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Notes from our Odoo projects: what goes wrong in construction, eCommerce, warehouses and finance, and the apps and integrations we built to fix it.
Odoo apps23 October 20266 min readFrom BOQ to RA bill: keeping construction site costs under control in Odoo
How a contractor can follow budget, committed and actual cost per project, pay subcontractors by measured quantity and certify running account bills, all in one Odoo database.
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Integrations23 October 20265 min readShopify and Odoo without retyping orders: what a good sync has to handle
Orders are the easy part. Refunds, partial fulfilments, gateway fees, stock per location and payouts are where most Shopify to Odoo connections quietly drift.
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Technology23 October 20266 min readOdoo filestore too big? Move attachments to S3, Google Cloud or a NAS without breaking links
Where Odoo keeps attachments, why the filestore grows past your backup window, and how to move files to external storage safely, with a backup bucket you can switch to.
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Technology23 October 20265 min readLetting Claude or ChatGPT work with your Odoo data, without handing over the keys
What MCP is, why a call-any-method connector is risky for an ERP, and what to look for when you let an AI assistant read and act in Odoo.
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Odoo apps23 October 20264 min readBarcode scanning for Odoo manufacturing: components, lots and work orders on a phone
How to take Odoo Community manufacturing orders to the shop floor: scan components, produce finished goods with lot and expiry, and clock in and out of work orders.
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Odoo apps23 October 20266 min readRunning a school on Odoo: fees, report cards, timetable and the parent portal
The daily work of a school office, from admissions to report cards, and how to bring it into one Odoo system where each person sees only their own area.
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Odoo apps23 October 20264 min readBikram Sambat in Odoo: why Nepali businesses need BS dates, not just AD
Invoices, payroll and fiscal years in Nepal run on the Bikram Sambat calendar. How to show, pick and print BS dates in Odoo without breaking the database.
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Technology23 October 20265 min readAI for Odoo forms: draft a form from a sentence, then read less and act faster
How to use your own AI provider with Odoo forms: generate a first draft from a prompt, and give every answer a summary, a category, sentiment and urgency, without sending personal data to the model.
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Odoo apps23 October 20265 min readCustoms clearance inside the freight forwarding job: HS codes, duty, VAT and customs value
How a forwarder or customs broker can prepare a declaration from the job, calculate duty and VAT from the tariff, and re-bill the duties without a calculator.
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Technology23 October 20265 min readOdoo or spreadsheets for a contractor? Where each one is enough, and where it stops
An honest comparison for small and mid-size contractors: what spreadsheets do well, the five places they fail on a growing business, and what moving to Odoo changes.
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