Compare · Cin7 alternatives
Outgrown Cin7? Here are your realistic next steps
Cin7 Core and Cin7 Omni are good inventory platforms. Plenty of Australian product businesses run well on them, and if that is you, keep going and skip this page. It exists for the businesses hitting the ceiling: the ones bolting spreadsheets and third-party apps around Cin7 to do things an inventory system was never meant to do.
What Cin7 does well
Multi-channel inventory. Stock, orders and channel sync across your webshop, marketplaces and B2B, connected to Xero or QuickBooks for the accounting. For a growing product business, that combination is exactly right, and it is much cheaper than an ERP. Being fair about this matters, because moving off it too early is as expensive a mistake as staying too long.
The signs you've hit the ceiling
The pattern we see in scoping calls: finance needs more than a connected accounting file can give (multi-entity, landed costs flowing through to real margins, serious reporting), operations have grown past inventory into assembly or genuine manufacturing, job costing or field service has entered the business, and the app stack around Cin7 has become its own maintenance problem. Each bolt-on made sense alone. Together they are a system of systems that nobody fully trusts, and month end is where you pay for it.
What replacing Cin7 actually looks like
The move is from inventory-plus-accounting to one database that runs the operation. Two credible paths:
Odoo puts inventory, purchasing, accounting, manufacturing and the webshop on one platform. For businesses that came to Cin7 for channel management, Odoo's native ecommerce and marketplace connectors cover the same ground with the finance layer built in, and it can grow into manufacturing when assembly turns into production. Our detailed comparison: Odoo vs Cin7 Core Australia.
MYOB Acumatica suits the finance-led version of the same story: a mid-market distributor that wants deep financials and a purpose-built Distribution Edition. Eligible Queensland wholesale distributors can go live in 12 weeks on the fixed-scope FastStart program.
Which path fits depends on your team, your channels and your finance needs; our wholesale distribution page and the Odoo vs MYOB Acumatica comparison walk through the decision properly.
The migration itself
Products, SKUs, stock on hand with costings, suppliers, customers and open orders all come across; sales history is a scoping decision rather than a default. The riskiest part is not the data, it is the channel cutover: webshop and marketplace connections need to switch cleanly so stock and pricing don't drift during the change. We plan that switch explicitly, with the old system in read-only as the safety net.
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Side by side
| Criteria | Cin7 (Core / Omni) | Odoo | MYOB Acumatica |
|---|---|---|---|
| Licence model | Subscription per plan plus a connected accounting file (Xero or QuickBooks). | Per user, public pricing. Community edition free to licence. | Per named user, quoted by MYOB. |
| AU/NZ localisation | Inventory only; GST, BAS and payroll live in the connected accounting file. | GST and BAS in the core; payroll scoped separately. | Native ANZ payroll, STP, super and GST/BAS. |
| Hosting | Vendor cloud (SaaS). | Odoo Online, Odoo.sh, or self-hosted. | MYOB-hosted cloud (SaaS). |
| Customisation path | Configuration and API integrations; limited platform customisation. | Open source: custom modules to OCA standards. | Within the platform framework: generic inquiries, C#/.NET. |
| Ecosystem | Strong channel connectors (webshops, marketplaces, 3PL). | Large app store plus native ecommerce and marketplace connectors. | Smaller marketplace; integrates with external commerce platforms. |
| Typical implementation cost | Lowest of the three: a lighter stack for buy-sell businesses. | Published packages from $25,000. | Quoted per scope; fixed-scope FastStart for eligible distributors. |
| Typical go-live | Weeks. | Roughly 2 to 4 months for most SMEs. | 12 weeks via FastStart; 3 to 6 months otherwise. |
| Best fit | Buy-sell product businesses whose accounting still fits Xero. | One platform for inventory, purchasing, accounting, manufacturing and the webshop. | Finance-led mid-market distributors wanting deep financials and a Distribution Edition. |
| Watch-outs | Bolt-on apps and spreadsheets accumulate past the ceiling; month end pays for it. | Costs more than Cin7 plus Xero; only worth it once the complexity justifies ERP. | ANZ release lags global Acumatica by 6 to 9 months. |
Auboros implements Odoo and MYOB Acumatica and does not resell Cin7. Vendor pricing changes; confirm before deciding.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is the best Cin7 alternative in Australia?
For businesses that have outgrown inventory software, the realistic alternatives are ERPs: Odoo for one-platform breadth including ecommerce, MYOB Acumatica for finance-led mid-market distribution. Which is best depends on whether operations or finance is driving the move.
Is Odoo cheaper than Cin7?
No, and anyone who says otherwise is selling something. Cin7 plus Xero is a lighter, cheaper stack. The comparison only makes sense once you count the spreadsheets, bolt-on apps and manual reconciliation hours around it, which is exactly the point at which ERP starts winning.
Can we keep our webshop and marketplaces during a migration?
Yes. Channel connections are switched at cutover with stock and pricing verified on both sides, and the old system stays available read-only. The switch is planned as its own workstream because channel drift is the main migration risk.
When should we stay on Cin7?
If your accounting needs fit Xero, your operation is buy-sell without manufacturing or field service, and the app stack around Cin7 is stable, stay. Moving to ERP before the operational complexity justifies it buys you cost without benefit.
Not sure which side of the ceiling you're on?
We scope this exact move for Australian product businesses from Brisbane, and we will tell you honestly if Cin7 still fits, because a premature ERP project helps nobody.
Bring your current stack.