Here are all the essential ERP and Odoo news of January you should not miss.
News from Odoo HQ
Official updates and posts from Odoo’s headquarters, Odoo employees, and Odoo founder Fabien Pinckaers.
Odoo introduces new GBP price list
Good news for UK customers: Odoo has officially introduced a dedicated GBP price list!
Internal sources shared that new customers will be placed on GBP pricing by default, while existing customers are expected to move over at renewal. Upsells will stay on the current price list for now.
The announced GBP pricing is £22 for Standard Odoo, and £33.60 for Custom Odoo.
Previously, Odoo users in the UK had to convert their license prices from EUR values. Introducing a GBP price list shows that the UK market is growing - and Odoo is adapting to keep up!
Community talk
All the hot topics and discussions Odoo users are buzzing about this month.
Odoo 19.1 reveals a unified field for contact filtering
Odoo 19.1 is rolling out new UI updates, and people are noticing!
One of the best changes in this minor release is a single field for filtering contacts as either a 'Company' or an 'Individual.' Now, when creating an individual record, you can link them to their employer on the spot.
This cuts out unnecessary clicks and maintains data integrity by ensuring every contact is instantly connected to the relevant business.
Odoo updates Enterprise agreement with 7% annual price indexation
Odoo has quietly adjusted its official Enterprise Terms and Conditions.
According to the updated clause 5.2, renewal fees can now climb by up to 7% for every year of the previous term.
This replaces the old way of doing things, where indexation only happened occasionally at renewal, and ensures prices move toward current list rates much faster.
The shift comes right on the heels of a 30% price jump in the US this January, suggesting a bigger strategy is at play.
Our experts predict that the European market is next on the list for 2026 or 2027, with prices in EU-West potentially hitting €44.90 per month.
While Odoo might bundle in some AI credits to sweeten the deal, the move toward steady annual hikes marks a much tighter pricing strategy that could shake up the market in the short term.
News from the ERP world
Headlines from the ERP world you shouldn’t miss.
Epicor plans to discontinue on-prem ERP products
ERP vendor Epicor has announced plans to phase out on-premise versions of its products, like Kinetic, Prophet 21, and BisTrack, as part of its shift to a cloud-first strategy.
Final on-prem releases will arrive between 2026 and 2028, followed by tiered active and sustaining support through 2029–2030, depending on the product.
Epicor says the move will give customers faster access to new features and AI-driven capabilities available only in Epicor Cloud, while reducing infrastructure and upgrade burdens.
With all future innovation happening on the cloud, on-prem systems become a maintenance path rather than a growth one, increasing dependency on vendors and reducing customer control.
Still, highly regulated industries that depend on on-prem will not be exempt from this decision. Instead, they may need to find hybrid, private, or sovereign cloud architectures to meet compliance requirements.
Epicor’s decision to sunset on-prem products reflects a broader ERP trend toward cloud consolidation. Vendors seem to be concentrating innovation and AI investment on a single delivery model - time will tell if being cloud-exclusive works for every industry use case.
ERP trends to watch out for in 2026
ERPs are evolving from "systems of record" to "systems of action".
We gathered the top 5 ERP trends businesses should be looking out for in 2026:
Enterprise software is levelling up from chatbots to Agentic AI. These autonomous agents go beyond answering questions to plan and execute multi-step workflows with minimal human intervention.
2.Low/no-code personalisation is the new normal
Enterprise softwares are replacing complex code forms with lean, process-led interfaces. The rise in low- and no-code ERP customisation allows non-technical staff to redesign their own individual views without help from IT, or breaking code. This makes adoption easier, as end users can customise their software UI in line with their daily work with tables, Kanbans, buttons, etc. and not once touch the code.
3. Headless ERP architecture breaks down monoliths
The monolithic "all-in-one" suite is being dismantled in favour of a clean core strategy. Businesses are keeping their central financial systems stable while plugging in specialised, best-of-breed modules for logistics, ESG, etc via APIs.
4. ESG reporting to be fully integrated
Sustainability reporting has become a core financial ledger. In 2026, carbon footprints and supply chain ethics will be tracked with the same rigour as revenue. These need to be integrated directly into real-time production and procurement planning.
5. Sovereign cloud adoption for EU AI compliance
Particularly in the EU, cloud-sovereign is replacing cloud-first. Enterprises are increasingly adopting hybrid models or sovereign clouds (like the AWS European Sovereign Cloud) to ensure high-performance AI tools remain compliant with the EU AI Act and GDPR.
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