A major proportion of Odoo freelance developers publicizes as capable of developing the entire Odoo platform as per your operational needs but lacks in delivering one due to their inefficiency and incapability of covering the entire platform. Although the initial price of the Odoo platform development from a freelance developer will be low, however, you will incur numerous functional issues which will add up to the maintenance cost which is costlier than the solutions provided by certified Odoo partners.

In regards to hiring an Odoo freelancer for your development needs, there is one and only one advantage of the lower initial price as they might be capable of offering you solutions at a lower price initially. However, due to the lack of expertise and through monitoring throughout the development these solutions will wound out to be ineffective in operations and will meet with bugs and errors quite often adding up to your maintenance cost. Finally, the entire cost of hiring an Odoo freelance developer will add up to be even more than hiring an Odoo partner for your development needs.

There are various drawbacks of hiring an Odoo freelance developer here are certain of them :

   Lack of proper expertise will affect the platform developments

   No monitoring of the operations

   A non-time-bound and lethargic operations

   Costlier in the long run

   Maintenance costs on the developed platform are high