Luca is a free accounting software project. The main development framework is Python+TurboGears. Luca is named after Luca Pacioli, the man invented the double-entry accounting method. Luca is still in early stages of development, but I do use it regularly for my own personal accounting.

Luca is licensed under the LGPL. The main communication channel is the #luca-accounting channel at Freenode IRC network.

Try it out!

Click here to play with the software. It has some sample data in it (that is reset every day to leave the database in a consistent state) so you can even test reports etc. Use the admin user with admin password.

Mozilla/Firefox and Safari browsers are currently supported. AJAX features are known not to work in Internet Explorer, but the "lite" pages (that do not depend on any Javascript feature) should work in all browsers.

I have noted (by the activity log) that some people are having problems with date input. The default date format is yyyy/mm/dd, though you can change that in the Users page (every user can have his own locale settings; the default settings are copied from admin user when a new user is created).

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Version 1.1 for TurboGears 1.0.2.2 and Python 2.5 (Changelog)

Version 0.9 for TurboGears 1.0.1 and Python 2.4

Miscelaneous information

• Luca architecture
• LucaMobile, the smartphone client
• Accounting 101 (in English, more up-to-date)
• Accounting 101 (in Portuguese)
• Javascript financial calculator