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Owwel and Odoo
Odoo is an ERP made of apps, priced per user, that most businesses set up with an implementation partner. Owwel keeps the books, the till, the stock and the team in one system at one yearly price, set up in an afternoon. Here is how the two compare for a business that runs a counter, stock and a team.
Owwel and Odoo, point by point
| Feature | Owwel | Odoo |
|---|---|---|
| Point of sale | OwwelBuilt in, and keeps selling offline | OdooBuilt in; works offline once a session is open, and connected payment terminals need the internet[5] |
| Price | OwwelOne yearly price per plan, team members included | OdooPer user, per month[3] |
| People helping with a stock count | OwwelNo account and no licence: they scan a QR code | OdooEach person who signs in is a paid user[3] |
| Several companies | OwwelUp to 5 businesses on Enterprise | OdooNeeds the Custom plan[3][4] |
| Setting up | OwwelAn afternoon, without a partner | OdooUsually an implementation partner[1][2] |
Where Odoo falls short for a shop
It is priced per user, per month, so every cashier and stock counter adds to the bill.
A flat yearly price per plan with team members included, and people helping with a stock count need no user licence at all.
Running several companies in one database needs its more expensive Custom plan.
Branches are on every plan, and Enterprise covers up to 5 businesses with unlimited branches.
Most businesses need an implementation partner, and independent estimates put setup in the thousands of dollars and weeks of work.
Set up in an afternoon: import the catalogue from Excel, open the till and close the first day balanced, without a partner.
Built into Owwel, not added on
Twelve things that come with Owwel at one yearly price.
Offline sales, each recorded once
The till keeps selling when the internet drops, and each sale is sent by itself when the connection returns, recorded exactly once even if it is sent twice.
Team stock counts by QR code
Teammates join a stock count by scanning a QR code and count from their own phones, with no account and no user licence.
Excel round trip with every change shown
Download stock, edit it in Excel, upload it back and review every change product by product before it is applied, with nothing created twice.
Profit, margin and cost hidden from staff
Two restrictions hide profit, margin and cost of goods, and what you paid for stock, inside pages a person can otherwise open, so a cashier runs the till without seeing your margins.
A minimum price, with discounts flagged
Each product has a minimum price the till will not go under, and a discount that takes a sale below it flags the invoice and alerts the owner.
Backbar costed into each service
Salon product opened for use on clients is spread across the services that used it, so service margins are real.
Attendance, staff portal, consultations and ratings
Professional planA badge kiosk with shifts per weekday, each person's own portal, consultations with priced plans and customer ratings of their work, in the same system as the till.
An owner portal across every branch
Professional planOwners sign in with a phone number and a five digit PIN to see every branch's sales, money, reports and alerts from their phone.
Ayuuto across branches
A group savings pot where each branch pays a set amount daily, with any shortfall covered by another branch and tracked as a debt.
Livestock mode and fabric by the metre
Animals with their own IDs, weights, purchases and sales, each animal's cost in every profit figure, and fabric counted roll by roll and cut against an order.
Files vault, SMS marketing and an API
A PIN protected vault for licences and contracts, SMS campaigns with delivery tracked per recipient, and a developer API for your own software, on every plan.
One yearly price, and never deleted
Plans from Ksh 20,599 a year with team members included rather than charged per user. If a subscription lapses the account goes read-only, and nothing is deleted.
See every accounting feature, or how to bring your products across.
Sources
Checked 19 October 2026. Products change, so check Odoo's own site for the latest.
- [1] Capterra: Odoo pricing
- [2] Glorium Technologies: Odoo licensing
- [3] Odoo: pricing
- [4] Odoo documentation: multi-company
- [5] Odoo documentation: point of sale, offline mode
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