I'd like a dispatch board where we can drag loads into rounds, and that assigns the truck.
What happened: Built a drag-and-drop dispatch board as a real Odoo module — with browser tours running in CI so a regression can never silently ship.
Building a custom Odoo module
Sometimes there is no setting. The process your business runs on doesn't map to anything Odoo ships, and configuring around it produces something worse than the spreadsheet it replaced.
A custom module is the honest answer, and it's the thing people avoid because of what it traditionally costs: a scoping call, a quote, a wait, then a build against a specification written weeks earlier by someone who has since misremembered the detail.
CodeCobra collapses that. You describe the process; it writes a plan in business terms — what it will change, where you'll see it in Odoo, what happens to existing records — and you correct the plan until it's right. Approving the plan is the commitment, and it takes minutes rather than weeks.
What gets built is a proper Odoo module: models, views, access rules, tests, in your own repository. Not a configuration nobody can maintain.
What people asked, and what came back
Real production requests, condensed and with anything identifying removed.
Build an online credit application with a signing workflow.
What happened: Built the application form and the sign-off flow end to end.
If a customer hasn't ordered in X days, email them or create an activity. If they order double their usual average, flag a rep.
What happened: Built the rules engine — and explained up front which of the two rules Odoo's plain filters genuinely cannot express, and why.
We buy in EUR from some vendors. The PO needs to show EUR, the receipt must record cost correctly, and the bill gets exchanged at payment time.
What happened: Designed the multi-currency flow — then wrote out the fully manual native-Odoo version too, so the team had something to run the same day.
Rebuild our old webshop's search suggestions in the new theme, matching the original design.
What happened: Rebuilt it — along with the mini-cart, cart page and responsive shop grid. A whole storefront carried forward six versions.
More requests in this category
51 more real requests in this job, grouped by the part of Odoo they touch.
Accounting
- Add a capacity check that stops overbooking a venue across overlapping orders.
- Give me a dynamic profit and loss module per the attached requirements document.
- How do I create an owner distribution bill for properties that have made partial payments, so I can pay the owner even if the tenant doesn't pay in full?
- I want to build Hebrew OCR into the accounting app.
- In the payment wizard for invoices and bills I need to think about the feasibility of the payment options we offer. Bills definitely need more options.
- We're looking for a finance module for our Odoo Community version. I've prepared a requirements document to give you an idea of what it should look like.
Inventory & warehouse
- Auto-create a quality alert when a lot fails inspection twice.
- During a receipt, scanning the product's normal each-barcode should add a full pack quantity.
- I want a smart putaway assistant that extends the warehouse app with bin recommendations for inbound transfers, and a recommended bin field.
- They use locations as a loose concept, to tell pickers roughly where items are. They don't want strict enforcement, because the current warehouse isn't set up for it.
- We need a module that manages the inventory of this device — a view that expands Odoo's lots and serial numbers view, with its own icon.
- You're going to help me make a module to track this device.
Sales & quoting
- Configure this in staging: set up these CRM pipeline stages, in this order — gathering job information, graphic design markup if needed, make the design, and so on.
- Here's a capability SAP has that nothing in the Odoo ecosystem comes close to: a full product super-configurator.
- Make a quote to get this customer started on Odoo: server setup, a very basic workflow, product setup with a bill of materials, a basic manufacturing process and basic sales invoicing.
Purchasing & vendors
- Build a custom Odoo app from scratch for vendor capability, qualification and compliance management — a standalone internal sourcing database, not a copy of any previous tool.
- Build a portal page where customers can reorder from past orders in one click.
- Create a module for evaluating and tracking vendor performance with a structured scoring system.
- Create a purchase order approval workflow — an approval state that moves from draft, to waiting for approval, to approved.
- They incur extra costs tied to physical products, so we gave them a wizard for creating purchase orders for services.
Manufacturing
- Create a production schedule board we can drag orders around on.
- I want better scheduling than Odoo's native functionality — basically take what our current scheduling tool does and put it in Odoo.
- Their manufacturing workflow needs labels printed and put on the buckets at the start of the manufacturing process, not at completion. At the moment it's the other way round.
- We want information from orders carried through to the shop floor app so the kitchen gets specific directions about the order.
Reports & dashboards
- I want a leaderboard: the top 100 campers on the left by total points, and all of the bunks on the right, also ordered by points.
- There are three kinds of points that can be entered — bunk, class and camper. We have custom charts for two of them and need a way to handle the third.
Website & portal
- Build me a website for my architecture studio, inside my Odoo.
- Can you make me a web page with a volume calculator for yards of concrete, with our logo on the calculator?
- I'd like an online credit application that creates a contact or matches an existing one, has them sign, and collects trade references for the construction industry.
- In my Odoo environment, build a highly visual, immersive brand homepage for an architectural and interior design studio.
- Prepare a new Odoo theme, with the icon, banner and documents it needs for the app store.
- The website signup collects a business name and files the submission in a way we want to change. Review this and ask me any questions before you implement.
Data & imports
- We found a few duplicate records. I'd like to merge them, but Odoo Community doesn't have the merge module — that's Enterprise only. I want a server action called "merge".
Projects & tasks
- A fully functional exhibit house: the whole journey for each exhibit from lead, intake, proposal, staging, shipping, building at the show and return — plus warehouse inventory.
- I need you to help me test this app and make sure we have full integration test coverage.
- I'd like a new concept for the camp apps that we can call sessions. Camp is divided into sessions — for overnight camps each session is about a month long.
- Let's build some end-to-end test cases and do some proper testing of the commissions app.
- This one's different from ERP work — a programme for summer camps, a task-based incentive for campers, organised by bunk or class.
- We need one more way to enter points: every week there's a special task that runs all week, and they hand in a paper with the number of times they did it.
- We need somewhere to see where we've already given quick award points. There's a menu item that opens a wizard to give points, but no way to see what's been given.
- We're looking for a scholarship system for our foundation. I have a basic SOP from the business users and a requirements document to give you an idea of what it should look like.
Delivery & dispatch
- Add a multi-select in the barcode app to filter routes for operations that have a carrier and aren't batched, so the user can see picks per carrier without actually batching them.
- Build a driver check-in screen for the loading dock with signature capture.
Users & permissions
- Make an app that counts how many times a user logged in and shows it on the customer page.
Point of sale
- Create an Odoo 18 Community module for the POS: package barcodes on products, where each package has a barcode, a quantity and a fixed package price.
Automation
- Automate the workflow: take the customer request from a service questionnaire and its attachment, suggest pricing from the pricing guide, and prepare the quote.
- I put in an automation rule that sets the invoicing policy from the customer's terms — immediate payment means invoice on ordered quantities. That works well until the payment is made.
- Please create an automation rule so that when the delivery address is updated on a sales order, it automatically updates the delivery address on all the related open pickings.
- The client asked for this — is there any way to do it with automation rules, no development? At the moment the system lets me validate an outgoing order that isn't marked with the number of boxes.
People & payroll
- I built a module in Odoo 19 from the attached SOP for visa processing, but I don't think it meets the whole requirement — only the sheets are done.
- We want an end-to-end HR solution built on Odoo 19 Community. I've prepared a requirements document.
How detailed does my description need to be?
Start with the outcome and the pain. "Our returns process has three approval steps and Odoo only models one" is a better opening than a field list. It asks about the gaps, and the plan is where the detail gets settled.
Who owns the module?
You do. It lands in your own GitHub repository and you can download it as a ZIP at any time. There's nothing to extract if you stop using CodeCobra.
Does it write tests?
Yes, and it runs them. A module arrives with tests and a passing CI run, which is what makes the next change to it safe.
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