My company is currently using a custom made erp software.It lacks many features ad no more updates are available. So i thought of moving to Odoo which open and free. So how can i work odoo in existing setup. I need to preserve all my previous data and it should be accessible or visible in odoo also.
Help me with database problems that might arise.
This question is probably too broad, but I'll describe what I did to migrate from LedgerSMB to OpenERP 6 back in the day. OpenERP can import a CSV file for any of its models. I ended up creating PostGresQL queries to export the LedgerSMB data in an OpenERP form with a lot of translations and case statements to produce CSV files that OpenERP would injest. I ended up doing the chart of accounts by hand, and then wrapped all that in a custom module that I added. The details will be very dependent on the structure of your existing ERP system, but the general approach of doing the transform in the export is reasonably likely to work.
