Macao: set up open source accounting

The same path as text: every command with 澳門 already on it, and the codes a first invoice is written with. An AI agent helping you reads the same text as Markdown, at /countries/mo/set-up.md.

Ekwo keeps double-entry books in a database you own, with the rules of 澳門 as data. On Ekwo Cloud the 澳門 pack is ready to use, with an account opened in a minute; this page is the other way in, Ekwo OS, the open source core, installed on your own project. It is generated from the 澳門 pack, version 0.1.0; every code on it is read from the pack.

The 澳門 pack is community: contributed, and reviewed by nobody.

Your accountant works in the same books, with their own access, and the pack carries its sources, its version and its status. To find an accountant who works with Ekwo in 澳門, see the directory or our partners. What Ekwo is, and its limits: the disclaimer.

1. What you need

A Supabase project of your own. The free plan is enough to start; Ekwo does not create it, pay for it or have access to it.
From its dashboard: the connection string (Connect → Session pooler), the Project URL and the service_role key (Project Settings → API). The key is used once, to create your first administrator, and is written nowhere. The anon (publishable) key, on the same page, is what you sign in with afterwards.
Node 20 or later on your machine. Nothing else: no Supabase CLI, no Docker, no clone.

2. Install

One command. It asks for the rest as it goes.

npx ekwo-os init --country MO

One chart of accounts: 澳門參考會計科目表, 109 accounts.
The books can be kept in zh, pt, en; the installer asks. Without a terminal, pass --language <code>.
A financial year follows the calendar unless you pass --fiscal-year-start YYYY-MM-DD.

The same, with no question asked — every value your own:

npx ekwo-os init \
  --country MO \
  --language zh \
  --db-url "postgresql://postgres.<ref>:<password>@<pooler host>:5432/postgres" \
  --supabase-url "https://<ref>.supabase.co" \
  --service-role-key "$SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE_KEY" \
  --org "Your Organisation" --company "Your Company" \
  --admin-email "you@example.com" \
  --yes

3. Before you go live

Four settings of your project no installer can reach: turn off self sign-up, keep two administrators, keep the service_role key off every other machine, and read the disclaimer. init prints them; the installation guide explains each.

4. A first invoice

Sign in as the administrator you just created, pick the company, and write a draft. --dry-run shows the entry the database would write, and writes nothing; post books it.

ekwo login --supabase-url https://<ref>.supabase.co --anon-key <publishable key> --email you@example.com
ekwo use "Your Company"
ekwo contact add "First Customer" --country MO --ref customer-1
ekwo doc new --contact "First Customer" --ref invoice-1 --line "name=Consulting,price=1000.00,account=4000"
ekwo post invoice-1 --dry-run
ekwo post invoice-1

A line names its account and its tax by code, never by rate. 4000 is the account the pack names for sales; the chart may carry a closer one for what you sell — services, a reduced rate — and list_accounts lists them.

What the invoice says about your company — its address, its VAT number — comes from the company’s profile, which the MCP tool update_company_profile fills; ekwo init sets only the name.

The pack carries no domestic sale tax, so a line names no tax.

5. With an AI agent

The MCP server lets an agent keep the books as you, under your own row level security, and never with the service_role key. Configuring it, and what an agent must and must not do.

What the 澳門 pack carries

Charts of accounts: 澳門參考會計科目表 (109).
2 taxes, at 0 %.
Financial statements: 資產負債表, 損益表.

What it does not do

Nothing is sent to an administration, a Peppol network or a bank by the open source software: transmission is yours, or an operator’s you appoint.
What the pack leaves out on purpose is in its README.

Set up Ekwo for 澳門

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