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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 lets you pay vendor bills directly from inside Odoo — individually or in batches, with a single signature — through the new PISP (payment initiation service provider) interface. This article walks through the flow, the controls that travel with it, and why availability depends on your bank and provider.
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 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 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.
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, 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.
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