Bouke Steemers Landed costs in Odoo: get freight and duty into your real product cost Your real product cost includes freight, insurance and duty, and Odoo's landed costs push exactly those amounts into the valuation so the margin report tells the truth. The setup is six steps; the tim... Jul 4, 2026 Inventory and stock
Bouke Steemers Dropshipping in Odoo: ship from your supplier without holding stock Dropshipping in Odoo is one route and four settings: switch Dropshipping on, make the product sellable and buyable, link the vendor, tick the Dropship route. From then on a sales order raises the purc... Jul 1, 2026 Inventory and stock
Bouke Steemers Delivery methods and carrier connectors in Odoo: rates, labels and tracking Shipping in Odoo works when three pieces are set up in order: a delivery method, a rate calculation that matches what you actually charge, and (only if you need live labels and tracking) a carrier con... Jun 29, 2026 Inventory and stock
Bouke Steemers Barcode receiving and picking in Odoo: faster, fewer errors Receipts and picks get faster and cleaner when the scan replaces the keyboard: the Odoo Barcode app books each box at the dock and each pick at the shelf, in real time. The setup is a morning of work;... Jun 27, 2026 Inventory and stock
Bouke Steemers Getting investment-ready: clean data and processes before due diligence You get investment-ready by running the business on one ledger where every number reconciles and every process leaves a trail, long before anyone signs a letter of intent. A buyer pays for what they c... Jun 24, 2026 Business and growth
Bouke Steemers An AI assistant over your Odoo data: doing retrieval-augmented answers right An AI assistant over your Odoo data is only as good as three things: structured access to live records instead of a document dump, clean data underneath, and permissions that cap the assistant at what... Jun 23, 2026 Odoo and AI
Bouke Steemers No single view of the customer: why your team chases information and customers wait Customers stop repeating themselves when there is one customer record that every order, ticket and invoice hangs off, and every team reads from it. Decide which system owns that record, and the chasin... Jun 22, 2026 Business and growth
Bouke Steemers Cash flow you cannot see until it is too late You see cash flow in time when receivables, payables and the bank live in one ledger with a connected bank feed, read as an aged and forward view instead of a balance tile. Everything below is how to ... Jun 20, 2026 Business and growth
Bouke Steemers Quality checks in Odoo manufacturing: catch defects before they ship You catch defects before they ship by fixing three control moments in Odoo (at receipt, in production, before delivery) and letting quality control points generate the checks automatically. The check ... Jun 17, 2026 Manufacturing
Bouke Steemers Stop exporting Odoo data to Excel (use pivot, graph and saved views instead) Almost every Excel export from Odoo can be replaced by the built-in pivot or graph view, saved as a one-click favourite that always shows current data. The export survives only for frozen records, out... Jun 15, 2026 Accounting and finance
Bouke Steemers Access rights vs record rules in Odoo: why a user can or cannot see something Whether a user can or cannot see something in Odoo is decided in two layers: access rights decide if they may touch a model at all, record rules decide which rows inside it they get. A salesperson who... Jun 12, 2026 Upgrades and customization
Bouke Steemers Outgoing email not sending in Odoo (the port 25 and SPF/DKIM fix) Odoo email that does not arrive has two causes: the SMTP connection is blocked (usually the port) or the receiving side does not trust the mail (SPF, DKIM, DMARC). Fix the port first, then the DNS rec... Jun 10, 2026 Upgrades and customization
