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 Our blog
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 Our blog
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 Our blog
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 Our blog
Silicon Streets Why Electrical Contractors in Atlantic Canada Struggle With Project Profitability You finished a commercial wiring job last month. It ran four days, used three electricians, went through a significant amount of material, and required two unexpected site visits. You billed the custo... Jul 31, 2026 Electrical Services
Silicon Streets How Plumbing Companies in Atlantic Canada Stop Losing Money on Service Calls A customer calls about a leak. You send a plumber. The job gets done, the plumber moves to the next call, and a paper work order ends up in a pile on someone's desk. Three weeks later, nobody can find... Jul 26, 2026 Plumbing
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 Our blog
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 Our blog
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 Our blog
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 Our blog
Silicon Streets Why HVAC Businesses in Atlantic Canada Keep Losing Track of Job Costs You finished an installation last Tuesday. Three parts came off the truck. Two technicians spent six hours on site. You billed the customer — but if someone asked you right now whether that job made m... Jul 14, 2026 HVAC Installation & Maintenance
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 Our blog
