Homebox vs SAP Extended Warehouse Management
Homebox and SAP Extended Warehouse Management are both inventory and warehouse software. Homebox is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 7.7k GitHub stars. SAP Extended Warehouse Management is a commercial product from SAP SE.
Which to pick
- Pick Homebox when
- You want to catalogue household items for insurance, moving or finding things.
- Pick SAP Extended Warehouse Management when
- A company runs SAP S/4HANA and needs advanced warehouse control inside the same system.
Side by side
A self-hosted home inventory app for recording belongings, locations, warranties, receipts and labels, continuing the original HomeBox project.
SAP's warehouse management module for high-volume and automated warehouses, embedded in S/4HANA or as a separate deployment.
A community fork that is still pre-1.0.
It needs SAP specialists and only makes sense in an SAP landscape.
Usable
Production-ready
Self-hosted server
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Go, Vue and SQLite
ABAP
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by SAP SE
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
7.7k GitHub stars
No Wikipedia article of its own
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release v0.27.1.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.