Odoo
Browser-based business suite covering invoicing, CRM, sales, stock and accounting.
Our verdict
Odoo is a business suite rather than a single program. Invoicing, customer records, sales, stock and accounting are separate apps inside one system, and you turn on the ones you want. It is the most credible browser-based answer for someone leaving a Windows-only business package behind.
The free tier is unusually generous. Odoo's pricing page offers One App Free with unlimited users, so a small business that only needs invoicing or only needs a CRM can run on it without paying. Adding a second app moves you onto a per-user monthly subscription.
Odoo also publishes Ubuntu, Debian and RPM packages of its community edition for running on your own machine. That is a job for someone comfortable with servers, and most home users are better off staying with the hosted version in a browser.
What's good
- Runs entirely in a browser, so Linux is a first-class choice with nothing to install
- The One App Free plan costs nothing and allows unlimited users on a single app
- Covers CRM and sales as well as accounting, so it can replace two or three separate products
What to know first
- Once you need a second app the price per user is a real monthly cost
- Far more program than a sole trader needs, and setting it up takes real effort
- Installing your own copy on a Linux machine is a job for someone technical
The details
- Cost
- Free with paid extras
- Open source
- Yes (LGPL-3.0 (community edition))
- How you install it
- In your browser, .deb installer, .rpm installer
Windows apps it can replace
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