Bigcapital
Bigcapital is an open-source, self-hosted app in the Accounting & Invoicing category, licensed AGPL-3.0 and written mainly in TypeScript. It is a self-hosted alternative to QuickBooks, Xero and Wave and ships a Docker image. It has 3,960 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 25, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Accounting & Invoicing
- TypeScript
- AGPL-3.0
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 3,960
- Forks
- 549
- Open issues
- 174
- Commits, last 12 months
- 1,131
- Last commit
- Oct 25, 2026
- Latest release
- v0.25.45Oct 23, 2026
- Created
- Sep 21, 2021
- License
- AGPL-3.0Open source
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 25, 2026, 1,131 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
| Last commit | Oct 25, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 1,131 |
| Latest release | v0.25.45 (Oct 23, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 173 |
| Open issues | 174 |
| Open pull requests | 111 |
| Good first issues | 3 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | No |
| Created | Sep 21, 2021 |
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About Bigcapital
Financial accounting and inventory management software for small to medium businesses.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/bigcapitalhq/bigcapital.
Topics
- accounting
- financial
- inventory
- bills
- expenses
- double-entry-accounting
- payments
- invoicing
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Is Bigcapital free and open source?
Yes. Bigcapital is open-source software released under the AGPL-3.0 license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.
Can I run Bigcapital with Docker?
Yes. Bigcapital provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Bigcapital?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Bigcapital include Odoo, ERPNext and Aureus ERP. Bigcapital itself is a self-hosted alternative to QuickBooks, Xero, Wave, Zoho Books and Sage Accounting.
Is Bigcapital actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Bigcapital was on Oct 25, 2026 with 1,131 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v0.25.45, published Oct 23, 2026. It had 174 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.