Bouke Steemers 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
Bouke Steemers 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
Bouke Steemers 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
Bouke Steemers Analytic accounting in Odoo: see profit per project, department or cost center Profit per project, department or cost center comes from analytic accounting: a second layer over your ledger that tags every cost and revenue line with the dimension it belongs to. Decide the dimensi... Jul 23, 2026 Accounting and finance
Bouke Steemers Multi-currency in Odoo: invoicing abroad without messing up your books Multi-currency stays clean in Odoo when the setup comes first: gain/loss accounts in place, the right currencies active with automatic rates, invoices in the customer's currency, and the exchange diff... Jul 20, 2026 Accounting and finance
Bouke Steemers Preventive maintenance in Odoo: stop machines breaking down at the worst time Breakdowns stop being surprises when every machine has an equipment record, a preventive schedule that runs before the failure, and a team that every request routes to. Odoo's Maintenance app holds al... Jul 18, 2026 Manufacturing
Bouke Steemers Make-to-order vs make-to-stock in Odoo: choosing the right replenishment Make-to-stock with sensible min/max rules is the right default for almost every product; make-to-order belongs only on the items you genuinely should not hold, and only when the chain below them runs ... Jul 16, 2026 Manufacturing
Bouke Steemers AI agents around Odoo: automating tasks without breaking your workflows An AI agent around Odoo is safe in the order read, draft, write: reads can be broad, drafts need an editor, and writes need a least-privilege user, a log, a kill switch and a human on everything irrev... Jul 16, 2026 Odoo and AI
Bouke Steemers Work centers and capacity in Odoo: planning production realistically Odoo plans realistically once the four numbers on your work centers are real: parallel capacity, measured efficiency, setup and cleanup time, and actual working hours. By default it assumes infinite c... Jul 13, 2026 Manufacturing
Bouke Steemers Multi-level BOMs and kits in Odoo: when to nest, when to flatten Nest a level in the BOM only when the sub-assembly is a real, stocked product with its own production; flatten it into a kit when the grouping only exists on paper. That one rule decides most of the p... Jul 11, 2026 Manufacturing
Bouke Steemers Handling backorders in Odoo: deliver what you have, track the rest Ship what you have by setting the Done quantity to the real count, validate, and choose Create Backorder. Odoo then tracks the remainder as its own open delivery until the stock arrives, and the custo... Jul 9, 2026 Inventory and stock
Bouke Steemers Putaway rules and storage strategies in Odoo: store goods in the right place automatically Goods store themselves in the right place once putaway rules and storage categories tell Odoo where each product belongs and how much fits where. The receiver scans, the system answers with the locati... Jul 6, 2026 Inventory and stock
