Independent Review of Odoo | Open Source ERP Software for Small- and Mid-Size Businesses

Though many have not heard of it, Odoo is one of the leading ERP systems for small- and mid-size businesses. This open source ERP solution can be a good alternative to NetSuite, Quickbooks, and other systems that focus on smaller organizations. This video provides an objective and unbiased overview of the strengths and weaknesses of this emerging solution.
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[@brunofigares5310]

Great review of the product Eric, agree on most counts. My it consulting company works on mass customization/project based supply chain projects in the mid market and we work exclusively with odoo. Will share the vid with my team

[@diogocarvalhoduarte]

Thanks for the great quality videos Eric! Just a small update there are 80+ Odoo partners in the USA (I work for one of them) now and about scalability the new versions 15+ will target 50k+ users (fresh news from technical talks on Odoo Experience October 2020)

[@sonnysjon]

Excellent review and exactly what I was looking for in my search. Thanks so much for the video!

[@pd1648]

Discovered ODOO by accident - seems amazing

[@lionelchurch5805]

This review was very helpful. Thank you, Eric!

[@josephjeanbart5408]

This review is 3 years old, I would appreciate an update

[@ZLENKO.V]

Please create an overview of the 1C ERP system (1Ci company)

[@danielgrodriguez2598]

Very nice review. Informative, objective, to the point. Many thanks.

[@dopetobe89]

Odoo consultant and developer here. Great video, I am definitely following you going forward! From a developers perspective, Odoo is also really fun and easy to work with, even just as a hobby project for many. This causes a large amount of innovation when it comes creating modules for various business flows, and the vast python libraries within AI and automation allows us to easily implement the newest technology into our clients business processes. If anyone has some questions regarding the software, or would like some dev or functional tips, you are welcome to reach out. I can also set up a test db for anyone interested.

[@haroonjed]

Hi please share your id we need your help thanks

[@olamidealiyu4504]

Good day, I'd like to take you up on your offer. I am a developer currently surveying open-source ERPs. I stumbled upon Odoo and have some questions regarding the software. Can we set up a meeting at your convenience?

[@asifforeverforu]

How much scope has odoo as a freelancer, how many remote jobs are available for Pakistani, how much monthly we can earn from odoo remote job?

[@aminekafal8989]

As always, great review!

[@captanilsharma8482]

My 100% recommend for an ERP , you can use without burning a hole in pocket

[@abhishekmalhotra4330]

Thanks for making this video Eric. I have a mid sized organisation, but with multiple locations. I have been using Odoo for a trial period of almost 15 days with its maximum modules including Social marketing and Project Management. I agree that its highly flexible, but can you elaborate more on how it wont sustain in a steep growth curve of a company? Thanks for your help.

[@gunahawk6893]

You can hire or contact odoo developers to make custom changes

[@yasseralghoul651]

Thank you I hope if you can review ERPNext 🙏

[@abcpaem]

Hi Eric, can you please be more specific about the Odoo limitations in scalability?

[@IdealisConsulting]

Dear Eric, thanks for your video. I don’t know what kind of expertise you have with Odoo but your analyses are quite good. We are a Belgian gold partner of #odoo. We have customers where their turnovers are more than 200M euros and Odoo works really well for them. Our customers use Odoo for everything from e-commerce to manufacturing and using accounting for multi companies ( more than 15 ). If you want some information on implementation about Odoo , I’d like to support you. And by the way, we also integrate SAP...

[@user-en7qc2bd5u]

Hi, I'm a business analyst from Belgium (Ghent) looking for a way to get into the ERP scene and more specifically Odoo. What do you look for in a business analyst to implement Odoo? What's more important, business knowledge or affinity for IT? If you could give your input i would be grateful :) ( I have 4 years experience as a business/functional analyst, but no experience yet with ERP implementations).

[@numigi_ca]

Quite a fair review about ecosystem around Odoo who drive our employees and integrators. Don't miss OCA - Odoo Community Association

[@erickimberling]

Great point!

[@tonycomans]

Our Company has opted for Odoo , but we struggling, our service provider doesn't have much idea about it...

[@anupkash]

Thanks Eric for sharing this review on Odoo. As mentioned Odoo works perfectly for small and medium businesses as compared with other opensource ERP system. In my opinion Odoo is catching traction in the market because of it's ease of use and distributive module approach, unlike other Open Source ERP systems which are more of a monolithic approach (Do correct me if I am wrong here).

[@erickimberling]

Great point and I agree, Anup!

[@shamirakjaffer]

when u say it doesn't scale ..can u be more clear about the company size, or number of customer/ transactions/orders etc. it would really help us in our understanding of the solution

[@sammd8056]

Eric for company that is having 90 retail outlet is oodo reliable compared to net suite

[@caciocavalloster]

Hello, you mention ERP but does ODOO have any MRP modules for manufacturing companies that produces parts from raw material to finish products with a quality control? We are in the aerospace sector and looking for the production side of a mrp system. Anything you can suggest is appreciated.

[@markshaz8691]

Great review and agree completely.

[@gabrielhauser5988]

Odoo has another big advantage: it's developed in Python! If you plan to develop on your own, you'll easily find programmers much better than for Microsoft Dynamics or other ERPs where the developers must learn specific programming languages.

[@erickimberling]

Yes, this is a very good point. Thank you for the feedback!

[@pootytang2872]

thanks for the tip, this video sold me 80% of the way, your comment put me over the top - going to start using this at my company tomorrow

[@stephensalmon3148]

Erpnext is done in python also

[@insertname5421]

but you'll also find more inexperienced developers, since python is very attractive for its low entry barrier

[@joelngare5770]

Saw an Odoo billboard on Friday and decided to check it out! Best decision I made in the month of April so far!!

[@user-dq2xn9fu7y]

Still enthousiastic about it after 2 years?

[@alisterbascombe1353]

Great information... our company is currently in the initiation stage from Odoo10 to Odoo12. The system will be largely be used for HCM and client contracts.

[@erickimberling]

Thank you, Allister!

[@serene_shepherd]

Would love to hear a comparison with Dolibarr.

[@bienvenidovillabroza351]

When you say a large organisation, how large are we talking about? Do you mean more than a 1000 employees with 1000s of transactions a day?

[@erpexpert]

One of the things that drive our customers away from odoo cloud version is the fact that you can't stop Odoo customer service or literally anyone working at odoo with some "special" permissions to login to yourdatabase and see your data! In Sage Intacct, for example, you need to grant access to the customer service team if you need their help and that access can be given an expiry date so you won't forget to revoke it. I have asked Odoo many times to explain this dangerous shortcoming in their privacy policy, but they have so far refused to do so.

[@privateconfidential7490]

For this reason I will walk away not use this in my opinion

[@mrRandoll12]

if you run it "on premise", only you have access to your database

[@erpexpert]

@@mrRandoll12 Well, that's not new. What people demand is being on cloud AND keep their data to themselves.All major cloud ERPs do this, including Netsuite and Intacct.

[@jessewerner2119]

Maybe they can keep their pricing attractive by sharing some of the data?

[@IbrahimMuradAIS]

Dear Sir or Eric whatever you are comfortable with. I had a thorough look at Odoo ERP earlier and I honestly think that it's a good solution for any SMB organization if they are willing to think out of the box and literally move their backside to reach their goals . Any solution provider just like Odoo does, should offer their clients a free fully working solution to try things out and assess the suitabllity of the solution to their actual business needs. I would appreciate a future video from you Eric that looks at security aspects of open source ERP from a business perspective such as Odoo, and security in general. Keep up the good work young man and wish you all the best always.

[@erickimberling]

Thank you - this is very helpful feedback!

[@rishipujara]

It actually allows you to use the solution for free for a month.

[@ingridlangloislanglois7737]

is there a more recent review of Odoo ?

[@jcmaeso8209]

Is it recommended for logistics company? Appreciate your tips

[@whogoogleanywhere7389]

Thanx very good review.

[@kenneth6847]

Is there an online certification that one can attend that is reasonable

[@rogermakombo9480]

Thanks Eric for this information. I have been recommended by my business development consultant about this product. We are about to launch a trucking business in South Africa; Headquarters will be in New York. Is there any other app to be added to this ERP that could be catered to customer satisfaction such as tracking their products when arriving at their destination; or automated constant communication with the customers to showcase our reliability? Many thanks in advance

[@owaismumtaz4731]

For tracking a Product you can also use odoo,in odoo there is inventory module which keep track of your stock and generate transactional data on every product move

[@bassamabbas9977]

many thanks, Eric, what about using odoo in Manufacturing Especially in pharmaceutical

[@nisthulanvk1990]

We are using odoo manufacturing for Pharmaceutical Industry at Kerala, India

[@rishipujara]

It's actually amazing for manufacturing. We've infact deployed this system in a lot of manufacturing facilities all across the globe with a lot of customizations

[@aneesonly]

@@rishipujara how about canned seafood industry

[@rishipujara]

@@aneesonly We have infact deployed odoo for a Rice, pulses finished products exporter. Which are heavily into packaged foods (canned Green Chickpeas, Yellow Canary Beans, Black Eye Beans, Exotic Bean Salad, Red Kidney Beans, Extra Large Faba Beans etc.) Let's have a call and understand your specific ERP use cases and we can move forward from there.

[@nisthulanvk1990]

@Revantha Udugampola Sure feel free to put an email to [e-mail]

[@HEWfunkingKNEWit]

Great review

[@BizAutomation]

Why are all the systems you review from big tech software companies, and no small software companies like BizAutomation ERP being reviewed ?

[@GuillermoEnriqueFariaHernandez]

Thanks Eric!

[@boomtao]

Hi Eric, how would you say Zoho-One compairs to Odoo?

[@gunahawk6893]

Odoo is better with less cost

[@rinimulyani9179]

thx for the review, is it possible for odoo to implemented in a big bussiness?

[@rinimulyani9179]

i mean, is odoo has a limitation for a certain business scale?

[@Shaliyr]

I don't think so: Toyota uses Odoo.

[@chompriest]

What about Tryton erp?

[@optimusprime699]

What about SAGE

[@pranavhatwar125]

Great video sir...I'm looking for job in odoo as a business analyst, sir any suggestions

[@erickimberling]

Thank you - just keep absorbing knowledge as a first step!

[@mnminnmn]

how about manufacturing? it seems there quickbooks and then systems that cost 100k plus

[@rishipujara]

It's actually amazing for manufacturing. We've infact deployed this system in a lot of manufacturing facilities all across the globe with a lot of customizations

[@rishipujara]

@Revantha Udugampola sure, what's the best way to get in touch with you? My website is: www.dialyma.com with our contact details on it.

[@ayushrajgarhia2269]

Hi Eric, what's Odoo like for discrete manufacturing?

[@erickimberling]

Hi Ayush, Odoo is pretty good at discrete manufacturing, but other manufacturing-specific systems may be better if you have more complex needs.

[@pg323]

@Eric Kimberling - Digital Transformation hi what would you recommend for Steel industry erp open source?

[@greenthumbbuddy3133]

I don't understand how this is for small businesses, much too expensive once you add up the needed modules.

[@GypsyRoseDukes]

I’m just getting started thanks for the comment. I will know what to look forward to. 🙂

[@cathywolfe3877]

Very informative

[@erickimberling]

Glad you think so!

[@NewmaticKe]

Thank you

[@erickimberling]

Welcome!

[@stevemehew2888]

Check how many e-mails you can send via Odoo per day before you buy it. It's low, very low. We are small business and limited to 1200 e-mails a day - this is in total for all modules. Odoo need to address this. It won't work with AWS SES either.

[@thedillydotcom]

All these CRM solutions providers always want to charge you per customer contact in their system which is total robbery. I can use SES or Sendgrid for ultra cheap communication, but I want the drip automation and list management stuff either at a flat cost or via a hosted cloud providers low cost that scales based on actual usage, not some tax I have to pay based on number of customers in a contact list. I'm looking at Odoo because the other open source options out there seem to have contact caps or pay per contact models in place as well, which is just awful. That 1200 email a day limit seems so arbitrary and completely unnecessary if they're not even the email sending platform. Were you looking at the self hosted platform or is this a limitation that can't be worked around in the software?

[@kamranalisyed5553]

As per my experience with Odoo (self hosted) there is no such limitation on emails. BTW, I am using Google G-Suite(Workspace) with Odoo. I believe any email service provider including sendgrid could be used to handle emails via SMTP/IMAP.

[@stevemehew2888]

@@kamranalisyed5553 If you choose the all-in-one package from Odoo, fully integrated, there is a daily limit for e-mails sent. We have this problem so we use an external e-mail marketing system and just use Odoo for helpdesk and sales. If you self host then there are a lot of other options open to you and Odoo is just one on the list, but then you need to manage all sorts of things you don't have to with Odoo hosted system.

[@datastack3946]

What about ERPnext? heard they are as good as Odoo. any review on that?

[@gunahawk6893]

They are good but as level with odoo

[@alexanderjack5937]

Odoo is crap

[@jkenho]

Why? Please share some reasons that would justify not considering. Thanks