metasfresh

metasfresh is an open-source ERP for trade and manufacturing with a focus on sales and purchasing, warehousing and logistics, production, and finance.

It can be run on-premises or self-hosted and as SaaS. The vendor sells cloud hosting and support. The actively maintained open-source codebase is licensed under GPL v2 and uses Java and PostgreSQL.

Fact Sheet

Categories
Status
Actively maintained
License
  • GPL-2.0
Operation
  • On-Premises / Self-hosted
  • SaaS
Technologies
  • Java
  • PostgreSQL
Single Sign-On (SSO)
  • Unknown: not specified
MCP server
  • Unknown: not specified

Open-Source Alternatives

Match in All Categories

The following products are assigned to the categories «Accounting», «Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)» and «Invoicing», just like «metasfresh», and match all of them.

Further down, you can find alternatives per category that do not share all categories with «metasfresh».

In the Category «Accounting»

In the Category «Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)»

In the Category «Invoicing»

Akaunting

Akaunting's source-available core manages invoices, income and expenses in the browser. License limits apply to production use.

  • Accounting
  • 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
My own product

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
My recommendation

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

Midday combines time tracking, invoices, and a financial overview for solo business owners and freelancers.

  • 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