Technology, AI & ERP — explained in plain English
A phased, end-to-end checklist for moving a live database to Odoo 20: audit your customisations, run a test upgrade, test like a user, fix and retrain, then cut over with a rollback ready. Includes the bank consistency and access-rights changes that catch teams off guard.
Odoo 20 gives Email Marketing click-level tracking, conditional content, dynamic mailing lists, and a template library, while Marketing Automation gains a drag-and-drop workflow builder, event-based triggers, webhooks, and AI-assisted campaign creation. Here is what changed in both apps, drawn from the official release notes and the 20.0 documentation.
Odoo POS offline mode keeps order creation working from the browser cache during an internet outage and syncs orders when the connection returns. This guide is explicit about the limits — payment terminals, invoices, customer registration and real-time stock — and gives a preparation playbook using the cached-data parameters.
Work orders turn a bill of materials into executable steps at each work center, and the Shop Floor module is where operators run them. Odoo 20 adds a work order Kanban and Gantt, continuous production, and a single Produce button to that control loop.
Odoo 20’s bill line prediction pre-encodes the product, account, tax, analytic distribution and vehicle on vendor bill lines from your bill history and the line label, while preserving any values you entered manually. This article explains how the matching works, why the manual-value safeguard matters, and how to get consistently faster, cleaner bill entry from it.
Odoo 20 is out, but the right upgrade date depends on your current version, your customisations, and your calendar. This decision guide weighs the support window, the headline features, and the real blockers — then maps your situation to a recommendation.
Odoo 20 lets you define groups of users to manage Documents access rights for files and folders, while Knowledge gains quicker article settings and its members-and-visibility model keeps sensitive content hidden. This guide explains how permissions work across both apps, from Viewer and Editor roles to inherited rights on nested articles.
Odoo 20 POS now detects when items in the cart belong to a predefined combo and suggests converting them, applying the deal price in one click. This guide covers combo choices, Combo Price vs Extra Price, the documented pricing example, and how to edit or break a combo at the till.
Odoo 20 lets you split an ongoing manufacturing order so the remaining amount is produced later as its own planned order. This article separates splitting from backorders, partial completion, and pre-planned splits, and covers the schedule, consumption, cost, and traceability effects.
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.