Start with the part most comparison pages skip: Odoo can already do this. Down payments, manufacturing orders, inventory, a customer portal — at $8.95 per user per month for every app, which undercuts the product on the other side of this page. So the question is not features or sticker price. It is who configures it and who keeps it configured, which Odoo prices itself: Success Packs of 4 to 200 hours.
Odoo · checked 9 September 2026
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| Odoo | Ordamo | |
|---|---|---|
| Built around | Apps you assemble into a process of your own | One process, already assembled: orders, deposits, batch cost |
| Deposit and balance on one order | Yes — a down payment invoice, percentage or fixed, then the balance | Both, with dates, recorded on the order without issuing anything |
| Getting to the first useful screen | An implementation — Odoo sells it in blocks of 4 to 200 hours | A sample workspace you can open before you sign up |
| Who keeps it running | You, an admin or a partner | Nobody |
| Free tier | One app, unlimited users, indefinitely | None — 7 days before the first charge |
| Priced by | Each user, with every app included | The business, on one plan |
| A page the customer can open | A portal account inside the suite | One link per order, no login, updates itself |
| Scope | Accounting, purchasing, payroll, website, helpdesk, manufacturing | Orders, deposits, batches, margin |
| Changing how it works | Studio, on the Custom plan | Not possible, by design |
| What makes the bill grow | Each user, the Custom tier, implementation hours, maintaining what you customised | Nothing |
Built for orders that take weeks to deliver, start in a message and get paid in parts.
Add a customer and their order
Deposit taken, balance still owed, and the date you promised.
Send your customer their order page
One link that updates itself, instead of twenty messages.
Record what the batch cost
What a run really cost, over the pieces it produced. One button puts that on the products it made.
See what you actually made
Revenue, cost and margin per order. Money in, money out, cash on hand.
At $8.95 per user a month for every app, Odoo is the cheapest software on this page. The other half of the figure is on its own Success Packs page: implementation sold in blocks of 4, 25, 50, 100 and 200 hours, from around $190 to as much as $8,000, with the claim that a pack takes the success rate from 65% to 98%. Read that as Odoo saying plainly what kind of purchase this is.
Odoo does deposits properly: from a confirmed sales order you raise a down payment invoice, percentage or fixed, and the later invoice shows what is already invoiced and what remains. What it costs is attention — separate invoicing events rather than a payment plan, with an income account to set up behind them. Per order that is a routine; across forty commissions a year, the routine is the product.
For a company with a warehouse, a purchasing function and a bookkeeper, Odoo at that price is close to unarguable. For three people and a dozen open commissions, most of the suite is surface you own without using: apps to keep current, a data model to keep clean, and settings whose purpose someone will have forgotten by the time they matter.
Studio is genuinely good, and it sits on the Custom plan at $13.60 per user with multi-company and the external API. Price in what comes after: Odoo's own implementation page notes extra charges for maintaining custom development, and every customisation is something to re-test at each upgrade. Model your own process in an ERP and you have taken on a small, permanent software project.
$0, then $8.95/user/mo
One App Free covers a single app with unlimited users on Odoo Online. Standard is $8.95 per user per month, or $7.25 billed annually, for all apps. Custom is $13.60, or $10.90 annually, and adds Odoo Studio, multi-company and the external API. Implementation is sold separately as Success Packs, from a 4-hour Starter at around $190 to a 200-hour Pro at up to $8,000, with extra charges for maintaining custom development.
$29/mo
One plan, per business rather than per user, everything included. $0 today, first charge after 7 days, cancel in one click. 14-day money-back on the first month. No apps to add, nothing metered.
What is in the planWe are not the only answer, and pretending otherwise wastes your afternoon.
MRP for a small manufacturer, aimed in its own words at 10 to 200 employees. From $49 per user a month.
KatanaManufacturing for a floor with staff on it: work orders, scheduling, capacity. From $299 a month before add-ons.
Craftybase, now StocksmithMaterials, recipes and cost of goods for makers who hold stock, with lot traceability. From $20 a month, with its real tiers from $83 billed annually.
The whole categorySix families of tool, what each one answers, and the three questions that pick between them.
One app is, indefinitely, with unlimited users on Odoo Online — a real offer, not a trial. The catch is arithmetic rather than ethics: a made-to-order workshop that wants sales orders, production and its books is asking for three or four apps, which is the Standard plan at $8.95 per user per month, or $7.25 billed annually.
Standard is $8.95 per user per month, $7.25 annually, for all apps. Custom is $13.60, or $10.90 annually, adding Studio, multi-company and the external API. Implementation is separate: Success Packs run from a 4-hour Starter at around $190 to a 200-hour Pro at up to $8,000, and Odoo notes further charges for maintaining custom development. Confirm the current position on odoo.com before deciding on the strength of a number here.
Yes. From a confirmed sales order you raise a down payment invoice — a percentage or a fixed amount — and the balance is invoiced later, with the order showing what has already been invoiced. It needs an income account configured behind it, and the down payment is a separate invoicing event rather than an instalment on one document. Anyone telling you an ERP cannot do deposits has not looked.
Odoo's own answer: companies under 50 employees are pointed at Success Packs bought directly, and mid-size and larger ones at partners. So not necessarily a partner, but someone — a consultant on a pack, or a person inside the business who takes it on. The failure mode for a three-person studio is assuming that someone is nobody.
Realistically Sales for the order and the down payment, Manufacturing or Inventory for what gets built, Accounting for the books, and often Project for the jobs that run long. That is the paid plan by the second app, which is worth knowing before One App Free is treated as the plan.
No. It is one workflow — the order, the deposit, the balance, what a production run cost per piece, what the order earned — with nothing to configure and nothing else in it. That is a genuine limitation if you need purchasing, payroll or your ledger in the same place, and the reason it can be useful on the first afternoon if you do not.
On the software alone, no: Odoo's Standard plan is a few dollars per user a month against $29 for an Ordamo workspace, so for a small team Odoo wins the sticker comparison outright. The comparison changes when implementation is counted, since Odoo prices that separately from 4 hours to 200 and Ordamo has none to price. Whether that trade is worth it depends entirely on how much else you want the system to do.
Its Manufacturing app covers MRP, shop floor, quality, maintenance and product lifecycle, with capacity planning and lot tracking, and engineering-to-order work is handled through the Project app alongside it. It is capable. It is also the deep end of the configuration, which is the recurring theme of this page.
Yes, and it is a common shape: Odoo for accounting and purchasing because that is where an accountant wants to be, Ordamo for the commissions, their deposits and their margins. Nothing has to be entered twice except the customer.
Export open sales orders to CSV and import the file as it comes — no template, the columns are read for you. Record the down payment already taken on each, add the batches in production, then start new orders here while the open ones finish where they are. Closed history belongs in an archived export rather than in a migration.
If you wanted Odoo for manufacturing planning, MRPeasy is the smaller version of that at $49 per user. If you wanted it for stock and cost of goods, Craftybase — now Stocksmith — starts at $49. If you wanted it because orders with deposits are running out of a spreadsheet, this is $29 a month and needs no implementation. If you wanted one system for the entire business, nothing on this list replaces Odoo, and you should keep it.
That gap is the whole reason this category exists. A spreadsheet works for the first ten or fifteen orders; an ERP is right once there are functions to run and staff in them. In between sit the purpose-built tools — this one for orders that wait and get paid in parts, Craftybase for stocked goods, MRPeasy for planning — each doing one of those jobs without asking you to configure the others.
Plan names and per-user prices read from odoo.com/pricing on 9 September 2026, the Success Pack hour blocks, prices and success-rate claims from its pricing-packs page the same day, the down payment behaviour from Odoo's own sales documentation, and the Manufacturing app description from its product page. Software pricing moves; confirm with the vendor before deciding on the strength of a figure here.
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Built for orders that take weeks to deliver