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OpenBoxes is an open-source warehouse management system for tracking inventory and stock movements, originally built for healthcare supply chains.

ApplicationCategory: Web Apps · ERP & accounting · Project managementOpen sourcedata checked Oct 15, 2026
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Overview

Warehouses and healthcare facilities often struggle to know what stock they hold, where it is, and when it will run out. OpenBoxes is a warehouse and inventory management system that digitizes the delivery, inventory, and consumption of supplies, with shipment tracking and stock movement records. The project began at Partners In Health as a way to manage emergency medical supplies after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Today it runs in healthcare facilities in several countries, and its community has extended it into a general-purpose system for supply chains in other industries. The stated priorities are efficiency in low-resource environments, flexibility for different facility structures, and an interface that is simple to get running. OpenBoxes is released under the Eclipse Public License 1.0 and is aimed at healthcare organizations, humanitarian operations, and warehouse teams. It is typically deployed on a server, with local setup instructions available for developers and installation documentation for system administrators. Text:
  • disaster-response
  • erp
  • grails
  • hacktoberfest
  • healthcare
  • inventory-management
  • shipment-tracking
  • warehouse-management

Installation

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    openboxes.com/ ↗
  • Language package registrynodejsFrom public sourcesfrom the package manifest — publication on the registry is not verified
    npm install -g openboxes

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    www.npmjs.com/package/openboxes ↗
  • Build from sourceFrom public sourcesfrom catalog metadata

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    github.com/openboxes/openboxes ↗

Compatibility

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PlatformStatusArchitectureEvidenceConfidence
Web browserCompatible—Declared on the card—
Server / self-hostedUnknown———
Container (OCI)Unknown———
Node.jsCompatible—package manifest: package.json name0.60

Releases

checked Oct 29, 2026
v0.9.9LatestOct 23, 2026Official source ↗

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Release history

Quality profile

algorithm quality-v1.0 · assessed Oct 15, 2026
Quality Score88
Risk Score0
Confidence 1.00
Quality Score and Risk Score are different measures. A high score does not guarantee safety.

Score components

Maintenance · 2020
last activity 0 days ago
Documentation · 1515
README 5641 chars, description present
Ready to use · 156
install instructions: no; releases: yes
Metadata · 1010
4/4 of description, homepage, license, topics
Releases · 1010
10 release(s), latest 62 days ago
Category confidence · 1010
classifier confidence 1
Adoption · 107
915 stars (log-dampened, 10k = max)
License clarity · 55
SPDX EPL-1.0
Community · 55
issues enabled, 509 forks

License

EPL-1.0
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Sources

github.com/openboxes/openboxesPrimary★ 915 starslast activity Oct 15, 2026Primary repository · Confidence 1.00

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README

From openboxes/openboxes · license EPL-1.0 · fetched Oct 29, 2026

[status of develop branch] [status of documentation build] [status of dbdocs build] [status of docker build]

[User Guide] [Install Docs] [Contributor Guide] [Slack] [Forums]

About

OpenBoxes was initially conceptualized by staff at Partners In Health as a way to digitize the delivery, inventory, and consumption of emergency medical supplies in Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake.

Today, OpenBoxes runs in healthcare facilities all over the world, including in Sierra Leone, Lesotho, Rwanda, Liberia, and the United States, providing staff with the tools they need to ensure that lifesaving medication is always available to patients when they need it.

But OpenBoxes isn't only for global health systems. As an open source project, the OpenBoxes community has helped evolve the application into a robust, general-purpose warehouse management system that services supply chains across a wide array of industries.

As a community, OpenBoxes strives for:

  • 🚀 Efficiency: Our mission remains deeply rooted in our origin story. The application should run smoothly, reliably, and affordably in low-resource environments.

  • ↪️ Flexibility: The application should be adaptable to the everchanging needs of each facility, and flexible enough to apply itself to the unique requirements and structures of vastly different supply chains systems.

  • 🤝 Accessibility: The application should be intuitive to use, simple to get up and running, and affordable to maintain.

  • 🎩 Sophistication: We don't want the accessibility of our software to come at the expense of quality. We pride ourselves on open-sourcing a world-class suite of feature-rich tools that you'd normally expect to see only in paid, enterprise tier software.

See our website for a list of some of the primary features of the application or check out our demo site to experiment with the application yourself!

Quickstart Guide

See our local setup instructions for a step-by-step guide on how to quickly get an OpenBoxes server running on your local machine.

If you're a system administrator looking to deploy the application to a production server, take a look at our installation documentation instead.

Support

Do you need assistance running or using the app? Have you encountered an issue/bug?

See our support guide for more information.

Contributing

Are you looking to help out the project? Please see our contributor guide.

This project exists thanks to all the generous people who have contributed their valuable time and effort over the years:

We are incredibly grateful to all the individuals and organizations that sponsor OpenBoxes with a financial contribution:

License

This project is licensed under the Eclipse Public License 1.0. See the LICENSE.md file for a copy of the full license.

By using or contributing to this software in any fashion, you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of this license.

You must not remove this licensing notice or any other notices from this software.

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