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Best open source software for restaurants and hospitality

For a restaurant or hotel, a self-hosted stack starts with URY for orders and payments, QloApps for hotel bookings and Cal.diy for table and room bookings.

Hospitality software from the catalog: a restaurant POS built on ERPNext, a hotel reservation system, table and appointment booking, recipes and kitchen stock, and accounting.

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Top picks

  1. Rank 1:

    URY

    ury-erp/ury

    Restaurant management app built on ERPNext with a POS for dine-in, takeaway and delivery, a kitchen display and P&L reports.

    Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026

    Point of SaleTypeScript

    Stands out for its TypeScript codebase. URY has 399 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license and had 725 commits in the last year; it replaces Lightspeed and Toast.

  2. Rank 2:

    Odoo

    odoo/odoo

    Free open source ERP system.

    Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026

    ERP & InventoryPythonDocker

    Stands out for the most GitHub stars. Odoo has 55,380 GitHub stars, uses the LGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 17,454 commits in the last year; it replaces NetSuite and SAP Business One.

  3. Rank 3:

    Open Source POS

    opensourcepos/opensourcepos

    Open Source Point of Sale is a web based point of sale system.

    Active · last commit Oct 27, 2026

    Point of SalePHPDocker

    Stands out for a permissive MIT license. Open Source POS has 4,466 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 373 commits in the last year; it replaces Square POS and Shopify POS.

At a glance

Open source software for restaurants and hospitality compared

Picked by hand for each job from apps whose own description or topics match it, in curated order inside each section, with GitHub data from October 2026; an app appears only once.

Top 10 picks compared, data as of Oct 28, 2026
AppStands out forLicenseGitHub starsCommits (12 mo)Last commitDocker image
URYits TypeScript codebaseAGPL-3.0399725Oct 28, 2026No
Odoothe most GitHub starsLGPL-3.055,38017,454Oct 28, 2026Yes
Open Source POSa permissive MIT licenseMIT4,466373Oct 27, 2026Yes
NexoPOSthe most recent release (v6.3.0, October 2026)GPL-3.01,295421Oct 27, 2026No
QloApps–OSL-3.014,4501,487Oct 27, 2026No
Cal.diy–MIT49,4551,968Oct 27, 2026Yes
Easy!Appointments–GPL-3.04,462484Oct 26, 2026No
LibreBooking–GPL-3.0839709Oct 25, 2026Yes
Mealie–AGPL-3.013,7091,572Oct 28, 2026No
Tandoor Recipes–source-available, AGPL-3.0 with Commons Clause8,6961,166Oct 27, 2026Yes

1 of 5 · 4 picks

Restaurant point of sale

  1. 1

    URY

    Restaurant management app built on ERPNext with a POS for dine-in, takeaway and delivery, a kitchen display and P&L reports.

    Stands out for its TypeScript codebase. URY has 399 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license and had 725 commits in the last year; it replaces Lightspeed and Toast.

  2. 2

    Odoo

    Free open source ERP system.

    Stands out for the most GitHub stars. Odoo has 55,380 GitHub stars, uses the LGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 17,454 commits in the last year; it replaces NetSuite and SAP Business One.

  3. 3

    Open Source POS

    Open Source Point of Sale is a web based point of sale system.

    Stands out for a permissive MIT license. Open Source POS has 4,466 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 373 commits in the last year; it replaces Square POS and Shopify POS.

  4. 4

    NexoPOS

    Laravel and Vue point-of-sale system with registers, receipts, inventory, procurement, customers and reports, extensible with modules.

    Stands out for the most recent release (v6.3.0, October 2026). NexoPOS has 1,295 GitHub stars, uses the GPL-3.0 license and had 421 commits in the last year; it replaces Square POS and Shopify POS.

2 of 5 · 1 pick

Hotel reservations

  1. 1

    QloApps

    Customizable and intuitive web-based hotel reservation system and a booking engine.

    QloApps has 14,450 GitHub stars, uses the OSL-3.0 license and had 1,487 commits in the last year.

3 of 5 · 3 picks

Bookings

  1. 1

    Cal.diy

    Online appointment scheduling system.

    Cal.diy has 49,455 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 1,968 commits in the last year; it replaces Calendly.

  2. 2

    Easy!Appointments

    Allows your customers to book appointments with you via the web.

    Easy!Appointments has 4,462 GitHub stars, uses the GPL-3.0 license and had 484 commits in the last year; it replaces Calendly.

  3. 3

    LibreBooking

    Resource scheduling solution offering a flexible, mobile-friendly, and extensible interface for organizations to manage resource reservations.

    LibreBooking has 839 GitHub stars, uses the GPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 709 commits in the last year; it replaces Calendly.

4 of 5 · 3 picks

Recipes and kitchen stock

  1. 1

    Mealie

    Material design inspired recipe manager with category and tag management, shopping-lists, meal-planner, and site customizations. Mealie is focused on simple user interactions to keep the whole…

    Mealie has 13,709 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license and had 1,572 commits in the last year.

  2. 2

    Tandoor Recipes

    Django application to manage, tag and search recipes using either built-in models or external storage providers hosting PDFs, Images or other files.

    Tandoor Recipes has 8,696 GitHub stars, is source-available under the AGPL-3.0 with Commons Clause (not an open-source license), ships a Docker image and had 1,166 commits in the last year.

  3. 3

    grocy

    ERP beyond your fridge. Groceries & household management solution for your home.

    grocy has 9,623 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 87 commits in the last year.

5 of 5 · 2 picks

Accounting

  1. 1

    ERPNext

    ERP system to help you run your business.

    ERPNext has 40,687 GitHub stars, uses the GPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 10,424 commits in the last year; it replaces NetSuite and SAP Business One.

  2. 2

    Bigcapital

    Financial accounting and inventory management software for small to medium businesses.

    Bigcapital has 3,970 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 1,135 commits in the last year; it replaces QuickBooks and Xero.

FAQ

Questions and answers

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Is there an open source restaurant POS?

Yes. URY is a restaurant management app built on ERPNext with a POS for dine-in, takeaway and delivery. Odoo, Open Source POS and NexoPOS are general point-of-sale systems.

Is there an open source hotel booking system?

QloApps is a web-based hotel reservation system and booking engine you can self-host.

Is URY free?

Yes. URY 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 this stack with Docker?

8 of the 13 apps here publish Docker images, including Odoo, Open Source POS and Cal.diy, so most of the stack can run side by side with Docker Compose on one server. Size the server for the heaviest app and add off-site backups.

How is this list ranked?

Picked by hand for each job from apps whose own description or topics match it, in curated order inside each section, with GitHub data from October 2026; an app appears only once.

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