Technology, AI & ERP — explained in plain English
Understand the power and benefits of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems for your business. Learn about different ERP platforms, their features, and how they can help you streamline your operations, improve productivity, and gain valuable insights into your data. Stay up-to-date on the latest ERP trends, best practices, and case studies to make informed decisions about your business technology. From small businesses to large enterprises, this category has everything you need to know about ERP and its role in modern business management.
Odoo 20 reshapes bank reconciliation with bank consistency underneath, a Bank Matching view, Paid-to-Reconciled status names, configurable matching rules, Run Auto Reconciliation, and a new summary report. Here is what changed and a practical checklist for adapting your close process.
A feature-by-feature comparison of Odoo 19 and Odoo 20 across AI, accounting, operations, security, and licensing. See exactly what the upgrade adds, what it renames, and what it removes before you plan the move.
Odoo 20’s Website changes cluster into an expanded AI Website Assistant, SEO upgrades (llms.txt, structured data by default, indexable-only sitemaps), stricter website forms, and page-specific body classes for designers. Here is what each change means for site owners, drawn from the official release notes.
Odoo 20 lets operators record produced quantities on work orders, and with Continuous Production enabled on the bill of materials the next operation can start as soon as some quantity is ready. This guide explains where overlapping operations shorten lead time, where batch discipline still matters, and how to adopt the setting BoM by BoM.
Odoo 20 requires every journal entry affecting a bank account to originate from a bank transaction, ending manual journal mismatches. This explainer covers what the rule blocks, how the transaction-and-suspense model works, and how finance teams should prepare before upgrading.
Odoo 20, unveiled 24 September 2026, brings AI agents that create and update records, a bank consistency rule in accounting, offline mode, and the end of the Field Service app. This app-by-app tour covers what changed, what was removed, and what it costs.
From ir.actions.report to wkhtmltopdf: this article walks Odoo’s full report pipeline — report actions, QWeb templates, paper formats, and a layered debugging workflow for when PDFs render wrong. Grounded in the official Odoo 17 documentation, with code examples for each stage.
Odoo is a monolith made of plug-ins — every app, including Settings, is a module. This guide builds a complete minimal Library Management module for Odoo 17: directory layout, __manifest__.py key by key, security CSV, views, actions, menus, and the load-order rule that trips up every first module.
Odoo security is two mechanisms in a strict order: access rights grant model-level CRUD to groups, record rules narrow access to rows with domains. This guide walks through the evaluation algorithm, a worked fleet example, and the mistakes that break real deployments.
Computed fields derive their values from Python methods instead of database columns, kept correct by the @api.depends dependency system. This guide covers stored vs non-stored fields, inverse methods, related fields, and how to debug silently stale values.
Odoo’s ORM turns Python classes into database tables, form views, and API endpoints — with no SQL in sight. This guide explains models, fields, recordsets, inheritance, and the prefetching machinery that makes it all fast.
Updated October 2026 to reflect current information. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of creating and managing user accounts in Odoo. This is an important task for any organization that wants to ensure proper access control and security within the system. Let’s get started! Step 1: Accessing the User Management Interface … Read more
Updated October 2026 to reflect current versions. In the world of modern business, streamlining your sales order processing is not just a convenience but a necessity. Sales order processing is the backbone of your operations, bridging the gap between customer demand and product delivery. In this blog, we’ll delve into the world of Odoo, an … Read more
Welcome to the world of Odoo and Python! In this blog post, we will delve into the process of creating a new product on Odoo using Python. Odoo is a powerful open-source ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) platform that offers a wide range of functionalities for businesses. One of its key features is the ability to … Read more
Are you tired of staring at the same old boring calendar view in Odoo? Do you long for a more visually appealing way to display your appointments and events? Look no further, my friend! In this tutorial, we’re going to shake things up and create a custom calendar view that will make your colleagues and … Read more
Odoo is a powerful and flexible open-source platform for managing businesses of all sizes. It offers a range of modules and integrations that can help ecommerce companies streamline their operations and increase efficiency. In this blog post, we’ll explore some of the key benefits of using Odoo for ecommerce. Centralized platform for managing all aspects … Read more