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kirilkirkov/Electronic-Invoicing-And-Warehouse-Management-System
A self-hosted open-source application built with CodeIgniter and Bootstrap. Features include electronic invoicing, PDF generation, invoice status tracking, client and item management, employee permissions, protocols, warranties, import/export (Excel, XML), reporting, and a multi-language platform.
A self-hosted PHP invoicing and warehouse management system built on CodeIgniter 3 and Bootstrap 3. Handles invoice creation, PDF export, client/item management, stock tracking, and basic employee permissions. Aimed at small businesses that want something they can drop on shared hosting without paying for SaaS.
- Covers the full invoicing workflow in one place: create, track status (paid/unpaid), export to PDF, XML, and Excel — that's genuinely useful for a small shop
- Multi-company support within a single account is a real feature that most cheap self-hosted alternatives skip
- Multi-language with Bulgarian, English, and French baked in — the language file structure is clean and easy to extend
- Zero external service dependencies for core functionality; runs on any MySQL + PHP shared host, which is the right fit for its target audience
- Built on CodeIgniter 3 (EOL) and Bootstrap 3.3.7 — both abandoned. PHPExcel is also abandoned (superseded by PhpSpreadsheet years ago). You're taking on a stack of unmaintained dependencies
- Default admin credentials are username 'admin' / password 'admin' documented in the README — whoever deploys this and forgets to change them is handing over their invoice database
- No composer.json; dependencies are vendored directly into the repo (PHPExcel is a massive dump of files). No upgrade path, no version pinning, no audit trail
- 92 forks and only 202 stars with last activity in early 2026 suggests it's mostly people cloning to modify privately, not an active community — bug fixes and security patches are on you