Odoo vs WooPOS: Which is a better fit?

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.

Greg G.: Hey, my name's Greg, I'm a small business owner. I give WooPOS a three out of five. And for more views like this, go ahead and click below. So before using WooPOS, our business was actually just using invoicing. So we use PayPal invoices, and occasionally, we just follow the email. So this is a great way to really start capturing money right at the point of sale. Yeah. So we chose WooPOS for a variety of reasons, but primarily, it was because it integrated with some of the other existing systems we had. We had our website that we sort of served our customers through and they actually had a nice WordPress plugin. So in that sense, we were actually doing those sales online, but that was really important to us, and we didn't want to have to build out our own infrastructure to sort of support that, so this has made it really easy to sort of transition over in that sense. Getting started with WooPOS was ... I would say it was decently easy. It was certainly easier than the alternative that we had in mind, which was building out our own solution. We were going to do that online, and that would've been hard to do on a WordPress site. But WooPOS, they made it very easy to sort of have this plugin and it served our needs pretty quickly. The customization options were left a bit to be desired, but it wasn't terrible, and it certainly had a lot of the functionality we needed right out of the box. So if you're considering WooPOS as an option for yourself, I would encourage you to look at a few things. One, why is this option interesting to you? Are they offering something unique that perhaps another POS service such as Square or Toast isn't ... I know toast is more on the restaurant side, but I think if I were to go back, I would probably use Square for my point of sale services specifically. If it's to integrate for a web storefront, I guess WooCommerce really has that, they do a lot of these online storefronts. It's a good option. It's certainly not bad. I think it makes it pretty easy on some of these other site-building platforms. But if you're starting out fresh, Shopify is probably the way to go in that sense.