Odoo vs Deskflow:
which one fits your business?
Odoo and Deskflow both offer tools for business automation, but serve very different audiences. This honest overview helps you make the right choice.
Extensive ERP for larger organisations with custom-work needs.
Up and running fast, built specifically for Belgian SMEs.
For SMEs that want to automate fast and affordably, Deskflow is the stronger choice. Odoo is better suited to larger organisations with an IT team and budget for custom work.
What is Odoo?
Odoo is an open-source ERP platform with hundreds of modules, from accounting and CRM to manufacturing and e-commerce. The platform is extensively customisable, but requires technical knowledge and usually an implementation partner to work optimally.
- Hundreds of modules: CRM, HR, manufacturing, e-commerce and more
- Open-source base version available for free
- Large community and extensive documentation
- Highly customisable via custom work and external partners
- Implementation time of 3 to 12 months
- Requires technical knowledge or an implementation partner
- Total cost often ends up higher than expected
- Limited focus on Belgian market rules (Peppol, VAT)
- Less accessible for SMEs without an IT team
Odoo versus Deskflow:
an honest overview
Both tools have their strengths. This overview helps you decide what fits your situation.
| Feature | Odoo | Deskflow |
|---|---|---|
| Implementation time | 3 to 12 months | A few weeks |
| Stock management | Via module (custom work required) | Built in by default |
| Order tracking | Via module (custom work required) | From quote to invoice |
| Peppol / e-invoicing | Extra module + configuration | 100% Peppol-ready, by default |
| Webshop integration | Native Odoo e-commerce module | Shopify, WooCommerce, Lightspeed, Mijnwebwinkel, Prestashop |
| Barcode scanner | Via external module | Fully supported |
| Multiple warehouses | Possible via module | Built in by default |
| Purchase suggestions | Manual or via module | Automatically generated |
| Support (Dutch) | Community forum | Phone and email |
| Pricing model | Modules + implementation costs | Fixed monthly rate, transparent |
Why SMEs choose Deskflow
instead of Odoo?
The average Deskflow customer is fully live within a month. No lengthy implementation project, no expensive external consultants.
Peppol-ready, Dutch-language interface, and support via phone and email. Belgian VAT rules built in, with no extra modules or custom work.
Transparent monthly rate with no hidden module costs or extra invoices from implementation partners.
Choose the right tool
for your situation
- you're a larger organisation with your own IT department
- you also want CRM, HR or production management in the same tool
- you have complex custom-work needs and the budget to match
- you can go through a 3-to-12-month implementation process
- you want to automate fast without IT knowledge or an external partner
- your webshop orders need to automatically reduce stock
- you need Peppol and Belgian e-invoicing
- you want to start with a transparent, fixed monthly rate
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Odoo vs Deskflow: everything you want to know
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