Feature by feature

The plain list. What we don't do comes first, because that is the part other vendors leave out. For the reasoning behind it — size, price, who sets it up — see Compare your options.

Yes in the product
Partly some of it
Add-on a separate product, paid app or higher edition from the same vendor
No not offered

	Opterion-IT	Accounting package, top tier	Odoo	Salesforce
What we don't do Start here. If one of these is the thing you need, we are the wrong choice.
General ledger and financial statements	No By design. Invoices, bills and credits are exported for import into your chosen accounting package	Yes	Yes	No
Customer payments, bank feeds and reconciliation	No Tracked in your accounting package	Yes	Yes	No
Payroll	Partly Hours fully managed; records exported to your payroll provider	Add-on	Partly Selected countries	No
Website and online store	No	No	Yes	Add-on
Marketing automation	Partly Email campaigns to any list of recipients you define	Add-on	Yes	Add-on
Manufacturing planning: work centres, routings, capacity	Partly Builds from a kit recipe, with parts and hours; no work centres or routings	No	Yes	No
Selling and quoting
Customer and contact records	Yes	Yes For billing	Yes	Yes
Relationship health per customer, with follow-up work assigned to a person	Yes	No	No	Partly Built by your admin
Sales leads	Yes At your desk, or quick-add from your phone	No	Yes	Yes
Sales forecast from open leads	Yes By the size and target date of each lead	No	Yes	Yes Deeper: quotas and weighted pipeline
Quotes and estimates	Yes From stock, or time-and-materials on parts bought for the job	Yes	Yes	Yes
Quotes built in sections, by several people at once	Yes	No	Partly Section headings	Add-on
Kits that expand into their components on the quote	Yes	Partly Bundles	Yes	Add-on
Change orders the customer approves	Yes Costed and estimated line by line, like the order itself	Yes	Partly Amend the order	Add-on
Time-and-materials jobs billed at cost plus a margin	Yes	Partly Billable expenses with markup	Partly Re-invoiced costs and timesheets	No
Progress invoicing: by line, section, percentage or amount	Yes	Yes Milestones	Yes Milestones and deposits	Add-on
Actual cost and margin on each job	Yes Parts at cost, and hours bid against hours burned from time cards	Yes Labour from timesheets, at a cost rate	Yes Labour from timesheets	No
Jobs and crews
Field staff work from their phone	Yes Included in the price; nothing to install	Add-on A separate time-tracking subscription	Yes Phone app	Add-on Their field service product
Crew schedule board: who is where, each day	Yes	No	Yes	Add-on
Arrive and leave from a phone, straight onto the time card	Yes	Add-on	Yes	Add-on
Location at arrival and departure only, switched on per employee	Yes Never tracked in between	Add-on Per person, but tracks the whole shift	Partly Check-in location; no per-person switch found	Add-on Their field service product
Hours quoted, booked and worked, side by side on the job	Yes	Partly Budget against actual	Yes	Add-on
Receipt photographed on site becomes a draft bill	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Stock and purchasing
Inventory at average cost	Yes	Yes	Yes	Add-on Parts tracking in their field service product
Purchase orders and receiving	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
One buying list driven by live orders, each line with its reason	Yes	Partly Reorder points	Yes	No
Requests for quote to suppliers	Yes	No	Yes	No
Kit and assembly builds into stock, at what they cost to build	Yes	No	Yes	No
Pick, ship and backorders	Yes	Partly Sales orders reserve stock	Yes	No
Stock counts and adjustments	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Supplier invoices matched to what arrived	Yes	Partly Bill against the order	Yes	No
Returns to suppliers, with the credit tracked until their credit note arrives	Yes On parts bought for a job; restocking fees handled	Partly Supplier credits keyed by hand	Yes	No
People
Time cards with manager approval	Yes	Add-on	Yes	Add-on
Tablet punch clock at the door	Yes	Add-on	Yes	No
Leave and time-in-lieu balances	Yes Booked time off shows on the crew schedule	Add-on	Yes	No
Job postings and candidates	Yes	No	Yes	No
Employee surveys	Yes	No	Yes	Partly General survey tool
Vehicles
Vehicle service due by distance, without GPS	Yes Odometer from the fuel receipts	No Mileage log for tax only	Partly Service log; distance reminders are an add-on	Add-on Automotive Cloud
Insurance, leases and other renewals due by date	Yes	No	Yes Contract end-date alerts	Add-on Automotive Cloud
One supplier bill split across vehicles and services	Yes	Partly Lines coded to accounts or classes	Partly Costs logged per vehicle	No
Running the organisation
Budget requests with an approval path	Yes	Partly Bill approvals	Partly Purchase approvals	Partly Built by your admin
Initiatives with an owner, a budget and an outcome	Yes	Partly Projects, for costing	Yes	No
IT asset register	Yes	Partly Fixed assets, for depreciation	Partly Equipment maintenance	Partly Customer assets
Facilities and room booking	Yes Upkeep run as PLAYs: assigned, tracked and closed	No	Yes Room booking	No
Event planning and quoting	Yes	No	Yes	No
Club membership and renewals	Yes	No	Yes	Add-on

Odoo's column is nearly all "Yes", and that is fair — it does almost everything. The question with Odoo is what it takes to get it running and keep it running, which is what the comparison page is about. Competitor columns are written from each vendor's published product information, checked October 2026; products change, and if a cell is wrong we would like to know.

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