As displayed for Australia in September 2026: Standard A$43.40 or Custom A$52.00 per user per month billed yearly, every app included. Implementation Success Packs run from A$777.75 for 4 hours to A$31,450 for 200 hours, or you work with a partner.

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Aourix vs Odoo for process plants.

Q: Can Odoo produce a Certificate of Analysis?

Its Quality app records pass-fail and measured checks and raises quality alerts, but a Certificate of Analysis document was not found in the Odoo 19 documentation. Aourix generates the CoA from the QC results and attaches it to the dispatch.

Q: Does Odoo work in Indonesia and Australia?

Yes. Odoo maintains an Australian localisation with GST, BAS and Peppol, and an Indonesian localisation with e-Faktur and Coretax export, and lists partners in both countries.

Q: Can I keep Odoo for accounting and use Aourix for the plant?

Yes. Aourix has no general ledger by design. Map your chart of accounts once and export journals as a file that Odoo imports.

Odoo is a horizontal suite of apps, from accounting to eCommerce, sold per user with every app included. This page looks at how it handles the weekly work of a soap, food or chemical plant, and where a specialist lead-to-cash system fits instead.

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Facts about Odoo come from its public documentation and pricing pages, checked on 16 September 2026. Tell us if something has changed.

Odoo is the strongest generalist on this list for a plant that wants accounting, tax filing, HR and the order flow in one database, and it has real partners in Australia and Indonesia. Its manufacturing is built on bills of materials rather than formulas, its quality app has no Certificate of Analysis, and getting a plant live is a scoped consulting project. Aourix does less, on purpose: the process order flow, batches, lots, QC with CoA and dispatch paperwork are ready on day one, Genie does the typing, and your accountant keeps the ledger they already run.

Who each one is for

Different plants, different answers.

Choose Aourix if

You want the plant running on a system built for batches, lots and expiry in weeks, with quote-to-invoice and dispatch paperwork working without configuration, and you already have accounting covered.

Choose Odoo if

You want to replace accounting, payroll, eCommerce and operations with one suite, you value the open-source core and app store, and you have a partner or a Success Pack budget for the implementation.

Side by side

Thirteen things a process plant actually needs.

Numbered references point to Odoo's own documentation, listed at the bottom of the page. The Aourix column describes what is live today.

What a process plant needs	Aourix	Odoo
Built for process manufacturingFormulas, batches, by-products; not discrete assembly	Only serves process plants: soap and oleochemicals, food and FMCG, chemicals, oil and gas. Industry templates set up products, families and pack sizes on day one.	No formula or recipe object; production is a Bill of Materials. By-products are supported and Odoo 19 adds default batch sizes. Its published industry packages cover food and brewery, not chemicals, oleochemicals or process manufacturing.^{[4] [5] [3] [16]}
Lots, expiry and first-expiry-firstLot tracking, shelf life, FEFO picking	Every receipt carries a lot, expiry and retest date. Picking is first-expiry-first by default; semi-finished goods tracked between lines.	Lot and serial tracking with expiration, best-before, removal and alert dates, and FEFO as a standard removal strategy.^{[6] [7]}
QC release with certificate of analysisTest results per batch, release gate, CoA document	QC release per batch with a Certificate of Analysis generated from the results, attached to the dispatch.	Quality app with control points, pass-fail and measure checks, alerts and failure locations. A Certificate of Analysis was not found in the quality documentation.^[8]
Live batch scheduling boardDrag a batch onto a line and a day; capacity per line	Drag-and-drop board by line and day, capacity counted in tonnes and batches. Genie places or re-plans a batch on request.	Finite-capacity scheduling by work centre with OEE, capacity and setup and cleanup times, plus Kanban and, from Odoo 19, Gantt drag-and-drop. Sequence-dependent changeovers were not found.^{[9] [10] [16]}
Branded quotes to signed contractQuote PDF, client accept online, contract locks the bill of quantities	Quotation designer produces the branded PDF; the client accepts or rejects online; the signed quote locks the bill of quantities and becomes the contract.	CRM, quotation templates, PDF quotes, customer portal with online signature and optional online payment to confirm the order.^[11]
Purchasing with three-way matchRFQ, PO, goods receipt, invoice matched; approved supplier list	Material request to RFQ to purchase order to goods receipt, matched three ways against the supplier invoice. Approved supplier list enforced.	RFQ to purchase order to receipt, a bill-control setting named 3-way matching that blocks payment until goods arrive, and vendor pricelists per product. A formal supplier approval status was not found.^{[13] [12]}
Dispatch paperwork from the orderPacking list, gate pass, VGM, certificate of origin	Dispatch wizard records weights and VGM and prints the packing list, gate pass and CoA from the order.	Delivery orders, packaging and shipping connectors are part of Inventory. Gate pass and verified gross mass documents were not found in the documentation.^[4]
Multi-company and multi-currencyOne login across group companies; quotes and POs in any currency	One login across group companies with the right role in each; quotes, POs and invoices natively multi-currency.	Multi-company with branches, multi-currency, and a separate Consolidation app with intercompany elimination. Multi-company requires the Custom plan.^{[14] [1]}
AI that does work, with approvalAsk by voice, plan batches, raise requests; a person approves	Genie answers by text or voice with a chart, creates leads and plans, resolves schedule clashes and runs Meeting Mode. Every action waits for approval.	Ask AI answers questions and opens views but cannot modify data; AI fields, server actions and transcription ship. Operations AI is forecasting only: no AI scheduler or batch planning.^{[15] [16]}
Works with your accounting systemOwn ledger vs hand-off to Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks, SAP	No general ledger by design. Map your chart of accounts once and export journals as a file your accountant imports into Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks or SAP.	Odoo is the ledger. Australia: GST, BAS, TPAR, Peppol, ABA files. Indonesia: e-Faktur and Coretax XML, NPWP and PKP handling, QRIS. No Odoo-built Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks connector; third-party apps only.^{[17] [18]}
Time to go liveFrom signed order to first real order in the system	Most plants are live in 4 to 8 weeks: industry template, products and stock loaded, one real order walked through before switch-over.	Sold as Success Packs of 4 to 200 consultant hours; Odoo states 80% of projects in that scope go live in 200 hours or less. Most implementations run through partners.^{[2] [19]}
Pricing modelPublished or quoted; per user, per module, per site	Quoted per plant after a conversation: Quick Start, Multi-Plant or Bespoke. No public price list yet.	Published: Standard A$43.40 or Custom A$52.00 per user per month billed yearly, all apps included, plus Success Packs from A$777.75 for 4 hours to A$31,450 for 200 hours. Rupiah list prices not shown.^{[1] [2]}
Presence in Australia and IndonesiaLocal support hours, currency, tax localisation	Melbourne-based, customers in Indonesia and Australia, support in AEST business hours.	Offices in Australia and Indonesia; 38 partners listed in Australia and 68 in Indonesia; vendor-maintained tax localisation for both countries.^{[19] [17] [18]}

Built inPartialAdd-on or partnerNot available

Where Odoo is stronger

It owns the general ledger and the statutory filings: BAS, TPAR and Peppol in Australia; e-Faktur and Coretax in Indonesia, maintained by Odoo itself.
Breadth under one price: accounting, payroll, HR, eCommerce, point of sale, PLM, maintenance and field service alongside manufacturing.
A real consolidation app for group finance with account mapping and intercompany elimination.
Open-source core, Odoo Studio, an external API on the Custom plan and on-premise deployment, so you are never locked in.
Implementation capacity on the ground: 38 partners in Australia, 68 in Indonesia, and first-party Success Packs at published prices.
Shop-floor depth: a dedicated Shop Floor app with time tracking, OEE reporting and IoT triggers on work centres.

Where Aourix is stronger

Built for process plants: formulas, batches, semi-finished goods and industry templates for soap, food and chemicals instead of a generic bill of materials.
QC release with a Certificate of Analysis generated from the results and attached to the dispatch, which Odoo's quality app does not produce.
A scheduling board that counts capacity per line in tonnes and batches, and Genie to place or re-plan a batch when a material arrives late.
Dispatch paperwork from the order: packing list, gate pass, verified gross mass and CoA together.
Genie does work rather than answering questions: it creates leads, drafts plans and raises material requests, and waits for a person to approve. Odoo's assistant cannot modify data.
Live in four to eight weeks with the plant's own order walked through, no consultant hours to buy first.

Running both

If Odoo Accounting is already your ledger, keep it. Aourix runs the order, batch and dispatch flow and exports journals with your chart of accounts mapped once; it never writes into Odoo.

Questions

What plants ask when comparing Aourix and Odoo.

Is Odoo built for process manufacturing?

Odoo's manufacturing app is built on bills of materials and routings and supports by-products, lot tracking, expiry dates and FEFO. It has no formula or recipe object, and its published industry packages do not include chemicals, oleochemicals or process manufacturing; partners fill that positioning.

Can Odoo produce a Certificate of Analysis?

What does Odoo cost?

Does Odoo work in Indonesia and Australia?

Can I keep Odoo for accounting and use Aourix for the plant?

Sources for Odoo (checked 16 September 2026)

Odoo and its logo are trademarks of their owner. Aourix is not affiliated with Odoo. See other comparisons on the compare page.

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