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andrewdwallo/erpsaas
A Laravel and Filament-powered accounting platform featuring full double-entry accrual accounting, delivering modern automation for professional financial management.
A full-featured accounting and ERP platform built on Laravel and Filament, covering double-entry bookkeeping, invoicing, bills, recurring documents, budgets, and financial reports (balance sheet, income statement, cash flow, trial balance). It's aimed at small businesses or developers who need a self-hosted alternative to QuickBooks or Wave, without paying SaaS pricing. Solo-maintained by one developer.
The accounting model is genuinely correct — double-entry with debits and credits properly enforced through journal entries, not just transaction labels bolted onto a ledger. The report coverage is serious: trial balance, cash flow statement, aging reports for both AP and AR, client/vendor payment performance. Plaid integration for bank feed import is a real differentiator at this price point (free). The Filament foundation means the UI is polished and the admin panel is fully navigable without writing custom frontend code.
PDF generation depends on wkhtmltopdf, which is effectively unmaintained (last release 2019, no ARM binary for Apple Silicon without workarounds) — this will bite anyone deploying on modern infrastructure. The test suite is explicitly described as incomplete, which is a significant risk for anything touching double-entry accounting where a sign error can silently corrupt a balance sheet. Multi-currency support exists but relies on ExchangeRate-API for live rates with a 1,500 call/month free tier, which runs out fast in production. Being a solo-maintained project with 426 forks and no listed contributors means bus factor is 1 — sponsorship is requested prominently, which is honest, but adoption risk is real.