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May 10, 2026

Odoo Accounting Warns That Shared VAT IDs Between Contacts Will Corrupt Your Tax Reports

Odoo adds an explicit warning to its VAT reporting workflow: if multiple contacts in your database share the same VAT identification number, your tax return figures may silently include transactions from the wrong entity. The fix involves restructuring contacts into parent-child hierarchies.

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May 9, 2026

Odoo Point of Sale Adds Mollie as a Native Payment Terminal With No IoT Box Required

Odoo now supports Mollie payment terminals directly inside Point of Sale, covering physical card readers, tap terminals, and mobile terminal apps for Android and iOS without requiring additional IoT hardware.

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May 9, 2026

Odoo Accounting Adds a SUNAT-Compliant Workaround for Peruvian Advance Payments That Actually Works

Odoo ships a detailed advance payment workflow for Peru that navigates SUNAT's prohibition on negative invoice amounts, using credit notes and manual line removal to keep down payments compliant with Peruvian tax filing requirements.

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May 9, 2026

Odoo Promotes Google Places Address Autocomplete From Website-Only to a Platform-Wide Integration

Odoo moves its Google Places API address autocomplete from a website-specific configuration to a general integration available across the platform, with new e-commerce checkout validation and centralized API credential management.

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May 8, 2026

Odoo Overhauls Its Serial Number Tracking Interface with Cleaner Terminology and a Modernized Workflow

Odoo rewrites its inventory serial number tracking documentation with renamed UI elements, updated screenshot visuals, and a cleaner configuration path that reflects how the version 19 interface actually works.

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May 8, 2026

Odoo.sh Slashes Staging Database Lifetime From Three Months to One

Odoo.sh now automatically deletes staging databases after one month instead of three, forcing development teams to rebuild branches more frequently and rethinking how staging environments fit into the deployment workflow.

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May 8, 2026

Odoo List Views Now Let Developers Stack Multiple Fields Into a Single Column

Odoo introduces a new column element in list view XML architecture that groups multiple fields into a single stacked table cell, giving developers a cleaner way to build information-dense interfaces without horizontal sprawl.

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May 7, 2026

Odoo Retires 'Undistributed Profits/Losses' and Speaks Each Country's Accounting Language Instead

Odoo renames its year-end dynamic trial balance line from 'Undistributed Profits/Losses' to 'Result Brought Forward,' while giving US and Canadian localizations their own GAAP-aligned labels — a small change that eliminates a real source of confusion for international accounting teams.

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May 6, 2026

Odoo Finally Lets You Swap a Component Across Every Bill of Materials at Once

Odoo 19.3 introduces a bulk component replacement feature for bills of materials, plus a new Show BOM Lines action that surfaces every instance of a part across your entire product catalog — eliminating the one-BOM-at-a-time editing bottleneck manufacturers have dealt with for years.

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May 6, 2026

Odoo Accounting Adds Self-Billing So Customers Can Issue Vendor Bills on a Supplier's Behalf

Odoo now supports self-billing in its accounting module — a workflow where the buyer generates the vendor bill instead of waiting for the supplier to send one. Configuration involves a dedicated purchase journal with self-billing enabled, automatic sequence numbering per partner, and Peppol transmission support.

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May 6, 2026

Odoo Clears Up the WhatsApp Business App vs. Cloud API Distinction That Tripped Up Implementations

Odoo updates its WhatsApp integration documentation to explicitly distinguish between the WhatsApp Business App and the WhatsApp Business Platform (Cloud API) — two different products that can't run simultaneously on the same business account, a confusion that caused failed integrations.

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May 6, 2026

Odoo Corrects How Push Notification Target URLs Actually Work in Social Marketing

Odoo fixes a misleading description of the Target URL field in its Social Marketing module — the field controls where users land after clicking a push notification, not which page triggers the notification in the first place. A subtle difference that led to broken campaign setups.

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