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dolibarr

by Dolibarr

Dolibarr is a web-based system for running a company's day-to-day administration, covering contacts, quotes, invoices, orders, stock and accounting. It is aimed at freelancers, small and larger businesses and foundations that want to host their own business software.

Worth a lookEstablished, with a few things to check (listed below).

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Stars
7.8k +4 a day
Licence
GPL-3.0
Runs on
A small server
Setup
Moderate
Language
PHP
Age
5604 days

What you can do with it

  • Create quotes, orders and invoices for customers and track payments
  • Manage customers, prospects, suppliers and stock in one place
  • Keep a shared calendar, projects, tasks and staff leave records

Could replace

  • Odoo

Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.

Make money with it

An individual could offer paid setup, customisation and support of Dolibarr for small businesses that want to move off paid software.

An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.

Ways a business could use it

  • Replace separate invoicing, CRM and stock spreadsheets or subscriptions with one self-hosted system
  • Run quotes through to invoices and supplier purchasing to keep sales and costs tidy

Can you use it commercially?

Free to use. Anything you distribute that includes it must be open-sourced under the same licence.

Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.

Getting it running

Install it on a PHP web server with MariaDB, MySQL or PostgreSQL, or use the Docker image, the Windows or Debian packages, or a paid hosted offer.

Follow the official instructions in the project README.

Things to check

  • Some extensions and commercial support are paid
  • Needs a properly maintained and backed-up server if self-hosted
  • Wide feature set can take time to configure

Who's talking about it

Checked 30 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.

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