Akaunting Free Invoicing Software
Laravel Based Open Source Accounting Software For Businesses
Easy to use software with beautiful desktop, Mobile and Tablet interfaces. Automate finance management and stay on top of cash flow.
Overview
Akaunting is an open source accounting software for small businesses. It is completely free, easy to set up and configure. This free accounting tool is simple and beautifully designed. Users can access financial data from anywhere using devices such as a computer, tablet, and mobile. It helps to run the business from anywhere and keep a tight check on the cash flow.
Akaunting is one of the best invoicing system for managing everything related to finances. Businesses can keep track of money going in and out with various out of the box features. Create professional invoices easily and share them with clients. Akaunting comes with a separate client portal that allows customers to view invoices and handle payments. Moreover, this SME accounting system has a powerful reporting module. Reports help businesses to stay on top of cash flow and quickly take financial decisions.
It has excellent statistics with 180k+ downloads, 80k+ cloud users, 10k+ community contributors. Besides, this free accounting system supports 45 languages that allow businesses to run in their native language. Akaunting is built with modern technologies such as Laravel, VueJS, Bootstrap 4, and RESTful API. The license for this open source accounting software is GPL-3.0 (GNU General Public License v3.0).
System Requirements
In order to install Akaunting, you must have the following softwares:
- PHP 7.2.5 or higher
- Database (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite)
- Web Server (Apache, Nginx)
Features
Some of the features are listed below and experience true power of Akaunting software.
- Customer Management
- Beautiful Interface
- Mobile & Tablet Ready Interface
- Multilingual Admin & Client Panel
- 100% Financial Data Ownership
- Lifetime FREE Updates
- Easy Invoicing
- Deposits and Transfers
- Vendor Management
- Billable Expenses
- Tax Rates
- Bank Accounts
- Multi-Currency
- Multi-Company
- Powerful Reporting
- Recurring
- Discount
- Customer Summary
- Unlimited Attachments
- Dashboards and Widgets
- Email templates
Installation
Install Akaunting on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with Nginx using downloaded package
Nginx is the most popular and secure web server. In order to install Nginx, use the following command
sudo apt install nginx
Once the Nginx is install, configure the domain and restart the Nginx by using the following command
sudo service nginx restart
Next, need to install database Server, use the following command to install MySql server
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install mysql-server; mysql_secure_installation
Once, the database server is installed, use the following command to restart MySql server
sudo service mysql restart
Install PHP for processing
sudo apt-get install php-fpm php-mysql
Now, you have installed all the required software and the next step is to login to mysql server and create akaunting database. Use following command to create database.
CREATE DATABASE akaunting;
Create a database user called “akaunting” with new password. and granted user full access to the database by running the following commands. Change with your desired database user and with your desired password.
CREATE USER 'akaunting'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'new_password_here';
GRANT ALL ON akaunting.* TO 'akaunting'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'user_password_here' WITH GRANT OPTION;
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
EXIT;
Download the latest Akaunting package and unzip it with below commands.
cd /tmp && curl -O -J -L https://akaunting.com/download.php?version=latest
sudo mkdir -p /var/www/html/akaunting
sudo unzip Akaunting_1.2.12-Stable.zip -d /var/www/html/akaunting/
Set the correct permissions for web server user.
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/akaunting/
sudo chmod -R 755 /var/www/html/akaunting/
Congrats! You have successfully installed Akaunting on NGINX
