Odoo Overview
Odoo 9 is the most user-friendly open source ERP software. It has two versions known as enterprise version and a community version. Odoo has discussed all the differences in between this two version via a table. However, below mentioned is a detailed analysis of the features of Odoo 9 according to several users.
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Community Version V9 Review
This version is entirely customizable and functional as well as sufficient for most SMEs.
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Enterprise Version V9 Review
This version has numerous impressive features that will bring significant productivity gain to both medium and large sized companies.
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Mobile Workers Get Responsive UI
As Odoo V7 works with a web browser, but Odoo 9 is quite impressive in this matter. It enables the deployment easily and leads road warriors to connect anytime from anywhere. It works well on tablets and laptops but not on Smart Phones. The V9 Enterprise leads Odoo to interface quite responsive and allow all mobile worker to stay connected anywhere anytime. This exciting feature has become one of the best features for salespeople.
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Bar Code Interface for the module of Warehouse
In Odoo 8, there was a bar code interface, but it was not suitable for high volume warehouse operations. In V9, this interface has improved quite impressively, for instance, it is possible now to search a stock picking by using a barcode within a bar code interface. Similarly, now all operations can be completed via the bar code interface.
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Mobile App for Timesheet Feature
For such service businesses that want to keep a track on the working hours of the staff members on individual projects like consulting, event organizing or accounting firms, it is the best App. Your team members can record their timesheet by using their mobiles with this App.
On the other side, companies that depend on their website to communicate with their clients found several benefits in Odoo 9 such as:
- Numerous usability improvements when developing a site
- More options for stable blocks/ widget while changing theme
- Staging (possibility to have the winter website in the draft, while a summer website is live)
- Integration with Couriers such as FedEx & other famous e-commerce (eBay, Shopify, Amazon), VoIP integrations
However, the community version has not been forgotten in this upgrading regard, as it shares several new core features of the Enterprise Version like:
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Accounting Module’s Complete Update
It allows a lot of usability improvements to provide ease in the transition from other famous accounting software. It offers noticeable improvements in the process of Bank Reconciliation Module. Furthermore, it gives better default set up on the journals, etc. Hence, the accounting module is more usable for small businesses while holding customizability. It means that active automation and additional features can be built according to the enterprise needs.
- Update the contract management and sales module – Better integration with Time, the Module Sheet (helpful for service companies)
- More flexible managing of the link between delivery, invoice and sales orders (valuable for trading industry)
Odoo has recently rewritten the sales module to bring more flexibility to the workflow. Common ERPs always fault not being flexible with a rather hectic workflow, but in real life, exceptions happen every time.
Odoo’s new latest version has changed its approach, and if compared with the previous versions, version 9 is much closer to the real-life processes: A client may order something, but after the order, several new requests or constraints may appear, and the last delivery might become different.
Odoo is now able to track complete requests as well as the changes without rolling back, reset, cancel, and re-confirming any order. The B2B companies highly appreciate it.
Conclusion
Odoo V9 has again shown its benefits in the continuously developing a product to increase the present features, add some new ones and update the fundamental technology. The latest enterprise version doesn’t only has significant features but also has a bug of fixing guarantee as well as has a migration option for future releases. Therefore, the Enterprise version should be preferred for companies that can gain significantly from its particular features, or want to save their initial investment as well as ensure they can benefit from all the future improvements.
Moreover, for the smaller companies with limited scope or with the need a lot of customization, the community version is the best choice, as it has a lot of available Apps.
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