this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2024
33 points (92.3% liked)

Open Source

30301 readers
1747 users here now

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

https://www.odoo.com/

Just got this recommended to me by a friend, seems like a really great platform for smaller businesses. Has anyone heard of them before, or tried them out?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] nucleative 7 points 7 months ago

Agree with another commenter that documentation is an issue. If you're a developer, it's not too bad. It uses a kind of homebrew model/view/template python backend that might baffle you for a while.

If you don't need to modify it or integrate it too much with your bank, e-commerce sites, cash registers, etc then it pretty much works out of the box.

Odoo came from a fully open sourced project years ago and is getting more and more closed and expensive over time as they go upmarket. If you really want to own your data I'm not sure that's a good direction.

There is a fork called Flectra that is usually about a version behind Odoo but reintegrates a lot of the paid features of Odoo for free, but its documentation and community is even smaller.