Solutions for small business
The books, the invoicing, the VAT —
and no bill.
LineLedger gives small businesses a real double-entry core with invoicing, bills, VAT and drill-through reporting built in. Free under the AGPLv3, on a server you control.
Free under the AGPLv3, on a server you control.
Built for the way you work
Seven things LineLedger does for you out of the box — and the rest of the product is on too.
Invoicing that gets you paid
Invoices, credit memos, and receipts with FIFO auto-apply — plus a customer portal where clients view and pay online through Stripe.
Bills, POs & supplier credits
Track what you owe, receive against purchase orders, book supplier credits properly, and print cheques when you need them.
VAT, tracked properly
HMRC’s Standard, Reduced, Zero-rated and Exempt codes, a drill-down report, and period-lock snapshots when you file.
Fixed assets & depreciation
A real fixed-asset register with linked depreciation accounts and declining-balance schedules — not a calculator on the side.
Works with your payroll provider
Run payroll where you do today and post each pay run straight to your books — LineLedger has no UK payroll of its own, and none is planned.
Bank rec + AI statement import
Reconciliation worksheets with edit-in-place, and statement import from CSV, OFX/QFX, Excel, or PDF that fills the queue in seconds.
Reports you can click into
Balance sheet, profit & loss, cash flow, and budgets — drill any row down to the source transaction, then export to CSV or XLSX.
Switch from QuickBooks
Import your chart of accounts and replay your full general-ledger history — accounts mapped, contacts linked, no fresh start required.
Common questions
- Is it really free for everything?
- Yes. LineLedger is open source under the AGPLv3 and you run it on your own server, so there is nothing to pay us. VAT, inventory, multi-currency, and unlimited users are all in the one build — there is no paid edition held back.
- Can LineLedger file my VAT return?
- It prepares it; it does not submit it. The VAT Return works out all nine boxes from your ledger for the quarter and freezes them when you mark the return filed — then you copy those figures into your Making Tax Digital software to send them to HMRC. The Flat Rate Scheme, cash accounting and the reverse charge are not worked out for you.
- Do you handle payroll?
- No, and it is not coming. LineLedger does no UK payroll at all — no PAYE, no RTI, no CIS — so keep the payroll software you have and post each pay run as a journal entry: wages, PAYE and NI withheld, and the employer’s share. Paying HMRC is then a payment like any other.
- What if I run more than one business?
- Each company is its own set of books, and one install holds as many as you like — UK, Canadian and US organizations side by side if you need them. One login covers all of them, with combined reports when you want the big picture, and no per-company charge.
Open the books on your business.
Install it with Docker in about five minutes and it’s yours — VAT, inventory, and multi-currency included, on a server you control.