Thanks for the information, this doesn't sound good.
To balance out the almost entirely negative comment let me say that akaunting does do some things quite well though. Using it with multiple users to collaborate on the accounts works without a hitch and stuff like the dashboards you can click together, the automated invoice mails for due next and overdue, the fact you can export pretty much everything you see to excel and account reconciliations are really great features to have, especially if you don't have inhouse accounting.
Akaunting is a great product, I just wish I could actually pay to self host it so that they have income from that and actually keep selfhosted in mind in the long run.
Have you tried filing an issue, or opening a PR? It's open source after all.
I had mentioned the problem and my workaround in their support forum. The only feedback I got was from other users stating they had the same problem. Maybe I'll make an out of the blue PR at some point but looking at PRs and Issues on GH it doesn't seem that there is a lot of crossborder discussion happening there either.
That said, I'm still going to be invoicing my clients via my selfhosted akaunting instance tonight. So maybe its not that bad after all.
I’m my case I even need to patch their css to get invoices to render to PDF „somewhat“ correctly.
I’m still sticking around to see if this is just a momentary lapse but it’s been more than a year now…