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by abiwankenobi55 170 days ago
if you go with Odoo, my best advice is to use Odoo Community and hire a good freelance developer or integrator.

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.

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I can echo this experience as well.

Running Odoo in a fully isolated environment within a factory, in some less popular locations - is a very frequent request. And the Community edition does check the boxes.

Pair Community edition with some in-house/custom-built Replenishment solution, and you have a very decent solution for a Distributor or Retailer.

Enterprise modules are a good value too, as long as business processes and geography do match the regions it is developed for.