Odoo 19 vs Dynamics 365

It's the classic sales pitch, and it deserves to be costed out.
The Teams and Excel integration is real and pleasant. But it won't give you a CRM, marketing, an online store or a point of sale: each one is a Dynamics product or an add-on billed on top. Odoo works very well with Microsoft 365 for email and calendar, while including everything else.

Both are up to the job, with different styles.
BC's analytic dimensions are excellent, and French localization is serious on both sides. Odoo includes in the same subscription what BC charges for as extensions: AI bill recognition, bank sync, e-invoicing. For the same scope, it's a close match; for the same budget, it no longer is.

Far more than the advertised €69.30.
Business Central Essentials costs €69.30 excl. VAT per user per month, Premium €95.30. But sales CRM, marketing, customer service and field service are separate products, each with its own license. For a full scope, Microsoft's per-user bill comes to well over twice the Odoo subscription.

The real question is the cost and speed of every change.
In Business Central, a field or a rule means an AL extension developed by your partner. In Odoo, the same request is usually handled through configuration or Studio, in hours rather than days. You keep an integrator for structural work, not for every tiny adjustment.

Yes, the data is clean and accessible.
BC exposes its data through APIs and exports. We migrate customers and vendors, products, bills of materials, open balances and accounting history, and we check the balances against your trial balances. AL extensions are reviewed one by one: most of them match features already included in Odoo.

Mainly the depth of Teams and Power BI.
If your meetings live in Teams with shared BC records, or if your management runs everything in Power BI, those uses will have to go through Odoo's API or its built-in dashboards. That's the real point to assess honestly, and we look at it with you during the audit.

Yes, and above all without the costly all-or-nothing switch.
At Microsoft, manufacturing and service management require Premium at €95.30. And the rule is harsh: a user with an Essentials license cannot sign in to a company that uses the Premium experience. In other words, as soon as a single user needs to manufacture or handle after-sales service, the whole company moves to €95.30 per user, including the accountant who will never touch a manufacturing order. With Odoo, turning on manufacturing doesn't change anyone's price.

It's a good setup, but that's two products to pay for and maintain.
The official BC-Shopify connector works. You pay for Shopify on top, you manage two catalogs and two sets of promotion rules, and B2B remains limited. Odoo runs the store, B2B, inventory and accounting on a single database. We also build BC-Shopify setups for those who stay on BC, so we know how to compare the two.

AI is moving fast on both sides.
Copilot keeps expanding in Business Central, and that's a real plus. Odoo, for its part, builds AI into invoice entry, writing, forecasting and support, with no additional license. Today, neither should be chosen on this criterion alone.

Leaving is simpler with Odoo.
With Odoo, you can download the full PostgreSQL database and host it elsewhere, including with us. With Microsoft, you get exports and API access, but never the database itself, and every year the logic pushes you a little further toward the rest of the stack.

Three to six months for a standard business management scope.
The timeline mostly depends on the number of AL extensions to review and on the scope beyond core management: marketing, support, eCommerce. The estimate is broken down by phase after the audit, with the cutover on a period-end date.

Yes, and it's our standard method.
A test database with your products, your customers and vendors, and your scenarios, run by your own teams. The decision is made on hard evidence. If the verdict is to stay on Business Central, you still walk away with a useful audit.