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Bank reconciliation, VAT and fiscal positions, multi-currency, a faster month-end close.

Three-way matching and vendor bill OCR in Odoo (and why OCR bills will not match a PO)

Three-way matching and vendor bill OCR in Odoo (and why OCR bills will not match a PO)

An OCR bill will not match a purchase order because OCR only reads the document; it never links a PO. The fix is linking the PO on the draft bill (or letting the bill start from the PO), with Bill Con...

Jun 5, 2026

Why you can't delete a posted invoice in Odoo (and how a credit note fixes it)

Why you can't delete a posted invoice in Odoo (and how a credit note fixes it)

You cannot delete a posted invoice in Odoo because posting writes a journal entry into a sequential ledger, and erasing that would break your books. The clean fix is a credit note, with reset to draft...

Apr 23, 2026

Wrong VAT on your Odoo invoices? Fiscal positions, explained

Wrong VAT on your Odoo invoices? Fiscal positions, explained

When Odoo puts the wrong VAT on an invoice, the customer's fiscal position is almost always the reason. It is missing, set wrong, or mapped incompletely, and the product's default tax is only the star...

Apr 1, 2026

Bank reconciliation in Odoo, explained (and why auto-match is not firing)

Bank reconciliation in Odoo, explained (and why auto-match is not firing)

When auto-match does nothing, the cause is almost always one of three: the statement never imported cleanly, no matching rule covers the lines, or the rules sit in the wrong sequence. Each one is fixa...

Mar 13, 2026