Odoo

The business suite without the per-user subscription

Odoo is one of the most widely used business platforms in the world, and its vendor-hosted edition is priced per user per month, around £20 per user at published pricing at the time of writing. The Community edition is open source and contains the core apps most businesses actually run: CRM, sales, invoicing, inventory, purchasing and projects. Node deploys, manages and supports Odoo Community as a production service hosted in the UK, flat-priced however many staff use it.

What Odoo is

Odoo is a modular open source business suite: a family of integrated applications that share one database, one interface and one set of records. Start with CRM and invoicing, add inventory and purchasing as you grow, switch on projects and timesheets when you need them. Because every module works from the same data, a quotation becomes a sales order, the sales order drives stock movements and the invoice raises itself, with no re-keying and no synchronisation between separate tools.

The Community edition is genuinely open source and includes the modules that make up the operational core of most small and mid-sized businesses: contacts and CRM, sales and quotations, invoicing, inventory and warehousing, purchasing, projects, timesheets, manufacturing and a website builder, among others. A large ecosystem of community modules extends it further.

That integration is Odoo's real pitch. Most businesses run their operations across a CRM here, an invoicing tool there and a stock spreadsheet somewhere else, gluing them together by hand. Odoo replaces the glue with one system where the sales pipeline, the warehouse and the ledger already agree with each other.

Why self-hosted Odoo instead of Odoo Online or Enterprise

No per-user fees: Odoo's hosted editions charge for every named user, every month. At around £20 per user at published pricing at the time of writing, a twenty-person business is committing to a five-figure annual spend before customisation. Self-hosted Odoo Community has no seat count: add users freely on one flat managed fee.

Your data stays in the UK: your customer list, your prices, your margins and your invoices are the commercial heart of the business. With Odoo managed by Node they live on UK infrastructure under an Article 28 data processing agreement, not in a vendor's cloud on the vendor's terms.

The core apps without the upsell: CRM, sales, invoicing, inventory, purchasing and projects are all in the Community edition. You are not paying a subscription to unlock functions the open source edition already ships.

No lock-in: Odoo Community runs on PostgreSQL with open, exportable data. If you outgrow it or change direction, your records leave with you, which is not a claim every ERP vendor can make.

Configured to your business, not the vendor's roadmap: self-hosting means community modules, custom fields and integrations are your call. We tailor the deployment to how you actually quote, ship and bill, rather than working around the constraints of a multi-tenant SaaS.

One system for sales, finance and operations

CRM to cash: track leads and pipeline, convert opportunities to quotations, confirm orders and invoice them, all in one flow. Payment follow-ups and statements are built in, so debtor-chasing is a process rather than a memory exercise.

Inventory and purchasing: real-time stock levels, reordering rules, supplier price lists and purchase workflows that connect directly to sales demand. What the sales team promises and what the warehouse holds are the same number.

Projects and timesheets: plan work, log time against tasks and bill it, with project profitability visible instead of buried in spreadsheets.

Room to grow: manufacturing, HR, expenses, helpdesk and more can be switched on as the business needs them, on the same database and the same flat hosting fee.

Odoo is not the only ERP we run. ERPNext is a strong open source alternative with a similar all-in-one scope, and Dolibarr suits smaller businesses that want CRM and invoicing without a full ERP footprint. We help you choose the right fit rather than the one we happen to sell.

Keycloak and single sign-on

Every application in a Node tenant joins your own Keycloak realm, so staff sign in once with corporate credentials and move between Odoo and every other app we run for you without separate passwords. Admins control access centrally: MFA and session policies apply consistently, and leavers lose access to the ERP the moment they are removed from the identity system. It is part of how the Node platform is built.

How Node runs Odoo for you

We operate Odoo as a fully managed service, not a server you have to babysit.

Deployment: we deploy Odoo Community in a production configuration with a managed PostgreSQL database, configure the modules your business needs, set up UK tax and invoice templates, and import your existing data.

Upgrades and maintenance: Odoo moves quickly and upgrades touch your data. We test upgrades against a copy of your database, manage migrations and keep your instance current and secure without gambling with your ledger.

Monitoring and support: we monitor availability, performance and background job health, take verified backups of the database and filestore, and our team is available when the system your invoicing depends on needs attention.

Your infrastructure or ours: hosted on Node's UK infrastructure or deployed into your own environment, on-premises or in your cloud accounts, with the same managed service either way.