Akaunting – invoicing and cash-flow management

Akaunting is an online financial management application designed for small businesses and freelancers. It brings invoicing, expense tracking, payments and customer management into a single browser-based interface.

The software can be self-hosted, allowing businesses to maintain control over their financial records, or accessed through the developer’s hosted service. Users can manage bank and cash accounts, record transactions, issue invoices and monitor outstanding payments without relying on separate applications.

Akaunting places particular emphasis on day-to-day business finances. Its dashboard provides an overview of income, expenses and cash flow, while customer and vendor records help organise commercial transactions.

The application has a modular design, with an integrated marketplace offering additional functionality. Full double-entry bookkeeping, including a chart of accounts, general ledger, journal entries and balance sheets, requires a separately priced extension rather than being included in the standard application.

Akaunting is source-available software distributed under the Business Source License 1.1. This is not an open source licence and places restrictions on production use.

Key Features

• Create and send professional invoices with configurable payment terms.
• Record customer payments and track outstanding invoice balances.
• Manage bank and cash accounts, including opening and current balances.
• Record income, expenses, deposits and transfers between accounts.
• Customer management with contact details, transaction histories and payment summaries.
• Vendor management with bills, payments and transaction records.
• Client portal for viewing invoices, transactions and payment information.
• Recurring invoices, bills, income and payment transactions.
• Financial dashboards with configurable widgets.
• Income, expense, tax and cash-flow reporting.
• Transaction categories for organising business finances.
• Multiple currencies with conversion into the company’s base currency.
• Customisable tax rates for products and transactions.
• Discounts on invoices and other supported transactions.
• Attach receipts and supporting documents to financial records.
• Customisable email templates for customer correspondence.
• Role-based permissions for controlling user access.
• Multilingual administration and customer interfaces.
• Extensible through an application marketplace offering additional accounting and business management capabilities.
• Optional paid double-entry accounting extension with a chart of accounts, manual journals, general ledger and financial statements.
• REST API for integrating with other applications.

Website: github.com/akaunting/akaunting
Support:
Developer: Akaunting Inc
License: Business Source License 1.1

Akaunting is built with modern technologies such as Laravel, VueJS, Bootstrap 4, with a RESTful API. Akaunting is written in PHP. Learn PHP with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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