$145k–$185k base is just the opening bid
Add 25% for benefits and payroll tax, a $25,000 recruiter fee, equipment, and 90 days of ramp before the first real commit. Year one lands at $210,000+ for one person.
Odoo Autopilot vs. a Full-Time Hire
For COOs, CFOs & Ops Leaders at $5M–$150M+ Companies Running Odoo
Don't Pay $165,000/yr + 4 Months of Recruiting for One Junior Odoo Dev. Get a Senior US-Led Team Tomorrow Morning for $5,000/mo.
A single in-house Odoo developer costs $210,000+ in year one, takes 90–120 days to hire, and goes on vacation. Odoo Autopilot gives you a senior engineering pod — configuration, Python, Owl JS, integrations — with a 1-hour SLA and 24/7 PagerDuty, starting in 48 hours.
- 1-Hour PT Response SLA
- 24-Hour Small-Request Turnaround
- 30-Day Risk-Free Cancel
- $2,500 Onboarding Waived Within 7 Days
Every Odoo version · Community & EnterpriseOdoo.sh, on-prem & cloud hosting100% of code in your GitSenior US-led engineering pod
The problem
The job post has been open for 11 weeks. The backlog hasn't waited.
One hire can't cover nights, weekends or vacation
Your ERP runs 24/7. A single developer does not. When they are out, production stops and the queue freezes.
The strong candidates aren't applying
Senior Odoo engineers with MRP, EDI and Owl JS experience are scarce, and the available ones want remote, equity, or both. You end up training a junior on your production database.
When they leave, the knowledge leaves
Typical tenure is 18–24 months. Undocumented customizations walk out the door and you are back to square one — plus another recruiter fee.
You don't need a seat. You need senior Odoo outcomes, documented in your Git, with someone on call. That is a subscription, not a hire.
The real year-one math
One in-house Odoo developer
- Base salary
- $145,000–$185,000
- Benefits & payroll tax (+25%)
- $36,250–$46,250
- Recruiter fee
- $25,000
- Ramp before first real commit
- 90–120 days
Year-1 total≈ $210,000+
Single point of failure. Business hours only.
The ERP Firm · Core tier
- Flat monthly fee × 12
- $60,000
- Onboarding (sign within 7 days)
- $2,500 → waived
- Recruiting, benefits, equipment
- $0
- Time to first commit
- 48 hours
Year-1 total$60,000
Senior pod, 1-hour SLA, 24/7 PagerDuty, code in your Git.
The comparison
Four ways to get Odoo work done. Only one is built around the buyer.
The honest comparison — including the option of hiring.
| Side by side | Traditional Odoo Agency / Big Partner | Odoo Success Packs | Full-Time In-House Dev | Flat-rate podThe ERP Firm |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | $225–$300/hr plus a $25,000+ paid discovery before anything ships | Prepaid hour blocks that expire whether you use them or not | $145k–$185k base + 25% benefits + $25k recruiter ≈ $210k+ in year one | Flat $5,000 / $8,500 / $14,000 per month. No timesheets. |
| Scope changes | 3-week change orders and a new estimate for every request | Queue behind every other customer while hours burn | Whatever one person can carry that week | Unlimited queue: 24-hour small, 3-day medium, phased large |
| Time to start | 6–10 weeks of discovery first | Days to weeks, depending on pack availability | 90–120 days to hire, then ramp | Starts in 48 hours |
| Emergency coverage | Business hours, ticket portal | Email queue | Single point of failure: PTO, sick days, resignation | 1-hour PT response SLA + 24/7 PagerDuty |
| Who does the work | Senior in the pitch, offshore bench after the signature | Rotating pool with no continuity on your database | One résumé's worth of skills | Senior US-led pod: config, Python, Owl JS, EDI/3PL, reports |
| Code ownership | Agency-held repos used as leverage at renewal | No Git ownership of the work | Yours, if they documented it before leaving | 100% in your Git, staging-first CI/CD, documented |
| Exit terms | 12-month retainer and change-order disputes | Unused hours expire | Severance, then recruit again | Cancel in the first 30 days and owe nothing |
The offer
Everything you get. Itemized, so you can check the math.
Each line below is sold separately by someone. Here it is one flat monthly fee — and the first 30 days are risk-free.
- 01
Week 1 Forensic Odoo Health Audit & Ranked Rescue Roadmap
Database, every custom module, workflows, integrations and upgrade blockers reviewed. You get a ranked roadmap of what to fix first and why.
$7,500Included - 02
Dedicated Senior Odoo Engineering Pod
Senior engineers across Odoo configuration, custom Python modules, Owl JS, API/EDI/3PL integrations, and reports & barcodes — the five skill sets you would need three hires to cover — working unlimited queued requests at your tier's concurrency.
$14,500/moFTE equivalentIncluded - 03
Staging-First CI/CD & 100% Client-Owned Git
Nothing touches production untested. Every module, configuration change and runbook is committed to a repository you own from day one.
$3,500Included - 04
1-Hour PT Response SLA + 24/7 PagerDuty Emergency Line
One-hour response during Pacific business hours. Production-stopping outages page a senior engineer directly, nights and weekends included.
$2,500/moIncluded - 05
Fast-Action Bonus: Onboarding Fee Waived
Sign within 7 days of your scoping call and the $2,500 onboarding fee disappears.
$2,500Waived
Total standalone value$30,500+Audit, senior pod, CI/CD, SLA coverage and the onboarding waiver — priced separately
Your flat monthly rateFrom $5,000/moCancel anytime in the first 30 days and owe nothing
How the first 30 days work
From access to shipped fixes in four moves.
- Day 1
15 minutes to start. Not 40 pages.
You grant Git and staging access; we open a shared Slack channel and your kanban portal. No 40‑page BRD, no discovery retainer.
- Days 2–5
Forensic audit, then a ranked Rescue Roadmap
We review what your last admin or agency left behind: undocumented modules, unowned integrations, upgrade blockers and the tickets nobody closed. You get a ranked, sized roadmap with a fix order — not a slide deck.
- Days 6–30
Ship the Top 10, staging to production
24-hour small and 3-day medium sprints on the items your future hire was supposed to fix in their first quarter. Every delivery lands in staging first, with a Loom walkthrough.
- Day 31+
Odoo Autopilot — or just keep shipping
Roll into Autopilot (monitoring, patching, annual upgrade, unlimited queue) or keep running sprints. Either way the code and docs are already yours.
Triple-Layer Risk Reversal
No hire comes with a money-back guarantee. This does.
Three written guarantees, stacked. If we do not perform, the cost lands on us — not on your budget line.
- 1
30-Day Risk-Free Trial Exit
- Trigger
- Any reason, any day in the first 30 days.
- You get
- Contract ends immediately. You owe nothing further and keep every commit, document and Loom walkthrough delivered.
- 2
Rescue Sprint Guarantee
- Trigger
- Your Top 10 roadmap issues are not fixed by Day 30.
- You get
- Month 2 is 100% free, and we keep working the list at no charge.
- 3
Autopilot SLA Guarantee
- Trigger
- We miss the 1-hour response or 24-hour small-request SLA in any month.
- You get
- That month is 50% off. Applied automatically — you never have to ask.
Transparent pricing
Three tiers. Published prices. Same SLA on every one.
Every tier includes 24-hour small requests, 3-day medium, 7–30 day large, a 1-hour PT response SLA and 24/7 PagerDuty. Only the user count and concurrency change.
Core
$5,000/mo
Single-site operations with a small integration footprint
Up to 15users
1active request
- Odoo configuration, custom modules, reports
- Unlimited queue · 1 active request
- 24h small · 3-day medium · 7–30 day large
- 1-hour PT SLA + 24/7 PagerDuty
- Annual Odoo upgrade included
Growth
$8,500/mo
Multi-warehouse, MRP, EDI or custom modules
16–50users
2active requests
- Everything in Core
- Unlimited queue · 2 active requests
- Multi-warehouse, MRP, EDI, custom modules
- 1-hour PT SLA + 24/7 PagerDuty
- Monthly health report + patch cadence
Scale
$14,000/mo
High-volume integrations, multi-company, regulated ops
51–150users
3active requests
- Everything in Growth
- Unlimited queue · 3 active requests
- High-volume integrations, multi-company
- Regulated operations and audit-trail work
- 1-hour PT SLA + 24/7 PagerDuty
Proof
Anonymous, because our clients' auditors read the internet too.
Built by operators who run Odoo in production inside regulated manufacturing and distribution businesses — not slide-deck consultants.
40-user manufacturer · Odoo Enterprise
Volatile hourly invoices replaced by one predictable line item.
BeforeMonthly agency invoices swung from $3,000 to $19,000; small report requests waited weeks on the agency's availability.
AfterFlat Growth tier. Small requests shipped the same week, Git-backed modules and runbooks written, so the next upgrade stopped being a black box.
- Same week
- small requests shipped
- 1 line item
- monthly Odoo spend
Regulated life sciences · compounding pharmacy
Lot, potency and COA traceability moved out of spreadsheets in the first sprint.
BeforePotency results and certificates of analysis lived in a shared drive; a recall drill took the QA lead most of a day and still missed batches.
AfterComponent lot assignment enforced on every manufacturing order, COA capture at receipt, quarantine and release locations wired, lot genealogy report live.
- Under 15 min
- recall drill (was hours)
- Sprint 1
- lot + QC checks live in Odoo
Objections, answered
The questions a CFO asks before saying yes.
When is a full-time hire actually the better choice?
When you need someone in-seat for non-Odoo IT work too, and you can sustain senior payroll through ramp and turnover. Many clients run both: an internal admin for day-to-day users, and our pod for the engineering layer.
What counts as one request?
One discrete outcome: a report, a workflow fix, an integration mapping, a module change. Small requests (under roughly four hours) ship within 24 hours Mon–Fri; medium requests within 3 business days; large projects are split into phases and worked at your tier's concurrency — never billed extra.
Do you support Odoo.sh, on-prem, Enterprise and Community?
Yes to all of them. Odoo.sh, self-hosted on-prem or cloud, Community or Enterprise, every supported version. We ship through a staging-first Git workflow regardless of where you host, so nothing goes to production untested.
What if we already have an internal admin?
Ideal. Your admin stays the first line for users; we take custom modules, integrations, upgrades and emergencies. They get a senior bench behind them instead of a job post.
How does the 30-day cancellation actually work?
Email us any day in the first 30 days. The contract ends immediately, you owe nothing further, and you keep every commit, document and Loom walkthrough we delivered. After day 30 the engagement is a 3-month minimum, then month-to-month.
Book your 25-minute scoping call
One senior engineer. Your actual Odoo. No pitch deck.
What happens on this 25-minute call
Live architecture review
Screen-share your Odoo: version, hosting, custom modules, integrations. We tell you what is salvageable in real time.
Your top three blockers, sized
Small, medium or large — and which week each one would ship.
An exact tier quote
Core, Growth or Scale, based on users and concurrency. No 40‑page proposal, no follow-up discovery fee.
$2,500 onboarding waiver, locked for 7 days
Sign within 7 days of the call and onboarding is free. Walk away and you owe nothing.
- 30-day risk-free cancellation
- Starts within 48 hours of signing
- Capped at 4–5 active clients per lead engineer