u/Hungry_Lavishness907

Do a lot of people use odoo for the webshop? Or do you choose more for Woocommerce, Shopify or another platform if you want to be serious about selling online?
With experimenting with odoo eCommerce I’ve already bumped into some stuff which will either require 3rd party apps or custom development. So I’m wondering what to invest my time and resources in.

I have the following business case: I have mostly products with variants (around 3000-3500, some with up to 50 variants). The variant creation is based on size. It’s critical for me that I’m able to quickly search for products I have in stock in a particular size AND at the same time from a particular brand and/or having a particular feature/characteristics. I would want to be able to expose at least some of these characteristics in the webshop and allow the users to filter by them.
I have done some initial research and tests and it seems like there are the following options:

1. Product attributes - one creating variants and others not creating variants (like brand for example)
2. Studio fields
3. Product tags
   The problems I identified are the following:
   - if I use #1, it’s all nice in the webshop, filters work and so on, but when you’re standing in front of a customer and need to quickly find what you have in stock in a certain size AND brand AND having some other feature seems to be rather challenging (it might be that I’m really missing something from the picture since I’m rather new to odoo)
   - if I use #2 it seems that filtering is a bit less of a nuisance in the backend, but I haven’t found a legit way to expose those fields in the webshop and use them as filters
   - if I use #3: it seems to be one big bag of tags with pretty much no structure or control, but from what I’ve read filtering in the backend is not that bad; on the other hand how it’s shown in the webshop seems to be suboptimal at best
   I will truly appreciate any advice you can give me.

Sorry for the newbie question. I’m planning to get started on odoo.sh. Odoo v20 relaeases late September. From what I understand you can choose when to upgrade yourself. How long do you wait before you upgrade? Why do you wait (I assume compatibility and regression testing)?

Is there any particular feature you’re looking forward to in v20?

I read about the theory, now curious about the practice ;-)

We have two physical shops, online and we’re selling on a platform (like Amazon but local). We’re using Lightspeed R-series, Analytics, the nightmarish e-Com c-series and laughable Loyalty. We pay what feels like a truckload of money. POS and Analytics are quite good, but the other two are sub-par to say the least. We’re looking at odoo to get more value for our money and essentially save on POS solution, mailerlite, separate accounting system, integrations and so on.

99% of our products have variants (some 50+). We rely heavily on searching products with particular variants on stock. We also order quite a lot for specific customers and we need to follow up on their orders.

Also: for the time being I’m planning to start implementing on our own (we have 40+ total IT experience in-house).

Realistically: is this something that can work?