Lotics vs Odoo

Odoo is ERP software made of ready-made modules: accounting, inventory, sales, purchase, manufacturing. Lotics is where AI builds the system around how the company works, then enters the data, checks the numbers and drafts the invoices in it.

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Updated October 2026. Each fact about Odoo cites its source.

Choose Odoo when

  • You need a standard ERP: accounting, inventory, purchasing, sales and manufacturing in one database.
  • The company is ready to follow Odoo's processes, with a partner or an Odoo implementation pack to set it up.
  • Your accountant needs Vietnamese books under Circular 99 and SInvoice e-invoicing in the same ERP.

Choose Lotics when

  • Your work turns on shipments, B/Ls and containers.
  • When the way you work changes, you want your AI to change the system, not wait for a partner's code.
  • You want ChatGPT, Claude or the built-in AI doing whole jobs on the company's records: data entry, checks, draft invoices.

At a glance

OdooLotics
What it isERP software of ready-made modules: accounting, inventory, sales, purchase, manufacturing, HR and many more apps on one database.AI business management software: the data, an app for each desk and automations, where AI does everything the company needs and gets better at its work the longer it is used.
Built forCompanies that need a standard ERP and will follow each module's process.SMBs that still enter data and prepare documents and invoices by hand, starting with logistics and supply chain.
AIOdoo's own AI answers questions, summarises a record's chatter, reads the Knowledge articles set as its sources, and creates or updates records. Since Odoo 20, an outside AI connects over MCP, read-only by default.ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or the built-in AI, able to do anything a person can.
SetupConfigured module by module: small companies buy an Odoo implementation pack, and companies over 50 people usually work with a partner. Deeper changes use Studio or a custom module.Your AI builds it from the files the company already uses in about 10 minutes, or the Lotics team does it for you.
E-invoicesBuilt-in e-invoicing through Viettel's SInvoice, in the Vietnamese localization.AI drafts e-invoices in MISA, BKAV or WinInvoice for the accountant to review and sign.
PriceOne app is free. Prices for Vietnam: Standard $8.95 and Custom (with Studio) $16.40 a person a month, billed yearly, with a first-year discount. Source: Odoo pricingStart free. Paid plans from $60 a month, with unlimited users.

Where they differ

What a change costs

A company's way of working changes with its customers, the rules and the people in charge. When every change is a quote plus more work at the next upgrade, the system stops changing with the company, and whatever no longer fits goes back to Excel.

Odoo
Fields, screens and approval steps take Studio, on the higher-priced Custom plan. Beyond Studio, a partner or developer writes a custom module, hosted on Odoo.sh or your own server and updated before every Odoo upgrade. Source: Odoo Upgrade
Lotics
Your AI changes the tables, apps, automations and document templates when you ask. No fee per change, and no code to carry through upgrades.

An app for each desk

Operations, documents and accounting do different work on the same shipment. Whatever the software has no screen for stays outside it, in Excel and Zalo, and is retyped when the invoice is made.

Odoo
Each desk works in its module's screens. Odoo has no forwarding module of its own: shipments, B/Ls and containers take a third-party or custom module. Source: Odoo Apps
Lotics
AI builds each desk an app for its own work, over the same records: operations, documents, receivables.

The AI you choose

Most of your team already uses ChatGPT or Claude. When that same AI can write to the system, data from email, Zalo and Excel goes straight into the records, and nobody copies it out of a chat window.

Odoo
Odoo has its own AI. Since Odoo 20, an outside AI such as Claude connects over MCP with an API key and a config file; it is read-only until an administrator turns on each action that writes. Source: Odoo AI MCP server
Lotics
ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini connect with your own account and can do anything you can, including changing the system.

Moving from Odoo to Lotics

  1. Export Odoo's lists, such as customers, products and orders, to Excel.
  2. Hand those files to your AI (ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini) with the setup prompt.
  3. It builds the tables, apps and document templates in Lotics from the columns in each file, then imports the data.
  4. Keep Odoo for accounting and inventory if you like. Shipments, documents and cross-checks move to Lotics.

Rather not do it yourself? The Lotics team does it all, from $60 a month. See pricing

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Frequently asked questions

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Odoo is ERP software from Odoo S.A., a Belgian company: accounting, inventory, sales, purchase, manufacturing, HR, website and many more apps on one database. It comes as the open-source Community edition and the paid Enterprise edition, priced per user.

Odoo is good when a company needs a standard ERP: accounting, inventory, purchasing, sales and manufacturing on one database, with Circular 99 books, SInvoice e-invoicing and implementation partners in Vietnam. In return, the company follows each module's process, and anything specific, such as forwarding, takes an extra module.

If you need an ERP with statutory accounting, payroll and manufacturing ready to use, no: Odoo fits better. Lotics replaces the spreadsheets and the manual work of the operations desks: shipments, documents, cross-checks and draft invoices, built the way the company works.

Yes, with a clear split: accounting and inventory stay in Odoo, and shipments, documents and cross-checks are done in Lotics. Lotics has no ready-made connection to Odoo, so figures that need to reach Odoo go through Excel files or Odoo's API, which comes with the Custom plan.

Odoo's AI is a set of assistants inside Odoo: they answer questions, summarise conversations, and create or update records in its modules. In Lotics, the ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini you already use does a whole job on the company's records, from data entry to a draft invoice, and a person reviews it.

The AI is already capable; what builds up is what it has to work from. In Lotics, the records, the history of every change (who changed which field, and when) and the company's knowledge docs, such as prices, procedures and customer terms, sit in one place, and each person's AI reads them under that person's access. The next job starts from how the last was done, and when people leave, how the work was done stays. Odoo also keeps each record's chatter, and its own AI reads that chatter and the Knowledge articles set as its sources.

Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, hosted in Singapore. Each person sees only what they are given access to, and every change records who made it and when.

Every change is recorded and can be undone. Where the AI is unsure, it flags the item for a person to check instead of guessing.

Yes. The Lotics team builds and keeps the system up to date for you, from $60 a month, with a 3-month minimum.

Start free. Paid plans from $60 a month, with unlimited users. Your own ChatGPT or Claude uses no AI Credits.

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