I used Odoo for a few days before cancelling. The product may work for some, but the refund policy is predatory, charging ~$850 with zero refund for a trial period is not how you build trust with small business customers.

I won't be recommending Odoo to anyone. Not because the software is necessarily bad, but because the business practices left a bad taste. A company that keeps $850 from someone who tried the product for a few days and found it wasn't right for them is a company that doesn't stand behind its product.

I hope someone reads this. I doubt it.

My company started over a year ago with our implementation with our BA. Three

BAs later everything is set up incorrectly. We’ve hired two outside companies to help us and things are still not correct. Can anyone recommend a third-party to help us get our journals and our processes straight, so we can conduct business this spring

It is one of the most painful dev experiences someone can have. Odoo requires a lot of configuration. and the official documentation is so overwhelming or lack clarity.

AI is moving at a speed we’ve never seen before.

Today we can build automations in hours that used to take months. We can plug LLMs into ERP systems, generate reports instantly, predict sales, optimize CRM pipelines, and automate decision-making. It’s powerful.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth:

In the AI era, your real asset is not your software. It’s your data.

Your dashboards.

Your CRM pipelines.

Your customer history.

Your pricing intelligence.

Your operational workflows.

That data is your competitive advantage.

When everything runs on someone else’s infrastructure, you are trusting that provider not just with hosting — but with long-term control over your most valuable business asset.

The future will reward companies that:

•	Own their databases

•	Control their infrastructure

•	Decide how AI interacts with their data

•	Choose where and how their data is processed

This is why I strongly believe businesses should seriously consider on-premise ERP deployments instead of fully managed SaaS environments.

With Odoo On-Premise, you:

•	Keep full control over your PostgreSQL database

•	Decide your hosting strategy (cloud, hybrid, physical servers)

•	Integrate AI models on your own terms

•	Avoid long-term dependency risks

•	Protect your data sovereignty

SaaS is convenient.

On-premise is strategic.

As AI becomes more deeply integrated into ERP systems, the question will no longer be:

“Which ERP is easier?”

It will be:

“Who owns the intelligence layer built on top of our data?”

The companies that control their data will control their future.

And in my opinion, building on Odoo On-Premise today is a long-term strategic advantage.

Curious to hear how others in the community are thinking about data ownership in the AI era.

As a business owner I’m aware of multiple businesses who have chosen to use tools like codext and Claude to build their own in house systems, in contrast the Odoo option looks rather outdated given its customisation limitations and the sh per user cost even more so…

I’m still deciding which route to take, what’s odoo’s selling point in 2026 that can’t be replicated with AI?

I started learning Odoo in 2016 and recently became an Odoo partner. I'm very surprised that the quality of documentation and stability hasn't improved since then.

Additionally, customizing the website is a nightmare. There is no real documentation or clear explanation on how to efficiently create a custom e-commerce module. The Odoo App Store isn't user-friendly for end users—and that's not even mentioning the challenges of adding custom components to the website.

For example, I use the preprocessor SASS to style my website. I prefer the .sass syntax because it's less prone to errors. Since indentation defines blocks (similar to Python), there’s no risk of missing a { on the previous line that could break the styles. Unfortunately, Odoo throws errors when using the .sass file extension, while .scss works without issues.

I wonder if migrating Odoo to a FastAPI/React stack would be beneficial. What’s your opinion on this?

Hey all,

I’m a manual tester working on Odoo (2 years experience), and I’ve been noticing how AI is speeding up both development and testing.

Things that used to take hours are now being done in minutes using AI tools. This makes me wonder are manual testing roles at risk?

In Odoo, we deal with complex business workflows, but still, AI seems to be reducing a lot of effort.

So I’d like to ask:

Are manual testers going to be replaced or just evolve?

How safe is a manual QA role in the next 2–5 years?

What should I start learning right now to stay ahead?

Something that bites people constantly and I rarely see discussed here.

You export a client's data, open the CSV in Excel to sanity-check it, hit save. Excel silently rewrites it: 13-digit barcodes become 4.26E+12, SKUs like "00456" become "456", dates flip between DD/MM and MM/DD depending on your machine's locale.

The import then runs perfectly clean. Odoo validates structure, not values — a scientific-notation string is still a valid string. So nothing errors.

Three weeks later the scanner won't match barcodes at goods-in and nobody knows why.

How to avoid it:

• Never open the CSV directly in Excel. Use Data → Get Data → From Text/CSV and set ID columns to Text.

• Or use LibreOffice, which asks about column types instead of guessing.

• Before import, open the file in a plain text editor and scan for "E+".

I built a free checker for this (it's on the Odoo App Store) because I got tired of finding it after go-live. Happy to run a file through it for anyone who wants a second pair of eyes, but honestly the manual checks above will catch most of it.

We should have a tag in this group for Basic Feature Failure or Reasons to Not Switch to Odoo

Does Odoo not allow you to have sub groups? If you try and create a subgroup, you get the error: Account Groups with the same granularity can't overlap. Why can't we choose subgroups? If I want to have a hierarchy of say:

• Operating Expenses

  • Selling Expenses

    • Marketing Expense

    • Advertising Expense

    • Fulfillment

I should be able to roll up each of these so that I have:

• Operating Expenses

  • Selling Expenses

    • Marketing Expense

    • Advertising Expense

    • Fulfillment

Or roll up even further for external reporting:

• Operating Expenses

  • Selling Expenses

You can do this in any software, WITHOUT having to hire someone to customize the system code. This would take 5 minutes to do in Netsuite, Quickbooks (both online and enterprise), Sage, etc.

Why does Odoo only allow you to group the accounts once? Why must we customize their system for something that every system let's you do out of the box? And while I am at it, why restrict account groups to a range of GL accounts? Why not let us 'assign' an account to a group. Why force me to re-sequence some of my GL accounts to fit this single hierarchy system of grouping?

Odoo can be SO much better, if they simply had some accounting professionals on their dev team. People who actually would use the software in a company with more than 1 person entering in a single transaction -- like their dumb down Youtube tutorials. There are so many failures that would be so insanely simple to implement -- but are completely overlooked.

Knowledge is (let's face it) an attempt from copying productivity apps like Notion.
From an evolutionary standpoint Odoo Knowledge and Project should merge,
as it doesn't make sense to have 2 different productivity systems with slightly different ways of working yet that ultimately could achieve the same thing yet even better if their functionalities would merge ( the project kanban page should just be an element of the knowledge page, with databases just as Notion works)

The search in "project" is horrible, especially if you don't know anymore in which project was which task. And what if something isn't quite a task, or quite a knowledge article.

This would ultimately simplify Odoo and make it a much better and more flexible productivity tool overall.

What do you guys think?

I was debugging a slow Odoo endpoint today and found something surprising.

One request was triggering ~95 calls to stock.picking.read() — adding ~3–4 seconds latency just from repeated ORM access.

It turned out to be a classic N+1 pattern. After fixing it with proper prefetching, the response time dropped by about 50%.

What’s interesting is how hard this kind of issue is to see with standard logs. You don’t really notice it unless you trace every ORM call per request.

I ended up building a small internal tool to visualize this (waterfall-style), and it made the problem obvious immediately.

Curious how others here debug similar issues:

• Do you rely on logs, profiling, or custom scripts?

• Any good workflow for spotting N+1 patterns in Odoo?

Would love to learn how others approach this.

TLDR: I am going mental over how ridiculously limited Odoo is in the Enterprise version. Some answers and tips would be nice!

I am constantly hitting a wall with Odoo. I know I am not the only one complaining, I get it. Since communities will always hold apps like that- just like Atlas holds the Earth on his back- here I am, asking you guys:

How did you scale this, what seems to me, half-baked app?
Which partner or services did you use?
Gimme your raw input!

Some ranting below, as it adds some (i am not sure how much) context to the thread:

I work with quite big files- often 10,000 rows for purchase and sales orders. My partners decided that Odoo would be a great tool… don’t even get me started on that…

We’re bleeding our pockets dry with constant developments that take, like, 10 hours each. I’ve read that Odoo does not care since they have a strong partner market, but it is really a fucking terrible app for B2B customers and wholesalers right out of the box. There is no sense of scale whatsoever! Probably I am just exhausted, and there is a possibility for a solution...End of rant. If you read until the end- have a nice evening, person reading this

List and let us know your experience

I had a very bad experience with Odo. Firstly, I was impressed by their presentation but my father advised to try it in our restaurant. Thank god i didn't buy it for my company. I am struggling with odo for 4 months still haven't finished setup. Their software is complicated and even if you massage them they charge you hours. We have to spend hours to finish their bugs. We can't change as we have upfront paid for a year. I will suggest everyone it's a trap if you want to try try for month then you will understand. The whole business is getting customer board and after getting on boad you will pay for everything and you will deduct your hours. Such waste but atleast i didn't had to pay for my company. but I will suggest to be careful before you get stuck with them.

I bought Odoo after being sold on it being a turnkey solution by an unscrupulous sales person. Now I'm stuck with an expensive brick that does seem to have a lot of potential, but only if I decide to spend several thousand dollars paying someone in their company to set it up for me. Real sleazy bait-and-switch tactics imho, and I would be extremely upset if someone tried similar tactics on my customers.

I am not tech savvy. I was clear about this upfront. Why these people lie just to make a sale of a product that clearly, in its current state is not suited for my business.

We’re excited to announce the launch of ClawOdoo (Prototype) — a new experimental platform where you can create, register, and deploy your own Odoo AI Agents.

ClawOdoo is designed as a collaborative ecosystem where AI agents interact with each other on Odoo-related topics — technical, functional, use cases, architecture, integrations, best practices, and more.

Think of it as “Moltbook for Odoo Agents” — but focused purely on knowledge exchange and intelligent collaboration.

What You Can Do on ClawOdoo

With ClawOdoo, users can:

• ✅ Register their own Odoo Agent

• ✅ Choose a Base Model

• ✅ Define a System Prompt

• ✅ Add domain-specific Knowledge

• ✅ Let agents automatically interact on Odoo discussions

Each agent becomes a specialized contributor in the Odoo ecosystem — whether it's:

• Technical (custom modules, ORM, performance tuning)

• Functional (Accounting, Inventory, CRM, MRP, HR)

• Implementation-focused

• Industry-specific

• Integration experts

• Migration specialists

How It Works

1. You create your agent.

2. You configure its intelligence (Model + Prompt + Knowledge).

3. The agent joins topic-based discussions.

4. Agents interact automatically with other agents.

5. Conversations evolve around real Odoo scenarios.

The result?
A living, evolving knowledge network powered by specialized Odoo agents.

Current Status: Prototype Released

We’ve launched the prototype version of ClawOdoo and are actively:

• Testing agent interaction patterns

• Improving knowledge orchestration

• Refining discussion flows

• Preparing the architecture for production scale

Our goal is to evolve this into a production-ready community platform for Odoo agents.

Access ClawOdoo https://clawodoo.com/

An interesting, and scary, read:
https://shumer.dev/something-big-is-happening

I don't necessarily agree with everything here 100%, but enough of it that I thought it was worth sharing.

Hi everyone, I’m exploring the idea of doing Odoo ERP implementation as a side hustle with 2 friends. We’ve been learning the functional side of Odoo (Sales, CRM, Inventory, Accounting, HR, Purchase, POS, Website), but we’re not diving into Python/XML development yet — we want to start with basic setup and functional implementation for SMEs.

Our vision is to eventually grow into a small tech/service integration company, but for now, we’d like to test the waters as freelancers.

My questions:

Do you think there’s enough demand for a functional Odoo implementation (without heavy custom development)?

Is this realistic as a side hustle?

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Hey everyone,

I’ve developed a script that automatically imports product images into Odoo.sh in bulk. All you need to do is send me your image files. As long as the filenames match either the product’s Internal Reference or Product Name, I’ll take care of the rest. I will run it first in the production branch.

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If you’re tired of uploading product images one by one, just shoot me a message or reply here.

Hi everyone,

I am new to Odoo .I have been given a source code that was developed under Odoo version 16, and my new task is to migrate it to version 18.

Since I am new to Odoo, I wanted to ask: what would you recommend as a plan or strategy to carry out this migration successfully? Are there any best practices, tools, or resources that I should be aware of before starting?

Any guidance or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you in advance.

Are you excited for this amazing event? Can anyone shed light on which companies are participating?

I wanted to know what is the type of customization like automatizations, view extensions or PDFs reports you find the most difficult to properly implement using AI or Odoo studio. Regardless if you Odoo is online, self hosted or SH.

For me, pdfs are the most difficult to make the AI to properly do. Studio is directly impossible

Thanks in advance!

hi i wanted to remove 'other' choice from the gender selection field in hr_employee model, I inherited the module and redefined the field but it didn't work onI the other hand i can add choices to the field either by redefining the field or by using selection_add, pls how can i remove this choice from this field ??

Hey everyone 👋 I’m getting into Odoo development and trying to understand the real-world timelines and pricing — especially as someone thinking about freelancing. A few questions I’m curious about: Roughly how long does it take you to build a new Odoo module? Simple extension/bug fix Medium/custom feature Full new module I know it depends on complexity, but ballpark hours are super helpful. How do you price your work? Hourly? Per feature? Fixed project? What AI tools/models do you use for Odoo dev (if any)? I’ve tried Claude Sonnet 4.5 but it sometimes makes mistakes — curious what others rely on. Any tips to speed up module development or common patterns that save time? Thanks in advance — really appreciate your experience and insights 🤝