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May 13, 2026
Odoo Phone App Gets Mid-Call Device Switching and a Completely Rebuilt Interface
Odoo rebuilds its Phone app widget from the ground up with a cleaner navigation structure, seven active call controls, direct and attended transfer options, and the ability to move live calls between desktop and mobile devices without dropping the connection.
Read articleMay 12, 2026
Odoo Launches a Dedicated Marketing Card Module for Personalized Digital Campaign Mailings
Odoo introduces the Marketing Card application, a standalone module for creating branded, personalized digital cards tied to events, contacts, and promotional campaigns — complete with theme selection, dynamic placeholders, and built-in performance analytics.
Read articleMay 12, 2026
Odoo 19.2 Brings Financial Factoring, Smarter CFDI Validation, and Payroll XML Downloads to Mexico
The Mexico localization in Odoo 19.2 adds four targeted improvements: invoice factoring from the reconciliation menu, descriptive credit notes for returned items, automatic CFDI-to-public validation, and downloadable payroll CFDI XML files alongside standard documents.
Read articleMay 12, 2026
Odoo Drops groups_id From View Records, Ending a Legacy Approach to View-Level Access Control
Odoo removes the groups_id attribute from ir.ui.view records, deprecating a long-standing mechanism for restricting view visibility by user group. Developers who relied on this field for access control need to migrate to alternative approaches.
Read articleMay 11, 2026
Odoo Moves FIFO Tracking Configuration Out of the Inventory Tab and Into General Information
Odoo consolidates its FIFO removal strategy tracking setup by moving lot and serial number configuration from the Inventory tab to the General Information tab on the product form, replacing the old two-step checkbox workflow with a single Tracking dropdown field.
Read articleMay 11, 2026
Odoo 19 Rewrites Its Website Theme Tutorial Around Bootstrap 5.3 and Modern CSS Conventions
Odoo's official website theme development tutorial gets a complete rewrite for version 19, upgrading from Bootstrap 5.1.3 to 5.3, switching from pixel-based sizing to rem units, introducing new manifest patterns, and fixing longstanding naming inconsistencies.
Read articleMay 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.
Read articleMay 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.
Read articleMay 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.
Read articleMay 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.
Read articleMay 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.
Read articleMay 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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