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 |
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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 |
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Point of Sales |
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Complete Point of Sales | X | V |
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Online Sales |
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Integrated Website | X | V |
Integrated E-commerce | X | V |
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Product Management |
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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 |
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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 |
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Communication |
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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 |
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Invoicing and accounting
| Exact Online | Odoo |
Internal processes |
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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 |
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Daily tasks |
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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 |
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Invoicing |
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Invoicing | V | V |
Send per email | V | V |
UBL invoicing | V | V |
Email follow-up reports | V | V |
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International |
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Accounting for 20+ countries | X | V |
Multi-Company | V | V |
Multi-Language | V | V |
Multi-Currency | V | V |
Marketing
| Exact Online | Odoo |
Marketing actions |
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Mass mailings | X 1) | V |
Webpage, blogs, SEO | X | V |
Events | X | V |
Marketing automation | X | V |
Contact segmentation | X | V |
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Marketing follow-up |
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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 |
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Multi-Warehouse | V | V |
Multi-Location | V | V |
Drop shipment | V | V |
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Products |
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Traceability, batch, Serials | V | V |
Expiration Dates | V | V |
Multiple unit of measures | V | V |
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Reports |
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Stock value | V | V |
Stock forecast | V | V |
Stock moves | V | V |
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Productivity |
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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 |
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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 |
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Productionplanning |
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Multi-level Bom's | V | V |
Routings | V | V |
Master Production Schedule | X | V |
Productionplanning | V | V |
Purchase
| Exact Online | Odoo |
Purchasebeheer |
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Request for quotations | X 1) | V |
Tenders | X | V |
Blanket Orders | X | V |
Pricestaffels | X | V |
Multiple vendors per product | X | V |
3-way invoice control | X | V |
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Fulfillment |
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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.
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Projects |
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Projects | V | V |
Planboard | V | V |
Task, subtask | X | V |
Capacity planning | V | V |
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Customer services |
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Helpdesk | X | V |
Timesheets | V | V |
Satisfaction check | X | V |
Customers portal | X | V |
Email integration | X | V |
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Invoicing |
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Fixed price invoicing | V | V |
Timesheet invoicing | V | V |
Sales project tasks | X | V |
HRM Management
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HRM Management |
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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 |
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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 |
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Other options |
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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 |
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Exact Online Wholesale Distribution Professional *) | $489,00 |
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20 users, all apps | $ 408,50 | $ 748 |
Odoo.sh |
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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