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Odoo
Odoo fitted to the business it runs, and kept upgradable
Through avanserv, a one-engineer practice in Namur, Belgium, I configure, extend, migrate and upgrade Odoo for companies whose way of working the standard product does not cover. I spent seven years in Odoo's own professional services, as a developer and then as a team lead, on more than a hundred projects and more than twenty version upgrades. The work is done in English or French, remotely or on site anywhere in the European Union.
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What reaches me, and what I do first#
Odoo work tends to arrive in one of four states. A company is about to choose Odoo and wants to know what it will have to build on top. A company already runs it, and the customisations written for it have become the reason every upgrade is late. An instance that held for ten testers slows down under two hundred users. Or another supplier has delivered code, and someone has to say whether it can be maintained.
In each of them, the first thing I write down is what the standard product already does, because a module that is never written costs nothing to upgrade. What remains is custom development, held to the conventions Odoo's own teams work to, covered by tests, and handed over with the notes your developers or your next supplier will need.
Questions#
What does Odoo work cost?
It depends on the shape of the engagement, and there are three separate ones:
- A fixed-scope build has a fixed price, set once its scope is written.
- An advisory block, for advice or a code review, is billed by the hour, at €120.
- A retainer reserves days each week, from €720 a day.
Every price excludes VAT, and the written scope itself costs nothing.
How does an engagement start?
It starts with eight questions on the scope page, which take about three minutes. I read the answers myself and reply within two working days with a written scope, its assumptions and its exclusions, or with a plain answer that the work is not worth taking.
How long does it take?
The written scope states the duration, with the assumptions it rests on. An upgrade across one version and a migration from another system have too little in common for one figure to cover both. A retainer has no end date: your days stay reserved week after week, and changing or ending it takes a month's notice.
Which versions and editions of Odoo?
Every version Odoo still supports, on Enterprise and on Community. An older version is taken on when the job is to upgrade it. Custom code runs on Odoo.sh or on your own servers.
On Odoo Online, where custom modules cannot be installed, I help with setup and with integrations through the external API.
In which languages?
English or French, for the meetings, for the written scope and for the handover.
On site or remote?
Either, anywhere in the European Union. I am based in Namur, Belgium.
From the work
Seven years inside Odoo, building for its customers
Seven years building Odoo for Odoo's own customers: custom development, upgrades, large rollouts, and the teams I led and trained along the way.
Start with the problem, not with the proposal
A written scope comes back within two working days, with its assumptions and its exclusions stated. It costs nothing, and it is yours whether or not you hire me.
Tell me about your project, or the problem you want solved.
Or write to info@avanserv.com, and I will come back to you with a scope.