/odoo-erp/project-and-timesheets
Odoo Project — what it does, and where teams get it wrong.
Tasks, timesheets, planning and billing on the same records as your sales orders and invoices. Whether you get real project profitability depends on one setting.
/what-it-covers
What it covers
- Projects and tasks in kanban, list or gantt
- Timesheets against tasks, from desktop or phone
- Billable and non-billable time, feeding invoicing directly
- Milestone and fixed-price billing as well as time and materials
- Planning and capacity across people
- Project templates for repeatable work
- Cost tracking — labour, purchases and expenses against the project
- Profitability reporting per project, where analytic accounting is configured
/who-its-for
Who it's for
Professional services firms
billing time, where the gap between recorded and invoiced hours is currently a monthly argument.
Implementation and construction businesses
running fixed-price work where the only real question is whether a project made money.
Internal teams
running structured work that consumes cost and should be visible against a budget.
/what-it-connects-to
What it connects to inside Odoo
/customisations
Customisations we're asked for
often justified
Custom project dashboards
For a management view across a portfolio, and usually a report rather than a module.
usually configuration
Automated task creation from templates
Project templates cover most repeatable work.
sometimes
Custom timesheet approval workflows
Though the standard approval plus access rights reaches most requirements. Worth checking what's actually being approved and why before building.
/proof
Proof
A services business where job records were captured on paper and re-entered days later. Analytic accounting configured at implementation, before anything needed it — which is why profitability by job existed from the first month rather than the second year.
Sector. Professional & financial services · Scale Field team · Ref ref /PS-04
Link. Read the case study →
/next
Tell us which projects made money last year.
Thirty minutes, no slides. We will tell you straight if Odoo is not the answer.