books/README.md

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Free Desktop book-keeping software for small-businesses and freelancers.

Features

1. Double-entry accounting
2. Invoicing
3. Billing
4. Payments
5. Journal Entries
6. Dashboard
7. Works Offline
8. Financial Reports
   • General Ledger
   • Profit and Loss Statement
   • Balance Sheet
   • Trial Balance
9. Multi-currency Invoicing

Download

Download the latest release for your platform from the releases page.

Development

Frappe Books is built on Vue.js and Electron. It is offline by default, and uses a local SQLite file as the database.

Pre-requisites

1. Install build essentials

   Ubuntu

   apt-get install build-essential python git
   apt-get install libgconf-2-4
   

   MacOS

   xcode-select --install
   

   You will also need Xcode App from App Store

2. Install Node.js. Check the package.json file for the node version.

   Tip: The best way to install and manage Node is to install nvm

3. Install yarn package manager

   npm install -g yarn
   

Clone and Run

Due to some yarn.lock issue this won't run, to run it check Issue #315

# clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/frappe/books.git

# change directory
cd books

# install dependencies
yarn

# start the electron app
yarn electron:serve

FAQ

1. Launching electron and nothing displays https://github.com/nklayman/vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder/issues/24#issuecomment-770165389

sudo chown root node_modules/electron/dist/chrome-sandbox && sudo chmod 4755 node_modules/electron/dist/chrome-sandbox

License

GNU Affero General Public License v3.0