# Apache OFBiz Reviews **Vendor:** The Apache Software Foundation **Category:** [Java Web Frameworks](https://www.g2.com/categories/java-web-frameworks) **Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 37 ## About Apache OFBiz Apache OFBiz is an open source product for the automation of enterprise processes that includes framework components and business applications for ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), E-Business / E-Commerce, SCM (Supply Chain Management), MRP (Manufacturing Resource Planning), MMS/EAM (Maintenance Management System/Enterprise Asset Management), POS (Point Of Sale). ## Apache OFBiz Reviews ### 1. It's awesome for order management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vikas G. | Customer Service Associate, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2024 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** I like how it provides a simplified view of order details, and it's very easy to use. It's integrated with our website, and we use it to manage all our orders. It also helps us with refunds and returns. We are also using it for inventory management. It's great how we are getting all the necessary features and tools in one software. It's quite easy to implement. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** Sometimes, there's a delay in saving notes in ofbiz. We submit it then it gets updated after a few minutes. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's providing us a solution for order management and inventory management. ### 2. Best ecommerce tool having solr, item reviews, promos **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paramjit S. | Senior Software developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** Easy to open an online store with most advance feature, like solr filters, banner, promos, discounted price **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** little bit discomfort with Minilang, brit reporting tool **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** easy to open Ecommerce store via MVC structure. Data structure is easy to use and maintain. ### 3. Leading enterprise solution **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ankush S. | Sr. Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** You don't have to start from scratch as simple as that. Things are pretty much defined , the basic structure for ERP is already there, which can be used in a single go & it's customisable as per necessity. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** serialized inventory structure reforming **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Inventory management system, catalogue syatem, Facility & warehouse management, HR module, CRM etc ### 4. Best Open source solution **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Honey T. | Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2024 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** It has pre-defined data structure module **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** Its UI is too much complicated so many tabs **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Its very helpful in making ERP solutins and Making E-commerse solutins ### 5. Best ERP system to solve any type of business requirement **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** It has most of the business processes available out of the box and can be customized to meet your requirements. It has incredible support for extensions, integrations, and implementing custom flows and an active and supportive community. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** It is somewhat bulky and may require some development skills for customizing workflows. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Apache OFBiz helps business to make their presence online and automate all their business requirements from accounting to warehousing, orders to manufacturing. It can also work as an omnichannel order management tool. ### 6. Apache Ofbiz **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 26, 2022 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** The way data has been organized to provide end to end CRM solution, product and order management is good. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** Could have been better with respect to inventory management handling for products by integrating with order management. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using the data model for CRM, order management and catalog management in our application. ### 7. Open source ready to use erp based on java **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Balaji Y. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** Bussiness functionality features Recent Rest integration for any frontend applications like angular and react Gradlew feature Plugins feature **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** 1)simple methods (XML based coding) 2)Building a framework will take time **Recommendations to others considering Apache OFBiz:** Best framework for ERP and eCommerce application development **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Front End Ui and backend Apache Ofbizintegration ### 8. Apache OfBiz an awesome Enterprise ERP **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yugendra Venkata D. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2021 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** The kind of security the platform has is simply awesome. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** A few tough configuration changes. Need more Coding help. **Recommendations to others considering Apache OFBiz:** I would urge every organization to make the best use of all the options made available by Apache OfBiz. My team can personally help any organization install, configure and maintain the Enterprise ERP. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** A most economical and complete ERP for an enterprise and the security the platform offers to the data in managing users at different levels is just too cool. ### 9. Digital Commerce **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 10, 2020 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** OFBiz offers a great deal of functionality, which is required for any digital ecommerce including: advanced e-commerce catalog management promotion & pricing management order management (sales & purchase) Implemented on all cutting edge technologies. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** OFBiz security implementation uses indirect security control, there is no direct connection of permission logic to the artifact that the logic is trying to control access to **Recommendations to others considering Apache OFBiz:** Any mid-level or small scale retail industry looking for building full pledge end to end eCommerce application then this platform is suitable for you in your budget. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** As its open source any small scale business can dream for ERP applications Increased Business Reach. Increased Business Revenue. Search Engine Traffic. Low Operational Cost. ### 10. Working with ofbiz fromnlast 5years. Awesome for small and medium ecommerce enterprises. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Deepak Kumar J. | Module Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 13, 2021 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** SEO TOOLS/ORDER MAGANEMENT/PRODUCT CATEGORY MANAGEMENT App **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** Not scalable/Not supported for big enterprises **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** SEO/product category management/order management. We save on ads and organic search traffic increased ### 11. Ofbiz the open source ERP program **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 08, 2021 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** Apache Ofbiz is open source and it is good start if you looking for cheap and easily customizable software for enterprise application. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** Ofbiz still using old technology, therefore if you learn Ofbiz language and commands maybe it is not really useful for the nowaday technology. Also the user interface it is using old design **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Create the cheap enterprise software application. Ofbiz can cut some costs ### 12. Real Open Source ERP Framework **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** S K Pradeep K. | Lead Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** License is the best, truly open source as of today. Feature-rich JEE based ERP/CRM/SCM/eCommerce framework with SOA, easy to learn, and use Entity engine (i.e. ORM based) and services. Recently updated to Java 8 + support that's cherry on the cake. Multiple data sources (we can go from free MySQL to commercial Oracle DB) configuration option. OLAP and Tenant support. Component/Plugin level tenant support is of great value. Many more OOT box plugins are available to integrate with third parties. Good community support. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** Still uses XML, missing its own BPMS, good workflow, Good CMS. Documentation needs to be improved. **Recommendations to others considering Apache OFBiz:** In detail analysis of customer requirements and then decide whether to go with own ERP or SaaS or off the shelf decision is a must. Complete OFBiz ERP functional understanding is a must. Mapping the organizational requirement to the OFBiz requirement is a must, before starting any customization. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have implemented very good number of eCommerce cum ERP solutions and SCM's. A good number of working features help us to quickly turn around our client requirements to working solutions. ### 13. From best and solid framework in ERP , rich business and software architecture 👍 **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ismail A. | Java Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** All ERP business components & solid architecture and multi tenant support **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** User interface and not support other ui components **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Add new UI theme ,add new components , integrate with BPM work flow and make it support payroll and time attendance ### 14. For building Ecommerce website in short span of time this is best framework **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Arts and Crafts | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** Best part is whenever u are going to build any Ecommerce website backed u didn't not worry just some customization require, almost all post order ui, tables available **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** Documentation, it's to hard for beginners to learn as very less document/content available over internet. It would be great if better documents we have definitely it will help beginners **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Have worked to build Ecommerce website and it fulfill everything which require to build Ecommerce project ### 15. User friendly platform for developing applications **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mining & Metals | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 26, 2021 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** Free and open source - No upfront costs. Scalable, reliable enterprise solution. Fully Customizable **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** The customization requires extensive understanding of ofbiz architecture, entity model. **Recommendations to others considering Apache OFBiz:** Refer to Apache ofbiz technical documentation and customization guides. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** There are only limited functionalities on workflow. A typical ERP workflow requires multiple levels of approval, voting steps etc. ### 16. Ofbiz Good product **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 17, 2021 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** It's provide many features in fee of cost like accounting, finance, order management etc. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** Code is very complex to understood. Most of things are writen in xml format only. Other things are good. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have provided the e-commerce module to our clients. They are happy with order management functionality and e-commerce as well. ### 17. Apache OFBiz: An enterprise grade solution fro all your business needs **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suraj K. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** - Apache OFBiz comes with overall modules covering from PIM, OMS, WMS till accounting, all integrated within single system, so you don't need to maintain multiple solutions required to run your business. - Its Open source and community is vibrant, all your questions are answered. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** - Its not popular that much as people/organisations have build up custom products on top of it and they are much popular than the core product. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** - Customer can have a single source of truth if they are using Apache OFBiz, today in case of retail industry, inventory management and synchronisation is the biggest challenge amongst different systems. With API capabilities of Apache OFBiz it is easy to manage these things like piece of cake. ### 18. Good for ready to with small customization **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Fine Art | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 31, 2021 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** The predefined module can use with small customization **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** it's good for the monolithic project and for a small e-commerce site **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ready to use inventory module, account module, OMS ### 19. I had very good and user friendly experience with Apache ofbiz framework . **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 16, 2021 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** The inbuilt APIs and services provided by the Ofbiz is amazing. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** The complexity of the services and code. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** The need to review and creation of restful APIs are very good. ### 20. Review for Open Source enterprise Resource Planning System **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harshit S. | Technical Support Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 18, 2020 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** Well i am not developer i am system administrator but i work very closely with developers on Apache ofbiz the best thing of this product is that it can intergrate with many tools, also documentation is very clear. Also, it fullfill all our needs realted our project. Overall satisfied. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** As such i dnt find any dislike in apache ofbiz. We are using in cluster enviornment and it is working fine without any issues. **Recommendations to others considering Apache OFBiz:** I will recommend to all users to implemet apache ofbiz. It will surely fulfill all your needs. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have created a portal for the government entity. We have deployed an ERP and it fullfill all our needs. ### 21. Very strong framework **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Business Supplies and Equipment | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 22, 2021 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** It's strong framework to build complex business application. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** Eclipse plugin missing for easy development. **Recommendations to others considering Apache OFBiz:** Yes **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Opentap CRM used as well as ecommerce application developed . ### 22. One framework to solve all needs for organization **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jayachandra R. | Technical Lead, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** Services Events on Services(secas) Events on Entity (eecas) Simple to write code in groovy Screens, Forms Solr integration Payment gateway integration Delegator to connect RDBMS(ORM) **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** Learning takes time for entries Need full stack & indepth webconcepts knowledge Obviously Monolithic application (For small change in any component. Need to deploy) Deploying the application **Recommendations to others considering Apache OFBiz:** Ready to use ERP framework with minimal customisation we can start business and slowly perform the optimization and additional features **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to use for ecommerce organization. Everything is ready to use. If you understand the cart flow, easy to modify cart too. ### 23. Amazing experience to explore **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shwetha R. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** Apache ofbiz is helpful for all kinds of people - students or professionals or anyone. It is easily understandable features where we can even explore every feature how it works. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** I don't actually find any retards about the software. I have used this software for ERP, CRM & so on. No regret... **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management, Bill Of Materials & so on ### 24. Complete opensource solution with no community support **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Oil & Energy | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 17, 2020 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** It is very simple and clean ui to use. Huge number of functionality and plugins included. Suitable and quick ERP solutions for every Type of business and their customer needs. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** Outdated way of updating modules technically. No community support for developers . Documentation for the software is not well maintained. Maintaining updates and timely updates are not provided. If they do there will be a direct effect for the server which is on live. **Recommendations to others considering Apache OFBiz:** Maintain very well tech writers who works on java and xml and be prepared for updates and resolution. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Very clean ui for all the type of enterprise modules, including order management and hr modules. ### 25. Ahead of time ERP **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Mechanical or Industrial Engineering | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** Community support is the best amount other ERP framework **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** It has dsl in xml, which one need to understand, but its a small part of it. **Recommendations to others considering Apache OFBiz:** If you're looking for open source ERP solutions then its community support is the best, its from Apache, and one of the best ERP solutions available, mostly better than proprietaries and it comes with easy customizations **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are providing custom ERP solutions to many customers and most of the code is already in the framework, just little bit tweek here and there and feature is ready ### 26. Easy framework, Quick Implementation, Available Features OOTB and Cost Effective **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mamtha E. | Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2020 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** Easy to Implement an ERP application. Installation Steps are very clear anyone can start and build an application. All the features are readily available and customization is easy. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** Not many organization uses Ofbiz. Even though it has OOTB features. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Adding the Profile Picture in HR Module. An Enterprise level application can be built using Ofbiz. ### 27. Apache OFBiz is a greatly customizable ERP solution with powerful backbone of java. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mohammad K. | Apache OFBiz Contributor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2020 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** The simple control flow and MVC architecture of Apache OFBiz is the best I like. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** The UI is a bit old and outdated. User experience can be improved. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** The most amazing feature of Apache Ofbiz is its order management capabilities. It solves the purpose of distributed order management. ### 28. Awesome API management with inbuilt tools **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Logistics and Supply Chain | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2020 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** Worked on Supply Chain project and the data model provided is great. I like data model the best alongwith API management tool. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** What I feel is , the product can be expanded to more extent to support more and more large projects not just focussing on Ecommerce **Recommendations to others considering Apache OFBiz:** Good product for supply chain management **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Supply Chain related project for the customer (mostly backend) 2. Data model 3. API management console UI 4. Debugging and logging ### 29. Its a good product, for designing E-Commerce Platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Joy S. | Solutions Architect, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2020 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** Ofbiz provide complete suite of application , data model and interface **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** I believe it is a good product, we need to add community resource **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have design Catalog for our client ### 30. Ofbiz opentaps **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Retail | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** good crm tool to use as data engine and consume data. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** little complicated to use in existing project as data engine. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** it is good framework for consuming data from different source. good we used for showing mobile related data from opentaps ofbiz dataengine REST and render in flex. ### 31. Very easy to build and have s very rich wiki **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2020 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** Everything is module wise, easy to build run and deploy **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** Doing code in Xml , heavy weight, too much time to build **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have use ofbiz as my backend of erp solution. It saves lots of time indeed ### 32. OFBiz to OnBizness **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 12, 2020 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** It provides in-built features for powerful CRM. It has lots of customisation functions to make more attractive ERP system. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** Tightly coupled things, which can be extended to get third party plugin. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are solving customer relationship with cool features. ### 33. Ready made customizable solution **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 11, 2020 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** Admin panel is ready made and easy to use. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** Static methods are there so not technically efficient. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ecommerce, Database is ready ### 34. Apache ofbiz for ecommerce **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sanjay K. | Specialist AMS, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 26, 2019 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** Ofbiz is a powerful integrated framework and the best part is the E2E solution development capabilities. Be it front end, backend or processing logic, ofbiz has everything to offer. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** It can be bit confusing at times for new learners about the structure if projects and how the database tables values are updated to UI **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ecommerce related websites mostly. It's integrated with all the capabilities and almost no other tool is needed for our projects. ### 35. Not a very pleasant time **Rating:** 1.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** What i like the most is the modularity and the easy setup for any of the provided features. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** The lack of documentation and the missing support are 2 main factors why its a pain ti work with ofbiz **Recommendations to others considering Apache OFBiz:** I would like to say that they should consider spending more time on understanding and learning it before starting using it. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** We wanted to setup our business as fast as possible so in paper OFbiz was the quickest way to achieve what we wanted and get our hands in ERP ### 36. Collection of technologies to achieve goals faster **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandeep S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2018 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** Apache Ofbiz is most suitable for ERP application. It many feature pre-implemented. You can just plug and play features as per your need. It is highly customizable and reliable. It Performance is ver good. Also it provides you with tools for almost everything. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** You will need to a lot of technologies to start your project development with ofbiz, it uses so many technologies like Java, Groovy, XML,FTL etc. Sometimes it becomes challenging for a developer to keep track of technologies. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** We created an ERP system based on Apache ofbiz. ### 37. The best e-Commerce platform, no doubt.- **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Juan Carlos C. | Director, Information Technology and Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 31, 2016 **What do you like best about Apache OFBiz?** Flexible and powerful, OFBiz has a great software architecture, and the service-based approach. OFBiz is based on programming patterns and Best Practices data models. There is a strong developers' community which is moving OFBiz forward. You can use the OFBiz web site capabilities to provide an online sales website, linked to the warehouse inventory. It´s so easy to modify the OFBiz existing components, and a robust platform for building your own applications. **What do you dislike about Apache OFBiz?** The "Out-of-the-box" version lacks some improvements. The community support, like many others in the FOSS, is very strict with novice developers, not beginner mistakes allowed. **Recommendations to others considering Apache OFBiz:** In our opinion, OFBiz is the best FOSS-based e-Commerce platform out there. **What problems is Apache OFBiz solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are running an online retail business with OFBiz: inventory, purchasing, shipping, and accounting, supporting the eCommerce and ERP+CRM modules. OFBiz is an extremely advanced and flexible platform. ## Apache OFBiz Discussions - [What is OFBiz framework?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ofbiz-framework) - [Can you please share the videos that will help me with coding to customize OfBiz?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/49932-can-you-please-share-the-videos-that-will-help-me-with-coding-to-customize-ofbiz) - 1 upvote - [Upgrade apache ofbiz](https://www.g2.com/discussions/29876-upgrade-apache-ofbiz) - [Can you please update documentation to the latest and provide some tutorial videos on portal for Developers and end user?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/29866-can-you-please-update-documentation-to-the-latest-and-provide-some-tutorial-videos-on-portal-for-developers-and-end-user) - [How to separate Inventory tables from main DB?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/29657-how-to-separate-inventory-tables-from-main-db) - [View Apache OFBiz pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/apache-ofbiz/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-31+05%3A53%3A27+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=986a18a2-ac7e-4518-b92d-4a9858877f95&secure%5Btoken%5D=a81aa186b164a22e46378c37d3a3f51a4c71cf91feb0dd020a33eb0675358d71&format=llm_user) ## Top Apache OFBiz Alternatives - [spring.io](https://www.g2.com/products/spring-io/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (290 reviews) - [Hibernate](https://www.g2.com/products/hibernate/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (25 reviews) - [JHipster](https://www.g2.com/products/jhipster/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (83 reviews)