Silicon Streets How to Export Your Invoice History from Odoo Community for Your Accountant This post is part of our guide to using Odoo Community's Invoicing module as a CRA-ready record-keeping system. Read the full guide here. Why a clean export matters at tax time Your accountant needs t... Jul 31, 2026
How to Turn a Sales Order Into an Invoice in Odoo Community — Automatically Every sale that doesn't turn into an invoice within a day or two is money you're waiting on for no reason. Most businesses lose track of this without meaning to — a quote gets verbally approved, the w... Jul 31, 2026
How to Chase Overdue Invoices in Odoo Community Without Chasing Yourself Every business has that one customer. The work is done, the invoice went out, and now it's sitting there — 30, 60, 90 days past due — while you're too busy running the business to send a follow-up ema... Jul 31, 2026
How to Stop Losing Leads in Your Inbox With Odoo Community CRM A lead comes in — a phone call, a Facebook message, a "can you give me a quote" email — and it goes into your inbox, your head, or a sticky note. A week later, you can't remember if you followed up. N... Jul 31, 2026
How to Set Reorder Rules in Odoo Community So You Never Run Out of Stock Running out of a part mid-job costs you twice — once in the delay, and again in the trip to go get it. Overordering costs you differently: cash tied up in shelf inventory that isn't moving. Most shops... Jul 31, 2026
How to Know Your Real Cash Position With Bank Reconciliation in Odoo Community Your bank balance and your real cash position are not the same number. Between outstanding cheques, pending deposits, and transactions that haven't cleared, the number on your banking app can be dange... Jul 31, 2026
How to Turn Timesheets Into Invoices in Odoo Community Without Retyping a Single Hour If your team logs hours on paper, in a separate app, or not at all until invoice time, you're either underbilling (forgotten hours) or spending an evening every month reconstructing what actually happ... Jul 31, 2026
How to Stop Scheduling Field Techs on a Whiteboard With Odoo Community A whiteboard works fine — until it doesn't. Someone erases the wrong line, two techs get booked for the same window, or the board is sitting in the shop while everyone who needs it is out in the field... Jul 31, 2026
How to Make Sure You're Billing for Every Part and Hour Used in the Field A tech uses three fittings and forty-five minutes on a job, and by the time the paperwork gets back to the office, only two of the fittings made it onto the invoice. Multiply that by every job, every ... Jul 31, 2026
Why We Tell Trades Businesses to Open One Odoo Department at a Time Whenever we deploy Odoo for a trades business — an electrical contractor, a plumbing outfit, a general contractor working rural Atlantic Canada routes — we tell them the same thing early: treat each m... Jul 25, 2026
The Real Reason Most Businesses Fail at Adopting New Software We've heard a lot of stories from businesses that tried to adopt ERP or business software and gave up. The details differ, but the pattern is almost always the same: they moved too fast, and they didn... Jul 25, 2026
How We Teach Adoption Instead of Just Selling Software The first thing we try to bring to every business we work with isn't more features — it's education. That starts with our 14-day free trial. It doesn't open by handing you full access and wishing you ... Jul 25, 2026