Akaunting is a free, open source and online accounting software designed for small businesses and freelancers. It is built with modern technologies such as Laravel, Bootstrap, jQuery, RESTful API etc. Thanks to its modular structure, Akaunting provides an awesome App Store for users and developers.
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- PHP 5.6.4 or higher
- Database (eg: MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite)
- Web Server (eg: Apache, Nginx, IIS)
- Other libraries
Akaunting uses Laravel, the best existing PHP framework, as the foundation framework and Modules package for Apps.
- Install Composer
- Download the repository and unzip into your server
- Open and point your command line to the directory you unzipped Akaunting
- Run the following command:
composer install
- Finally, launch the installer
It is possible to containerise Akaunting using the docker-compose
file. Here are a few commands:
# Make sure you the dependencies are installed
composer install && composer dump-autoload
# Run the app
docker-compose up
You can then access Akaunting via http://localhost, follow the first steps and setup your db connection
- Server: mysql
- User: root
- Password: like you set it in the docker-compose.yml
- Database: akaunting
If you need to enter the container you can run following command
docker-compose exec web /bin/bash
In the docker/
folder you'll find some example file to run the image with several databases.
Fork the repository, make the code changes then submit a pull request.
Please, be very clear on your commit messages and pull requests, empty pull request messages may be rejected without reason.
When contributing code to Akaunting, you must follow the PSR coding standards. The golden rule is: Imitate the existing Akaunting code.
Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.
If you'd like to contribute translations, please check out our Crowdin project.
Please see Releases for more information what has changed recently.
If you discover any security related issues, please email security@akaunting.com instead of using the issue tracker.
Akaunting is released under the GPLv3 license.