Maturity diagnostic
The full report. The stage and the profile are free and take fifteen minutes.
Straight answer
What does it cost to implement Odoo?
Almost nobody publishes this, which is why the first meeting with a vendor is spent finding it out. Here are the parts that make up the total, what moves each one, and what I charge for the pieces I sell at a fixed price. This is not a quotation: it is so you know what is being discussed before you ask for one.
What the total is made of
The licence
With Community it is zero. With Enterprise you pay per user per month, at the price Odoo publishes. It is the part everyone looks at first and it is rarely the biggest.
Where it runs
A cloud server, Odoo's own platform, or your own machine. For a small company it is tens of dollars a month; what moves the number is how many people are on at once and how much data there is.
Sorting out the processes
Deciding how the work will run before configuring anything. It is the part most often skipped and the most expensive one to skip.
Configuration and development
Setting up what already exists costs hours; building what does not exist costs many more. That difference is most of the gap between one quote and another.
The data you already have
Customers, products, balances, stock. Migrating dirty data costs more than migrating clean data, and cleaning it is the company's job, not the vendor's.
Getting people to use it
Training and support in the first weeks. A well-configured system nobody uses costs the same as a badly configured one.
What it costs with me, published
These pieces have a fixed price and it is on the site. Everything else is quoted by the hour, at USD 35, against a written scope.
Three processes mapped
Two weeks, with a sign-off sheet per process. Five processes are USD 1,700 and eight, USD 2,600.
Context map
One week. The full solution architecture is USD 2,100.
Upgrade radar
Up to fifteen modules. Sixteen to sixty is USD 490; more than sixty, USD 890.
If you go on to contract the implementation with me, the mapping and the map are credited against it.
What drives the number up
Electronic invoicing
Every country has its own scheme and its own authority. Ecuador and Colombia look nothing alike, and neither is solved by installing a module.
Several companies or currencies
It multiplies the accounting decisions and the testing, not the configuration work.
Integrating with what exists
A scale, a barcode reader, the bank's system, a government portal. Each integration is a small project with its own risk.
Custom development
Everything Odoo does not do out of the box has to be written, tested and maintained every year. It is the most expensive part and the most avoidable, by adopting the standard.
About the cheapest quote
When three proposals for the same work differ by a factor of three, it is almost never because one is more efficient. It is usually because they are not quoting the same thing.
Ask three questions in writing: what is out of scope, who cleans the data, and how many training hours are included. With those three answers the proposals become comparable, and sometimes the cheapest one stops being cheap.