Bouke Steemers Every new order means more admin: how to grow without growing headcount You grow without growing headcount by breaking the link between order volume and admin: capture each order once at the source, let it flow to delivery and invoice without re-entry, and automate the ch... May 13, 2026 Business and growth
Bouke Steemers Your business has outgrown spreadsheets: the signs, the cost, and what to do next You have outgrown spreadsheets the moment your numbers need a person to vouch for them. The way out is one connected system where data lives once, entered at the source and read everywhere else, moved... May 10, 2026 Business and growth
Bouke Steemers AI lead scoring and sales forecasting in Odoo CRM (and how to use the numbers without trusting them blindly) Odoo's predictive lead scoring ranks your open deals from your own won and lost history, and the forecast follows from those probabilities. The numbers are usable on two conditions: enough clean histo... May 9, 2026 Odoo and AI
Bouke Steemers Why your Odoo is slow (and the practical fixes) A slow Odoo is almost always one of four things: a worker count left at the default, too little RAM for those workers, a missing database index, or custom code doing expensive work on every load. All ... May 6, 2026 Upgrades and customization
Bouke Steemers API, connector or iPaaS: how to connect Odoo to your other systems There are four ways to connect Odoo to another system: the native API, a custom module, a prebuilt connector, or an iPaaS sync layer. They are not better or worse in the abstract. Each fits a differen... May 3, 2026 Integrations and data
Bouke Steemers Odoo POS offline mode: how it works and how to keep sales in sync The Odoo Point of Sale keeps selling when the internet drops, by design. It runs in the browser and caches everything it needs when the session opens, so it can take orders, calculate totals and print... Apr 30, 2026 eCommerce, POS and multichannel
Bouke Steemers How to give a discount on the whole order in Odoo (not line by line) One discount on the whole Odoo order takes two things: switch on Discounts in the Sales settings, then use the Discount button at the bottom of the order, which spreads one percentage across all lines... Apr 27, 2026 Sales, CRM and pricing
Bouke Steemers 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 Accounting and finance
Bouke Steemers Subcontracting in Odoo: outsource a production step without losing stock control Outsourcing a production step without losing stock control takes one specific setup in Odoo: a Subcontracting bill of materials, the subcontractor as vendor, and resupply routes on the components. The... Apr 20, 2026 Manufacturing
Bouke Steemers Tracking by lot or serial number in Odoo: when and how to set it up Use a lot when one number covers a batch, a serial when every unit needs its own, and switch tracking on per product, not for everything. The setup itself is four steps; choosing the right level is wh... Apr 17, 2026 Inventory and stock
Bouke Steemers Invoice and vendor-bill OCR in Odoo: let AI do the data entry Odoo's document digitization reads the PDF or photo and fills the draft vendor bill for you; your job shrinks to a glance, a correction where needed, and the post. Turn it on, route the bills in by em... Apr 16, 2026 Odoo and AI
Bouke Steemers Odoo Studio vs custom development: where Studio stops and code begins Studio stops where real logic begins. Use it for fields, view tweaks and one-sentence rules, and move to a custom module the moment a change branches, talks to another system, processes volume or has ... Apr 14, 2026 Upgrades and customization
