Microsoft Dynamics GP, the on-premises ERP on SQL Server whose support ends in 2029. Pages here cover replacing it with self-hosted Odoo or ERPNext instead of moving to Business Central.
Dynamics GP support ends December 31, 2029, with security patches until April 30, 2031. This page lays out the options, staying on GP until then, Microsoft's path to Business Central, or re-implementing on self-hosted Odoo or ERPNext, and what decides between them.
Comparing Dynamics GP with Odoo for companies leaving GP: financials, distribution and manufacturing coverage, Community versus Enterprise editions, add-on ISV products that GP sites rely on, customization, and running Odoo on your own servers instead of SQL Server and Windows clients.
Dynamics GP against ERPNext for finance-led midsize companies: general ledger, receivables, payables, inventory and purchasing, accounting dimensions in place of GP account segments, reporting, and the GPL-3.0 licensing and hosting options for ERPNext.
Moving from Dynamics GP to Odoo: mapping GP account segments to Odoo accounts and analytic plans, bringing over masters, open receivables and payables and opening balances, deciding how much history to load, replacing GP add-ons and running a parallel month end.
Moving from Dynamics GP to ERPNext: extracting data from the GP SQL Server databases, mapping segments to accounting dimensions, importing customers, vendors, items and open transactions with the Data Import tool, and validating trial balances before cutover.
Cost of ownership by component for a GP replacement: Business Central subscriptions per user and partner migration fees, against Odoo or ERPNext licenses or none, your own infrastructure, implementation and data migration, and the internal time each path takes.
Getting Dynamics GP data out before a move: what sits in the company and system SQL Server databases, what Microsoft's own migration tool carries over as a guide to scope, extracting masters, open transactions and history, and keeping a read-only archive for audits.
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