Odoo 19 vs PrestaShop

The license is free. Running the store isn't.
We always work out the full cost of the existing store: hosting, modules, maintenance, time spent re-entering data elsewhere, and a provision for the next version upgrade. On the stores we audit, the total is almost always higher than an Odoo subscription that also covers accounting, purchasing and after-sales.

No, and it's an option we suggest regularly.
If your store converts well and you like your theme, we keep PrestaShop as the storefront and connect Odoo behind it to run the business. Orders, customers and products flow between them automatically. It's the right choice when the problem lies downstream of the order, not on the website itself.

On catalog and variants, yes. On the theme ecosystem, no.
PrestaShop offers a much wider choice of themes and modules. On the other hand, an order placed in Odoo updates stock, creates the invoice, posts the journal entry and triggers picking without a single connector. That end-to-end flow is what makes the difference day to day.

It's gone from PrestaShop, and that is often what triggers the move.
Advanced stock management was removed from the PrestaShop core in version 1.7. Stores that relied on it either stayed stuck on 1.6, switched to a third-party module, or moved stock management off the website. Odoo handles warehouses, locations, lots and valuation out of the box.

It's the main workstream, and a well-charted one.
We migrate products, variants, categories, customers, addresses, orders and invoices directly from the MySQL database. The real work is cleaning up variants and pricing rules. Every product is checked against your master file before the switchover.

We go through them one by one, and most of them go.
Modules for invoicing, returns, loyalty, abandoned cart reminders, carrier connections or dashboards cover features that are included in Odoo. We identify their annual cost during the audit, and we tell you frankly which ones have no equivalent.

Not if the redirects are prepared before the switchover.
We build a complete mapping between old and new URLs, including category pages and indexed filters, and we set up permanent redirects. We then monitor indexing over the following weeks.

The code doesn't carry over. The business rule does.
A PrestaShop plugin is written in PHP for its own framework. What we carry over is what it does: the calculation rule, the condition, the document it produces. In Odoo, many of these rules can be rebuilt without development, through configuration or automation.

Yes, and today it's the argument that most often settles the decision.
PrestaShop produces a PDF invoice, which will no longer be enough. E-invoicing requires a structured format and transmission through an approved platform. Odoo handles Factur-X (the Franco-German e-invoice format) and the transmission, on the same database as the store.

Less than you might think.
Odoo's core is open, your PostgreSQL database can be downloaded in full, and you can host it wherever you want, including with us. You remain the owner of your data and your custom developments.

It depends mainly on the catalog and the custom code, not on the number of orders.
A store with a clean catalog and no particular custom development can be moved over in a few weeks. A catalog with complex variants, pricing rules piled up over ten years or a dozen in-house plugins will make the project significantly longer. We quote it after the audit, never before.

Yes, and we never do it any other way.
We set up the store on a test database with your real products and your real orders. You run your own ordering, picking and invoicing scenarios. The switchover only happens once you have approved those scenarios, never on our word alone.