Technology, AI & ERP — explained in plain English
A custom field in Odoo POS has to be defined, loaded into the session snapshot, and only then displayed — and every step belongs in your own module if it is to survive upgrades. This guide shows the upgrade-safe pattern: _inherit models, _loader_params overrides with super(), patch()-based JavaScript, and inherited templates.
A first AI agent in Odoo 20 should do one narrow job well: this guide walks through creating the agent in the AI app, writing its system prompt, assigning skills, and adding sources. It finishes with testing, putting the agent to work inside automations, and the supervision habits that keep it safe.
XML-RPC was not removed in Odoo 20 — it has been deprecated since Odoo 19, only its db service is gone in 20, and common/object keep working until Odoo 22. This article maps exactly what broke, what is on borrowed time, and how to migrate execute_kw integrations to the JSON-2 API.
Odoo 20 discontinues the standalone Field Service app and moves its live map, route planning, travel fees and worksheets into Planning. This guide maps where every feature went, walks through the sales-order-to-shift workflow, and lists what to check before upgrading.
Odoo 20 CRM keeps the pipeline you know and fixes the friction around it: three-state lead rotation, a pipeline switcher, Dun & Bradstreet lead generation, and upsell quotations from subscriptions. Here is what is actually new, and what is long-standing.
Odoo 20 now suggests minimum and maximum stock levels for reordering rules based on demand history, desired minimum days of coverage, and order frequency. This guide explains how reordering rules work, unpacks the three suggestion inputs, and shows how to adopt the values safely — and when to overrule them.
Dropshipping in Odoo routes a confirmed sales order straight to a vendor, who ships directly to the customer while your stock never moves. This guide covers the setting, the product configuration with vendor and Dropship route, the RfQ-to-dropship-receipt flow, and the mistakes that silently break it.
Odoo 20’s AI agents go beyond drafting and summarizing: they create and update records, work from uploaded files, and run inside automated and scheduled actions. This explainer covers how agents are built from a system prompt, skills, and sources, the guardrails around them, and the IAP credits that meter every run.
Odoo 20 upgrades the Gantt view platform-wide — row and column selection, visible start and end buffers, and Studio-enabled side-panel scheduling — while Planning absorbs the discontinued Field Service app with live maps, routing, and Mapbox travel times. Here is what changed for anyone who schedules people for a living.
Odoo POS, Square and Lightspeed are three different kinds of product — an ERP app, a payments-led till, and a retail specialist — and that structural difference drives the real comparison. This article compares their pricing models, processing, inventory depth and hardware, plus what Odoo 20’s POS changes add for small shops.
A finished product’s cost in Odoo is built from components actually consumed, work center and employee time, extra costs, and subcontracting fees, minus any by-product cost share. Odoo 20 makes that cost provisional while the order runs and real when it closes — this article traces each dollar, with a worked cost-component breakdown table.
Odoo 20 adds new KPIs to digest emails — without naming them in the release notes — and upgrades financial reporting with a bank reconciliation summary report, an auditable CTA line, parent accounts, and included journals in consolidation. This article explains how to audit the digest KPIs tab after upgrading and gives a reporting test list for upgrade week.
Odoo reordering rules watch forecasted stock, not just shelves, and refill from a minimum up to a maximum via a chosen route. This guide explains automatic and manual triggers, the quantity calculation, the 0/0/1 pattern, and how to choose min/max values from daily demand and lead time.
Odoo Online, Odoo.sh, and self-hosting run the same Odoo 20 software — what changes is who runs the servers, who may install custom modules, and who owns upgrades and backups. This comparison lays out the three options side by side and the three questions that settle the choice.
Odoo 20 adds a platform-wide offline mode: create, edit, archive, unarchive, and delete records — and re-run previous searches — with no connection, then sync when coverage returns. This article explains what the mode covers, who it is built for, and how it differs from the older POS-only offline behaviour.
The POS session is Odoo’s unit of cash control: opening counts, reasoned cash in/out, and the Closing Control comparison of expected versus counted cash. Odoo 20 keeps that ritual but reworks the accounting behind it, with a global sale at close and payment journal entries that no longer wait for the session to end.