FrontAccounting
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Plans and prices
From FrontAccounting's own pricing page, checked 5 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| FrontAccounting | Free | Free accounting software released under the GNU General Public License |
The facts
Each one read from FrontAccounting's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Accountant access
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
- Accounting and ERP
- The product covers purchasing, sales, accounts payable and receivable, inventory, stock, manufacturing, fixed assets, and general ledger with budget.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Automated reconciliation
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Bank feeds
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
- Extensions
- Modules, extensions, themes, custom reports, and languages can be installed or activated from within FrontAccounting and downloaded from a central repository.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Hosting requirements
- The installation guide requires a web server, PHP, and MySQL with InnoDB enabled, and says other database systems are unsupported.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Integrations and compatibility
- The site lists report export to MS Excel/OpenOffice Calc and describes compatibility with MySQL; other databases are not supported.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Inventory and manufacturing
- Inventory supports stock items, locations, transfers, reorder levels, average material cost, and barcode scanner entry; manufacturing includes bills of materials and work orders.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Inventory tracking
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Invoice creation
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Purchasing
- Purchasing features include purchase orders, goods receival notes, supplier price lists, debit and credit notes, supplier payments, and transaction attachments.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- FrontAccounting describes itself as web based accounting software for small companies covering the entire ERP chain.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Receipt capture
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Release
- The homepage lists release 2.4.20 as available for download on April 28, 2026.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Reporting
- Reports can be printed, emailed, converted to PDF, exported to Excel or OpenOffice Calc, and shown as graphical analyses.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Sales
- Sales features include quotations, orders, delivery notes, customer invoices and credit notes, batch invoicing, point of sale definitions, and payment allocation.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Security guidance
- The installation guide says Register Globals and Magic Quotes PHP settings should be off for security reasons and advises removing or renaming the install directory after installation.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Support
- The contact page directs support requests to the website forum; the FAQ also points users to the forum and wiki for help.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Tax and currencies
- The site lists multi-currency support and GST/VAT selection by customer, supplier, and item, with GST/VAT reports.checked 5 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 2005checked 28 Sep 2026
- Multi-company and users
- The software supports multiple companies and multi-user access with different privileges, plus backups, restore, and simple audit trails.checked 5 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Mobile platforms
- web onlychecked 20 Sep 2026
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