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So a small business I work for/assist with the IT and technology end of things was using Odoo 18 CommunityEdition which was managed by a 3rd party that my employee paid a $3500 upfront fee and a monthly $225 fee for continued It service.

However, we ended up getting a stand alone subscription for ourselves with Odoo 19 Enterprise which was overall much cheaper and allows for more customization and access to more features. However, I believed that I could just request a backup of our database from the community edition and restore it to our new enterprise so that we had a seamless transition. However that doesn’t seem to be the case. What’s the easiest/most time efficient method of importing the previous Odoo’s data and records to allow a seamless transition into using the new enterprise platform

Hi,

We are a used car dealership, buying & selling cars. As part of the process, used car is purchased and then it goes through the process of multiple repairs.

We want to be able to record and link all repair costs to the car so we can work out the final cost of the car.

By default, Odoo apps don't work in such a flow but the concept is similar to manufacturing.

Is there any app available that can help us achieve what we require or can an existing app be customised?

Thank you

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Create Reconditioning Job

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Ready for Sale

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Update Vehicle Inventory Value

Hi everyone in Odoo community,

Im kinda new with Odoo development and not familiar with its technical. I would want to ask questions if you ever intgrate Odoo with any commercial AI tool.

Hope you can share some valuable experience.

I'm curious if anyone here has implemented or heavily customized Odoo 18 POS for a high-volume retail environment.

Here's the scenario:

• Around 20,000+ SKUs
• 300–500 transactions per day
• Cashier PCs are fairly low-end (for example, Intel N100 with 4 GB RAM)
• Barcode scanning is the primary workflow, so the POS needs to remain responsive throughout the day.

I'd like to know:

• How does Odoo 18 POS perform under this kind of workload?
• Did you have to customize or optimize it to keep it fast?
• Were there any bottlenecks, such as product loading, searching, memory usage, or browser performance?
• Did you end up changing the hardware specifications, or were software optimizations enough?

I'm especially interested in hearing from people with real production experience rather than benchmarks or assumptions.

Thanks!

I've been working as a Odoo Dev for a while, and one thing I've noticed is that different companies seem to struggle with very different challenges. Sometimes it's user adoption, sometimes it's reporting, permissions, inventory, CRM, accounting, or something completely unexpected.

I'm curious to hear from the community:

• What is the single biggest pain point you face in Odoo?
• Which module gives you the most trouble?
• Is there a repetitive task you wish Odoo handled better?
• If you could improve one feature tomorrow, what would it be and why?

I'm not looking for bugs or support questions, I'm more interested in hearing about the real-world frustrations people encounter after using Odoo in production.

Looking forward to hearing everyone's experiences.

we reached the point where our current ERP is creating more manual work than it saves.

reporting, inventory, purchasing and order management all work but we accumulated a lot of workarounds over time.

Before investing in another implementation I would like to understand what made other companies decide it was time to switch ERP systems. Was it performance, usability, integrations, implementation costs or something else?

This is a bit technical (configuration-wise). I made a custom set of taxes with the following configuration (to simplify my illustration):

• 12% VAT NRDSP - "Group of Taxes" type, containing Tax A and Tax B
• Tax A - normal percentage tax which uses tax grids "TaxA1" and "TaxA2"
• Tax B - a percentage tax that's withholding type (negative %) and uses "TaxB1" and "TaxB2" tax grids

Now I've already had a few quarters of tax closing and previous periods have been locked. The problem is that I had a mistake in the tax grid mapping of Tax B. I updated Tax B with "TaxB3" and "TaxB4" tax grids, but had to apply these retroactively as well.

Would there be any other issue if I just temporarily unlock prior periods, then set old invoices using the main tax ("12% VAT NRDSP") to draft then re-confirm them?

I'm hoping any relevant tax report logic should still be ok and updated properly as long as the tax grids from historical invoices are updated.

Has anybody found a simple solution to connect Whatsapp + Gemini / Claude to automate responses in incoming messages?

Hi there,

I have a site that is completely in German, and all customers' / contacts' languages are set to German. However, when I change my interface language to English, certain things also change to English:

• Parts of e-mails (for example, "Click here to get started" and "Enjoy this exclusive content!" in course invitations). The rest of the e-mail is translated automatically.
• File names for certificates (changes from "Zertifizierung - (NAME)" to "Certification - (NAME)").

My developer needs the interface language to be in English, as he does not speak German. Is there any way to fix this, other than to switch the interface language back and forth?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: WILD that this got downvoted without an actual solution. 2026 Reddit cracks me up.

From the 2025 numbers, it looks like Sales & Marketing eats up around 35-45% of their revenue, while R&D/Engineering only gets maybe 15-20%.

Fabien always talks about a "product over everything" philosophy, so spending double on ads compared to dev work feels wild.

Is this just standard financial engineering to hit that 42% ARR growth target for a PE exit, or is there a massive bucket leak under the hood?

My theory is that because they push the all-in-one monolith model, tons of smaller companies buy 20+ seats, hit a brutal implementation wall, and immediately downgrade to 5 or 10 seats at renewal just to keep basic invoicing or CRM alive.

If that seat contraction is a typical scenario, Odoo is basically forced to burn an insane amount of cash on Google Ads and global roadshows just to dump new users into the top of the funnel and outrun the leakage.

Either that, or they’ve just completely arbitraged their development costs by shifting the heavy engineering lifting to lower-cost tech hubs (like India) while paying premium western currency for global ad networks.

To any partners or devs in here who see the churn and implementation success rates firsthand... what's the actual reality on the ground? Are we buying business software, or are we just funding a massive marketing treadmill?

I'm building a restaurant and someone referred using Odoo for POS system. How much is it and what's the scope of its functionality.

For example, let's say I'm a Gold partner with a 20% commission rate. I sell Odoo to a customer, but another partner (or Odoo itself) handles the implementation.

Would I still receive the full 20% commission because I made the sale, or is the commission reduced if I'm not the implementation partner?

I'd really appreciate it if anyone with firsthand experience or knowledge of the partner program could clarify this. Thanks!

We are using Odoo.sh with Odoo19. On our products we have the MTO and Manufacture routes enabled. Previously when we confirmed a sales order a manufacturing order would be created but now with the update it does not.

I opened a ticket with Odoo support and they said with this update you now need to have a BOM defined for each product to create a MO even if it's an empty BOM.

It seems redundant to have to do this when the route implies I want to manufacture the product.

Has anyone else run into this issue yet? I guess I will go and create a bunch of empty BOMs now.

Curious, I know POS handles offline, but what about everything else: inventory, deliveries, work orders? Trying to figure out where the real pain is to make a mobile app.

Hoping an expert can give me some guidance on best practice or even just standard setup. I feel I am going down a rabbit hole.

We are a retail business that sell building material - so not really cash and carry in the true retail sense. You pay today in the retail store, and you get the goods in a few weeks. Sometimes months, so you most likely only pay a deposit, with balance due before delivery.

We do also have a mix of cash and carry product - think basic consumables.

My issue is how i manage and apply payments, because our invoice policy is invoice on delivery. But i am taking deposits upfront.

My thought process was using the POS app to take deposits in store, but its not reconciling the POS deposit to the sales order. And then when I apply a payment taken via a bank transfer (invoice) - it applies it to the sales order and only reflects part payment.

My end goal is a sales order that shows full payment has been taken; even from multiple different payment streams - in store (cash or eftpos), or bank transfer, or potentially even direct payment link but I guess that would mirror bank transfer.

Issues I am hitting is the different way POS handles payments versus say a bank transfer reconciled against the sales order. I am also dealing with general retail team needing to have easy visibility of payments so they know to release goods or not, and the need to provide a customer with sales order documentation that shows paid and outstanding.

I am very lost right now, any guidance or best practice appreciated.

Hello,

Nous avons tenté de faire affaire avec E3K pour une intégration Odoo. Ce fut le bordel total malheureusement, ils ne semblent pas formés leurs juniors du tout.

Dans mon réseau de contact, on me dit que ArcheTI est pas bien mieux...

Est-ce normal qu'il y ait tant d'expériences négatives? J'aimerais suggérer à mon employeur d'aller vers des solos ou des plus petits... Mais en même temps, on dirait que si je me trompe, c'est plus risqué.

On peut dans le style "Nobody got fired to choose IBM".

Qu'en pensez-vous?

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Hello,

We tried working with E3K for an Odoo integration. It was a complete disaster unfortunately — they don't seem to train their juniors at all.

In my network, people tell me ArcheTI isn't much better...

Is it normal to have so many negative experiences like this? I'd like to suggest to my employer that we go with solo consultants or smaller firms... But at the same time, it feels like if I'm wrong, the risk is higher on me.

It's kind of a "Nobody ever got fired for choosing IBM" situation.

What do you think?

Been migrating 100+ custom modules from v15 to v19 largely solo using Claude Code connected directly via SSH to the instance.

Not just for code generation - using it for live diagnostics, reading logs, analyzing module dependencies in real time. Feels like the new baseline for technical Odoo work but surprised how few people seem to be doing this.

Anyone else working this way? Would love to exchange experiences with people doing semi-technical Odoo implementation with AI tools.

Earlier this year we had serious performance issues on Odoo.sh v15 with 20 companies. Got several recommendations: leave SH, move to dedicated server, restructure multi-company setup.

Before doing any of that we looked at the database. Found missing indexes and a lot of sequential scans. Added the indexes, performance went from critical to better than optimal.

Nobody suggested looking there first.

Is this a common blind spot among Odoo partners? Is SH actually the problem in most cases or is database indexing just something few implementers understand well enough to diagnose?

I've recently pushed the v19 upgrade. We're SaaS users. I've got some Android 11 scanners in the warehouse and one of them cannot login to Odoo. I've tried different browsers, cleared history/caches, etc. and nothing changes the behavior. Specifically when the login screen is up, after entering username and password, the login button is still gray and inactive. Doesn't matter if entered manually or with autofill, using the arrow button from the password field, etc. nothing works. Anyone seen this behavior? Odoo tech support has been unhelpful thus far.