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Hey — you are in the right place. This is where I write down how to run the open-source ERP that small companies own themselves: the install that holds, the backup that restores, the module that already exists, and the AI that sits on top of your records instead of guessing at them.

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Run Odoo from Docker Compose, not from source

Two containers, one file, a volume you can copy. The shortest path to a server you understand and can move next year without a migration project.

6 min read An engraved seventeenth-century printer's workshop with a hand press and workmen setting type Backup

Dump the database nightly and restore it monthly

A backup you have never restored is a hope, not a backup. One pg_dump, one cron line, and a restore into a scratch copy that takes four minutes.

4 min read An engraving of four kinds of globe on stands Extend

Take an OCA module before you write your own

Someone already solved your problem and maintains it for every series. Reading their code teaches you the ORM faster than any tutorial.

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Featured Module of the month

Odoo Community · LGPL-3

Inventory

  • Series 18.0
  • Depends on Product, UoM
  • Install Apps → Inventory

Module plate: the facts above come from the module manifest, not from a vendor page.

Inventory, before you buy anything

One module holds what you own, where it sits and what it is worth: stock moves, reordering rules, lots and serial numbers, three warehouse steps if you need them, one if you do not.

  • Real stock, not a spreadsheetEvery receipt, delivery and adjustment is a move with a date and a person behind it.
  • Barcode-ready on day oneThe Community module ships the operations your scanner needs; no paid add-on.
  • Multi-warehouse without a second systemLocations, routes and reordering rules live in the same database as your invoices.
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