Tailoq vs Odoo with a tailoring module

Two different approaches

Odoo plus a module. Odoo has separate apps for areas such as accounting, sales, inventory, manufacturing and point of sale. For tailoring, you add a module from a third-party vendor on the Odoo Apps store, or a partner builds what you need. For example, Serpent Consulting's Tailor Management module is listed at $179.29 one-time and depends on Odoo Sales and Manufacturing. Other tailoring modules are listed for different Odoo versions, such as sw_tailorship_suite for version 17.0.

Partners also deliver full projects. Softhealer sells a tailoring management system with POS built on Odoo, with bills of materials, manufacturing orders and multiple branches. Technaureus published a case study of an Odoo implementation for a tailoring business in Sharjah.

Tailoq. One product for tailoring. You pick one of eight business presets, set country, currency, tax name and units, and adjust stages in Settings.

What Odoo can give you that Tailoq does not

A general ERP is built to reach parts of a business beyond tailoring. If you need any of these in the same system now, Odoo or another ERP is the better fit:

• A general ledger and financial statements for a finance team.
• Importing records from another system, and connections to other business software.
• Manufacturing planning across several factories.
• Apps beyond tailoring, such as a web shop.

Some things buyers expect only from an ERP are in Tailoq too: logins with roles, discounts at the till, refunds when an order is cancelled, supplier payables and a VAT return summary. Ask your partner which Odoo apps, edition and version you would need, and what that adds to the cost.

What Tailoq has built in for tailoring

• Measurements per garment, a dated set on every save, and a side-by-side comparison of recent sets.
• Fittings on a calendar with a clash check, with fitting names that follow your trade, such as baste or toile.
• Stages from a preset for your business, one person per stage, an Outside lane for embroidery or beading vendors, and QC with reasons and photos.
• Materials by the metre, gram or piece, with wastage by reason and value.
• Cost per piece from issued material, bench hours and outside work, with margin at Ready.
• Shop stock by size and length, and a shortening at the sale that becomes a workshop job.
• A workshop screen with big Start, Pause and Done buttons, in each person's language.
• Ask Tailoq, an AI assistant that answers from your records and prepares entries for you to approve.

In Odoo, each of these depends on the module or customisation you choose, so ask to see them working before you sign.

Cost and setup: what to add up

For Odoo, add up:

• The tailoring module, if you use one from the Apps store.
• The Odoo subscription or hosting for the apps and users you need.
• Partner time to install, configure and train.
• Upkeep when you move to a new Odoo version. Modules are listed per version, so check that yours is available for the version you will run.

For Tailoq, there is a subscription. We do not publish prices, so book a demo and we will suggest the right plan. Setup is a short set of choices.

Which fits which business

Choose Odoo if you run several factories, need one ledger for a finance team, sell well beyond tailoring, or need formal approvals and integrations. Expect a project, a partner and a budget.

Choose Tailoq if you have one workshop or a few and one shop or a few, you make and sell, and you want measurements, production, materials, cost per piece and the till working together from day one. Tailoq runs on the devices you own and does not need a consultant.

Read our page on tailoring ERP for where that line falls.