Can Odoo do solar design?

Its pages describe no solar-specific feature. Solar companies on Odoo usually design in a separate tool.

It covers the solar job end to end, including procurement, stock and invoicing. It does not do HR, payroll or manufacturing.

Comparison

Solset AI vs Odoo

Odoo is a broad ERP: CRM, inventory, accounting, projects and much more, configured to fit your business.

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2 of 6: rows where Odoo is ahead
4: rows in our favour
2: reasons to pick Odoo instead

Solset AI is narrower and solar-shaped: the roof design, the structure and the quotation lead straight into purchase orders, installation and invoices.

Odoo in one line: A suite of open-source business apps: CRM, inventory, invoicing, projects and more.

Row by row

Why Solset AI fits an EPC better, and where it does not.

The rows where Odoo is ahead sit where they fall.

Capability

Solset AI

Odoo

Breadth of business appsOdoo

Solset AISolar job end to end; no HR, payroll or manufacturing.

OdooA full ERP suite.

Accounting depthOdoo

Solset AIProforma and tax invoices, receipts, credit and debit notes, receivables ageing, payables and job costing. Tax follows the workspace’s country, with withholding tax where the country uses it.

OdooA full accounting app.

Roof design and structureSolset AI

Solset AITrace the roof on satellite imagery (with AI roof suggestions), fill it with panels, see each panel’s solar access by month and hour, and view the result in 3D. A mounting-structure designer with wind loads, a solved frame analysis, member checks and a STAAD.Pro export, per table type.

OdooNo solar-specific feature described.

Design to quotation and orderSolset AI

Solset AIThe design’s bill of materials prices the quotation from your own catalogue, so nothing is retyped. Purchase requests, RFQs and purchase orders raised from the design’s short lines, goods receipts and vendor bills on the same job.

OdooQuotes and orders from products you set up.

Solar project stagesSolset AI

Solset AIProject stages with document checks, crews and schedules, site photos and updates, grid-connection tracking with days waiting, and a customer tracking page.

OdooGeneric projects you configure.

SetupSolset AI

Solset AISolar workflow by default.

OdooConfigured app by app, often with a partner.

Credit where due

Where Odoo is genuinely strong.

A full ERP: CRM, inventory, accounting, projects, HR and many other apps.
Open source, with a partner network to customise it.
A free single-app option with unlimited users.

Pricing

How the two are priced

Odoo: Odoo offers one app free with unlimited users; its Standard and Custom plans include all apps and are priced per user per month (the price shown follows your location).

Solset AI: priced per workspace, not per user. A plan covers the company, extra seats are an add-on, and the Free plan needs no card and does not expire. Every current figure is on the plans page, read from the live catalogue.

Odoo’s details are from its own website, read on 3 November 2026. Check their site before relying on them.

Be honest about it

When to pick Odoo instead.

You want one ERP for manufacturing, HR and accounting as well as sales
You have the time or a partner to configure it

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