Some businesses run more than one website, for genuine reasons. Odoo supports managing multiple websites. This piece is about multi-website management in Odoo.
When a business runs more than one website
A business may have a genuine reason to run more than one website: different websites for different parts of the business, for different brands, for different markets, or for other genuine reasons. Where that is the case, the business needs to manage multiple websites, and managing several websites well, rather than as a scatter of separate, disconnected things, matters.
Multi-website management in Odoo
Odoo supports multi-website management: running more than one website within one Odoo system. So a business that genuinely needs several websites can manage them within one system, rather than each website being an entirely separate, disconnected property. The websites are managed together, in one place, each its own website but all within the one connected system.
The value of managing them in one system
The value of multi-website management in one Odoo system is that the multiple websites are managed coherently and stay connected to the rest of the business. Managed in one system, the business runs its several websites from one place, and each website can still be part of the connected Odoo system, connected to the CRM, to eCommerce, to the rest. The alternative, each website on a separate, disconnected platform, means managing several disconnected properties and losing the connection to the business system. Multi-website management in Odoo means the multiple websites are coherent and connected.
The honest question: do you genuinely need more than one?
An honest and important point. Multi-website management is for a business that genuinely needs more than one website. Running multiple websites is more to manage than running one, and a business should run several only where there is a genuine reason, genuinely distinct parts, brands, or markets that genuinely warrant separate websites. A business that does not have a genuine reason for more than one website should not create several; one well-built website is simpler and often better than several. So the first question in multi-website management is whether the business genuinely needs more than one website. Where it does, Odoo's multi-website management lets it run them coherently; where it does not, one website is the right choice.
The takeaway
Multi-website management in Odoo lets a business run more than one website within one system, where it genuinely needs to, for genuinely distinct parts, brands, or markets. Managing the websites in one Odoo system keeps them coherent and connected to the rest of the business, rather than being a scatter of separate disconnected properties. The honest first question is whether the business genuinely needs more than one website; where it does, Odoo manages them coherently, and where it does not, one website is simpler and often better. For how we approach Odoo, see our ERP practice.