERP
Aureus ERP combines finance, inventory, human resources, customer relationships, and projects through modular apps.
- Accounting
- CRM
- ERP
- Invoicing
- Projects
Crater
Crater creates quotes and invoices and manages payments and customer data on your own server.
- Invoicing
Dolibarr ERP/CRM
Dolibarr combines customer management, quotes, invoices, accounting, and inventory. Modules add management of subscriptions and contracts.
- Accounting
- Contracts
- CRM
- ERP
- Invoicing
ERPNext
ERPNext combines accounting, quotes, invoices, and time tracking with subscription and contract management in one web application.
- Accounting
- Appointment Scheduling
- Calendar
- Contracts
- CRM
- ERP
- Invoicing
- Project Time Tracking
Erdikon
Erdikon creates quotes, invoices, and credit notes with shared master data. QR bills, e-invoices, and payment tracking support invoicing.
- Invoicing
Invoice Ninja
Invoice Ninja combines quotes and invoices with payment management. You can self-host it or use the hosted service.
- Invoicing
InvoicePlane
InvoicePlane brings together quotes, invoices, customer data and payments in a self-hostable web app.
- Invoicing
InvoiceShelf
InvoiceShelf is a self-hostable web app for quotes, invoices, payments, and expenses. The open-source software is built on PHP and Vue.js.
- Invoicing
Kimai
Kimai assigns tracked time to customers, projects, and activities. Reports, exports, and invoicing support billing by effort.
- Invoicing
- Project Time Tracking
LedgerSMB
LedgerSMB manages receivables, payables, and invoices and creates reports for financial accounting.
- Accounting
- ERP
- Invoicing
Midday
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- Invoicing
- Project Time Tracking
Odoo Community
Odoo Community brings together sales, purchasing, inventory, invoicing, calendar, and time tracking in a modular business suite.
- Calendar
- CRM
- Employee Time Tracking
- ERP
- Invoicing
- Project Time Tracking
SolidInvoice
SolidInvoice creates quotes and invoices and supports online payments for freelancers and small businesses.
- Invoicing
metasfresh
metasfresh brings together purchasing, sales, warehousing, logistics, production, and finance for companies in trade and manufacturing.
- Accounting
- ERP
- Invoicing