{"id":42,"date":"2023-01-08T02:26:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T23:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akaunting.com\/hc\/docs\/developers\/read-me\/"},"modified":"2023-01-23T13:09:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T10:09:01","slug":"read-me","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/akaunting.com\/hc\/docs\/developers\/read-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Me"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Akaunting is an online, open-source, and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/akaunting.com\/?utm_source=help_center&amp;utm_medium=documentation&amp;utm_campaign=developers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">free accounting software<\/a>&nbsp;designed for small businesses and freelancers. It is built with modern technologies such as Laravel, VueJS, Tailwind, RESTful API, Livewire, etc. From invoicing to expense tracking to accounting, Akaunting has all the basic tools to manage money online. For further features, instead of creating bloated software by adding all of them to the core, we\u2019ve created a modular structure so that it could get extended easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Akaunting provides an awesome&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/akaunting.com\/apps?utm_source=help_centrer&amp;utm_medium=documentation&amp;utm_campaign=developers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">App Store<\/a>&nbsp;for users and creates an income channel for Laravel developers worldwide. A module is a kind of Laravel package; it has some routes, views, controllers, and models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Module vs App<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While technically we call it&nbsp;<code>Module<\/code>, we name it&nbsp;<code>App<\/code>&nbsp;in the UI for the end-user as that\u2019s what they are familiar with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Install Akaunting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First of all, let\u2019s install Akaunting in 3 basic steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Clone the repository:&nbsp;<code>git clone https:\/\/github.com\/akaunting\/akaunting.git<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Install dependencies:&nbsp;<code>composer install ; npm install ; npm run dev<\/code><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Install Akaunting:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code lang=\"bash\" class=\"language-bash\">php artisan install --db-name=\"akaunting\" --db-username=\"root\" --db-password=\"pass\" --admin-email=\"admin@company.com\" --admin-password=\"123456\"<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Create sample data (optional):&nbsp;<code>php artisan sample-data:seed<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You can also install Akaunting with one click on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/akaunting-do-start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DigitalOcean<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/akaunting-linode-start\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Linode<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akaunting is an online, open-source, and&nbsp;free accounting software&nbsp;designed for small businesses and freelancers. It is built with modern technologies such as Laravel, VueJS, Tailwind, RESTful API, Livewire, etc. From invoicing to expense tracking to accounting, Akaunting has all the basic tools to manage money online. For further features, instead of creating bloated software by adding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":31,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","doc_tag":[],"class_list":["post-42","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/akaunting.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/akaunting.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/akaunting.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akaunting.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akaunting.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/akaunting.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/akaunting.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/42\/revisions\/308"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akaunting.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/akaunting.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/akaunting.com\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}