For background, I own a wine distribution company, looking to buy competitors here in Texas and eventually surrounding states. My pricing is built on 20 users and 3 locations (warehouses).

As I am looing to grow further through acquisitions, scalable software is a huge item that needs to be addressed. Currently I run Quickbooks (like most small business). It works, great starting point, but is limited beyond a single operator.

Currently I have looked at Odoo, Zoho, and Net suite. I am leaning towards Odoo due to its scalability an customization.

Quickbooks: pretty much accounting and not much else. there are a lot of other software that can plug in or play with it, but it is a Kludge-fest. To get anything useful you need Enterprise and that is still sort on my needs. they are raising their prices a lot also. Pricing: $600 year for single seat license of Pro, 2K for enterprise.

Salesforce: holy cow it is expensive, not SMB friendly

Netsuite: kind of a more comprehensive version of QB, but dated and expensive. Probably 30K+ to implement and 36k+ a year to license.

Zoho: seem decent but a little too off the shelf. Kind of the Apple of business software, works great as long as what you want to do is what they have available. pricing, no idea

Odoo: second time looking at it, would recommend hiring a third party to implement. They do not have a US account template, you have to set it all up. You can port over QB data, but it takes some work to format. Upside it you can do just about anything you want (lots of modules), downside is that it was built to EU accounting, and will need implementation team to set up. About 25~40k to implement, less than 6k license annually.


Any other software i should look at? what has been you experience?



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