Commonly, there are two methodologies popular for the implementation of Odoo business applications. Large scale project implementation methodology is a big-bang approach followed by the Odoo official partner network, and the Quickstart implementation is offered by the Odoo team and some partners on the cloud platform.
Large scale projects are a solution to specific business needs and provide customization, a long sales cycle, and an implementation cycle, as well.
The Quickstart approach is useful for small and medium sized companies who would like to adapt a standard business process. This is available in Odoo, out-of-the-box, to help you to go live as quickly as possible. According to the Odoo team, a project can go live in 100 hours after implementing four major applications: Sales, Purchasing, Stocks, and Accounting.
Odoo offers this service under the name Implementation Service, computed based on the number of applications selected. Look at the following screen computed, based on the four major applications:
In this chapter, we will go through the self-implementation methodology to help you to start using Odoo CRM by yourself, which can save the cost of the implementation service.