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
Silicon Streets How to Set Up and Apply GST/HST Tax Rates on Invoices in Odoo Community 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 the Tax column on your invoices matters When CRA audits a ... Jul 24, 2026
Silicon Streets How to Confirm Invoices in Odoo Community (and Why Draft Invoices Don't Count at Tax Time) 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. The problem with Draft invoices In Odoo Community, every invoi... Jul 13, 2026
Silicon Streets How to Use Odoo Community's Invoicing Module as a Tax-Season Record-Keeping System At tax time, the businesses that stress the least are not the ones with the most revenue. They are the ones whose records are clean. If you have ever arrived at your accountant's office with a shoebox... Jul 11, 2026
