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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.
Why not Dolibarr?
https://www.dolibarr.org/ https://github.com/Dolibarr/dolibarr
They are running a massive out-of-home media campaign in my city, they billboard even busstops in home-districts with lowered traffic speed in the suburbs :-))
2019 Story of Odoo: Open-Sourced Competitor to Oracle, SAP (195 points, 74 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21865699
2014 Odoo: The new OpenERP (44 points, 44 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7750020
Their API documentation is virtually nonexistent. You have to basically reverse engineer their poorly documented models to get anything done, and those can change between releases. I suspect they deliberately under-document their changes in order to force people to pay them more money. At least I hope their official partners get access to better documentation.
Beware putting all of your eggs into this particular basket.
I've built a couple of Odoo integrations for clients. For the longest time, they only offered XML-RPC as an external API. At some point they also added JSON-RPC, which is the same kind of suckage. But now they're suddenly planning to remove both in the next major version (to replace them with something different) with very little advance notice. Their API documentation is virtually nonexistent. You have to basically…
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.