Use case — From separate systems to Odoo
It worked fine. Until it didn't.
An accounting package, a quoting tool, a planning in Excel and a folder full of email: that is how most companies have grown. Perfectly logical — until growth breaks the patchwork apart and every week something falls through the cracks somewhere.
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The problem we encounter
The same data in four places
Customer data lives in the quoting tool, the accounting package, an Excel list and someone's mailbox. If something changes, it has to be updated everywhere — and so it isn't updated everywhere.
Excel as a shadow system
For everything the separate packages cannot do, there is a spreadsheet. Planning, inventory, post-calculation: crucial business information lives in files with version numbers in the name.
Getting an overview takes days
A simple management overview requires exports from three systems and an afternoon of cutting and pasting. The figures are ready at the moment they are already out of date.
Everything depends on a few people
Only Petra knows how the invoicing Excel works, only Jos knows the link between the packages. If one of them is out, the whole process stalls.
The analysis
What is really going on
Each separate package was once the best choice for one problem. But your business is not a collection of separate problems: sales, delivery, invoicing and accounting are one continuous process. As soon as that process runs across system boundaries, the cracks appear — and people with spreadsheets are the cement holding it all together.
There is no single source of truth. Not because anyone is doing something wrong, but because the landscape has grown that way. The solution, then, is not yet another tool on top, but one platform underneath.
The approach
Our solution in Odoo
We replace the patchwork step by step with one Odoo platform — no big bang. We start with the process where it hurts most, for example sales and invoicing, and expand from there with inventory, purchasing, projects or HR. We migrate your data in a controlled way: first clean, then transfer, then verify.
Thanks to our €1,000-per-app approach you know exactly what the investment is at each step. In the daily way of working, the separate lists disappear: everyone works in the same system, with the same up-to-date data.
How we approach it
- Start with the process causing the most pain
- Expand per app: sales, accounting, inventory, projects
- Controlled data migration from Excel and legacy packages
- Training per role, so the team can get going straight away
- Fixed price per app via the €1,000-per-app route
What it delivers
The result
One system in which a customer, order or invoice exists exactly once. Overviews you no longer have to compile, because they are simply there. And an organisation that no longer depends on the one colleague who knows how the spreadsheet works.
Let's be honest: a switch like this takes time and discipline, from your team too. That is why we do it step by step — every step delivers an immediately working improvement, and you keep control of the pace yourself.
From real projects
Companies that went before you
From e-bike brand to project organisation: many of our customers started with separate systems and spreadsheets, and now work on one Odoo platform. Read their stories.
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