Odoo Community odoo/odoo

LGPL business suite; the Community edition's Invoicing app sends invoices and takes portal payments, with Expenses and Timesheets apps.

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Odoo Community at a glance

Checked 16 Oct 2026

Odoo (55.1k stars) is a suite of business apps. The open-source Community edition includes the Invoicing app (invoices, vendor bills, payments, simplified accounting), online invoice payment through the customer portal, Expenses and timesheet logging. The full Accounting app, with standard financial reports and bank reconciliation, is not in this repository; Enterprise is a separate repo of extra add-ons. LGPL-3.0. Install from packages (Windows installer, Debian/RPM) or source with Python and PostgreSQL. Powerful but complex for simple invoicing.

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How much of QuickBooks Online does it replace?

3 of 6 jobs. Community has invoicing and payments; financial reports and bank reconciliation are in the full Accounting app, which is not in Community.

Invoices Partial replacement

Online payment of invoices Partial replacement

Expense and receipt tracking Partial replacement

Bank feeds and reconciliation Not covered

Bookkeeping Not covered

Time tracking and billing for time Not covered

For bank feeds and reconciliation, bookkeeping, see other QuickBooks Online alternatives. You may also need to build an interface, an API server and hosting yourself.

How much of FreshBooks does it replace?

4 of 6 jobs. Covers the jobs, but setup and the module system are heavier.

Invoices Partial replacement

Online payment of invoices Partial replacement

Time tracking and billing for time Partial replacement

Expense and receipt tracking Partial replacement

Bank feeds and reconciliation Not covered

Bookkeeping Not covered

For bank feeds and reconciliation, bookkeeping, see other FreshBooks alternatives. You may also need to build an interface, an API server and hosting yourself.

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Runs on my machine? Self-hosted from packages or source Odoo S.A. provides a repository that can be used to install the Community edition by executing odoo.com · packages.html ↗ today

Code licence LGPL-3.0 (weak copyleft) Odoo is published under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 3 github.com · LICENSE ↗ today

Model weights licence No separate model weights github.com · odoo#readme ↗ today

Commercial use Yes under LGPL-3.0; Enterprise-only apps are not covered Odoo is published under the GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE, Version 3 github.com · LICENSE ↗ today

Paid services needed? Community is free; the full Accounting app (reports, bank reconciliation) is not in the Community repo the Accounting app is a comprehensive accounting solution that allows the same actions and includes additional features such as standard financial reports, bank reconciliation, budgets, asset management, and more. odoo.com · accounting.html ↗ today

Hardware Not documented in the install pages reviewed Know the answer? —

Operating systems Windows installer, Debian/Ubuntu and RPM packages; source install on Linux, Windows and macOS packages for both the Community and Enterprise editions can odoo.com · packages.html ↗ today

Setup effort Medium; distro packages or Windows installer, PostgreSQL required Odoo S.A. provides a repository that can be used to install the Community edition by executing odoo.com · packages.html ↗ today