Odoo vs Exact Online

We compare the market leader

We compare Odoo with Exact! This is increasingly becoming the fight in the Netherlands. Exactly strengthened by a huge marketing machine, including Max Verstappen. Odoo does it by investing all in the improvement of the Odoo ERP system. In the Netherlands, Exact Online is a household name that has been the market leader in business software solutions for many years, such as Exact Globe, Exact Synergie, but nowadays Exact Online. But how does Odoo compare to Exact?

What is Exact Online?

Everything you need to realize your growth ambitions

Exact Online is the online business software for entrepreneurs and accountants. With accounting and CRM in 1, it is the basis of every healthy company. We also have integrated packages for SMEs in production, trade and business services.

What is Odoo?

Grow your business with Odoo's All-in-one business software. Beautiful and easy to use.

Is Odoo all new to you, read our blog What is Odoo??

Odoo is an all-in-one open-source Cloud ERP system. Odoo is available via a public or private cloud and is characterized by the many standard options available. The open-source design of Odoo makes the software extremely flexible and allows users all over the world to develop Apps for Odoo. Odoo has the largest business App store in the world.

Grow your business and expand Odoo as needed with the simple installation of an additional app. Working with software should be fun, and that is why Odoo pays a lot of attention to ease of use.

Compare Odoo with Exact

For a fair comparison, we've put together a table of key features in ten categories: Sales, CRM, Billing & Accounting, Marketing, Inventory, Manufacturing, Procurement, Services & Projects, People Management, Tools, and Ease of Use & Productivity. These categories encompass almost everything an SMB might need to manage, develop, and expand the business.

To be able to compare all functions, we chose Exact Production Advanced to compare with Odoo Enterprise.

Sales

 

Exact Online

Odoo

B2B Sales

 

 

Quotations to Sales Orders

V

V

Online quotations

X

V

Online payments

X

V

Upselling & Cross-selling

X

V

Price Agreements

V

V

Connection CoC

V

X

Promotional programs

X

V

Subscriptions

V

V

Sales forecast

V

V

 

 

 

Point of Sales

 

 

Complete Point of Sales

X

V

 

 

 

Online Sales

 

 

Integrated Website

X

V

Integrated E-commerce

X

V

 

 

 

Product Management

 

 

Standard products

V

V

Multi variants

X

V

Multiple Unit of Measures

V

V

Bills of Materials

V

V

Kits

V

V

Customer-specific products

V

V

CRM

Exact Online

Odoo

Sales flow

 

 

Leads

V

V

Opportunities

V

V

Lead scoring

X

V

Integration website

X

V

Sales pipeline

V

V

Auto-assign

X

V

Sales Forecast

V

V

Dashboard

V

V

 

 

 

Communication

 

 

Actions and alerts

V

V

Documents

V

V

Notes & agreements

V

V

Email integration

X

V

Email templates

X

V

VoIP integration

X

V

Live chat integration

X

V

Twitter integration

V

V

 

 

 

Invoicing and accounting

 

Exact Online

Odoo

Internal processes

 

 

Full accounting

V

V

Analytic Accounting

V

V

Budgets

V

V

Assets

V

V

Expenses

X

V

Real-time Stock valuation

V

V

VAT-reporting

V

V

Vendor Bill OCR

V

V

 

 

 

Daily tasks

 

 

Online bank Sync

V

V

Bank statement import

V

V

Payment files

V

V

Direct Debit

V

V

Easy reconcile

V

V

Deferred Revenue

V

V

 

 

 

Invoicing

 

 

Invoicing

V

V

Send per email

V

V

UBL invoicing

V

V

Email follow-up reports

V

V

 

 

 

International

 

 

Accounting for 20+ countries

X

V

Multi-Company

V

V

Multi-Language

V

V

Multi-Currency

V

V

Marketing

 

Exact Online

Odoo

Marketing actions

 

 

Mass mailings

1)

V

Webpage, blogs, SEO

X

V

Events

X

V

Marketing automation

X

V

Contact segmentation

X

V

 

 

 

Marketing follow-up

 

 

Surveys

X

V

UTM visitor tracking

X

V

Social media web integration

X

V

1) Only with additional link with Mailchimp

Inventory

 

Exact Online

Odoo

Inventory Management

 

 

Multi-Warehouse

V

V

Multi-Location

V

V

Drop shipment

V

V

 

 

 

Products

 

 

Traceability, batch, Serials

V

V

Expiration Dates

V

V

Multiple unit of measures

V

V

 

 

 

Reports

 

 

Stock value

V

V

Stock forecast

V

V

Stock moves

V

V

 

 

 

Productivity

 

 

Pick, Pack, Deliver

X

V

Complex routings

X

V

Bach picking

X

V

Barcode scanning

X

V

Delivery integrations

X

V

Manufacturing

 

Exact Online

Odoo

Manufacturing

 

 

Manufacturing orders

V

V

Work orders

V

V

Unbuild orders

X

V

Subcontracting

V

V

Machine displays

X

V

Time Tracking

V

V

Cost analyses

V

V

Traceability

V

V

Connect project

V

V

By-products

V

V

Product Lifetime management

X

V

Quality Management

X

V

Machine Maintenance

X

V

Repairs

X

V

 

 

 

Productionplanning

 

 

Multi-level Bom's

V

V

Routings

V

V

Master Production Schedule

X

V

Productionplanning

V

V

Purchase

 

Exact Online

Odoo

Purchasebeheer

 

 

Request for quotations

1)

V

Tenders

X

V

Blanket Orders

X

V

Pricestaffels

X

V

Multiple vendors per product

X

V

3-way invoice control

X

V

 

 

 

Fulfillment

 

 

Stock Controlled (MTS)

V

V

Order Controlled (MTO)

V

V

Master Production Schedule

X

V

Services & Projects

Services & projects are not possible in Exact Online Manufacturing. You require Exact Hours & Invoicing for this.

 

Exact Online

Odoo

Projects

 

 

Projects

V

V

Planboard

V

V

Task, subtask

X

V

Capacity planning

V

V

 

 

 

Customer services

 

 

Helpdesk

X

V

Timesheets

V

V

Satisfaction check

X

V

Customers portal

X

V

Email integration

X

V

 

 

 

Invoicing

 

 

Fixed price invoicing

V

V

Timesheet invoicing

V

V

Sales project tasks

X

V

HRM Management

 

Exact Online

Odoo

HRM Management

 

 

Employee dossier

X

V

Contracts

X

V

Expenses

X

V

Time-Off

X

V

Timesheets

X

V

Recruitment

X

V

Appraisals

X

V

Payrolling

V

X

Ease of use

 

Exact Online

Odoo

Ease of use

 

 

Fully web based

V

V

Easy search and filtering

V

V

Help on fields

X

V

Real-time chat and email

X

V

Dynamic pivot tables

X

V

Keyboard Shortcuts

V

V

Multi Language

V

V

 

 

 

Other options

 

 

App Store

V

V

Mobile apps

V

V

Compare price

For a price comparison, we use Exact Online Production Advanced and Odoo Enterprise. For the comparison, we assume a company with 20 users of the software. Because the functions of both packages are not entirely the same, we have included all apps whose functionality has been named in the overview for the Odoo price calculation. Adding these extra apps makes up for (in price) the missing functionalities in Odoo.

 

Exact Online

Odoo

 

Price per month

Exact Online Wholesale Distribution Professional *)

$489,00

 

20 users, all apps

$ 408,50

$ 748

Odoo.sh

 

$ 76,00

Total

$ 897,50 per month

$ 824,00 per month


1) https://www.exact.com/nl/producten/
productie/features-en-prijzen

2) https://www.odoo.com/pricing-plan - custom plan

Summary

Exact has been lord and master in the Netherlands in the field of business software for years and with Exact Online, has a good product that appeals to many people. What is striking is the choice of standard packages for trade, production, project management or Hours & Invoices. We have checked this with Exact, but it is not possible to combine the standard packages. So if you are a production company, you cannot do projects or a trading company cannot do production. This choice of Exact is unfortunate because in practice these functionalities do exist at a company.

Possibilities

Odoo presents itself as an “All in one solution”. Based on your need, you can choose the Odoo Apps that you need in your company. If you have a wholesaler, but you also assemble products, this is possible. If you calculate the installation of your product based on processed hours, you can do this with Odoo. Odoo tries to help the user with everything that can happen in a company. 

No limitations, just the power of integrating everything you require.

Flexibility

In today's time, everything moves quickly and as a company, you have to be flexible. This also demands a lot from your software solution. Both Exact and Odoo cannot guarantee a 100% match and therefore work with an App Store where you can add additional functionality to your package. Exact and Odoo differ in approach in this regard. Exact has decided to link everything. With a link with extra functionality, you will be dealing with an 'Extra software package'. This extra package has its own 'look and feel' and way of logging in and functioning.

Odoo offers the possibility to fully customize the software by installing Apps. Odoo has decided not to link, but to integrate the extra functionality. This means that the functionality is part of Odoo, and it is easy for any user to find the way. With Odoo Studio, Odoo has made a real winner. It gives every Odoo customer the possibility to customize Odoo, such as adding their fields.

Price

The license price of Odoo is cheaper than Exact Online, and you also get more functionality with Odoo. The costs for implementation and support have not been investigated.

Disclaimer

This article has been compiled by Odoo Experts. We did our best to make it objective and fair. If you find a bug or a missing feature, please report it info@odooexperts.nl and we will update this document. Our goal is to have a continuously updated comparison of the main competitors, and we try to be as accurate as possible.

Odoo vs Exact Online
Erwin van der Ploeg December 10, 2017
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