Quotes, orders, inventory, production, shipping, invoices, and the books, all in one place and shaped around your team. Avunu implements two open-source ERP platforms, ERPNext and Odoo, and tailors them to how you work instead of asking you to work around the software.
Your company
Selling
Buying
Stock
Manufacturing
Shipping
Accounting
Projects
SO-2041 · Home-decor print run · Ships Oct 16
Sales order
| Item | Qty | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| Printed pillow cover, 18 × 18 | 240 | $2,880.00 |
| Printed table runner, 72 in | 60 | $1,140.00 |
| Freight | 1 | $96.00 |
Work order WO-0187 released to the floor
$4,116.00
Most growing businesses get here the same way. Each tool made sense when you picked it. Together, they mean typing the same order three times, chasing status updates, and wondering which number is right.
Renewal notice
ERPNext and Odoo Community are built and maintained in the open by large communities of businesses and developers. We build on them because they put you in control.
Add people as you grow without renegotiating a contract.
Everything we build for you transfers to you once it's paid for, code included.
Your system runs on widely used open-source platforms, so any qualified partner, or your own staff, can support it. We'd love to keep working with you, but because you want to, not because you have to.
It lives in standard databases you can access, back up, and move.
Users
Accounting
Manufacturing
Selling
No license change. No contract to renegotiate.
Every implementation follows the same six phases. We keep each one focused on the people who'll use the system every day, and we deliver the essentials first.
We meet the people who do the work: the office, the shop floor, sales, and accounting. We map your current tools and workflows, document what each group needs, and rank priorities by urgency and importance.
We turn those priorities into a plan: which platform, which standard modules, where custom work is truly needed, and what phase one includes. You get best- and worst-case estimates before any build work begins.
We configure the platform first and write custom code only where your workflow demands it. Custom code ships with automated tests, and you see progress in working software, not slide decks.
We bring over customers, vendors, products, open balances, and history worth keeping, from QuickBooks, spreadsheets, or another system. We rehearse the migration on a test copy, then pick a cutover date that suits your calendar.
We train each team on the workflows they'll actually use, with written guides they can come back to. The goal is confidence on day one, not a manual nobody reads.
After go-live we stay close. We fix what comes up, then keep improving the system in order of what matters most to you. You can follow hours against budget at any time in our client project portal, and we'll warn you well before a budget runs out.
Both platforms are open, and either way the system is yours. The right choice depends on your industry, your workflows, and how much you expect to customize. Here's how we think about it.
How we think about it | ERPNext | Odoo |
|---|---|---|
Licensing | Fully open source. There is no paid enterprise edition. | Community is open source. A paid Enterprise edition exists, but we build on Community plus OCA modules to avoid license lock-in. |
Where it shines | Manufacturing, complex bills of materials, and businesses that need deeply custom workflows. | Service and repair shops, distribution, retail, and businesses that want broad coverage out of the box. |
App breadth | A focused core: accounting, selling, buying, stock, manufacturing, projects, and HR. | A broad suite plus a large library of OCA modules: repairs, fleet, field service, shop floor, point of sale, and more. |
Customization | The Frappe framework makes custom apps and low-code document types fast to build. | Custom Python modules on top of a large, mature module ecosystem. |
User experience | Clean and functional, and simple to learn. | More polished out of the box, with many ready-made screens. |
Accounting | Solid core accounting for US businesses. | A mature accounting and localization ecosystem through the OCA. |
Ecosystem | An active open-source community and a smaller partner network. | A large global partner network and the Odoo Community Association. |
Our tooling | frappe-nix and 10 published Frappe apps. | odoo-nix and our open Odoo modules. |
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Not sure? That's what a systems assessment is for. We'll look at your workflows and recommend the platform that fits, and we'll tell you if neither one does.
Professional services (Avunu)Avunu's own ERPNext runs proposals, timesheets, billing, subscriptions, banking, payroll tax, and a client portal with live hour budgets.
Published so you can inspect them before they ever touch your business.
Reproducible Nix infrastructure for Frappe and ERPNext, from the development shell to OCI containers and a multi-site NixOS module.
Reproducible Nix infrastructure for Odoo Community (OCB) and OCA projects, from scaffolding and development to containers and NixOS.
A project and task workspace for ERPNext, with timers and hour budgets for staff and a portal where customers follow and work on their projects.
Collect electronic signatures on any Frappe or ERPNext document through web forms, with signed PDFs and a full audit trail.
Odoo 18 modules that send and receive email through Cloudflare and run two-way Twilio SMS and MMS conversations inside Discuss.
Send and receive Frappe and ERPNext email through Cloudflare, with no SMTP or IMAP provider in the loop.
See everything in our open-source catalog, and browse our Frappe knowledge base for technical guides.
TODO: Add a link to the Odoo KB section once it exists (plan gap backlog).
Something else on your mind? Call (717) 814-8540 or start a project and we'll talk it through.
It depends on scope, the number of teams involved, and how much data needs to move. We define a focused phase one with a timeline and best- and worst-case estimates before build work starts.
Sometimes that's the right first step, and we can connect the two. More often, moving accounting into the ERP is where the biggest time savings are, because it ends the double entry. We'll recommend what fits your situation.
We can. Our managed infrastructure runs ERPNext and Odoo with backups, monitoring, and security handled for you. We're equally happy to deploy on your own servers.
Yes. We regularly step into existing systems, review what's there, and get them moving again. Start with a consultation.
Yes. If your sales team runs on Salesforce, we can work there too, including migrations and integrations with your ERP. See custom software.
Tell us how your business runs today and where the friction is. We'll help you choose a platform and plan a first phase you can actually afford.
