bigcapitalhq

    bigcapitalhq/bigcapital

    πŸ’΅ Independent financial accounting with intelligent reporting, alternative to Quickbooks, Xero, Wave.

    web
    accounting
    bills
    double-entry-accounting
    expenses
    financial
    TypeScript
    AGPL-3.0
    4.0K stars
    561 forks
    4.0K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 29, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 6 days ago, with 47 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #89 in the weekly ranking the week of Sep 21, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides smart, open-source financial accounting and inventory software with automated double-entry bookkeeping and intelligent reporting.
    • Offers an independent, self-hosted alternative to proprietary accounting platforms like Quickbooks and Xero with full API integration.
    • Use for small and medium businesses seeking to automate and organize their financial transactions and generate detailed financial reports.
    • Use for developers needing a headless accounting system to integrate double-entry accounting into custom business applications via API.
    • Use for organizations wanting to self-host accounting software with Docker for full control over data and deployment environment.

    Should you depend on it?

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    License

    AGPL 3.0

    Network copyleft: like the GPL, and also triggered by offering the software over a network.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present

    Watch-outs

    • AGPL-style copyleft also applies when the software is offered over a network.

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    From the README

    Bigcapital is a smart and open-source accounting and inventory software, Bigcapital keeps all business finances in right place and automates accounting processes to give the business powerful and intelligent financial statements and reports to help in making decisions.

    We've got serveral options on dev and prod depending on your need to get started quickly with Bigcapital.

    Bigcapital is available open-source under AGPL license. You can host it on your own servers using Docker.

    Excerpt from the bigcapitalhq/bigcapital README on GitHub (AGPL-3.0 license). Β© its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    561+68

    Open issues

    286+86

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