Open source accounting software
Manage your accounts accurately with the right controls
Maintaining accurate financial records is crucial—not just for statutory compliance, but for a clear, real-time view of your organization’s financial health. With ERPNext, a fully open-source ERP software for accounting, you can streamline compliance, reduce manual spreadsheet efforts, and minimize reliance on external auditors. ERPNext transforms accounting by seamlessly integrating with inventory, manufacturing, HR, and more—turning your ERP into a centralized financial hub.
Flexible chart of accounts
Comprehensive general ledger
Manage billing, payables and receivables
Taxes and compliance
Cost centers, dimensions and budgeting
Financial statements
Assets
Account reconciliation
Multi-company & multi-currency management
Flexible Chart of Accounts
ERPNext simplifies financial management with a flexible Chart of Accounts (CoA) that adapts to any business structure. The tree view feature lets you organize ledgers into parent and child nodes, making it easier to categorize and break down financial data. ERPNext also supports multi-company accounting, consolidates financials, and offers multi-currency capabilities, making it ideal for global businesses. This helps enhance data analysis, provides clear financial insights, and streamlines management across multiple entities.
Comprehensive General Ledger
The general ledger is the foundation of every accounting report. In ERPNext, every submitted accounting transaction—including those in Stock and Manufacturing—automatically creates a GL entry, ensuring a comprehensive and flexible General Ledger report.
This report lets you drill down into individual ledger postings, acting as a time machine to trace and verify the impact of any transaction. Need deeper insights? Aggregate ledgers for a customer to determine total receivables or analyze financials in a presentation currency for international transactions—all within the General Ledger report.
Manage Billing, Payables and Receivables
Effective cash flow management is crucial, and ERPNext offers a comprehensive system for managing payables and receivables. The Accounts Payable module tracks vendor invoices, schedules payments, and manages liabilities, while the Accounts Receivable module streamlines invoicing, payment tracking, and automated follow-ups. With aging reports, credit management, and multi-currency support, ERPNext ensures timely collections and payments, improving financial efficiency and maintaining healthy cash reserves.
Taxes and Compliance
Cost centers, dimensions and budgeting
ERPNext’s Cost Centers and Dimensions help track profitability across multiple units, such as online, offline, or channel sales, while keeping your Chart of Accounts organized. By tagging transactions with these dimensions, profitability reports are automatically generated.
Additionally, ERPNext’s budgeting module lets you define and track budgets for costs and dimensions, breaking them into monthly splits to prevent overspending. This ensures better control over expenses and financial discipline, keeping your business on track.
Financial Statements
ERPNext provides businesses with one-click access to real-time financial reports, helping them make informed decisions with accurate financial data. The system offers essential reports such as General Ledger (GL), Trial Balance (TB), Balance Sheet (BS), Profit & Loss Statement (P&L), and Cash Flow Statements. Additionally, liquidity ratio reports and financial performance indicators provide deeper insights into a company’s financial health.
These reports are fully customizable and exportable, allowing businesses to tailor financial analytics to their needs. By providing up-to-date financial data in a structured format, ERP software for accounting ensures businesses can analyze trends, forecast financial performance, and stay ahead in decision-making.
Assets
Assets play a crucial role in business, acting as a long-term investment that grows over the years. With ERPNext, maintain a comprehensive Asset Register along with an automated depreciation schedule. Track the complete asset lifecycle—from purchase to disposal or resale—with out-of-the-box ledger postings.
Ensure compliance with international depreciation standards using built-in methods like Written Down Value, Straight Line, and Double Declining Balance. Manage assets effortlessly while maintaining financial accuracy.
Account reconciliation
Gain a clear and accurate view of receivable and payable by efficiently matching unreconciled payments with outstanding invoices using an intuitive Payment Reconciliation Tool. Simply import your bank statement and match transactions seamlessly using reference numbers.
Streamline your payment reconciliation process by aligning payment entries with bank statements through the Bank Reconciliation Tool.
Multi-company & multi-currency management
Consolidating data from multiple entities into a single ERP instance can be a costly and complex endeavor for group companies. With ERPNext, seamlessly manage multiple companies across different regions within a unified ERPNext account. Effortlessly generate inter-company sales and purchase transactions right out of the box.
ERPNext’s robust general ledger system captures account balances in both each company’s base currency and the accounting ledger’s currency, ensuring accuracy. Generate General Ledger reports for customers and suppliers in their local currencies, enhancing clarity and boosting collection.
No-code builder
Automate tasks with drag-and-drop simplicity
API-first
Easily integrate with third-party systems
Mobile-friendly
Manage all modules from any device
Customizable
Forms, reports, print formats, and dashboards
Approval workflows
Simplify with custom multi-level workflows
Roles & permissions
Granular access control to safeguard data
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The comprehensive, user-friendly and 100% open-source ERP