Aplos vs Odoo : Which is a better fit?

Don M.: Hi, my name is Don. I'm the pastor in a small-town church. My rating for Aplos would be a four. For more reviews like this, click below. We use Aplos on a day-to-day basis for the financial accounting of the church, but also for membership database and for donations tracking. What I like most about Aplos is that it's easy to use. We were in a situation where, when I arrived at the church, they were still on a paper ledger, had never used a computer at all, had a lot of fear of using a computer. So, when we made that transition, there was some fear, but once they got into it, they found it was easy to use. The only thing I dislike about Aplos is that there's not a hard file backup on our local computers, that it's all cloud-based, which these days is normal, but I'm a little old school. I kind of like to have a hard copy, at least on a drive somewhere of the data.

Charles: Hi, my name is Charles. I'm a mental performance consultant. I've been using Odoo for my personal business and I give it a rank of four out of five. Before using Odoo, I wasn't really using anything, which meant that a lot of responsibilities and task fell on my desk. So I started using Odoo to kind of schedule everything out, make sure I organize everything, work on billing, work on implementing an e-commerce, and also just learning to manage project between the different people that we had collaborating with us. I decided to choose Odoo because I needed a system that was a bit more precise and concise to work with the different people that we had, with the different schools and the different projects. And at the same time, I wanted to use the same platform that was going to allow me to work on billing and invoices without using another software in order to complete that task. So implementing Odoo was fairly simple. Obviously it's a new software which always takes time. But the person that helped me set it up made sure that things were running smoothly and that we didn't really have any issues. The big plus of Odoo was the easy customer service and the fact that the app was very user-friendly for myself, but also the people that was also on board using the platform. The main advice I have for anyone who wants to use Odoo in their business, if you're looking to save time and really you having multiple things to do all the time, Odoo will just help you facilitate those roles and understanding, facilitating and delegating all that work that falls down on your lap, that was a big different changer for me. The biggest thing was just accepting that the business was growing and that I needed help to make sure that every single files were completed on time, which is the main reason and the main advice that I tell you on why you should use Odoo.