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ERP beyond your fridge
Grocy is a web-based self-hosted groceries & household management solution for your home
This is a hobby project by Bernd Bestel
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## Give it a try
- Public demo of the latest stable version (`release` branch) → [https://demo.grocy.info](https://demo.grocy.info)
- Public demo of the current development version (`master` branch) → [https://demo-prerelease.grocy.info](https://demo-prerelease.grocy.info)
## Features
See the website. →
## Questions / Help / Bug Reports / Feature Requests
- General help and usage questions → [r/grocy subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/grocy)
- Bug Reports and Feature Requests → [Issue Tracker](https://github.com/grocy/grocy/issues/new/choose)
_Please don't send me private messages or call me regarding anything Grocy. I check the issue tracker and the subreddit pretty much daily, but don't provide any support beyond that._
## Community contributions
See the website for a list of community contributed Add-ons / Tools. → [https://grocy.info/addons](https://grocy.info/addons)
## How to install
> Checkout [Grocy Desktop](https://github.com/grocy/grocy-desktop), if you want to run Grocy without having to manage a webserver just like a normal (Windows) desktop application.
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> Directly download the [latest release](https://releases.grocy.info/latest-desktop) - the installation is nothing more than just clicking 2 times "next".
Grocy is technically a pretty simple PHP application, so the basic notes to get it running are:
- Unpack the [latest release](https://releases.grocy.info/latest)
- Copy `config-dist.php` to `data/config.php` + edit to your needs
- Ensure that the `data` directory is writable
- The webserver root should point to the `public` directory
- Include `try_files $uri /index.php$is_args$query_string;` in your location block if you use nginx
- Or disable URL rewriting (see the option `DISABLE_URL_REWRITING` in `data/config.php`)
- → Default login is user `admin` with password `admin`, please change the password immediately (user menu at the top right corner)
Alternatively clone this repository (the `release` branch always references the latest released version) and install Composer and Yarn dependencies manually.
See the website for more installation guides and troubleshooting help. → [https://grocy.info/links](https://grocy.info/links)
### Platform support
- PHP 8.2 or 8.3 (with SQLite 3.34.0+)
- Required PHP extensions: `fileinfo`, `pdo_sqlite`, `gd`, `ctype`, `intl`, `zlib`, `mbstring`
- _Recommendation: Benchmark tests showed that e.g. unit conversion handling is up to 5 times faster when using a more recent (3.39.4+) SQLite version._
- Recent Firefox, Chrome or Edge
## How to run using Docker
→ https://hub.docker.com/r/linuxserver/grocy
## How to update
- Overwrite everything with the [latest release](https://releases.grocy.info/latest) while keeping the `data` directory
- Check `config-dist.php` for new configuration options and add them to your `data/config.php` where appropriate (the default values from `config-dist.php` will be used for not in `data/config.php` defined settings)
If you run Grocy on Linux, there is also `update.sh` (remember to make the script executable (`chmod +x update.sh`) and ensure that you have `unzip` installed) which does exactly this and additionally creates a backup (`.tgz` archive) of the current installation in `data/backups` (backups older than 60 days will be deleted during the update).
## Localization
Grocy is fully localizable - the default language is English (integrated into code), a German localization is always maintained by me.
You can easily help translating Grocy on [Transifex](https://explore.transifex.com/grocy/grocy/) if your language is incomplete or not available yet.
The default language can be set in `data/config.php`, e. g. `Setting('DEFAULT_LOCALE', 'de');` and there is also a user setting (see the user settings page) to set a different language per user.
The [pre-release demo](https://demo-prerelease.grocy.info) is available for any translation which is at least 70 % complete and will pull the translations from Transifex 10 minutes past every hour, so you can have a kind of instant preview of your contributed translations. Thank you!
Also any translation which once reached a completion level of 70 % ([`strings` resource](https://app.transifex.com/grocy/grocy/strings/)) will be included in releases.
_RTL languages are unfortunately not yet supported._
## Motivation
A household needs to be managed. Before Grocy I did this (for almost 10 years) using my first self written software (a C# Windows forms application) and with a bunch of Excel sheets. The software was a pain to use at the end and Excel is Excel. So I searched for and tried different things for a (very) long time, nothing 100 % fitted, so this is my aim for a "complete household management"-thing. ERP your fridge!
## Things worth to know
### REST API
See the integrated Swagger UI instance on [/api](https://demo.grocy.info/api).
The web frontend uses exactly this API for pretty much everything. So everything you can do there is also possible via the API.
### Barcode readers & camera scanning
Some fields (with a barcode icon above) also allow to select a value by scanning a barcode. It works best when your barcode reader prefixes every barcode with a letter which is normally not part of a item name (I use a `$`) and sends a `TAB` after a scan.
Additionally it's also possible to use your device camera to scan a barcode by using the camera button on the right side of the corresponding input field (powered by [ZXing](https://github.com/zxing-js/library), totally offline / client-side camera stream processing, please note due to browser security restrictions, this only works when serving Grocy via a secure connection (`https://`)). [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veezFX4X1JU) and [there](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5YH6IJFnfc) are quick video demos of that.
_My personal recommendation: Use a USB barcode laser scanner. They are cheap and work 1000 % better, faster, under any lighting condition and from any angle._
### Barcode lookup via external services
Products can be directly added to the database via looking them up against external services by a barcode.
This can be done in-place using the product picker workflow "External barcode lookup" (the workflow dialog is displayed when entering something unknown in any product input field) Quick video demo:
A plugin for [Open Food Facts](https://world.openfoodfacts.org/) is included and used by default (see the `data/config.php` option `STOCK_BARCODE_LOOKUP_PLUGIN`).
See that plugin or `plugins/DemoBarcodeLookupPlugin.php` for a commented example implementation if you want to build a plugin.
### Input shorthands for date fields
For (productivity) reasons all date (and time) input (and display) fields use the ISO-8601 format regardless of localization.
The following shorthands are available:
- `MMDD` gets expanded to the given day on the current year, if > today, or to the given day next year, if < today, in proper notation
- Example: `0517` will be converted to `2025-05-17`
- `YYYYMMDD` gets expanded to the proper ISO-8601 notation
- Example: `20250417` will be converted to `2025-04-17`
- `YYYYMMe` or `YYYYMM+` gets expanded to the end of the given month in the given year in proper notation
- Example: `202507e` will be converted to `2025-07-31`
- `[+/-]n[d/m/y]` gets expanded to a date relative to today, while adding (**+**) or subtracting (**-**) the **n**umber of **d**ays/**m**onths/**y**ears, in proper notation
- Example: `+1m` will be converted to the same day next month
- `x` gets expanded to `2999-12-31` (which is an alias for "never overdue")
- Down/up arrow keys will increase/decrease the date by 1 day
- Right/left arrow keys will increase/decrease the date by 1 week
- Shift + down/up arrow keys will increase/decrease the date by 1 month
- Shift + right/left arrow keys will increase/decrease the date by 1 year
### Keyboard shorthands for buttons
Wherever a button contains a bold highlighted letter, this is a shortcut key.
Example: Button "**P** Add as new product" can be "pressed" by using the `P` key on your keyboard.
### Installable web app (PWA)
Grocy's web frontend is responsive and an "installable web app" ([PWA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_web_app), without providing any offline usage capabilities), that provides a pretty native mobile app-like experience without the need for additional tools.
- Quick video demo on Android/Firefox:
- Quick video demo on Android/Chrome:
### Database migrations
Database schema migration is done when visiting the root (`/`) route (click on the logo in the left upper edge) as needed and is also triggered automatically if the version has changed (so when an update has been made).
_Please note: Database migrations are supposed to work between releases, not between every commit. If you want to run the current `master` branch (which is the development version), you need to handle that (and more) yourself._
### Disable certain features
If you don't use certain feature sets of Grocy (for example if you don't need "Chores"), there are feature flags per major feature set to hide/disable the related UI elements (see `config-dist.php`).
### Adding your own CSS or JS without to have to modify the application itself
- When the file `data/custom_js.html` exists, the contents of the file will be added just before ` ` (end of body) on every page
- When the file `data/custom_css.html` exists, the contents of the file will be added just before `` (end of head) on every page
### Demo mode
When the `MODE` setting is set to `dev`, `demo` or `prerelease`, the application will work in a demo mode which means authentication is disabled and some demo data will be generated during the database schema migration (pass the query parameter `nodemodata`, e.g. `https://grocy.example.com/?nodemodata` to skip that).
### Embedded mode
When the file `embedded.txt` exists, it must contain a valid and writable path which will be used as the data directory instead of `data` and authentication will be disabled (used in [Grocy Desktop](https://github.com/grocy/grocy-desktop)).
In embedded mode, settings can be overridden by text files in `data/settingoverrides`, the file name must be `