Odoo Module Guides
Comprehensive guides for every Odoo module. Learn about features, pricing, integrations, and implementation timelines to make informed decisions for your business.
Odoo Accounting Module: Complete Guide to Financial Management
Odoo Accounting is a full-featured double-entry bookkeeping system that automates invoicing, bank reconciliation, and financial reporting for businesses of every size. The module supports multi-currency transactions, tax compliance across jurisdictions, and real-time profit-and-loss dashboards that give finance teams instant visibility into company performance. With built-in AI-powered bank matching and automated payment follow-ups, accounts receivable and payable cycles are dramatically shortened. Odoo Accounting also handles asset depreciation, analytic accounting, and budget tracking without requiring third-party add-ons.
Odoo Inventory Management: Complete Warehouse & Stock Guide
Odoo Inventory is a warehouse management system that provides real-time stock visibility across unlimited locations, automated replenishment rules, and barcode-driven picking and packing workflows. The module uses a double-entry inventory model where every stock move is traced from source to destination, ensuring full traceability from supplier receipt to customer delivery. Advanced features include lot and serial number tracking, expiration date management, and multi-step routing for complex warehouse layouts. Demand forecasting and reorder-point automation ensure optimal stock levels while minimizing carrying costs.
Odoo Manufacturing (MRP): Complete Production Planning Guide
Odoo Manufacturing (MRP) provides end-to-end production planning and execution capabilities, from bills of materials and routing definitions to work order scheduling and shop floor tracking. The module supports both make-to-order and make-to-stock strategies with automatic raw-material procurement triggered by production demand. Real-time dashboards display overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), production throughput, and scrap rates across all work centers. Odoo MRP also handles subcontracting workflows, allowing manufacturers to outsource specific operations while maintaining full visibility over the production chain.
Odoo Sales Module: Complete Guide to Quotation & Order Management
Odoo Sales streamlines the entire quote-to-cash cycle, from creating professional quotations with drag-and-drop product catalogs to converting confirmed orders into invoices and delivery orders automatically. The module supports advanced pricing through customer-specific pricelists, volume discounts, and promotional campaigns that apply rules without manual calculation. Sales teams gain pipeline visibility through customizable Kanban boards and performance dashboards that track revenue, conversion rates, and average deal size. Built-in eSignature support lets customers approve quotations online, reducing approval cycles from days to minutes.
Odoo Purchase Management: Complete Procurement Guide
Odoo Purchase Management centralizes procurement operations from purchase requisitions through vendor payment, giving purchasing teams full control over supplier relationships, pricing agreements, and approval workflows. The module automates the procure-to-pay cycle by generating purchase orders from reorder rules, sales demand, or manufacturing requirements without manual intervention. Vendor scorecards track delivery performance, pricing accuracy, and quality metrics to support data-driven supplier selection. Blanket orders and purchase agreements lock in negotiated terms for recurring purchases, reducing maverick spending and ensuring contract compliance.
Odoo CRM: Complete Guide to Sales Pipeline & Lead Management
Odoo CRM gives sales teams a visual Kanban pipeline for managing leads and opportunities from first contact through closed deal, with drag-and-drop stage progression and automated activity scheduling. The module captures leads from multiple sources including web forms, email aliases, live chat, and marketing campaigns, then scores and assigns them to reps based on configurable rules. Predictive lead scoring powered by historical win/loss data helps reps prioritize high-potential opportunities. Revenue forecasting, win-rate analysis, and activity tracking dashboards give sales managers the data they need to coach teams and hit quotas.
Odoo Project Management: Complete Task & Collaboration Guide
Odoo Project Management provides flexible project planning and task tracking through Kanban boards, Gantt charts, and list views that teams can switch between based on their workflow preferences. Projects support subtasks, milestones, deadlines, and recurring task templates that reduce administrative overhead for repetitive work. Integrated timesheet tracking lets team members log hours directly on tasks, with real-time budget consumption dashboards showing project managers how actual effort compares to estimates. Customer collaboration portals allow clients to view project progress, approve deliverables, and communicate with the team without requiring an Odoo license.
Odoo HR & Payroll: Complete Human Resources Management Guide
Odoo HR is a comprehensive human resources suite covering the full employee lifecycle from recruitment and onboarding through payroll processing and offboarding. The platform centralizes employee records, org charts, department structures, and employment contracts in a single database accessible to HR managers and employees through self-service portals. Attendance tracking, leave management, expense reporting, and performance appraisals are integrated modules that feed into payroll calculations automatically. Odoo Payroll handles localized salary structures, tax deductions, and statutory contributions for dozens of countries, generating payslips and accounting entries without manual data transfer.
Odoo Website Builder: Complete Guide to Building Business Websites
Odoo Website Builder is a drag-and-drop content management system that enables businesses to create professional, mobile-responsive websites without writing code. The builder includes pre-designed themes, building blocks for common page elements, and inline editing that shows exactly how the published page will look. Built-in SEO tools analyze each page for keyword optimization, meta tag completeness, and URL structure while automatically generating sitemaps and managing canonical URLs. The website module integrates natively with Odoo CRM, eCommerce, and Events, meaning contact forms feed directly into the sales pipeline and product catalogs are managed from a single backend.
Odoo eCommerce: Complete Online Store & Selling Guide
Odoo eCommerce transforms any Odoo website into a full-featured online store with product catalogs, shopping carts, secure checkout, and integrated payment processing. The module connects directly to Odoo Inventory for real-time stock availability, Odoo Accounting for automatic revenue recognition, and Odoo Sales for unified order management across online and offline channels. Advanced merchandising features include product variants, attribute-based filtering, cross-selling suggestions, and promotional pricing rules that apply automatically at checkout. The storefront is fully customizable through the drag-and-drop website builder, and mobile-optimized checkout flows minimize cart abandonment.
Odoo Point of Sale (POS): Complete Retail & Restaurant Guide
Odoo Point of Sale is a web-based POS system that runs on any device with a browser, supporting retail stores, restaurants, and bars with fast checkout, offline capabilities, and real-time synchronization with the Odoo backend. The POS connects directly to Odoo Inventory for live stock updates, Odoo Accounting for automatic sales journal entries, and Odoo CRM for customer identification and loyalty tracking. Restaurant-specific features include floor plan management, table splitting, kitchen display integration, and tip handling. The system continues processing sales during internet outages and syncs all transactions automatically when connectivity is restored.
Odoo Helpdesk: Complete Customer Support & Ticketing Guide
Odoo Helpdesk is a ticket management system that helps support teams organize, prioritize, and resolve customer issues through email, web forms, live chat, and phone channels with full SLA tracking and escalation rules. Tickets are assigned to teams or individuals based on configurable routing rules, and SLA policies define response and resolution time targets per ticket priority and customer tier. A built-in knowledge base lets teams publish help articles that customers can search before submitting tickets, reducing incoming volume. Customer satisfaction surveys are sent automatically after ticket closure, and team performance dashboards track metrics like first-response time, resolution time, and CSAT scores.
Odoo Field Service: Complete On-Site Service Management Guide
Odoo Field Service enables businesses to plan, dispatch, and manage on-site service operations with a scheduling calendar, GPS-enabled mobile app, and integrated invoicing. Dispatchers assign tasks to field technicians based on skills, location, and availability, while technicians use the mobile app to view task details, navigate to customer sites, log time, capture photos, collect signatures, and generate invoices on the spot. The module integrates with Odoo Helpdesk to convert support tickets into field tasks and with Odoo Sales to create follow-up quotations for additional work identified during the visit. Real-time task tracking gives managers visibility into field operations across all technicians and locations.
Odoo Subscriptions: Complete Recurring Revenue Management Guide
Odoo Subscriptions automates the management of recurring revenue businesses, handling subscription creation, billing cycles, renewals, upsells, and churn tracking in a unified platform. The module supports flexible billing intervals (monthly, quarterly, annual), tiered pricing plans, and add-on products that customers can modify through a self-service portal. Revenue dashboards display monthly recurring revenue (MRR), annual recurring revenue (ARR), churn rate, customer lifetime value, and revenue growth trends that help businesses optimize pricing and retention strategies. Automated email sequences handle renewal reminders, payment failure notifications, and win-back campaigns for churned subscribers.
Odoo Email Marketing: Complete Campaign & Automation Guide
Odoo Email Marketing provides a drag-and-drop email designer, audience segmentation engine, and campaign analytics dashboard for creating and sending professional marketing emails at scale. The module integrates with Odoo CRM and Website to build dynamic recipient lists based on customer attributes, purchase history, website behavior, and lead scores. Marketing automation extends basic campaigns with multi-step drip sequences triggered by subscriber actions such as email opens, link clicks, or form submissions. Built-in A/B testing lets marketers optimize subject lines, content, and send times by testing variations against a subset of the audience before full deployment.
Odoo Document Management: Complete DMS & Workflow Guide
Odoo Document Management (DMS) centralizes file storage, organization, and sharing with automated filing rules that route documents from emails, scanners, and other Odoo modules into the correct folders without manual intervention. The system supports versioning, access control lists, and full-text search across document contents so teams can find any file instantly. Workflow actions let users process documents directly from the DMS interface, such as creating vendor bills from scanned invoices, generating employee records from signed contracts, or attaching technical drawings to manufacturing orders. Integration with Odoo Sign enables fully digital document signing and approval workflows without leaving the platform.
Odoo Planning & Scheduling: Complete Resource Management Guide
Odoo Planning provides visual shift scheduling and resource allocation tools that help managers assign employees to roles, projects, and tasks across days, weeks, and months. The module displays employee availability, leave schedules, and skill sets on a single planning board, making it easy to identify gaps and resolve conflicts before they affect operations. Employees receive shift assignments via email or the mobile app and can request schedule changes through a self-service interface. Demand forecasting based on historical data and upcoming sales or project pipelines helps managers plan staffing levels proactively rather than reactively.
Odoo Quality Control: Complete Quality Management Guide
Odoo Quality Control embeds quality assurance checkpoints directly into manufacturing, inventory, and purchasing workflows, ensuring products meet specifications at every stage from raw material receipt through finished goods shipment. Quality teams define control points that trigger inspections automatically based on configurable rules such as operation type, product category, or warehouse location. Inspections can be pass/fail, measurement-based with tolerance ranges, or photo-documented for visual quality verification. Non-conformance reports, corrective actions, and root cause analysis tools close the loop on quality issues, while dashboards track defect rates, inspection pass rates, and quality costs across the organization.
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