Odoo: Open-Source ERP

I've been looking into switching our manufacturing business over to Odoo, replacing Dynamics GP + another mfg software. My impression is that it's very customizable, but may require some specialized expertise to implement correctly for one's environment. Enterprise would probably net save us money on just support contracts compared to our current setup.

"Open-Source" is a bit of a misnomer. The majority of the important modules are enterprise only. That said even enterprise is source-available for paying customers which is a breath of fresh air compared to the competition.

Re: Odoo: Open-Source ERP

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Post by infogulch » Sun, Jan 04, 2026, 6:10 AM UTC

unmole wrote: post #5

I don't have anything against Odoo but it's more accurately desribed as open core . ERPNext on the other hand is fairly mature and fully open source: https://frappe.io/erpnext

ERPNext has a very peculiar home-grown deployment system that is required to host it yourself. I didn't much like it when I looked into it a while back.

Re: Odoo: Open-Source ERP

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Post by ofrzeta » Sun, Jan 04, 2026, 6:35 AM UTC

toastal wrote: post #3

Why not Dolibarr?

Because no one knows it. Are you using it?

Re: Odoo: Open-Source ERP

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Post by firekvz » Sun, Jan 04, 2026, 6:39 AM UTC

Open core, not open source, only for the Community edition, wait till you notice that you will need enterprise license since most powerfull features/addons are enterprise only and you end up paying more money for "open source" ERP than normal ERP

Re: Odoo: Open-Source ERP

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Post by robot-wrangler » Sun, Jan 04, 2026, 6:42 AM UTC

These guys have the dubious distinction of absolutely blasting tons of podcasts with the stupidest commercials I've ever heard. Basically at the level of "grondo has what plants crave", Odoo has what businesses need.