There are many e-commerce solutions on the market, WordPress, Prestashop, Salesforce, Magento…and it is not always easy to make a choice. If you want to start selling online, this article can help you.
We will review the e-commerce solutions offered by Odoo, a suite of enterprise applications. We will explain the situations for which we recommend Odoo and when it is better to choose a customized solution.
What is Odoo Ecommerce?
Odoo eCommerce is an ecommerce and online store management software for businesses and professionals. Let’s discover the customer reviews, presentation and price of this software package referenced by our SaaS software comparator in the categories Ecommerce website creation software, Online store software and Ecommerce software.
Odoo eCommerce software is recommended for Sales, Commercial, Web and more.
Odoo Consulting
We recommend Odoo if you have a standard business process, i.e. if you sell products/services that do not require too many customization options.
The process should be simple. As soon as it becomes more complex, it is better to choose a custom development.
Odoo can also be suitable if you want to control your sales and your business, i.e. order forms, invoicing, use of a CRM to manage all your customer relationships, etc. In short, if you want to have more than just an e-commerce.
Combining eCommerce and ERP can be a good business strategy.
Why choose Odoo over other platforms?
Everything will depend on the requirements and budgets, from Inproft we do not always recommend the implementation of the Odoo solution, but it is true that it has important benefits such as:
- Easy to use
- You can’t customize your website 100% but you already have a lot of possibilities.
- Once you have selected the general ecommerce template, it can be easily configured and laid out with a modular system.
- Easily integrate ERP and CRM
- It is open source
Odoo Development
It is very easy to change the content of your online store, just drag and drop blocks where you want and click on the element to change it.
Odoo is an intuitive software, you easily know what you have to do.
In addition, there are many tutorials that can guide you through each step.
And above all, our team is there to configure your website according to your needs so you can concentrate on your business.
Optimizing online business
Odoo offers many features to make the business successfully scalable: shipping management, promotion, item comparison, inventory, stock management, secure payment and many more.
Choose the modules you need for your business, they are not sold as a package, all combinations are possible.
Thanks to the different Odoo applications, the website is professional and guarantees the security of your customers, which is a priority for an online sales website.
In addition, you can connect applications with each other. This is ideal with applications for ordering, stock, invoicing, accounting, etc. They interact with each other and save you time.
Did you know that it has marketing tools?
You can use marketing tools such as cross-selling (proposing complementary products to the one purchased by a customer), upselling (trying to replace the product selected by a customer with another of a higher range), email marketing,…
You can also use a CRM to manage all your customer relationships in the best possible way.
Our role is to help you choose the modules you need, integrate them and explain how to use them optimally.
A proven solution
Odoo has already convinced 7 million users worldwide, it is a proven solution. The proposed modules offer you many possibilities to optimize your business in every way.
To determine the ideal solution for your company, an Odoo e-commerce or a customized online sales site, all aspects of the project must be taken into account.
Customize Odoo
Odoo eCommerce is a SaaS software package and is therefore compatible with most enterprise information systems as well as with most operating systems (OS) such as Windows, Mac OS and Linux, as it is accessible from a web browser. This software package can also be accessed remotely from many mobile devices such as a tablet.
If your project requires specific functionalities:
- Back office management
- Billing
- Stocks and markets
- Customer relations
- Statistics
- Control panels
- Management of an online store
- Customer management
- Sales and marketing
- Catalog
If you have a lot of customization options for the products you sell or if they are complex, then it is better to create a custom ecommerce with Odoo, as standard ecommerce will not meet the needs.
You can choose Odoo for your online store and professional developers will be able to add, remove or modify features to best suit your needs.
Conclusions
The Odoo eCommerce solution has an infinity of possibilities and applications, which makes it a very complete suite. But the nature of each project will be the one that will lead us to implement one or other solutions, so it is important to have a company specialized in consulting, design, development and implementation of ecommerce.
Do you have more doubts? Ask us without obligation, at Inprofit we are your 360 agency.
