Odoo Community

Odoo Community is a modular business suite for sales, purchasing, inventory, invoicing, calendar, and time tracking. Its invoice management needs to be distinguished from the full financial accounting of the Enterprise edition.

The actively maintained Community Edition is self-hosted, licensed under LGPL v3, and uses Python, JavaScript, and PostgreSQL. Independent community extensions and hosting providers are separate from the vendor's own offering.

The community modules Task Logs and Attendances cover different tasks. Task Logs records hours per project and task, while Attendances tracks employees clocking in and out. Both modules are licensed under LGPL-3.0.

Fact Sheet

Categories
Status
Actively maintained
License
  • LGPL-3.0
Operation
  • On-Premises / Self-hosted
Technologies
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • PostgreSQL
Single Sign-On (SSO)
  • Unknown: not specified
MCP server
  • Unknown: not specified

Screenshots

The screenshots were taken on October 16, 2026, in a demo instance of Odoo 20.0 (build 20261015).

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Odoo invoicing dashboard with key figures, monthly trend, and invoice ranking
Invoicing dashboard. Key figures, monthly invoiced amounts, and a ranking of invoices.
Odoo contacts as cards with companies and contact details
Contacts. Companies with contact details and linked business transactions in the card view.
Sales quotation in Odoo with line items, quantities, prices, and taxes
Sales quotation. Individual line items with quantities, prices, taxes, and total.
Odoo vendor bills with suppliers, references, amounts, and due dates
Vendor bills. Supplier documents with references, due dates, amounts, and payment status.
Kanban board of an Odoo project with tasks by stage
Task board. Project tasks by stage with deadlines and priorities.
Odoo employee overview with employees, job titles, and department filter
Employees. Employee overview with job titles, work contact details, and a department filter.

Proprietary Enterprise Edition

According to the edition comparison, Odoo Enterprise adds full accounting, appointment booking, subscriptions, document management, electronic signatures, help desk, and Studio, among other things. The official hosting offering is also part of the Enterprise edition. These additional apps are not part of the LGPL-licensed Community feature set and do not qualify this entry for further categories.

The Odoo Enterprise Edition License requires a valid subscription for the appropriate number of users. It prohibits publishing, distributing, sublicensing, and selling copies of the enterprise software. The LGPL-3.0 rights to Odoo Community are not affected. For separate apps, check each app's own license.

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