Manufacturing
Launching a new product means lining up tooling, suppliers and a fixed market date. When a delivery slips, you move the task on the schedule, and the linked budget expense date moves with it.
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Odoo Project alternative: FlexiProject compared
FlexiProject is an Odoo Project alternative where you run a project from charter approval to product acceptance. The same system also gives you a baseline, a risk register, a budget and project portfolios.
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FlexiProject vs Odoo Project
| Try for free | Odoo Project | |
|---|---|---|
| Gantt chart | ||
| Kanban board | ||
| Multi-level task structure | ||
| Milestones | ||
| All four relationship types FS / SS / FF / SF | ||
| Critical path | ||
| Schedule baseline | ||
| Project charter | ||
| Risk register | ||
| Project products | ||
| Project budget | ||
| Project template with schedule, budget, risks and products | ||
| Project portfolios | ||
| Project scoring | ||
| Strategic goals with KPIs | ||
| Time tracking | ||
| Mobile app | ||
| On-premises version |
An Odoo Project alternative with the full project cycle
In FlexiProject you approve the project charter, record the baseline and run the risk register together with the budget. Book a demo on one of your own projects.
FlexiProject key strengths
A good Odoo Project alternative needs a charter, a baseline, a risk register, portfolios and templates working as connected modules. Dates and amounts from the schedule and the budget appear in the charter and the portfolio without retyping.
Goal, scope and budget approved in one charter
In the project charter you record the goal, the scope and the budget frame, then send it for approval. Dates and amounts come straight from the schedule and the budget, so you never retype them. Every approved version goes into the archive.
Baseline and variance on the Gantt chart
Once you approve the baseline, the chart shows how far current dates have drifted from it. You raise a change request that lists the planned and the requested end date and budget with the difference. A named decision maker approves the request.
A risk register with an owner and a response plan
Every risk carries an owner, a probability, an impact and a response plan. You place risks on a matrix with a scale you set yourself, and link them to schedule tasks. Open risks across all projects show up in the portfolio view.
Budgets and dates for many projects in one view
A portfolio shows budgets, variances and milestones for many projects at once. One project can belong to several portfolios. In a simulation you switch off selected projects and check how the portfolio indicators change.
A template with schedule, budget, risks and products
A template packages the schedule, the budget, the risk list and the project’s products. Task dates are stored in working days from the start. You open a new project from the template and set only the start date.
key strengths
A record of every change to project scope
Project scope moves during delivery. FlexiProject is an Odoo Project alternative where you record what was agreed at the start, what changed and who approved the change. Every change request carries an author, a date and a reason. Six months later the steering committee can compare the current plan with the original one in the system.
flexible configuration
A separate standard for every division
R&D, investment and IT run projects by different rules. In workspaces each division gets its own charter, its own template and its own approval path. You run all of it in one system and one licence, and an administrator sets up the workspaces without a developer. That makes FlexiProject an Odoo Project alternative for companies with several divisions too.
Industries where FlexiProject is an Odoo Project alternative
Energy
Grid and generation projects in energy answer to a regulator. Approved baselines and the decision history stay in the system, so an auditor can check them years later.
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Engineering
In engineering contracts the client pays the contractor for delivered products. In FlexiProject every product carries an owner, a deadline and acceptance criteria agreed at the start.
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Every other industry
Pharma, construction, finance, the public sector and services all run projects by different rules. See examples from the industry closest to yours.
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Odoo Project alternative: frequently asked questions
Odoo Project alternative
Is FlexiProject a good Odoo Project alternative?
Yes. FlexiProject is a good Odoo Project alternative when a project needs a charter, a baseline, a risk register and approvals. You approve the charter before work starts, and compare the baseline against current dates on the Gantt chart. All of that sits in one place, because FlexiProject is a project management system that follows a project from idea to closure. Every project travels the same path, from an approved charter to accepted products.
We already use Odoo for accounting. Is a second system worth it?
Yes, once a project needs a charter, a baseline and a budget of its own. Invoices, payroll and accounting stay in Odoo, and projects run in FlexiProject. Recurring tasks and work outside projects belong in the operational tasks module, where a repeating task reopens once the previous instance closes. That keeps projects and the team’s daily work in one system.
Do teams get a board like the one in Odoo?
Yes. The board, the task list and the Gantt chart are three views of one schedule in FlexiProject. A change on the board shows up in the other views, so nobody retypes data. The delivery team can work from the board while the project manager works from the Gantt chart. Details live on our Kanban board tool page.
Schedule and dependencies
How deep can the task structure go in FlexiProject?
As deep as the project needs, because the number of levels has no limit. You build the work breakdown structure in the project scheduling tool. Phase progress rolls up from the tasks underneath, so you never type it in by hand. At every level you see dates, assignees and the critical path. You import a ready structure from an MS Project file or from Excel.
Does Odoo Project support all four dependency types?
FlexiProject supports all four: finish to start, start to start, finish to finish and start to finish. You add a fixed lag in days to each one. Odoo Project has a single relation, where a task waits for a blocking task to close. In FlexiProject you set dependencies in the Gantt chart software, where the critical path is also visible.
How does FlexiProject handle a formal change of scope?
You raise a change request with a reason. The request runs through approval workflow software that can have several stages. In FlexiProject every decision keeps an author, a date and a reason, and approved plan versions stay available for comparison.
Risks, products and budget
Can FlexiProject track project deliverables?
Yes. In the product management module every deliverable gets an owner, a deadline and acceptance criteria. You link a product to the tasks that build it, so scope is described by outcomes. Odoo Project describes scope with tasks and milestones instead. In FlexiProject templates can attach document patterns to a product.
How do the two systems handle the project budget?
FlexiProject plans costs and revenues together in the budget management module, with a forecast to completion next to the plan and the actuals. You link budget lines to schedule tasks, so moving a task also moves its expense date, and cash flow appears month by month.
What does a status review look like in each system?
Odoo has Project Updates: a snapshot with a colour and a note. FlexiProject runs reviews with a fixed date in the project review software. The schedule, the budget and the risks feed a report in a company template, and past decisions stay in the archive.
Portfolio, scoring and strategy
Is FlexiProject a good Odoo Project alternative for portfolio management?
Yes. FlexiProject is a good Odoo Project alternative for the portfolio, because you see budgets, risks and dates for many projects at once. Odoo Project documentation has no portfolio object at all. FlexiProject also has a program management tool, where you link the schedules of several projects into one shared plan. Move a date in one project and dependent tasks in the others shift with it.
How do you decide which projects to start?
You score every idea in the scoring and prioritization module, against your own criteria and weights, say strategic fit, ROI and resource availability. Odoo Project has no scoring module. In FlexiProject you send the scoring survey to several assessors.
Can projects be tied to company goals?
Yes. You record goals in the strategy management software, with a baseline, a target and a current value. The Project app in Odoo has no place for company goals. Goals form a tree with subgoals, and you link projects to a goal with a level of impact. The board sees goals, KPIs and linked projects on one screen.
Resources, time and the team
Does FlexiProject show who is overloaded across projects?
Yes. The resource planning module shows each person’s daily availability, including holidays and part-time contracts. FlexiProject sums up workload across all projects, also by department, and warns you before an assignment goes past what a person can carry. The Gantt chart shows how moving a task changes that load.
Both systems log time. What is the difference?
In FlexiProject you log hours in the time tracking tool against a schedule task. Odoo mainly uses time cards to bill the client. In FlexiProject planned and actual effort sit on the same row, so you can spot tasks that ran over their estimate at a glance.
Where does the project conversation happen?
In the team communication tool you comment on a task, a risk, a product or a budget line. The conversation stays attached to the item it concerns, so you find it again months later. Odoo keeps the conversation in the chatter next to each task. Project chat in FlexiProject is archived with the project, so a new team member can read the history of past decisions.
Rollout, reporting and licensing
What does FlexiProject pricing look like?
You find licence rates on the FlexiProject pricing page. People who only complete and edit tasks assigned to them work on a free account, with no limit on the number of such users. Odoo has a free One App plan for a single app, such as Project, with no charge. Work at the project level in FlexiProject needs a standard licence, and rollout and configuration for your organization are included in it.
What does a FlexiProject rollout look like?
You set the configuration yourself, without a developer and without an implementation consultant. Templates, fields and approval paths are shaped around how your company already runs projects. Document patterns your PMO expects from teams sit in the knowledge base module. The licence also covers test and training environments, and users and department structure sync from Entra ID or Active Directory.
What reports can you build in FlexiProject?
You build reports in the project reporting tool, in a no-code builder. They cover the schedule, the budget, time, risks, products and plan changes. Odoo reports on tasks, time and profitability instead. You export a report to Excel with its filters kept. Each department or role can get its own set of reports plus a dashboard of widgets.
FlexiProject as an Odoo Project alternative in practice
Pick one project you run today in Odoo Project. In a live session we rebuild it in FlexiProject, with the charter, the baseline, the budget and the risk register. Bring your project manager and someone from the PMO. Afterward you judge whether FlexiProject is an Odoo Project alternative that fits how your company works.
