LedgerSMB on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Overview

LedgerSMB is a double entry accounting and ERP system for small and medium businesses, maintained continuously since it forked from SQL-Ledger in 2006. Everything it records lands in a single general ledger, so the sales side and the purchase side reconcile against the same accounts rather than against each other.

On the sales side it carries quotations, sales orders, invoices, receipts and customer statements. On the purchase side, requests for quotation, purchase orders, vendor invoices and payments. Around those sit parts and inventory, projects and timecards, fixed assets with depreciation, budgeting and bank reconciliation, and the reporting that makes the ledger useful: trial balance, income statement, balance sheet and aged receivables.

Customer facing documents are template driven rather than hard coded, so invoices, orders and statements can be shaped to a business's own stationery and produced as PDF, HTML, CSV or ODF. A REST interface exposes the ledger for integration, and the permission model is built on database roles, so what a user can see and do is enforced by the database itself rather than only by the interface.

Common uses

• Run the books for a small or medium business with quotations, invoicing, payments and a full general ledger
• Keep several legal entities apart as separate company databases on one instance
• Replace a spreadsheet or an end of life SQL-Ledger install with a maintained double entry system

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.