Finance and accounting
Zoho Books alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
mayswind/ezbookkeeping★5,361 GitHub starsMIT licenceSelf-hosted personal finance app offering bookkeeping, invoicing, and basic financial reports.Open on GitHub ↗andrewdwallo/erpsaas★1,457 GitHub starsMIT licenceLaravel-based accounting platform providing double-entry accounting and financial automation.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Integrated global data-center scale and SLA-backed hosting
- Deep single-vendor integrations across Zoho's suite
- Brand trust and enterprise sales/support reach
- Proprietary R&D and platform features (Zia agents, unified admin)
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches Zoho Books, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.