Odoo ERP implemented the way an Indian business actually runs: GST and e-invoicing configured and then tested against a return you have already filed, EPF and ESI payroll handled, your Tally history brought across, and a fixed rupee price agreed before anyone writes a line of code. Engineered from our Noida office, on IST.
Trusted by teams across India, the Gulf and worldwide
An office in Noida, not just a time zoneEngineering delivered from our own office in Noida, on IST, under registered entities in India, the US and Australia. Contracts and invoices in rupees.
Why Appther
An Odoo team that has filed a GSTR-1 from it
Most Odoo work in India is either a reseller who configures and leaves, or a body shop that has never filed a GSTR-1 from the system it built. We are set up to be neither of those.
Compliance is tested, not promisedBefore go-live we re-run a GST return you have already filed, through the new Odoo configuration and its e-invoice IRNs. If the two do not agree to the rupee, we have not finished.
Fixed price in rupeesScope, price and go-live date are written down before the first sprint, in rupees. Being the delivery team rather than a reseller is what lets that number hold without quietly filling the project with juniors.
Your hours, not oursStand-ups, UAT and support run on IST. When a purchase order will not confirm at 9am in Pune, someone answers at 9am in Pune.
AI is already in the toolkitDemand forecasting, supplier invoice OCR that reads a scanned GST bill, and a CRM copilot, all shipped as native Odoo modules through our Odoo AI integration practice, upgrade-safe and inside your own tenancy.
Odoo Services
Odoo services for Indian businesses
Six ways we work with Odoo in India. In India most engagements begin with a Tally migration or a custom module, then widen once the first GSTR-1 files cleanly out of the new system. Each line links to its guide, and all of it sits inside our Odoo ERP services practice.
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Odoo ERP Implementation
Accounting, sales, purchasing, stock and CRM configured around how you actually trade, on Community or Enterprise, whichever is cheaper for your headcount.
Indian chart of accounts and GST rates from day one
For when a standard app almost fits. Written in Python and XML as proper installable modules, so the next version upgrade does not quietly undo the work.
Industry workflows: batches, lots, jobs, TDS deductions
Moving from Odoo 14, 15, 16 or 17 to 19 without losing the customisations that made your version yours, and without breaking e-invoicing on the way. See our migration guide.
Custom module audit, and a rewrite where one is needed
A test upgrade on a copy, then a rehearsed cut-over
Every ledger balance validated against the old instance
An Odoo instance can be technically perfect and still fail its first GST filing in India. These six are where it usually goes wrong, so each is a named line on the implementation checklist rather than a footnote nobody reads.
GST and e-invoicing
CGST, SGST, IGST and cess on an Indian chart of accounts, the composition scheme where you are on it, reverse charge on notified supplies, e-invoice IRNs raised against the IRP, and GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B data produced from Odoo rather than rebuilt in a spreadsheet. Tested against a return you have already filed with the GSTN.
Payroll, EPF and ESI
Odoo's Indian payroll with EPF, ESI, professional tax, gratuity and Form 24Q TDS returns, or a clean journal sync from the payroll platform your HR team already trusts. We recommend whichever costs you less at your headcount and say why.
E-invoicing, TDS and TCS
Invoices laid out the way the IRP expects, TDS deducted under 194C and 194Q where it applies, TCS under 206C(1H) on the sales side, and Form 26AS reconciliation that does not fall to one person in March.
Data residency
Odoo deployed in AWS Mumbai or Azure Central India inside your own account when the data cannot leave the country, with backups that stay in region. Where that is not a constraint, Odoo.sh or Odoo Online run cheaper and we will say so.
The DPDP Act and CERT-In
Access rules scoped to the DPDP Act, an audit trail on personal data, and an incident path that can notify the Data Protection Board and meet the CERT-In six-hour window, agreed before go-live rather than after an incident. An NDA is signed before discovery starts, without anyone having to ask.
Financial year and year-end
A 1 April to 31 March financial year with fiscal periods and lock dates set properly, and cover through March close and every monthly GST filing, which is exactly when the questions arrive. Your CA gets their own login and the reports they actually ask for.
Industries
Where Odoo earns its keep in India
Odoo earns its place where stock, job work and money have to agree with each other every single day. Six sectors where our configuration experience runs deepest.
Round rupee figures so you can budget before the first call. The precise number goes in writing after scoping and only moves if the scope moves. Odoo bills its own licensing separately. Our migration guide and ERP comparison break the decisions down.
Starter
CRM, sales and invoicing, or one operational module, for a team that wants Odoo working before the next quarter closes.
₹3,00,000 to 8,00,000
Live in 4 to 8 weeks
Indian localisation, GST rates and HSN codes configured
A CRM-only project sits at ₹2,00,000 to ₹6,00,000 depending on how complicated the pipeline is. Indian Odoo firms typically bill ₹1,800 to ₹3,500 an hour on time and materials; we quote a fixed figure instead. Every custom module and its source belongs to you, and it stays installed if you ever move on from us.
How We Implement
From first call to first GST return
Five stages, each ending in something you can log into and check for yourself. The first costs nothing, and the fourth is the one most Odoo projects in India skip.
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Week 1 · Free
Scoping Call & Fit Check
Half an hour on how you trade today, where the friction actually is, and whether Odoo is genuinely the right answer. You leave with a written scope and a fixed rupee price.
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Weeks 1-2
Design Around Your Workflows
We map quote to cash and purchase to pay, separate what Odoo already does from what has to be configured or built, and sign the chart of accounts off with your CA before anyone writes code.
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Weeks 2-10
Configure, Build & Migrate
Localisation first, then modules, then custom work, then your Tally data, in weekly sprints you can log into and test against real transactions of your own.
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Final 2 weeks
Parallel Run & GST Reconciliation
A GST return you have already filed is re-run through Odoo and reconciled to the rupee. Your team runs both systems side by side for two weeks and signs off before Tally is switched off.
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Go-live + support
Cut-over, Training & Year-End Cover
Go-live on the date we agreed, training on the floor for each role, and a named engineer on IST through your first GSTR-1 out of Odoo and through March close.
Proof
ERP at a scale most India partners never see
Case Study
A 7,000-tonne-a-day sugar mill, run end to end on Odoo
One Odoo instance runs cane procurement, the weighbridge, grower payments, production yields and finance for a mill that crushes 7,000 tonnes of cane a day. A seasonal, multi-site agribusiness at that scale is the closest thing we have to what an Enterprise-tier rollout looks like for an Indian manufacturer.
7,000tonnes of cane a day, one ledger
1instance in place of paper slips and spreadsheets
“Implementing an ERP across our sugar manufacturing operations felt daunting at first, but Appther made the transition seamless. Every department now works off a single source of truth.”
Johnathan PefferCEO · Bull's Eye Technologies Inc
“Appther exceeded every expectation, on time and on budget, and the final product has been instrumental in scaling our business. A rare engineering partner.”
Bob SinghalProfessor of Joy · Joyscore Inc
“Building a mental health app means every detail has to be handled with care, and Appther got that from day one. The product feels warm, simple, and genuinely helpful.”
Odoo vs the Alternatives
Odoo against what India SMEs usually outgrow
Tally, Busy and Zoho Books are good at what they do. The trouble starts when stock, job work or production have to live somewhere else and get reconciled by hand every month. NetSuite and Dynamics solve that at a price most mid-sized Indian businesses will not pay.
What you need
Tally / Busy / Zoho Books
Odoo
NetSuite / Dynamics
GST, e-invoicing and payroll
Native GST; payroll via an add-on
Native via Indian localisation, configured by us
Via localisation, partner-configured
Stock, warehousing, barcode
Basic, or a separate application
Full WMS, multi-warehouse, lots and serials
Full, at additional module cost
Manufacturing and BoMs
A separate application
MRP, work orders, quality, maintenance
Advanced manufacturing module
CRM, eCommerce, POS, projects
Separate subscriptions each
Same database, one login
Add-on suites
Custom workflows
Limited to what the package allows
Open source; custom modules in Python
Scripting or extensions, partner-dependent
Licence cost per user
Low, per organisation
Free on Community, or roughly ₹1,800 to ₹3,000 per user per month on Enterprise
Well over ₹8,000 per user per month
Typical implementation
Days, self-serve
₹3L to ₹75L+, 4 to 32 weeks
₹60L upwards, 6 to 12 months
Best fit
Service businesses under about 20 people
Product, project and production businesses from 10 to 500 people
Large multinational groups
Odoo in India
Guides we wrote for India Odoo buyers
Migration, ERP comparison and agentic AI, with the questions Indian finance teams actually ask.
Where agents take work off an ERP queue, and where a person should still approve.
Free 30-Minute Odoo Call on IST
Outgrown Tally? Let's scope the move.
One call gives you a straight answer on whether Odoo fits, which modules you actually need, a fixed rupee price and a go-live date. If another system suits you better, you will hear that from us first.
GST and payroll fit check Fixed rupee price Go-live date
Questions Indian businesses ask before choosing Odoo
No, and we say so here rather than let you find out on the first invoice. Appther is an independent implementation firm whose developers hold Odoo certifications. Partner tier tells you how much Enterprise licensing a firm has resold. It does not tell you whether your GSTR-1 will reconcile. Judge us on references and a scoped fixed quote instead.
Yes, and it is the most common way an India engagement starts. We map your existing ledger to the Indian Odoo localisation, bring across masters, open invoices and bills, opening balances and as many past years as you want to keep, then run a parallel month so the first GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B out of Odoo match what Tally would have produced. Only then does Tally get switched off.
Yes. The Indian localisation ships CGST, SGST, IGST and cess, HSN and SAC codes, and e-invoice IRNs raised against the IRP. We configure it for how you actually trade, including the composition scheme and reverse charge on notified supplies, produce GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B data from Odoo, and test the whole thing against a return you have already filed before go-live.
Two options. Odoo's Indian payroll covers EPF, ESI, professional tax, gratuity and Form 24Q, and we configure it for you. Or, if your HR team is settled on an existing payroll platform, we leave it there and sync the journals into Odoo cleanly. We recommend whichever costs less at your headcount and tell you what the cheaper one gives up.
Wherever it has to. When residency matters we deploy Odoo in AWS Mumbai or Azure Central India inside your own cloud account, with backups that stay in region and access rules scoped to the DPDP Act. Where it does not, Odoo.sh or Odoo Online cost less to run and we will say so. Either way the database, the custom modules and the source belong to you.
A CRM-only project runs ₹2,00,000 to ₹6,00,000. A Starter implementation of one or two modules is ₹3,00,000 to ₹8,00,000. A Growth rollout that replaces Tally with accounting, stock, sales and purchasing on one ledger is ₹8,00,000 to ₹25,00,000. Multi-GSTIN, manufacturing or integration-heavy work starts at ₹25,00,000. Every figure is confirmed in writing after scoping and does not move unless the scope does.
Community is free and covers accounting, sales, purchasing, stock and CRM well for a great many Indian SMEs. Enterprise adds hosted upgrades, the mobile apps, MRP and quality, field service, Studio and the payroll localisation, at roughly ₹1,800 to ₹3,000 per user per month. We recommend the cheaper edition that does the job and tell you plainly what you would be giving up.
Engineering is delivered from our own office in Noida, on IST, so your stand-ups, UAT and escalations happen inside your working day rather than after it. Appther holds registered entities in India, the United States and Australia. Contracts and invoices are in rupees.
An Odoo Consultant Replies Within One Business Day, India Hours
Talk to an Odoo team that works your hours
Tell us what you run today and what is breaking. You will get a straight answer on fit, a fixed rupee price and a date, or a recommendation to look elsewhere if Odoo is not the right tool.
India-region hostingAWS Mumbai or Azure Central India, in your own account
Free 30-minute scoping callBooked on IST, with your accountant welcome on the line.
Fixed price in rupeesWritten scope, price and go-live date before the build starts.
