Field notes
Technical articles, project post-mortems, and opinion pieces on Odoo, ERP strategy, custom development and the unglamorous work of making business systems actually work. New posts weekly.
Featured
Out of the box, Odoo lets every salesperson see stock at every warehouse. For multi-location operations with regional sales teams, that's usually wrong. Here's how to fix it with one well-placed ir.rule.
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Implementation
A retrospective on three implementations that nearly went off the rails for the same reason — and one that succeeded because we caught it early.
Accounting
Vendor vs employee, GL account choice, and the manual journal-entry pattern we settled on after testing four approaches.
Engineering
Using the Shopify JSON endpoint to populate a fresh Odoo instance with products, variants and inventory — without the storefront, without the headaches.
Manufacturing
A field-tested checklist for natural-health-products and pharmaceutical manufacturers approaching their first ERP project.
Strategy
Agile means many things. Skipping discovery is not one of them. Why every successful Odoo project we've shipped had a real scope document first.
Engineering
Notes from building a data-import pipeline for a K-Beauty distributor where the source data lived in Excel and had to stay in Excel.
Migration
A practical, step-by-step account of the ERE Inc. migration — what worked, what didn't, what we'd do differently.
Why Odoo
A pragmatic comparison from a partner who's lost deals to all three and won a fair share back. The honest answer is "it depends" — here's on what.
Localization
What Odoo's Canadian localization covers, where it falls short, and how we close the gap for clients in BC, Alberta and Ontario.
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