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Interesting to see them on HN! 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 :-))
Huge billboards all over Nairobi, Kenya for several years now as well.
Honestly, before they started their ad campaign here, I had never heard of them. Though the product looks very mature. Could be a "small SAP" competitor.
In my experience, the Enterprise version is poor value: support is often absent or slow, and most of the “Enterprise-only” features are not magical—they can be developed or replaced with custom modules at a lower total cost if you know what you’re doing.
Odoo’s real strength is the unified data model and extensible core. If you control your stack and invest in competent development instead of licenses, Community can be a solid ERP foundation. If you expect a polished SaaS with strong vendor support, Enterprise will likely disappoint relative to its price.
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
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Small partner here who absolutely love Odoo for what it is and you can make it to be. But - I can't wrap my head around why an on-prem customer cannot be allowed to run the upgrade scripts on-prem. I have almost lost customers to it, and it's a super big headache delaying the upgrade process for both political and technical reasons. Having tried to discuss the options and reasons with both Odoo support and employees…
2 reasons: 1/ Upgrade are super complex: requires a service, not just a script 2/ We used it to monetize Odoo Enterprise Upgrade: Even after 1000+ upgrades, we still run into issues regularly as every environment is different (set of modules, customizations, community apps, ...). So we need to test the database, and fix scripts when necessary. If we would just provide scripts, it would cost us a lot in support for is…
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By having every services inside one tool, what are the new possibilities that Odoo can do easily that is hard to do with others suite of tools (where you’d need to connect together multiple independent services) ?
Just an example: when I send an email marketing campaign with Odoo, I have all the stats attached: the usual # clicks, open rate, ... but also # Leads, # Orders, Revenues. Because Odoo as it all: - You send an email with link tracker (Email Marketing App) - The visitor goes on website (Website App) - He fills a form that creates an opportunity (CRM App) - 4 weeks later a sales make a quotation (Sales App) - After Del…
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2 reasons: 1/ Upgrade are super complex: requires a service, not just a script 2/ We used it to monetize Odoo Enterprise Upgrade: Even after 1000+ upgrades, we still run into issues regularly as every environment is different (set of modules, customizations, community apps, ...). So we need to test the database, and fix scripts when necessary. If we would just provide scripts, it would cost us a lot in support for is…
Is it possible to pay to have an Odoo employee execute the migration script on the on premise server? I remember I heard about that but I don't know if it's still an option.
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Just an example: when I send an email marketing campaign with Odoo, I have all the stats attached: the usual # clicks, open rate, ... but also # Leads, # Orders, Revenues. Because Odoo as it all: - You send an email with link tracker (Email Marketing App) - The visitor goes on website (Website App) - He fills a form that creates an opportunity (CRM App) - 4 weeks later a sales make a quotation (Sales App) - After Del…
What does Google Workspace do for you that Odoo can't?
Odoo is not an alternative to Gmail. (We have a spreadsheet app, but more for reporting purposes)
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
> you end up paying more money for "open source" ERP than normal ERP That's not what I see on the market. Even the paying version of Odoo is way more affordable than traditional ERP: - licenses are 5x lower than competition: https://www.odoo.com/pricing (avg 25€/user/month vs 180€ for Netsuite - Odoo has a "no-extra" / transparent pricing policy) - On implementation service fees, Odoo is usually from 30% to 75% cheap…
The competition licenses include support (like that netsuite €180 license). Odoo doesn't.
When you factor in finding another company to provide support them Odoo becomes easily equal in cost to other options. Or you have to do it yourself which is also very expensive (in time rather than money).
Also for some weird reason the Odoo forum is incredibly locked down. After a year of using it, I hadn't even earned enough trust to comment, let alone ask a question.
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
> you end up paying more money for "open source" ERP than normal ERP That's not what I see on the market. Even the paying version of Odoo is way more affordable than traditional ERP: - licenses are 5x lower than competition: https://www.odoo.com/pricing (avg 25€/user/month vs 180€ for Netsuite - Odoo has a "no-extra" / transparent pricing policy) - On implementation service fees, Odoo is usually from 30% to 75% cheap…