I see so many businesses using small accounting packages that are adding external websites to their system for online shopping or similar functions.
While this strategy might add shopping cart capability in the short term longer term problems can come up such as
- Data discrepancies and sync failures
- Operational maintenance such as 2 systems to manage security and new features
- Marketing automations are harder to achieve such as automatic integrations into CRM systems
- Customers may see variations from the truth as information is stored in 2 separate systems, pricing and inventory differences and so on
- Smaller system inventory capabilities are not very powerful to deal with real time orders from external sources
- Workflows between front end and back end are clunky and inflexible
- Collaboration from external websites to your central system are cumbersome
- The costs are not insubstantial, if you have Odoo eCommerce is part of your licence.
- Odoo ERP is the source of truth for all data including images , documents etc.
All these issues are addressed and improved substantially when a fully integrated platform such as Odoo ERP is implemented. Often Odoo can be implemented for little more than the costs of implementing an addon shopping cart website.
Yes, the costs are likely more to implement Odoo than stay with your accounting system but the benefits are immediate, cost effective and will do much more to supercharge your business than adding an external shopping cart website.
As of 2025 there are over 100,000 eCommerce sites powered by Odoo and growing rapidly, why not yours ?
Contact us at WMSSoft to discover more about how Odoo can help your business