Signs you have outgrown Excel
- Stock in the sheet never matches stock on the shelf
- Month-end closing takes days
- Several people edit different copies of the same file
- You cannot see profit per product or customer
- Invoices, purchases and payments live in different places
What Odoo replaces
Odoo brings sales, purchases, inventory, invoicing, accounting, HR and your website into one system. A sale reduces stock and creates the invoice; a payment updates the customer balance and the books, without anyone copying numbers between files.
What it costs
Odoo Community is free to use; Odoo Enterprise is licensed per user. The main cost is setup: configuring the apps around your process, importing your data and training your team. A small company is often live in four to eight weeks.
How to move without stopping work
- Start with sales, inventory and invoicing
- Import products, customers and opening stock
- Run Odoo and Excel side by side for two weeks
- Add accounting, purchase and HR in the next phase