ERP migration

Migrate from Fraction ERP to Odoo ERP

Field-level mapping, validation, and rollback between Fraction ERP and Odoo ERP. We move data and schema; workflows are rebuilt natively in Odoo ERP.

Fraction ERP logo

Fraction ERP

Source

Odoo ERP

Destination

Odoo ERP logo

Compatibility

100%

12 of 12

objects map 1:1 between Fraction ERP and Odoo ERP.

Complexity

BStandard

Timeline

4-6 weeks

Rollback included Accuracy guarantee Field-level validation

Overview

What this migration involves

Moving from Fraction ERP to Odoo ERP is a manufacturing-focused migration that requires careful sequencing because Works Orders in Fraction derive their operation routing from Bills of Materials. If BOMs migrate out of order or with modified structure, existing Works Order history can reference non-existent operations. We enforce BOM-first sequencing in our pipeline and validate operation references before closing the Works Order phase. Fraction ERP does not publish a public REST API with bulk export endpoints, so all data extraction requires a coordinated data package from Fraction's implementation team before migration begins. We do not migrate Workflows, automations, or reporting configurations; we deliver a written inventory of these for the customer's admin to rebuild in Odoo Studio or through custom Python modules.

Field-level fidelity

Every standard and custom field arrives verified.

Schema-aware mapping

AI proposes the map; you confirm before any record moves.

Relationships preserved

Parent–child, lookups, and ownership stay linked.

Full activity history

Calls, emails, meetings — with original timestamps.

Attachments & notes

Documents, uploads, and inline notes move with the record.

Why teams make this switch

Two sides of the same decision

Leaving

Fraction ERP logo

Fraction ERP

What's pushing teams away

  • Customers report that the platform lacks depth in financial management modules, pushing them toward NetSuite or Sage Intacct once their business scales beyond basic job costing.
  • The limited number of reviews and small user community makes it difficult to find implementation partners or peer advice when problems arise during deployment.
  • Manufacturers with highly custom workflows or complex multi-plant operations find the platform's configurability insufficient for their needs over time.
  • Some users mention that the user interface feels less polished than competing ERPs, leading to slower user adoption on the shop floor.

Choosing

Odoo ERP logo

Odoo ERP

What's pulling them in

  • Modular pay-as-you-grow model with 80+ apps under one database — teams start with CRM and add Accounting, Inventory, or Manufacturing without switching platforms.
  • Free Community edition lets businesses validate Odoo fit before committing to Enterprise licensing costs that scale with user count.
  • Lowest per-user pricing among mid-market ERPs, with a published free tier for one app and Standard plans starting around $24.90 per user per month.
  • Native integration between modules — a confirmed Sales Order automatically updates inventory, invoicing, and accounting without manual re-entry.
  • Strong Odoo Gold Partner ecosystem provides local implementation support, reducing risk for companies without in-house developers.

Object mapping

How Fraction ERP objects map to Odoo ERP

Each row shows how a Fraction ERP object lands in Odoo ERP, including any object-level transformations, lookup resolution, or schema-design dependencies.

Typical mapping — final map is confirmed during the sample migration step.

Fraction ERP

Customer

maps to

Odoo ERP

Partner (res.partner)

1:1
Fully supported

Fraction ERP Customers map to Odoo Partner records with partner_type set to contact for billing/shipping contacts and company for the account-level record. Fraction's company name, address fields, and contact details map to Odoo's standard address fields (street, city, country, phone, email). We create the parent company Partner first, then child contact Partners linked via type, so that Quotations and Sales Orders inherit the correct commercial partner.

Fraction ERP

Quotation

maps to

Odoo ERP

Sale Order (sale.order)

1:1
Fully supported

Fraction ERP Quotations map to Odoo Sale Orders in draft state. Quote validity dates migrate to Odoo's validity_date field. Line items (Parts with quantity and unit price) map to sale.order.line records with the Product resolved to the Odoo product.product ID created during Parts migration. Quote status (open, accepted, rejected) maps to Odoo state with a written note in the order chatter for admin review.

Fraction ERP

Sales Order

maps to

Odoo ERP

Sale Order (sale.order)

1:1
Fully supported

Fraction ERP Sales Orders map to Odoo Sale Orders with state set to sale. The linked Customer (commercial partner) is resolved via Partner ID lookup. Sales Order line items map to sale.order.line with product_id resolved from the Parts migration. Delivery status and invoicing status are reconstructed from Fraction's order history records.

Fraction ERP

Part

maps to

Odoo ERP

Product (product.product)

1:1
Fully supported

Fraction ERP Parts map to Odoo Product records with type set to product (stockable item). Part number becomes product.default_code; description maps to name; unit of measure maps to uom_id with UoM category matching; cost data maps to standard_price. We preserve the original Fraction part_id in a custom field fraction_part_id__c for cross-reference during reconciliation.

Fraction ERP

Bill of Materials

maps to

Odoo ERP

BoM (mrp.bom)

1:1
Fully supported

Fraction ERP Bills of Materials map to Odoo Manufacturing BoM records. Multi-level component structures map to mrp.bom.line records with product_id, product_qty, and bom_id pointing to the parent BoM. Routing operations (work centres, cycle times) map to Odoo's mrp.routing.workcenter records linked to the BoM. BOM drawings stored as attachments in Fraction ERP require a separate file extraction pass through the platform's document export feature; we map each drawing file to the corresponding Part as an ir.attachment linked to the BoM record.

Fraction ERP

Works Order

maps to

Odoo ERP

Manufacturing Order (mrp.production)

1:1
Fully supported

Fraction ERP Works Orders map to Odoo Manufacturing Orders. The linked Sales Order and BOM are resolved via the sales_order_id and bom_id lookups after those objects have migrated. Operation sequencing (routing steps, work centres, scheduled dates) migrates to mrp.workorder records attached to the parent mrp.production. We enforce BOM-first sequencing in our pipeline: all BoMs must complete migration and validation before any Works Order records enter the queue, because Works Order operations reference BOM operations by ID.

Fraction ERP

Inventory

maps to

Odoo ERP

Quant (stock.quant)

1:1
Mapping required

Fraction ERP Inventory stock levels, locations, and current quantities map to Odoo stock.quant records. Each quant is scoped to a product_id, location_id (warehouse zone), and quantity value. Fraction's valuation method (FIFO, standard cost, average cost) maps to Odoo's product category valuation setting; if the methods differ, we flag the discrepancy for the customer's finance team to reconcile before go-live because inventory valuation impacts COGS and financial reporting.

Fraction ERP

Purchase Order

maps to

Odoo ERP

Purchase Order (purchase.order)

1:1
Fully supported

Fraction ERP Purchase Orders map to Odoo Purchase Orders in state purchase or done. Vendor contact details map via Partner resolution. Line items (Parts with quantity, price, and expected date) map to purchase.order.line records with product_id resolved from the Parts migration. We migrate open Purchase Orders in full; historical Purchase Orders migrate as done records with a written note in the chatter indicating their closed status in the source system.

Fraction ERP

Non-Conformance Report

maps to

Odoo ERP

Quality Alert (quality.alert)

1:1
Fully supported

Fraction ERP NCRs map to Odoo Quality Alerts with type set to issue. The linked Part or Works Order becomes the quality.alert.product_id or quality.alert.mrp_production_id respectively. NCR description, reported date, and severity map to alert_text, create_date, and priority fields. Custom quality workflows (cause codes, corrective action flags) in Fraction ERP do not transfer; we document the existing NCR structure in the migration inventory for the customer's admin to reconfigure in Odoo Quality.

Fraction ERP

User

maps to

Odoo ERP

User (res.users)

1:1
Fully supported

Fraction ERP User accounts (name, email, role, permissions) map to Odoo res.users records. We create users with the matching email address and map Fraction role names to Odoo's access rights groups (Manufacturing / Inventory / Purchase / Sales). Individual password credentials cannot be transferred; users receive an Odoo onboarding email to set passwords at first login. Fraction's Advanced tier users with enhanced capacity planning roles map to Odoo Manufacturing User groups, though the Advanced features themselves require Odoo Enterprise activation.

Fraction ERP

Vendor

maps to

Odoo ERP

Vendor Partner (res.partner)

1:1
Fully supported

Fraction ERP Vendors referenced on Purchase Orders map to Odoo Partner records with supplier_rank set to 1 and customer_rank set to 0. Vendor address and contact details migrate as standard Partner fields. Vendor-specific Part pricing stored in Fraction ERP's vendor catalogue migrates to Odoo's Supplier Info (product.supplierinfo) records linked to the relevant Product and Vendor Partner.

Fraction ERP

Shop Floor Data Capture Log

maps to

Odoo ERP

Workcenter Step (mrp.workorder) + Done Operations

1:1
Fully supported

Fraction ERP's shop floor data capture logs store time-series operation completions against Works Orders. Each log entry maps to a mrp.workorder record with production_date, duration, and user_id matching the Odoo User created from the Fraction User. We preserve operation start and end timestamps from the Fraction capture log as Odoo duration fields, enabling the customer's production team to reconstruct the shop floor timeline in Odoo's Manufacturing app.

Gotchas + challenges

What specifically takes care here

Platform-specific issues from each side, plus the pair-specific challenges that don't show up on either platform's page on its own.

Fraction ERP logo

Fraction ERP gotchas

High

No publicly documented API for bulk exports

Medium

BOM drawings stored as attachments require separate file transfer

Medium

Works Order operation sequencing is BOM-dependent

Low

Tier-gated features affect module availability

Odoo ERP logo

Odoo ERP gotchas

High

No rollback for CSV imports

High

External ID conflicts on re-import

Medium

Many2many field encoding in CSV imports

Medium

Large export timeouts require batching

Medium

Version schema drift between Odoo releases

Pair-specific challenges

  • No public API requires coordinated data export from Fraction ERP

    Fraction ERP does not publish a public REST API with bulk export endpoints. All data extraction requires either a direct database export coordinated with their implementation team or manual report generation from within the application. We cannot run fully automated migration pipelines without Fraction ERP's explicit technical cooperation. We request a structured data export package from their implementation team at scoping, containing CSV or SQL exports of Customers, Parts, BOMs, Works Orders, Inventory, Purchase Orders, and NCRs. BOM drawings are exported separately through the platform's document export feature and transferred via secure file transfer. If Fraction ERP's team cannot provide a complete export within the project timeline, we flag the constraint and advise on manual data extraction options.

  • BOM drawings require a separate file extraction pass

    Bill of Materials records in Fraction ERP store drawing files as binary attachments linked to BOM records. These files do not export through standard grid exports or database queries that return BOM structure data. We schedule a parallel file extraction pass using the platform's document export feature, mapping each drawing to the corresponding Part or BOM record in Odoo by matching the Fraction BOM or Part identifier. Drawing file formats (PDF, DWG, STEP) are preserved and attached to the mrp.bom or product.product record as ir.attachment records in Odoo. If the drawing filename convention is inconsistent in Fraction ERP, we flag records for manual mapping during the parallel pass.

  • Works Order operation sequencing is BOM-dependent

    Works Orders in Fraction ERP derive their operation routing from the linked Bill of Materials. Each Works Order operation references a BOM operation step by ID. If BOMs are migrated out of sequence or with modified structure, existing Works Order history can reference non-existent operations, producing orphaned workorder records at the destination. We enforce BOM-first sequencing in our migration pipeline: all mrp.bom records are migrated and validated (operation count, component count, routing references) before any mrp.production or mrp.workorder records are inserted. We run a post-migration operation reference check that joins Works Orders against their BOM operations and flags any unresolved operation IDs before closing the Works Order phase.

  • Tier-gated Fraction ERP features may not transfer to Odoo Community

    Fraction ERP's Advanced tier (£50/user/month) includes enhanced capacity planning and advanced scheduling that are not available in the Basic tier (£36/user/month). Odoo's equivalent features (resource calendar capacity, work order scheduling with forward/backward scheduling) are available in the core Manufacturing app on Community, but Advanced features like multi-level scheduling with constrained capacity require Odoo Enterprise or third-party scheduling modules. We confirm the customer's active Fraction ERP tier during scoping, audit which Advanced features are actively in use, and flag any that may require Odoo Enterprise activation or a separate scheduling module purchase.

  • Legacy ERP data quality issues compound across object dependencies

    Fraction ERP data accumulated over years of use often contains duplicate Parts, inactive Customers still referenced on open Sales Orders, and Parts with missing unit-of-measure assignments. Because BOMs reference Parts and Works Orders reference BOMs, a single Parts deduplication issue cascades through multiple object layers. We run a pre-migration data quality assessment that identifies duplicates, orphaned references, and missing required fields across all migrating objects. We present a deduplication and cleanup decision document to the customer's admin before migration begins; records are cleaned in the source data package before insertion into Odoo.

Migration approach

Six steps for a successful Fraction ERP to Odoo ERP data migration

  1. Data export coordination and scoping

    We contact Fraction ERP's implementation team to request a structured data export package covering Customers, Quotations, Sales Orders, Parts, Bills of Materials, Works Orders, Inventory, Purchase Orders, NCRs, and Users. We simultaneously request BOM drawing files through the platform's document export feature. While awaiting the export package, we scope the migration by estimating record counts per object, identifying tier-gated features in use, and confirming whether the customer is on Fraction ERP Basic or Advanced. The scoping output is a written migration plan with object-level sequencing, dependency graph, and a flag for any Fraction Advanced features requiring Odoo Enterprise equivalents.

  2. Odoo instance provisioning and app activation

    We provision a new Odoo instance (Community or Enterprise per the customer's licensing decision) and activate the required apps: Sales, Purchase, Manufacturing, Inventory, and Quality. We configure the Odoo company record with the correct fiscal localisation, fiscal year dates, and warehouse structure matching the customer's physical site layout. Chart of accounts is set up using Odoo's generic manufacturing chart of accounts template, mapped to Fraction ERP's cost centres and nominal codes if financial history is being preserved.

  3. Data quality assessment and cleanup

    We run a pre-migration data quality assessment on the Fraction ERP export package. This identifies duplicate Parts (same part number with multiple records), orphaned Customer references (inactive Customers on open orders), Parts without unit-of-measure assignments, BOMs with circular component references, and Works Orders with invalid BOM links. We deliver a deduplication and cleanup spreadsheet to the customer's admin for resolution before migration begins. No data is inserted into Odoo until the cleanup spreadsheet is signed off because BOM dependency chains amplify even small data errors across multiple object layers.

  4. Master data migration in dependency order

    We migrate master data in strict dependency order: first Vendor Partners and Customer Partners (no dependencies), then Products (Parts) with vendor-specific supplier info, then Bills of Materials with multi-level component resolution and drawing attachments linked as ir.attachment records. BOM drawings are extracted in the parallel file pass and mapped by Fraction BOM identifier. We validate operation reference integrity after each BOM batch and flag any BOMs with unresolved component references before proceeding. This phase produces a BOM-validated, Parts-resolved master data set ready for transactional migration.

  5. Transactional data migration and Works Order sequencing

    We migrate transactional records after master data is validated: Quotations and Sales Orders with resolved Partner IDs, Purchase Orders with resolved Vendor and Product IDs, Manufacturing Orders (from Works Orders) with BOM ID and sales order references resolved, and Inventory quants with product and location references resolved. We enforce Works Order-to-BOM sequencing: mrp.workorder records insert only after their parent mrp.production and its linked mrp.bom are confirmed in Odoo. NCRs migrate as Quality Alerts linked to their corresponding Products and Manufacturing Orders. Each phase emits a row-count reconciliation report and a field-level sample check against the Fraction source.

  6. Cutover, validation, and automation rebuild handoff

    We freeze Fraction ERP writes during cutover and run a final delta migration of any records created or modified during the migration window. We deliver a written automation inventory documenting every Fraction ERP workflow, rule, and reporting configuration that requires rebuild in Odoo Studio or as custom Python modules. Workflows, automations, and reporting configurations do not migrate as code; the customer's Odoo admin or implementation partner rebuilds them post-migration. We support a one-week hypercare window for reconciliation issues raised during the customer's first production week in Odoo.

Platform deep dives

Context on both ends of the pair

Fraction ERP logo

Fraction ERP

Source

Strengths

  • Integrated production-to-inventory data model designed specifically for manufacturing environments without requiring bolt-on modules.
  • Cloud-hosted accessibility means the system works from any browser, reducing on-premise infrastructure overhead for small manufacturers.
  • Native integrations with Xero, QuickBooks, and Sage provide clean handoff to established accounting platforms without manual re-entry.
  • Shop floor data capture module enables real-time production tracking without requiring separate MES investment.
  • Per-user pricing starting at £36/month makes it accessible for teams of 5–20 operators without enterprise-scale costs.

Weaknesses

  • Limited public API documentation means migration tooling must be reverse-engineered or coordinated through Fraction ERP's implementation team.
  • Small review corpus and limited third-party community make peer validation and troubleshooting support harder to find.
  • Financial management capabilities are intentionally shallow, pushing finance teams toward external accounting tools rather than centralising the ledger.
  • The platform targets SMB manufacturers exclusively and lacks the multi-plant, multi-currency, and advanced analytics features that growing companies eventually require.
Odoo ERP logo

Odoo ERP

Destination

Strengths

  • Modular architecture with 80+ apps sharing one database — add Sales, Accounting, Inventory, and Manufacturing incrementally.
  • Free Community edition for self-hosting with no per-user license cost, backed by an active open-source community.
  • Per-user pricing starting around $24.90/month on Standard, significantly lower than comparable ERPs like NetSuite or SAP.
  • Automatic workflow propagation across modules — a confirmed sales order updates inventory, triggers invoicing, and posts accounting entries without manual steps.
  • Odoo.sh provides a managed cloud hosting environment with CI/CD for custom module deployment and staging databases.

Weaknesses

  • Performance suffers under heavy customization — large implementations with many active modules require dedicated optimization.
  • No single-click migration between Odoo major versions; each release introduces ORM changes, deprecated API calls, and schema revisions requiring manual adaptation.
  • Per-user and per-module licensing costs can escalate unpredictably for growing teams adding multiple apps.
  • Steep learning curve with hundreds of configuration options across dozens of modules creates adoption friction and training requirements.
  • Support tiers on Enterprise have inconsistent response times, pushing some customers toward alternatives with more reliable SLAs.

Complexity grading

How hard is this migration?

Standard ERP migration. 3 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.

B

Overall complexity

Standard migration

Derived from compatibility, mapping clarity, API constraints, and data volume across Fraction ERP and Odoo ERP.

  • Object compatibility

    B

    3 of 8 objects need a mapping; the rest are 1:1.

  • Field mapping clarity

    C

    Field mapping is derived from defaults — final spec confirmed during the sample migration.

  • Timeline complexity

    B

    8-object category — typical timelines run 2–7 days end-to-end.

  • API constraints

    B

    Fraction ERP: Not publicly documented.

  • Data volume sensitivity

    B

    Fraction ERP doesn't expose a bulk API — REST + parallelization used for high-volume runs.

Estimator

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FAQ

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Most migrations land between four and six weeks for accounts with under 10,000 Parts, 500 BOMs, and 2,000 Works Orders and a clean data export package from Fraction ERP. Migrations with multi-level BOMs, large Works Order operation histories, custom NCR workflows, or multi-site inventory structures move to ten to fourteen weeks because of BOM-dependency validation, drawing file extraction, and operation reference reconciliation. The primary variable is how quickly Fraction ERP's implementation team can deliver the structured data export package; without their cooperation on the API front, the export coordination can add two to four weeks to the scoping phase.

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