Technology, AI & ERP — explained in plain English
Odoo is a comprehensive suite of open-source business applications for various areas such as sales, accounting, inventory, project management, and more. This tag relates to articles, tutorials, and news about Odoo and its functionality. Learn how to implement, customize and use the various features of Odoo to streamline your business operations. Get insights into the latest updates, trends, and best practices for using Odoo.
Odoo 20 removes work entries — and the Planning-Payroll integration — from the payroll flow, merging work entry types into time off types and replacing the old cleanup queue with a revamped, warnings-focused Payroll dashboard. This article covers the enhanced pay run workflow, protected contract dates, simpler working schedules, reusable salary rules, indexation, and net-to-gross simulation.
Odoo 20 strengthens checkout with category-scoped extra steps, editable Pay Now buttons, minimum order quantities, preferred delivery dates, and tax display per pricelist. Together with stock-based publishing and portal returns, these small changes remove friction exactly where shoppers hesitate.
Odoo 20 streamlines stock tracking: reordering rules now suggest minimum and maximum levels from demand history, the replenishment dashboard has a single Order button, returns lose the wizard, and the stock report can show inventory at a past date. This guide explains each change, how they fit together, and a practical order for adopting them.
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 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’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.
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 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.
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.
Odoo 20 gives Canada a new Avalara Included integration method covering full tax computation for Canada and the US, batch CPA 005 pre-authorized debit payments, and a reworked localised chart — plus a stricter fiscal-position rule that can silently remove tax from invoices. This guide separates the verified Canada items from the general changes and provides an eight-point checklist to test with your accountant.
Multi-warehouse routing in Odoo decides where demand is sourced from and which transfers satisfy it, using routes made of pull and push rules. This guide sets up the built-in resupply route between a central warehouse and a shop, explains custom routes, and gives a testing checklist before go-live.