Odoo Accounting vs. QuickBooks Online

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Odoo Accounting
Score 7.0 out of 10
N/A
Odoo Accounting is designed to help companies manage their daily accounting with ease and simplicity. They even offer a global view of the state of their business at any time. All financial activities can be managed in one single app, with Odoo Accounting, as well as automation for primary day-to-day tasks. The Odoo app is synchronized with 24,000 banks, to make it easier to link a payment with a statement, based on the transaction in a bank account. Reconciliation can also be done…
$0
QuickBooks Online
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
QuickBooks Online is a SaaS version of the QuickBooks product. It contains all of the features found in the local version. Higher-priced plans include greater automation, payment management, inventory and time tracking, and analytics features.
$38
per month
Pricing
Odoo AccountingQuickBooks Online
Editions & Modules
One App Free
$0
Standard
$24.90
per month billed yearly per user
Standard
$31.10
per month per user
Custom
$37.40
per month billed yearly per user
Custom
$46.80
per month per user
Simple Start
$38
per month
Essentials
$75
per month
Plus
$115
per month
Advanced
$275
per month
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Odoo AccountingQuickBooks Online
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThe Standard and Custom plans include the Odoo apps for a single fee.
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Community Pulse
Odoo AccountingQuickBooks Online
Features
Odoo AccountingQuickBooks Online
Payroll Management
Comparison of Payroll Management features of Product A and Product B
Odoo Accounting
7.0
Ratings
10% below category average
QuickBooks Online
8.4
Ratings
8% above category average
Pay calculation7.00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Reimbursement management7.00 Ratings9.50 Ratings
Benefit plan administration00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Direct deposit files00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Salary revision and increment management00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Security
Comparison of Security features of Product A and Product B
Odoo Accounting
8.6
Ratings
3% above category average
QuickBooks Online
9.7
Ratings
15% above category average
Role-based user permissions8.60 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Single sign-on capability00 Ratings9.60 Ratings
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Odoo Accounting
9.1
Ratings
14% above category average
QuickBooks Online
8.1
Ratings
3% above category average
Dashboards8.60 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Standard reports8.60 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Custom reports10.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
General Ledger and Configurable Accounting
Comparison of General Ledger and Configurable Accounting features of Product A and Product B
Odoo Accounting
8.6
Ratings
10% above category average
QuickBooks Online
8.6
Ratings
10% above category average
Accounts payable9.10 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Accounts receivable9.10 Ratings9.40 Ratings
Cash management9.10 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Bank reconciliation9.10 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Expense management9.10 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Fixed asset management8.00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Multi-currency support9.10 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Self-service portal10.00 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Global Financial Support8.00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Primary and Secondary Ledgers7.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Intercompany Accounting8.60 Ratings8.80 Ratings
Localizations8.60 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Journals and Reconciliations8.60 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Enterprise Accounting10.00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Configurable Accounting9.10 Ratings7.80 Ratings
Centralized Rules Framework7.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Standardized Processes7.00 Ratings8.50 Ratings
Time tracking00 Ratings6.90 Ratings
Multi-division support00 Ratings9.20 Ratings
Regulations compliance00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Electronic tax filing00 Ratings9.30 Ratings
Inventory Management
Comparison of Inventory Management features of Product A and Product B
Odoo Accounting
7.3
Ratings
1% below category average
QuickBooks Online
7.5
Ratings
2% above category average
Inventory tracking7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Automatic reordering7.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Location management7.00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Manufacturing module8.00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Order Management
Comparison of Order Management features of Product A and Product B
Odoo Accounting
7.7
Ratings
0% below category average
QuickBooks Online
8.4
Ratings
8% above category average
Pricing8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Order entry8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Credit card processing8.60 Ratings8.60 Ratings
Cost of goods sold8.60 Ratings9.30 Ratings
End-to-end order visibility7.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Order exception Resolution6.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Order Orchestration00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Customization
Comparison of Customization features of Product A and Product B
Odoo Accounting
8.0
Ratings
5% above category average
QuickBooks Online
8.3
Ratings
8% above category average
Plug-ins8.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
API for custom integration00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
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User Ratings
Odoo AccountingQuickBooks Online
Likelihood to Recommend
9.5
(0 ratings)
8.8
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
1.9
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.1
(0 ratings)
8.8
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
2.0
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.1
(0 ratings)
1.1
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
3.0
(0 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
10.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
1.3
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
1.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
Odoo AccountingQuickBooks Online
Likelihood to Recommend
Odoo Accounting is well suited for small and medium businesses that want to use an affordable cloud-based accounting solution with a simple, easy-to-use, intuitive, and user-friendly interface. For someone who does not have the strongest accounting knowledge with GAAP, Odoo Accounting solution will be familiar with the system easily after a couple of hours of technical training by Odoo consultants. Odoo Accounting will be not suitable for the complex accounting and invoicing processes within its standard functionalities without doing custom codes through its Odoo studio to fit with the requirements.
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I appreciate the ability to auto-generate invoices for recurring transactions, which saves time, as well as the option to set up auto-generated transactions. The report option is super helpful when reviewing information, as you can click to view the details in the report without having to go back and forth.
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Pros
  • Simple and easy to use Integrated Accounting Software
  • Affordable subscriptions option for cost saving
  • Highly customizable options available
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  • It enables me to do a P&L for each specific program as requested by the county for the grant money that they give us.
  • It enables me to do [an] organizational budget as well as a budget for each specific program
  • It enables the accountant and the auditor access at any time for transparency
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Cons
  • Synchronize Merchant Processor Accounts
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  • Purchase Orders cannot be linked to multiple bill payments which makes tracking purchase orders in QuickBooks Online obsolete. Without the function we have to track this within a different more manual spreadsheet.
  • Would be helpful if you could "split" bank transactions directly from the "review" downloads from the bank. Currently, to split transactions to multiple accounts we need to first categorize, then review after assigning to 1 account.
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Likelihood to Renew
No answers on this topic
QBO needs better integration with non-Intuit products and developers need to use Intuit's open API to develop better add-ons. Clients are having a great deal of problems with their data importing from the bank and this takes time away from better revenue producing activities. Although the efficiencies are there, they are outweighted by the shortcomings of the product. When we ran a parallel of QBO versus other cloud accounting products, we had more issues with the QBO product than any other
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Usability
I believe Odoo Accounting software is an easy-to-use, intuitive and user-friendly accounting software that can be available in both free community versions and enterprise versions. In terms of the software subscription cost-effectiveness and overall functionalities, Odoo Accounting will be a good choice for the small and medium businesses that want to change their existing legacy systems into a more modernized and cost-saving fully integrated cloud-based solution because of its user-friendly interface and easy to map with their existing business processes effectively.
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I had very little trouble setting up the program and migrating from our old accounting system. The daily usage is also very intuitive and easy. Anytime we run into minor trouble with the program, there are always tons of help available on YouTube, so we don't even look up the online manual anymore.
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Reliability and Availability
No answers on this topic
We have rarely had outages in the last 10 years. I can only recall 2 times in the last 10 years where we were not able to access our client files.
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Performance
No answers on this topic
Everything process has its bugs lately with the new interface. Nothing has worked smoothly since this all began last month.
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Support Rating
Odoo has two forms of support.
  1. Success packs where you get a Single Point of Contact (SPoC). This is great.
  2. Free support tickets. This is not stellar, and is only applicable within the standard framework. They will not support customizations for free. That said, I have found that they generally can help me out.
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In my experience, most representatives keep me on the phone for hours, literally, for a single issue and then usually cannot resolve it satisfactorily. I have 10 open cases that need resolution and, in my experience, there has been NO follow-up communication on any of them.
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Implementation Rating
No answers on this topic
The person in charge of QB needs to be very accurate with record keeping and is recommended to stay on top of tasks. The biggest issue we have is reconciliation, and those issues occur only when too much time has occurred between reconciliations
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Alternatives Considered
Odoo Accounting is a big step up from Quickbooks, especially with the other apps. You see, Odoo Accounting can be used by itself, but is meant to be used with other apps such as Sales, Website, eCommerce, Inventory, Purchase, CRM, and more. The real benefit comes with the integrations with these apps.
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QuickBooks Online is an accounting software package that allows companies to use a cost-effective and efficient software package. QuickBooks Online allows companies to prepare their balance sheets and income statements. It connects with a variety of other applications, which allows you to be efficient. We are very pleased with QuickBooks Online, and we would highly recommend it.
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Scalability
No answers on this topic
As we have grown along our professional path, we have also expanded our use of QB. The scalability is easy and features seem to be waiting for you until you need them. We have increased profits by over 10x from our first year in business to the current and have yet to find a reason to look elsewhere
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Return on Investment
  • Low cost
  • More Automation
  • Centralized Management
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  • I think the help function is cumbersome and hard to use. When I go to refresh myself on a function, say quarterly, I feel like I have to cast about just looking for it.
  • The account reconciliation works, but in this place that could benefit from messaging, there are no easy helping functions flagging things like amounts that fit the discrepancy.
  • Even styling invoices and documents is more cumbersome than it should be.
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ScreenShots

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QuickBooks Online Screenshots

Screenshot of the accounting and bank transactions interfaceScreenshot of an overview of the accounting inventoryScreenshot of book marksScreenshot of the business tax overviewScreenshot of the customer hubScreenshot of the dashboard