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Field Service in Odoo: from work order to invoice in the field

Field Service in Odoo: from work order to invoice in the field

Field jobs stop leaking hours and parts when the task is the single place everything lands: the schedule, the timer, the worksheet, the parts off the van, the signature, and the invoice built straight...

Aug 13, 2026 Sales, CRM and pricing

Helpdesk SLAs and ticket routing in Odoo: stop tickets falling through the cracks

Helpdesk SLAs and ticket routing in Odoo: stop tickets falling through the cracks

Tickets stop falling through the cracks when three things work together in Odoo Helpdesk: a team that owns each queue, an SLA policy that puts a clock on every ticket, and automatic assignment that gi...

Aug 11, 2026 Sales, CRM and pricing

Timesheets to invoice in Odoo: bill the hours you actually worked

Timesheets to invoice in Odoo: bill the hours you actually worked

You bill every hour you work by closing the gap between the work and the invoice: a service product set to invoice on timesheets, hours logged on the task as they happen, and the invoice drawn from de...

Aug 8, 2026 Sales, CRM and pricing

How to keep AI changes safe in Odoo: governance, audit trail and data privacy

How to keep AI changes safe in Odoo: governance, audit trail and data privacy

AI changes stay safe in Odoo with the same three controls that govern any powerful user: decide upfront who may change what, track every change with field tracking and an audit log, and keep personal ...

Aug 8, 2026 Odoo and AI

Billing projects in Odoo: milestones, fixed price and time-and-material

Billing projects in Odoo: milestones, fixed price and time-and-material

What Odoo bills on a project, and when, is decided by one field: the invoicing policy on the service product. Fixed price bills the agreed amount, milestones bill per finished phase, time-and-material...

Aug 6, 2026 Sales, CRM and pricing

Vendor pricelists and supplier reordering in Odoo: buy at the right price automatically

Vendor pricelists and supplier reordering in Odoo: buy at the right price automatically

Odoo buys at the right price from the right vendor once the Purchase tab tells it the truth: every vendor listed in order of preference, with the real minimum quantities, prices and lead times per lin...

Aug 4, 2026 Inventory and stock

What is a good inventory management system? Why one source of truth beats another tool

What is a good inventory management system? Why one source of truth beats another tool

A customer orders online, and the product is already sold in your shop. You sell something on a marketplace that a colleague just shipped from the back. Every month you count by hand, and the number s...

Aug 1, 2026 Inventory and stock

How much does Odoo cost per year? The four cost layers, and where the money really goes

How much does Odoo cost per year? The four cost layers, and where the money really goes

You search "how much does Odoo cost per year", and the first number you find is a licence price per user per month. It looks affordable, so you budget for it. Then the first implementation quote lands...

Aug 1, 2026 Sales, CRM and pricing

Employee expenses in Odoo: from phone photo to reimbursement

Employee expenses in Odoo: from phone photo to reimbursement

An expense in Odoo travels from a phone photo to reimbursement in seven steps, and most of them run themselves once the categories are set up. The employee snaps and submits, the approver checks, acco...

Aug 1, 2026 Accounting and finance

Your VAT return in Odoo: the tax report without the month-end panic

Your VAT return in Odoo: the tax report without the month-end panic

The VAT return stops being a scramble when the tax grids are right, the lock date closes the period before you file, and the closing entry is posted as part of a fixed routine. Odoo has the whole work...

Jul 30, 2026 Accounting and finance

Assets and depreciation in Odoo: stop tracking fixed assets in a spreadsheet

Assets and depreciation in Odoo: stop tracking fixed assets in a spreadsheet

A fixed asset register that always matches the ledger comes from running assets inside Odoo: create the asset from the vendor bill, let Odoo build the depreciation board, and the monthly entries post ...

Jul 27, 2026 Accounting and finance

Deferred revenue and expenses in Odoo: recognise income in the right period

Deferred revenue and expenses in Odoo: recognise income in the right period

Income and costs land in the right period when you mark the invoice lines as deferred and let Odoo spread them month by month. The test for what qualifies is single and sharp: is there still a perform...

Jul 25, 2026 Accounting and finance

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