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June 20, 2026

Odoo Flips Payment Methods From Shared to Provider-Owned With a Many2One Relationship Change

Odoo restructures its payment method architecture so each method belongs to exactly one provider instead of being shared across many, introducing new lookup methods and deprecating the old compatibility API.

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June 20, 2026

Odoo Spreadsheets Double Down on Pivot Tables With Expanded Formulas and Richer Data Source Controls

Odoo expands its spreadsheet pivot table documentation with deeper formula references, additional data source configuration options, and more granular grouping and filtering controls that bring the built-in spreadsheet closer to standalone BI tools.

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June 19, 2026

Odoo Subscriptions Flips Its Invoice Timing — Automated Reminders Now Precede Every Tokenless Payment

Odoo corrects a fundamental assumption in its subscription billing: when no payment token exists, the system now sends an automated reminder email first, waits for the subscriber to pay manually, and only then generates the invoice — reversing the previously documented sequence.

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June 19, 2026

Odoo Completes Its OWL v3 Documentation Migration and Retires the Warning Exception From Server Actions

Odoo updates 54 broken documentation links across 11 developer files to reflect OWL v3's new path structure, while simultaneously replacing the deprecated Warning exception with UserError in server action evaluation contexts.

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June 19, 2026

Odoo.sh Clarifies Project Renaming — Production Updates Instantly, Staging and Dev Wait for a Rebuild

Odoo.sh corrects its documentation on project renaming behavior: changing the project name now takes effect immediately for the production database URL, while staging and development branch URLs only reflect the change after their next rebuild.

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June 18, 2026

Odoo Adds Cashmatic as Its Third Automated Cash Machine — Giving Retailers a Real Choice at the Register

Odoo Point of Sale now integrates with Cashmatic cash machines alongside Glory and Cashdro, supporting both HTTPS and HTTP connectivity with configuration managed through the MyCashmatic app or directly on the hardware.

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June 17, 2026

Odoo Introduces the Card View — A Single Template That Renders Records Across Kanban, Gantt, Calendar, and Beyond

Odoo ships a new standalone card view type that lets developers define a record's visual layout once and reuse it across kanban boards, gantt chart popovers, calendar events, and any other context that displays records as cards — eliminating years of copy-pasted templates scattered across thirty-plus modules.

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June 16, 2026

Odoo CRM Quietly Caps How Many Leads One Salesperson Can Receive Per Day — and Leaves the Overflow Unassigned

Odoo's automatic lead assignment in CRM now enforces a daily ceiling per team member, calculated by dividing their monthly capacity by 30. When every rep hits their cap, surplus leads sit unassigned until the next day.

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June 16, 2026

Odoo Retires the Comparison Toggle From Its Search Bar — No More Side-by-Side Period Overlays in Reports

Starting with version 18.2, Odoo has removed the Comparison option from the search bar that let users overlay previous period or previous year data on report charts and pivot tables.

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June 16, 2026

Odoo Now Requires Seven Pieces of Information Before It Will Migrate Your Database to SaaS

Odoo has expanded its SaaS database migration checklist from three items to seven, adding hosting region, database name, version, admin email, and an optional test deployment — all designed to eliminate the back-and-forth that was delaying migrations.

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June 15, 2026

Odoo Now Auto-Fills Optional, Accessory, and Alternative Products Based on Five Years of Sales History

Odoo introduces automatic product suggestion in the Sales app that analyzes historical order data to populate Optional Products, Accessory Products, and Alternative Products fields — turning manual cross-sell configuration into an automated, data-driven workflow.

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June 15, 2026

Odoo Ships Saudi Payroll With Live GOSI Integration, Granular End-of-Service Calculations, and Automatic Late Deductions

Odoo expands its Saudi Arabia payroll localization with real-time GOSI social insurance data retrieval, four-scenario end-of-service benefit calculations aligned to Saudi labor law, automatic late attendance deductions with grace periods, and unused leave compensation on termination.

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