Odoo Reviews

Pros

The best part about Odoo is its open-source software which you can download and run on your private server, which makes it more secure and reliable. Odoo comes with integrated apps for CRM, eCommerce, accounting, PoS, and project management. The software is easy to implement with detailed documentation and active community support.

Cons

The software is written in high-level open-source interpreted Python language. If the software was written in JAVA it would have been even better.

Alternatives Considered

SAP S/4HANA Cloud, Zoho CRM, Dynamics 365, NetSuite and Acumatica Cloud ERP

Reasons for Choosing Odoo

Odoo can be implemented on-premise making it more reliable and secure.

Switched From

NetSuite

Reasons for Switching to Odoo

Odoo is open source and can be hosted on-premise making it best for growing business.

Pros

Easy to install, every module functionalities available, wide support on google, its good for SMEs, sufficient feature to track and control finance,inventroy,sale and purchase. stratigic,tactic and operation roles are aded in features, you can formulate your busiess needs accordingly.

Cons

Customization is not easy, even less active on github, its not so speedy, modules are integerated mixed with local and internet, it should be either local or inenet, price is higher,customization is also costly due to limited support/devolpment documentation.

Alternatives Considered

Dolibarr

Reasons for Choosing Odoo

Business volume increased, we have exanded our units,branches, we faced much dificulties with odoo at this level.

Switched From

SAP S/4HANA Cloud

Reasons for Switching to Odoo

easy access,installation,much famous, more funtionalities.

Pros

Odoo Whether it's for project management, CRM, eCommerce, inventory management, or any other area of business management, it enables firms to select the apps they require. Businesses get a complete, real-time perspective of their operations because to the applications' seamless integration with one another.The user-friendly interface of Odoo is yet another outstanding feature. Anyone with minimal to no technical knowledge can nevertheless utilise the system and complete jobs quickly and effectively. As a result, firms are able to save time and concentrate on more crucial areas of their operations.

Cons

Technical Knowledge: Even though Odoo's user interface is simple to use, setting up and configuring the programme still calls for some technical know-how. Those without a background in IT or software development may find this difficult.Odoo is quite adaptable, however configuring and customising it to fit unique corporate requirements can be time-consuming and difficult. Third-party consultants may be needed to help with this, which will raise the overall cost.

Pros

This system looks easy to use and collects good data.

Cons

This only works in truck fleets and not trailers

Pros

Odoo reporting and scalability are my favorite features. The Odoo user interface is clear and straightforward. The Odoo system, in general, is flexible and can add more functions, allowing us to maintain the continuity of data entry and quickly complete transactions. I like the customization options and shortcuts that make it easier for my team and other departments to keep track of their workflows and improve entire processes. In addition, Odoo is cloud-connected, provides process automation, and raises the quality of business logic, thereby saving time and money.

Cons

It requires intensive training sessions so everyone can understand the jobs and work in a unified manner. The subscription prices are reasonable, but the slowness in some functions should be addressed.

Pros

The free version allows you to customize the invoices and get a good grip on it before you decide to get the full version if required.

Cons

I found it difficult to use. It was not logically laid out and also it was difficult to find already produced invoices and to edit them. I found it such a pain in the neck to use that I went back to my old software

Pros

All proccess of your business inside one place.

Cons

Odoo has a lot of features like another ERPs but it's really hard to get it working without get a lot of effort on coding features.
There are a lot of features without enought development. If you need to add some easy feature like "don't show to client some stuff" you need to develop this and it cost money.
Lot of pieces to join but those don't be so good yet.

Pros

If you go with the standard subscription and you are on your own, this software is just perfect. You can do anything you need for your business.But if you want more, custom things like connecting your external webshop with odoo, you will face a huge amount of paywalls.

Cons

PAYWALLS. Every function that is not standard available has to be paid for. BIG. I mean, we wanted to connect our WooCommerce webshop with Odoo. This is NOT possible with standard subscription. You will need Custom subscription which will make it more expensive for EVERY user. So 2 users = double the pay.But that is not all. In addition you will need their hosting service Odoo.SH if you want to install something like a connector for your webshop to your Odoo account. Odoo.sh needs some room which you need to pay extra AND also a staging environment - to be paid as well. So, at this point, your 20 euro/month subscriptions tops 2100 euro per year!But hey, if it does not work, they will pay you back, right? NOPE!Odoo and partners have a very strict NO REFUND policy. The money is gone!

Pros

Odoo offers a wide range of business applications, flexible customization options, and excellent integration capabilities. Whether you're a small business owner or a large enterprise, Odoo is definitely worth considering as a solution for your business needs.

Cons

integrating Odoo with other software can be challenging and require a significant amount of time and technical expertise.

Pros

Cheap!Lots of apps to integrate with your companies system and siteIf you don't have a website you can create it with Odoo!

Cons

Sometimes its hard to setup some appsNot newbie friendly

Pros

The demo was amazing, incredible, I had an instant love for the tool, the low prices really excited me.

Cons

after years of use the migration was impossible and I had to change from software to another brand because I came to the conclusion that the slow support seemed to be guessing how to solve my problems

Alternatives Considered

NetSuite

Reasons for Choosing Odoo

Because migration was an impossible task, we did everything Odoo said had to be done, we even hired odoo.sh a few years before because they assured me that everything would work better, but it didn't, I felt really ripped off.

Reasons for Switching to Odoo

I chose odoo for price and level of service without asking for references to other companies, over time I realized that other companies like mine went through the same thing.

Pros

Odoo hosted is awesome. It's features are robust and simple. It's easy to start experimenting for free with new integrated technologies and then turn them on in production as it makes sense econimically as we scale our business. It's high quality open source software written in Python and leveraging PostgreSQL for the database. Personally, I'd love to be a contributor to the Open Source portfolio of features and products (if only I had the time). Also, they have friendly and very knowledgable support staff that are there to help you succeed without any high pressure tactics. They are in it with you for the long term. I can not recommend Odoo enough.

Cons

I don't have any real complaints yet. So far I haven't needed much technical support and things are pretty intuitive (once you start using it).

Alternatives Considered

QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise

Reasons for Choosing Odoo

Wanted more features AND a better Web UI. In short, I wanted real ERP sioftware, but, still wanted ease of use.

Switched From

Quickbooks Online

Pros

It has all the modules/features integrated to run a business

Cons

Support shall be more responsive and cost friendly

Alternatives Considered

Sage Intacct, NetSuite and Infor CRM

Reasons for Choosing Odoo

PrideSys ERP feature development was very poor and slow to keep up the pace wit our business

Reasons for Switching to Odoo

Oddo seemed to offer more features/functionalities at better cost

Pros

I could not think of any business function not covered by Odoo and it is done with elegance; there is no limit to what can be done with it and the subscription prices are reasonable.

Cons

There are some IT cost associated for implementation and configuration, that is if you want to fully utilize it.
Also, I cannot understand why it cannot be purchased, is it because of GPL? but it is being sold as subscription!

Alternatives Considered

Zoho CRM, Sage Intacct, Dynamics 365 and Quickbooks Online

Reasons for Choosing Odoo

1. User friendly for clients and their staff 2. Dimensional counterparty design 3. Import/export functions

Switched From

TallyPrime

Pros

Odoo is an open source ERP system, so it is easy to customize according to your needs, provides many pre-installed modules that are very useful and easy to handle and can be used in all types of companies from small to large corporations.

Cons

To customize or develop it requires a lot of effort and time and also the cost of Enterprise versions is quite expensive, the interface should be more eye-catching development requires good programming skills.

Alternatives Considered

ERPNext and Dolibarr

Reasons for Switching to Odoo

For the ease of installation or the purchase of space in the cloud that had the system pre-installed.

Pros

Open source
Easy to customized
Complete feature
Good interface

Cons

Concept of POS
Issue with orm performance
Become more commercial

Pros

We loved this for the ERP system of integrating our lead management, supply chain management, quotation system, accounting system, CRM system, and inventory all into one area. We previously had to force together multiple different sites and systems (i.e. Jobber, Quickbooks, Monday/DaPulse) and after many years of growth we simply have outgrown these dated systems and can no longer afford the time to micromanage so many transactions. We also needed automation on multiple areas of our service, which Odoo has been able to provide. After extensive training, NOT FROM ODOO LET ME TELL YOU, we have been able to customize this fairly well to our complicated value add manufacturing processes.

Cons

I have had the worst time with customer service when it comes to Support Pack Hours. Not only were we billed for every millisecond of time, but we were easily overcharged for time as well. One simple email response would take 6-10 minutes of our support park. After asking for a service level document multiple times, they simply have not provided one. They also hid the fact that support pack hours expire. We began our Odoo integration just before COVID hit, and we had to stop the Odoo integration for a few months, only to be met with many hours being used on ODOO EMAILING US for updates on when we would come back.

In the time spent with them implementing our systems to Odoo, they easily have dropped the ball so much with such low support that we had to hire a third party consultant to get this system up and running the way THEY MARKETED TO US and how we initially envisioned this working.

Alternatives Considered

Zoho CRM, Salesforce Sales Cloud and HubSpot CRM

Switched From

monday.com

Pros

1) Opensource and SaaS option
2) Easy to use - Maintained uniformity across modules
3) Availability of Third Party apps
4) OCA community support
5) No other opensource ERP covers Inventory (Product master - ability to handle product variance / Inventory valuation / Landing Cost) and Recruitment functionality like odoo
6) Odoo Enterprise Accounting reporting is a plus
7) Easy to customize or develop new module using Odoo Studio if your an enterprise customer
8) Developing new module even in enterprise will not take much time
9) Partners availability across globe is a plus
10) Having Ecommerce functionality in an ERP is great advantage

Cons

1) Need customization for localization ( Both HRMS - End of service calculation and Taxation)
2) Must to have functionalities are moved from community to enterprise form Odoo version 9 onward till odoo 12
3)Must to have accounting reports moved to Odoo enterprise
4)Not providing incremental update to the existing version is minus
5) Different pricing for different region
6) Document management features could have been better even-though they released few more functionalities in Odoo 12

Pros

Fantastic bag of integrated tools from Inventory management, CRM, Sales and Supply chain working together to optimize our opperations. The logical and natual choise for us evolving from a small company into a medium enterprise.

Cons

Odoo's Onboarding team was a total waste of Time and Money and I seriously felt like being milked for every penny along the way. Eventually I dropped them and restarted the process with a local dev company and much better experience.

Pros

As a former Netsuite and Salesforce partner, our clients demanded more in the form of ease of use, mobility and functionality without breaking the bank. We started off by migrating ourselves off of our Netsuite system. This move simplified all of our daily work lives so much, we brought this solution to our client base. From Professional Services, Manufacturing and Warehouse operations, Odoo was an excellent fit and an extremely good value. The company improves the software almost daily and with thousands of prebuilt apps in their app store, adding major functionality and workflow is simple. Also the open nature of the code makes it the absolute most flexible ERP/CRM/MRP software on the market.
Odoo maintains a few versions Community(Free) and Hosted(Saas) and Enterprise(Self Hosted). We recommend either Hosted or Enterprise(Most Recommended) for business. The Community edition is mostly for developers to have an easy way to learn the basics. The Enterprise edition is packed with additional advanced features necessary for production use, and is supported by Odoo and the Odoo Partner Channel.
Any company in the search for an ERP system should include Odoo in their list.

Cons

Documentation needs improvement. Most documents and answers are not centralized but scattered between Youtube, and Odoo Community and GitHub although they have been building a training portal.

Pros

8 years ago we were actively helping some of our customers implement SAP. I was researching on a better system that is affordable for small and medium business as well. I found OpenERP(Now Odoo) and give it as an R&D project for my team to learn. Seeing the ease and freedom, we implemented it for our business and partnered with Odoo and started providing it as one of our core services to manufacturing/Retail and Wholesale companies in the US and abroad. Main Pros are

Base Opensource - Source Code available
Modular Architecture
Software doesn't dictate how you should run your business - highly customizable
Availability of custom modules for almost every integration
Availability of developers and implementation partners
No Vendor Lock-in and unexpected 300% increase in license costs
Affordable for 5 people business to large corporations
Can be installed on highly secured private dedicated military grade servers for compliance

Cons

Documentation is scattered across different channels, needs to be centralized.
Odoo is still a young company and has a long way to go compared to SAP, but they are working on it.

Pros

- User Experience very fluently
- Business Scope is complete
- Easy to develop and customize

Cons

- Difficult to found technical experts
- Difficult to found functional experts

Alternatives Considered

Dynamics 365 and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne

Reasons for Choosing Odoo

UX and relations cost/benefits

Switched From

SAP Business One

Reasons for Switching to Odoo

Best relation between return and invesment

Pros

It covers mostly everything related to many business. so we just have to customized it as per user's requirement.

Cons

as a developer when we are creating our customised module there are many areas where odoo needs to improve as per my review , one is to sometimes when we are working with custom module after changing some code many times it happen that while updating or installing new module in that databse that database get corrupted so we have to drop/delete dattabse and create new database . please note that when installing same module on new databse it will start working fine so there is no error by coding side . Second thing is when there is any error in py file sometimes it fails to give exact error. if i added new line it will give me error somewhere else part where there is no error here also i checked that where it is giving error is it true or not but it fails to display exact error instead it will give other error so i thinks in error odoo needs improvement.

Pros

Good interface
Good improvements
Good customer Service
Fast workflow

Cons

Little mobile support
Updates crash the software sometimes
Urgent issue response time unreliable
Missing common features

Pros

It is an open source erp-crm software that uses the python library and the postgresql database. It is possible to add and remove modules and use them as crm, erp or both. It is not inferior to the software that giant companies such as microsoft and sap sell at prices between 10,000 and 20,000 dollars. The interface is very effective, it gives you a baseline rather than the systems that come fully loaded, you proceed by adding the plugins you want to use.

Cons

It is a very difficult application to install. Other than that, it's a pretty good app.