Free accounting software software for linux

GnuAccounting is a open source java accounting software that creates and administrates e.g. invoices and credit notes. GnuAccounting embeds OpenOffice to design templates and output invoices and uses MySQL to store transactional metadata on a central server.

FrontAccounting is a user-friendly, Web-based accounting system for the entire ERP chain.
The project is a further elaboration of the very competent OpenAccounting by KylieTech. OpenAccounting was in its turn a fork of Web-ERP.
Main features:
- Purchase Orders
- Goods Receivable Notes
- Supplier Invoices/Credit Notes
- Payments
- Allocations
- Accounts Payable
- Items and Inventory
- Stock
- Manufacturing
- Sales Orders
- Customer Invoices/Credit Notes
- Deposits
- Allocations
- Accounts Receivable
- Dimensions
- General Ledger
- Languages
- Currencies
- Several Companies
Enhancements:
- This release adds Budget Entry to General Ledger, includes Dimensions, changes the parameters of the Sales Order report, and adds options to print as Quote and to handle Jalali and Islamic Calendars.

Quasar Accounting software is a full function, stand-alone business accounting package. You may elect to use Quasar Accounting with the open source GNU General Public License (GPL) which is available free of charge.
Or, you may elect to purchase our commercial license for a nominal fee. To ensure timely access to support you will need to purchase one of our support packages.
With Quasar it is extremely easy to set up remote access to multiple servers from multiple workstations. You can run Quasar on both Windows and/or Linux on the same network. For example, you can maintain a Linux server and access the data from a Windows workstation.
Quasar Retail contains all of the features available in Quasar Accounting plus it contains the Quasar Point-of-Sale driver which allows Quasar Accounting to communicate with the Quasar Point-of-Sale application. Quasar Retail is only available with our commercial license.
In a mission critical environment such as retail you will need to purchase one of our support packages for timely access to support . Resellers and customers who wish a copy of the Quasar Retail source code can obtain it by purchasing annual source code access.
Main features:
international ready
- Quasars new international ready features include the ability to define your monetary symbol, monetary format, date format, time format, number format and percentage format. Any and all text can be translated or changed to suit your specific requirements. In addition Quasar has a standard Canadian format and a standard United States format.
graphical user interface
- Quasar is a new product designed with a graphical interface. It is not an older text based package with a graphical interface add-on. It was designed using Qt which is the same library used for the KDE user interface and other Linux projects. For more information on Qt 3.0 please see the Trolltech web page at http://www.trolltech.com.
fast/easy data entry
- The Quasar main window, icons, menus, lookups, and search functions have all been designed with you, the user, in mind. Screens were kept simple with instant access to advanced functions and superior access to supporting data.
quick error correction
- Existing transactions are easy to find and easy to edit. Quasar has a find transaction screen that allows you to find a transaction very quickly using a variety of selection criteria.
backup and restore
- Backup your company to a backup file and restore it as and when the need arises.
recurring transactions
- Define recurring transactions for recurring journal entries, recurring cheques, recurring customer invoices, recurring vendor invoices and recurring vendor payments.
on-line help
- On-line help is available for every screen. A table of contents provides the ability to move around and view several help screens in succession.
preferences
- Set your style, font and color preferences.
multiple companies
- Create and manage multiple companies within the same application.
import data
- Quasar makes maximum use of XML files for importing. Using XML files you can import data such as the chart of accounts, inventory, customer information, vendor information, opening balances, journal entries, purchase orders and packing slips. new data imports
drill down feature
- From most Quasar information screens you can drill down and view the detail of the actual transactions. This will be limited only by the user security access.
mailing labels
- Print mailing labels for customers, vendors, employees and personal acquaintances. Select labels from one of our supported forms.
work shift control
- Every transaction includes date, time, work station, employee and shift. After a each work shift, you can close the shift, complete cash reconciliations, do tender adjustments and report on the results.

Cisco IP Accounting Fetcher is a set of Perl scripts that allows you to fetch IP accounting data from Cisco routers. There is the only one config file - "getdata.conf for configuration.
Main features:
- fetch accounting data from the router
- generate the HTML statistics

SQL-Ledger Accounting project is a double entry accounting system. Accounting data is stored in a SQL Server, for the display any text or GUI browser can be used. The entire system is linked through a chart of accounts. Each item in inventory is linked to income, expense, inventory and tax accounts. When items are sold and purchased the accounts are automatically updated.
With the assembly feature you can build manufactured goods from parts, services, labor units and assemblies. When the assembly is sold all the accounts linked to the individual parts, services, labor units and assemblies are updated and stock levels adjusted accordingly.
Invoices, Packing List, Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Sales, Work and Purchase Order, Statements, Receipts and Checks are generated from templates and can be changed to suit your needs. Templates are provided in html, tex and text format. The tex templates are processed with latex to produce postscript and PDF documents. Documents can be sent to a printer, file or fax, displayed with a PDF viewer or sent by email.
The translation mechanism for items and foreign language templates can be set for each customer/vendor so it is possible to generate invoices in a foreign language without knowledge of a foreign language. This translation facility can also be used to generate different forms for a group of customers/vendors.
DWS Systems Inc. is the developer of SQL-Ledger and provides ongoing support and customizations. SQL-Ledger is licensed under the GPL license, and is free software.
SQL-Ledger can be used on any UNIX, Mac OS X and Windows computer.
SQL-Ledger is written in Perl, developed on FreeBSD and Linux with Galeon, Konqueror, Netscape, Lynx, Links, W3M, Voyager, Explorer to render the display, Apache, thttpd, boa to communicate between the server and the browser, and PostgreSQL, Oracle, or DB2 to store accounting data.
Languages:
- English
- Arabic (Egypt)
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Brazilian Portuguese
- Catalan
- Chinese (Simplified)
- Chinese (Traditional)
- Czech
- Danish
- Dutch
- Estonian
- Finnish
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Icelandic
- Italian
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
Main features:
- Accounts Receivable
- Accounts Payable
- General Ledger
- Inventory Control
- Billing / Invoicing
- Time Cards
- Recurring Invoices
- POS
- Check Printing
- Purchase / Sales Orders
- Customizable Taxes
- Multi-user
- Multi-company
- Audit Control
- Foreign Currency
- Internationalization
- Access Control
- SQL server backend
- Customizable Templates
- Customers
- Vendors
- Assemblies (BOM, kits)
- Chart of Accounts
- Customizable Reports
- Financial Statements
- Administration Module
- Backup to file/email
- Application Interface
- Use on Handheld

IPAC-NG is the iptables/ipchains based IP accounting package for Linux.

It collects, summarizes, and nicely displays IP accounting data. Its output can be a simple ASCII table, or graph images. Ipchains and iptables are supported. Logs are stored in files, gdbm, or PostgreSQL database.

ipac consists of one perl script and one C program:

- fetchipac, executed from cron once in a while, reads the current ip accounting data assembled by the kernel and stores it into a database

- ipacsum summarizes the data from a set of records from the database and, optionally,
replaces these records by one. It displays the values as a simple table containing the sums, as png graph pictures or as ascii graph pictures.

User Account Information provides an ethernet users/customers traffic counter.
User Account Information is lightweight system for accounting for ethernet traffic on a per-user basis.
It includes a Web-based interface for allowing users to view their own network accounting information.
This product was designed and was tested in RedHat Linux 6.2 and in SlackWare Linux 7.0.
Main features:
- For each customer (who have IP adress in your local network area) are added two ipchains rule for counting input and output traffic.
- Each customer can look his own account information through WEB-interface.
- You ( as system administrator) can correct anything You want or anything you dont like in this program.
Enhancements:
- A date format error solely affecting output with DD/MM/YYYY action dates was corrected in the cgi-bin part.