Technology, AI & ERP — explained in plain English
Landed costs fold freight, insurance and customs duties into the valuation of the receipt that caused them, instead of leaving them in an expense account. This guide covers the FIFO/AVCO prerequisite, service landed-cost products, the five split methods, and the bill-to-valuation workflow in Odoo.
Odoo 20 lets automated and scheduled actions summon AI agents, adding judgement to triggers that could previously only move data. This guide explains what agents can do inside a run, how automation chats make them reviewable, and how to design narrow, safe, budgeted agent automations.
Odoo 20 turns your database into an MCP server, so external AI assistants like Claude Code or Codex can read — and, with permission, modify — your data under your own users’ access rights. This guide covers OAuth and API-key connections, the read-only default tool set, and how revocation works.
Odoo 20 discontinues the standalone Field Service app and moves its tools into Planning, including a live technician map, a map view combining shift locations with availability, and routing with ordered and optimized modes. This walkthrough covers the live map, Auto Plan with customer locations and priorities, Mapbox travel times in the Gantt view, and the travel-fee and worksheet toolkit around them.
Odoo 20 Sales removes everyday quoting friction: description-only lines, margins you edit to set the price, reusable sections and templates, periodic pricelists, and commissions on amounts actually paid. A practical walkthrough of what changed.
Odoo 20’s offline mode lets staff create, edit, archive, and delete records without a connection — and rerun earlier searches — with changes syncing when coverage returns. This article walks through receiving, picking, and counting in warehouse dead zones, the honest limits of working offline, and a practical rollout procedure.
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.