Odoo implementation, from first process map to go-live

It depends on how many apps go live, how many companies and countries are involved, how much custom development the gaps need, and how clean your current data is. A single-company finance and sales rollout is a different project from a multi-country group with manufacturing. We give you a timeline with dates at the end of the planning phase rather than before it, because a date quoted before anyone has mapped your processes is a guess.

An Odoo project has two separate costs. The licence, which you pay to Odoo per user on Enterprise and nothing at all on Community. And the implementation, which is driven by the number of apps, the custom development, the data migration and how many people need training. We scope the second after planning, so the figure rests on your requirements rather than an average.

Community is free and open source and covers a great deal. Enterprise adds apps Community does not have, among them Studio, Payroll, Documents and Sign, along with accounting features many finance teams expect, plus Odoo’s own hosting and support. If Community covers what you need, we will say so. The answer depends on which apps your requirements actually touch, and planning is what settles that.

More than most companies budget for, and that is the single most common reason projects slip. Your people are needed heavily in planning, where they walk us through how the business really runs, and in acceptance testing, where they run their own work through the system. The phases above say what we need from you at each stage, so you can plan around it.

Thirty days of hypercare are included in every implementation, at no extra cost. That is the period when real volume hits the system and the things nobody could have tested surface: an edge case in a pricing rule, a report that needs another column, a process one team has quietly been doing differently. We fix those and tune what the first weeks reveal, then hand over to ongoing support on a planned date rather than going quiet.

We agree early what moves and what stays behind. Usually that means customers, suppliers, products, open orders, unpaid invoices, stock on hand and opening balances, with historical transactions kept in an archive of the old system rather than loaded into Odoo. Data is checked before migration and reconciled after it, and you verify the opening position before go-live.

Yes, and we are asked to fairly often. We start with an assessment of the database, the customizations and what was configured against what was actually needed. Then we tell you honestly whether the work so far is worth building on or whether a clean configuration costs you less. That assessment is a piece of work in its own right, and it is the right first step rather than a quote.

All three. Hosting matters more than most buyers expect: Odoo Online does not allow custom code, so if your requirements need a custom module the choice is Odoo.sh or your own infrastructure. We settle hosting during planning, once the customization list is known.