What is FrontAccounting #
FrontAccounting is simple accounting software for small businesses. Or a business that requires maintaining all the information about their activity like, sales, products order, payments, manufacturing, and many more. It is free to use and open source. It works on the GNU license, the interface of the software is very simple anyone can handle it.
Uses of FrontAccounting #
- Small business
- Large-cap business
System Requirements of FrontAccounting #
- Webserver
- Apache
- PHP
- PHP >=5.0 (version 5.6 or 7.x is recommended)
- Database
- MySQL >=4.1
- MariaDB any version
Features of frontaccounting #
- Track Purchase Orders
- Make Goods Receivable Notes
- Supplier Invoices
- Customer Invoices
- Accounts Receivable
- Items and Inventory
Installation of Frontaccounting #
For installation of frontaccounting, there are 2 methods you can use any one of them for installation. Both methods are simple and easy, the methods are as follows.
- Installation using softaculous app installer
- Manual installation
Installation using softaculous app installer #
If you want to install frontaccounting using a softaculous app installer you have to follow the steps.
Step1: login to our hostrik hosting Cpanel. And in the software section click on softaculous app installer, a new window will open
Step2: in a new window of softaculous type frontaccounting and press enter, a new window of installation will open
Step3: click on the install button, a new window will open.
Step4: in the first software setup section select the protocol of your website (HTTP:// or HTTPS://) and select the domain you want to install and then select the installation directory.
Step5: give the site name for the site.
Step6: Create an admin account for your website, create a username and password for your site, and also give the email of your admin account.
Step7: After that create the database for your website select its backup if you want otherwise click install.
Manual installation #
For manual installation of frontaccounting, you have to follow the following steps. the steps of installation are divided into 3 parts.
- File configuration
- Database configuration
- Site configuration
File configuration
Step1: Go to the official website of frontaccounting and download the latest version of it.
Step2: Login to your hostrik Cpanel account and go to file manager, and upload the extracted file in the public_html folder of the domain you want to install.
Database configuration
Step1: Login to your Cpanel account and go to the database section. And click on MySQLDatabase.
Step2: In that create the database for your website. (type the name of the database and click create database)
Step3: After creating a database you have to add a user to that database. (in add user section give username and password of the user and click create user)
Step4: After creating user give them privileges (after creating a user new window will open click all privileges and save changes)
Software configuration
Step1: go to the URL you want to install frontaccounting, you will see the software checks all the system requirements select the language, and click continue for the next step.
Step2: In the next step configure the database you created in the above step give the database name server and username and password for the database.
Step3: In the next step select the language for the interface of the frontaccounting, select the language you want to click continue.
Step4: in this step select the different account types you want to install in the frontaccounting. And click continue.
Step5: Here you have o give admin account information give the company name admin username and password and click on install. Then the installation process will start.
Step6: In the next step go to the login page and log in to your account. With the admin username and password.