11 articles tagged erp.
A limited run of 40 units sold 46 in eleven minutes, and nothing in the stack was broken — the storefront had been given a number and treated it as a guarantee. The four stock figures Odoo will hand you, why a band beats a number in the catalogue, and where the real fix lives: at the moment of commitment, not on the product page.
Belgium's structured e-invoicing mandate landed on 1 January. Switching it on was an afternoon; everything it exposed was the quarter that followed. What Peppol actually addresses, why the failures live in your contact records rather than your ERP, what UBL refuses to carry, and why 'sent' stopped meaning 'delivered'.
A phone system knows a number. An ERP knows a customer. In most companies nothing knows both, and closing that gap is a harder problem than the vendor demo suggests — nine years of phone numbers nobody normalised, an event stream instead of a polling loop, and a screen pop that must never be able to stop a call.
In an internal tool, the same order is on screen in five places at once, and every mutation has to remember all five. What a client-side store fixes that a cache can't — collections, live queries, optimistic writes that roll back on their own, and the working set that has to fit in a browser.
We bill seven minutes when we work seven minutes. The timesheet-to-invoice pipeline in Odoo — billable rules, approval flows, and the client-facing detail line that makes the number defensible.
The OCA ecosystem is Odoo's superpower and its minefield in equal measure. The checklist we run — maintainer activity, test coverage, migration history — before a community module ever reaches a client's production database.
Most Odoo installs run with everyone as admin until the first incident. How we design permission groups that mirror the org chart, record rules that hold up under audit, and logging that answers who changed what — before anyone has to ask.
Running two or ten legal entities from one Odoo database sounds simple until inter-company invoicing, shared warehouses and per-company charts of accounts collide. The setup decisions we make on day one so consolidation stays painless.
Studio is brilliant for a field and a filter — and a trap for business logic. The boundary we draw between no-code tweaks and real modules, and what each choice costs at upgrade time.
Custom Odoo development is easy to start and easy to regret. A field guide to building modules that still work after the next major version.
The cheapest moment to discover a problem is before anyone writes code. What a fit-gap analysis actually is, what it produces, and why Code Agency won't scope an implementation without one.