Software resellers live and die on renewals and margin, but Odoo out of the box treats a 36-month license the same as a bag of screws. A stockable or consumable product has no concept of a term, a seat count, a vendor price list that changes quarterly, or a renewal date that must trigger a quote 90 days out. Reps end up tracking entitlements in spreadsheets, finance reconciles distributor rebates by hand, and nobody has a single view of which contracts lapse next quarter. Native sale.subscription (Enterprise) helps with recurring billing, but it does not model per-seat license keys, multi-tier distributor cost, or the reseller-specific margin math that determines whether a deal is even worth quoting.

This is a build-to-order module we design around how your reseller business actually operates. We extend product.template with reseller fields — license type (perpetual, subscription, consumption), term length, seat/quantity tiers, vendor SKU mapping, and a landed-cost basis — plus new models such as reseller.license (issued entitlements with key, activation state, and expiry) and reseller.renewal (the forward book of business). Compute fields with @api.depends derive realized margin per line from the live vendor cost versus your sell price, so a quotation shows profit before it is confirmed. An automated action (or ir.cron scheduled job) scans upcoming expiries and raises renewal opportunities in CRM at your chosen lead time, so the renewal desk works a queue instead of a memory.

Access is governed properly: ir.model.access.csv defines create/read/write/unlink per group, and record rules scope license and renewal records to the right sales team or company so a rep cannot see another region's book. Views are built in standard XML with OWL components where an interactive widget earns its place — a license dashboard, a renewals kanban by expiry bucket, and a margin-at-risk list. QWeb templates produce the customer-facing license certificate and an internal margin report as PDF. Where you need to push entitlements to a fulfillment portal or pull cost files from a distributor, we expose the data over Odoo's XML-RPC/JSON-RPC API or a scheduled import so keys and price lists stay current without manual re-keying. Everything is written to run on Odoo 17.0, 18.0, or 19.0, and we tell you honestly where a feature needs Enterprise (e.g. subscription billing engine) versus what we implement natively for Community.

Because this is build-to-order, delivery follows a scoping call, a written scope and fixed quote, then development on a staging database, UAT with your team, and a supervised go-live with a rollback plan. Typical delivery is 2 to 4 weeks from confirmed scope, depending on complexity and how much historical license data must be migrated. Pricing starts from $349 (indicative, single-company base scope); multi-company distributor hierarchies, deeper vendor-portal integrations, localization of the license certificate, and large historical entitlement migrations increase the quoted scope. You receive a firm fixed quote after the scoping call — never a surprise.