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metasfresh/metasfresh
We do Open Source ERP - Fast, Flexible & Free Software to scale your Business.
metasfresh is a full-stack open source ERP targeting small-to-mid-size manufacturers and distributors, forked from the Compiere/ADempiere lineage. It covers the usual ERP surface — sales orders, purchasing, invoicing, accounting, manufacturing, warehouse management — with a Spring Boot backend and a React/Redux frontend. If you need an on-premise ERP you can actually read the source of, this is one of the few serious options.
1. Active development cadence — weekly releases and a last push of today (2026-06-13) with 5.174 already tagged; this isn't an abandoned fork. 2. Proper 3-tier REST architecture with a React frontend rather than the Swing/ZK dinosaur UIs most ADempiere descendants are stuck with. 3. Docker and Ubuntu installer paths are both documented and maintained, so you can spin up a real environment without archaeology. 4. The monorepo uses git sparse-checkout deliberately, which is thoughtful for a repo this size — you can pull just the frontend or just an accounting module without cloning gigabytes.
1. The codebase carries decades of ADempiere/Compiere DNA — `java-legacy` directories with `org.compiere.*` package names sit right next to modern Spring code, and untangling where old behavior ends and new behavior begins is a real time cost. 2. No cloud-hosted SaaS option and no managed offering from the maintainers; you own the entire operational stack, including upgrades, which are non-trivial for any ERP with live accounting data. 3. The data model is deeply AD-style — hundreds of tables, generated model classes (`X_Fact_Acct_Summary.java` style), and SQL migration scripts scattered across module directories. Onboarding a new developer takes weeks before they can make confident changes. 4. Community activity is thin relative to the feature surface — 2.3k stars for a full ERP is a small bus factor, and the forum is the primary support channel, not a paid support tier most production deployments would want.