Every team that runs Odoo eventually hits the same friction with time capture: staff work inside a record — a task, a ticket, a sales order, a manufacturing order — but to log the time they spent, they have to break context, open a separate timesheet or activity, and reconstruct how long the work actually took. That guesswork erodes the accuracy of billable hours, project cost analysis, and payroll. Odoo core does ship a timer inside the Timesheets and Field Service apps, but it is bolted to account.analytic.line and the project/task model; it does not exist on arbitrary models, it cannot be dropped into an ordinary form or list view, and the moment you want a running clock on helpdesk.ticket, crm.lead, mrp.workorder, or your own custom model, native Odoo runs out of road.

The Web Timer Widget we build for you is a reusable OWL field widget plus a lightweight timing model that you can attach to any Odoo view. Technically, it is a custom @odoo/owl component registered in the field registry, backed by a small mixin model (extending models.Model) that stores timer_start, accumulated duration (a fields.Float in hours), and a @api.depends-computed running total that ticks in the browser and reconciles against server time on stop, so a lost connection or refreshed tab never loses or double-counts elapsed time. The widget renders start/pause/resume/stop controls inside the form or list via a QWeb/XML template, writes through the ORM (respecting your ir.model.access.csv grants and any record rules on the host model), and can post the result straight onto a linked account.analytic.line, a chatter log, or a field on the record itself — whichever your workflow needs. Because it is a proper field widget, it inherits Odoo's access control, multi-company rules, and audit trail rather than living in a disconnected browser tab.

We tailor the build to how your team actually works. That includes deciding which models carry a timer, whether multiple concurrent timers are allowed per user, rounding and minimum-billable rules, idle-timeout auto-pause, and how the captured duration flows downstream — into timesheets for invoicing, into manufacturing labor cost, into helpdesk SLA reporting, or into a custom QWeb report you can print or email. Where you need programmatic control — starting or stopping timers from an automated action, a scheduled job, or an external system — we expose clean methods callable over Odoo's XML-RPC/JSON-RPC API. The widget is written to work identically across Odoo Community and Enterprise; on Community it gives you timer capability that would otherwise only ship inside Enterprise Timesheets, and on Enterprise it extends that capability to models the native timer never reaches. It ships tested against Odoo 17.0, 18.0, and 19.0.

Because this is a build-to-order product, nothing is pre-listed for instant download. After you request a quotation we run a short scoping call, confirm the target models and downstream flow in writing, and give you a fixed quote and delivery date. Typical delivery is 2–4 weeks from confirmed scope. We develop on a staging copy of your database, run UAT with your team, and deploy behind a tested rollback plan, then hand over the full git repository and documentation. Pricing starts from $249 (indicative, single-company base scope); the number of host models, multi-company timer isolation, downstream integrations (timesheets, MRP, helpdesk, or an external system over RPC), and custom reporting depth increase the quoted scope.