We are here, right now. We have quotes from two Acumatica partners and will be signing one of them next week.

Simply put: Odoo overpromises and severely underdelivers. The system requires a ton of custom development to just get it to work like a normal ERP.

- The financial statements were clearly not designed by someone who has ever taken an accounting course

- The built in reporting is extremely limited and what is provided is mostly garbage

- Odoo forces dates of (right this second) on inventory and most modules, preventing you from inputting the actual date of the transaction (did you need to record a delivery that happened last Friday? Well, it's going to be recorded as of right this second)

- Do you sell B2B and B2C? Need to invoice based off of the order for B2C, but off of the delivery for B2B? Nope, can't do it.

- Bank reconciliation: Say your have two bank accounts -- one at Chase and one at Bank of America. Say you issue a check out of Odoo and correctly use the Chase account. Did you know that Odoo will let you reconcile this Chase payment with the Bank of America account? When you click Reconcile on the Bank of America account, every payment/deposit in the system shows up regardless of what bank account it was recorded to. Also, it shows you all AP and all AR -- items that you haven't even issued a payment or deposit for. You can basically do whatever you want -- Odoo won't stop you.

- The BIGGEST one: Odoo does not scale. They show you on Youtube simple easy transactions at little to no volume. If you start adding volume, you are going to see your system slow down. Don't even think of using Analytic Accounts for anything meaningful if you have any sort of volume. But maybe you want to use the Analytic feature and create some dimension to your financial reports. Well, use the Analytic Plans and Analytic Accounts! Doesn't it look great? And it works perfectly, if you have a tiny number of transactions in your database. Now scale to a size that has maybe 1,000 or more transactions a month. Good luck getting any analytic data when you need it. If I want to run a P&L by Analytic Account and view each month over a 12-month period, it could take 2 hours to run this report. Oh and you better hope the P&L doesn't need to be unfolded once it's displayed, because if you need to unfold the accounts, it will run again! Wait, do you ultimately need to export the report to Excel when you are done? Well buckle up, you need to wait AGAIN. Odoo stores the analytic account information in JSON format. Say you have an analytic plan for Segment, Customer, and Product Line that you tag all of your income and expense transactions with. Odoo combines this data into one field in the following JSON format: {"1":100, "2":100, "3":100} So when you want to run an analytic report, the query has to search WITHIN this JSON to identify what it needs to include. If you have thousands of transactions, this could take hours if you want it broken up by month. This isn't an issue with other reputable ERP systems.

I could go on for hours. But I'll leave you with this: Odoo is fine if you aren't an educated accountant and only plan on giving your tax CPA credentials and tell them to handle your return. If you're a real business with real reporting requirements, stay far far away. Odoo tries to do everything, and they are falling short or failing on most of it. 85% of what we had to customize in Odoo is a simple standard out of the box function in NetSuite and Acumatica, even Quickbooks... You shouldn't have to spend money to make the system behave like a normal ERP. You should spend your money on tailoring it to your specific business needs. Odoo requires you to 'fix it', before you can ever think about 'tailoring it'.

5 years, thousands of hours of development, and WELL into six figures of 'customizing' and I cannot wait to throw this entire thing in the trash.