Differences between Odoo 14 Community Vs Enterprise

Odoo is an open-source ERP solution that is a popular ERP tool for all kinds of business operations. Starting its journey in 2005, Odoo has become the choice of over 2 million users across the globe.

Odoo has had steady growth ever since its introduction as Tiny ERP in 2005. Later, the transition marked the development of Open ERP and Odoo. The rapid growth helped the business management solution to gather momentum and spread over 120 countries.

An Open Source Software Solution, Odoo has two versions to help businesses of all scales. Odoo Community Version is an open-source version that does not require any license. Odoo Enterprise Edition is a licensed version that offers added features and functionalities.

Why Did Odoo Introduce Two Editions?

Odoo is a company that works to cater to the software demands of all kinds of industries and businesses. From its inception till 2015, Odoo had only one edition- Community Edition.

Odoo launched its first Enterprise Edition in 2015. This proprietary edition was released to help business firms to optimize their business management tools with additional features. Odoo made license fees mandatory for the Enterprise edition to generate revenue. The generated revenue ensures investment support for the continuous development of the ERP solution.

As the first decade of Odoo dealt only with the Community Edition, the company could not invest much in Research and Development. Thus they introduced a paid edition to ensure an uninterrupted flow of funding for Research and Development. This has enhanced the quality and user-friendliness of the Community Edition as well.

Odoo Enterprise edition includes important functionalities, and features compared to the Community Edition. The Enterprise Edition has all the features and functionalities possessed by other proprietary ERP tools.

Here, we can have a look at the major differences between Odoo Community Edition Vs Enterprise Edition.

• Pricing

Price is the prime difference between Odoo Community vs Odoo Enterprise. Being an open-source version, Odoo Community Edition can be downloaded directly from the website of Odoo with no fee payment. However, the proper use may sometimes require implementation and integration support from Odoo partners, which will be payable.

Odoo Enterprise is a licensed version, and we can install the ERP platform on payment of the fee. The price of an ERP is calculated based on five components, including the apps used. The charges are calculated every month. It should be noted that the integration and other services are separately payable.

• Modules

Both the Community and Enterprise Editions of Odoo come with a modular structure. Both these editions offer a whole suite of business modules to the clients and these versions offer functional modules like Purchase, Sales, Inventory, and Accounting.

Enterprise edition offers all the features available in Community Edition and gives additional apps and features that are required to ensure up-to-date business management in the market. Applications like Field Service, Data Cleaning, Rental, and Marketing Automation are only available in Enterprise Edition.

Besides, all modules in the enterprise edition offer additional features and functionalities compared to Community Edition.

• Accounting Operation

Odoo Accounting in Community Edition helps users to manage payment, invoicing, and bookkeeping in a basic way. At the same time, Odoo Enterprise users get a full-suite accounting module that offers financial reporting, balance sheet management, profit-and-loss report, etc.

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• Odoo Manufacturing

The manufacturing module of Odoo Enterprise guarantees a fully functional platform for managing work centers, work orders, control panels, and every other aspect of a manufacturing business. Time tracking and quality check integration are added features in Enterprise Edition. We can also add serial and lot numbers and have master production schedule support in Enterprise Edition. Meanwhile, the Odoo community offers support only for planning manufacturing activities based on resource availability.

• Enhanced HRMS

HRMS is a major application for business operations. Odoo Enterprise Edition offers many advanced features for human resources management. While the Community edition also offers help for HR Management with the help of Time Sheet, Attendance, Employees, and Recruitment modules, Odoo Enterprise Edition has many more functionalities to improve the HRMS. Appraisal, Payroll, Approval, and Employee Referral modules are present in Enterprise Edition apart from the modules present in Community Edition. The exclusive features enhance HR Management operations.

• Multi-Company Management Made Easy

Both editions of Odoo support multi-company management. However, the Enterprise Edition ensures automated management of multi-company workflow. This will help to manage the transactions and operations of the parent company and the child company with no manual intervention.

• Sales and CRM

There are three modules in Odoo which helps Sales management. Of these CRM, Point of Sale and Sales modules work equally well in paid and unpaid editions. However, the Enterprise edition enjoys some additional features such as loyalty programs and gift cards, subscriptions etc. The rental module and Subscription module are two modules only available for paid users.

Another highlight that an Enterprise user enjoys is the Amazon Connector facility.

• Inventory

The inventory module is a basic business management module present in both Editions. However, Community Edition lacks barcode support which is an important functionality of Enterprise Edition. Warehouse analysis reporting also is a feature that is available only for Enterprise users.

• Improved UI/UX

Odoo Enterprise is a flexible ERP that offers the most user-friendly interface to users. The free version lacks the flexibility that the paid edition offers. While the paid version is available for mobile phones and computer apps, the free version has to be used with the help of a browser. Kanban’s view of the functionalities is also a highlight in the paid version.

• Odoo Additional Hosting Support

Odoo community edition can be hosted by the users themselves. The user can also depend on third-party vendors for hosting services. Odoo community can be hosted using an on-premise server or with the help of a cloud hosting facility.

In the meantime, Odoo Enterprise users are eligible for the official hosting support of Odoo hosting. Odoo SaaS and Odoo. sh platforms can be used for hosting apart from Cloud hosting and On-Premise server.

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