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Field notes on putting a business on one system, automating the busywork, and making old data useful. Written from the work, not the whiteboard.

Odoo is the bucket. Build around it.
Keep Odoo as the one place your business data lives, then build fast, purpose-made screens around it. How a mid-sized manufacturer runs a dealer portal, shop-floor tablets, a website and purchasing on one open database.
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Odoo moves your data. We move your system.
We just upgraded a large manufacturer from Odoo 19 to Odoo 20. Moving the data was the smaller part. What else a major upgrade involves, the two ways to carry the data, and how we prove the new system works the way the old one did.
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Odoo 20: what really changes before you move
Odoo 20 is here. We installed it on clean servers, moved real data into it and printed real documents. What changes for a company deploying it or moving to it, what is not ready yet, and a checklist for before you switch.
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Community or Enterprise, on your terms
Odoo Community vs Enterprise is a features choice, not a freedom one. Both run on hardware you own, without lock-in - you bring your own licensed .deb for Enterprise, always.
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Odoo upgrades without the panic
Most Odoo instances run an old version because the upgrade is scary. Rehearsing an Odoo version upgrade on a throwaway copy is how you make the live one boring.
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Trivial for partners, a wall for everyone else
The hardest part of running Odoo - installs, migrations, upgrades - is genuinely easy inside the partner club and near-impossible outside it. Here's how non-partners cross that wall.
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