At this year’s Odoo Experience 2025 (OXP), the new Odoo 19 was officially presented. With more than 12 million users worldwide, Odoo has long been one of the leading ERP solutions for small and medium-sized businesses.
The new version impresses with a significantly revamped user interface, AI integration across all modules, major improvements to core apps, and extended industry-specific packages. Sustainability and ESG reporting are now firmly integrated as well. With Odoo 19, companies get everything they need to run their operations efficiently and future-proof their business processes.
Find out below why upgrading from Odoo 18 to Odoo 19 is worth it.
Odoo 18 vs. Odoo 19 – the key differences in detail
Many companies are asking whether upgrading is worth it. The answer: Yes and significantly so.
User Interface & Productivity
- In Odoo 18, the interface was solid, but Odoo 19 makes it even more compact, faster, and more modern. New Kanban layouts, drag & drop in list views, and intelligent Gantt planning make day-to-day work much easier.
- Activities can now be planned and grouped more flexibly – from “today” to “tomorrow” to “next week.”
Artificial Intelligence
- Odoo 18 included first AI attempts (text generation, automation).
- Odoo 19 goes far beyond that: AI agents, natural language database queries, automatic field completion, lead generation, meeting transcripts, webpage generation, AI commands in email templates, voice-to-text, and much more. With this, Odoo 19 is the first release to truly integrate AI into the entire workflow.
Core Apps
- CRM & Sales: In Odoo 19, lead assignment is now rules-based and AI-supported. Business card scanning and live chat agents automatically generate new leads.
- Accounting: New year-end reports, simplified bank reconciliation with OCR, WhatsApp reminders, improved localizations, and ISO20022 support make international operations easier.
- HR & Payroll: Skill management, goal templates, improved absence management, payroll master reporting, and automated workflows deliver clear efficiency gains.
Inventory & Barcode
- Odoo 18 provided solid warehouse management, but Odoo 19 delivers major upgrades: a reworked barcode app, batch transfers, multi-step flows, cycle counts during operations, automated replenishment, and tighter integration with manufacturing and purchasing.
E-Commerce & Website
- While Odoo 18 already offered solid e-commerce features, Odoo 19 raises the bar: SEO-optimized product pages for rich snippets, Google Merchant Center integration, flexible checkout options, Click & Collect improvements, and new mobile features.
ESG & Sustainability
- ESG was not a focus in Odoo 18.
- Odoo 19 now introduces a dedicated ESG app, integrating CO₂ footprint tracking, emission factors, the IPCC database, and social indicators.
Improved User Interface & Productivity
- New activity planning: Activities can now be created directly from “My Activities” – without linking to an object. Filters such as “today,” “tomorrow,” “this week,” or “this month” help with prioritization. Titles in activity cards improve readability. Completed activities do not disappear but remain stored as a history.
- Kanban & list views: Stages can be moved more easily with drag & drop. Cards now show when a record has been inactive (“rotting”) for too long. In list views, entries can be sorted and grouped via drag & drop.
- Gantt view: The new intelligent zoom adapts to scale. Dependencies remain intact when rescheduling tasks, buffer days can be included, and absences are collapsible. This makes planning much more realistic.
- Everyday usability: Automatic address completion with Google Places, out-of-office replies, badge notifications, and optimized mobile buttons enhance the overall experience.
These changes make Odoo 19 not only more powerful but also far more enjoyable to use in everyday work. Your teams save clicks, work more intuitively, and immediately see what really matters.
Artificial Intelligence in Odoo 19
The most significant evolution lies in the AI features, now available across almost all modules:
- AI Agents: Chat with virtual assistants that learn from your Odoo data. They don’t just answer questions but can also perform actions – such as creating a task, updating a field, or sending an email.
- Natural language search: Write queries in everyday language – Odoo automatically converts them into domain filters.
- Automatic field completion: Odoo suggests values for fields based on existing data or external sources. This prevents errors and saves time.
- Email & document support: The AI drafts emails, optimizes texts, summarizes chatter conversations, and even inserts commands into email templates.
- Voice & transcripts: Meetings can be transcribed in real time, including automatic summaries.
- Webpage & content generation: Landing pages or product pages can be generated instantly from prompts. Texts are optimized and made SEO-friendly at the same time.
- AI in live chat: AI agents take over initial customer communication, answer standard queries, and automatically generate leads.
With these
capabilities, Odoo 19 lifts efficiency to an entirely new level: less manual
work, faster processes, higher data quality, and entirely new automation
opportunities.
Improvements in the Odoo 19 Core Apps
CRM & Sales
- Lead generation via business cards: Simply scan a business card, and Odoo automatically creates a new lead with all relevant details.
- AI-powered insights: The system calculates win probabilities and provides recommendations on which leads to prioritize.
- Rules-based lead assignment: Leads are automatically routed to the right staff based on language, region, or priority filters.
- Flexible quotation documents: Sections can be customized, prices hidden, or entire sections concealed.
These features make CRM and sales smarter and more data-driven – a major advantage for growth-focused businesses.
Accounting & Finance
- Simplified bank reconciliation: OCR reads bank statements, and AI proposes reconciliation entries automatically. Any discrepancies can be manually corrected.
- Year-end reports: Balance sheet, profit & loss, and trial balance are now bundled into a standard report.
- WhatsApp reminders & dunning reports: Overdue invoices can now be chased directly via WhatsApp. Dunning reports are separated from account statements.
- Global standards & localization: Improved support for ISO20022, plus new localizations for Asia, South America, and the Middle East.
With these updates, Odoo 19 delivers the highest level of automation and international scalability.
HR & Payroll
- Skill & goal management: Goals can be created using templates and assigned to multiple employees. Linking them to skills enables personalized development plans.
- Absences & time tracking: A new ledger clearly displays all absences by month. GPS tracking can optionally be disabled.
- Payroll master reporting: Unified reporting across all localizations, including new rules for flexible working hours.
This makes HR management more transparent, flexible, and compliant.
Inventory & Barcode
Odoo 19 introduces a wide range of improvements for inventory management and barcode operations, making warehouse processes faster, more reliable, and easier to scale:
- Enhanced Barcode App: The barcode app has been reworked for smoother performance on mobile devices and scanners. Receiving goods, internal transfers, and picking orders can now be completed more quickly with fewer errors.
- Multi-step logistics flows: Workflows such as Receive → Quality Check → Store or Pick → Pack → Ship can be configured more easily and fully supported with barcode scanning. This allows for better control of complex operations.
- Batch transfers & cluster picking: Multiple orders can be picked in a single run, significantly increasing efficiency in busy warehouses.
- Cycle counts during operations: Inventory counts are now more flexible – they can be performed during ongoing operations without shutting down entire warehouse zones.
- Automated replenishment: Minimum stock rules and reordering logic can now be combined with barcode actions to ensure shelves and bins are always stocked at optimal levels.
- Integration with Manufacturing & Purchasing: Barcode scanning is now more tightly connected to production and procurement flows, giving businesses a clear end-to-end view of material movements.
Project
Odoo 19 significantly streamlines project execution from kickoff to delivery:
- Project templates with roles & stages: Create projects from templates that auto-add the right tasks, stages, and assignees—ideal for repeating service offerings.
- Calendar & Gantt scheduling: Drag-and-drop tasks onto the calendar; leverage the improved Gantt with dependencies and buffers for realistic planning.
- Timesheets at scale: Team members can add multiple timesheet entries quickly, improving adoption and accuracy.
- AI-powered automations: Define workflow actions (e.g., assign to the right expert, update fields, notify stakeholders) and feed the AI the exact prompt/rules to execute—goodbye manual routing.
Projects start cleaner, schedule smoother, and finish on time more often. Less manual routing means your experts spend time delivering value, not chasing assignments.
Point of Sale (POS)
Retail and restaurants benefit from major usability and operations upgrades:
- Presets for service modes: Configure “dine-in,” “takeout,” and “delivery” presets (pricelists, fiscal positions, prep capacity, ID requirements, scheduling, etc.) to cut clicks and avoid errors.
- Kitchen coordination: Organize orders by courses; fire courses in sequence from the POS so the kitchen display updates instantly.
- Self-ordering with QR codes: Generate and print table QR codes; mobile menus support dine-in, takeout, and delivery with allergen info drawn from product data.
- Combo rules: Define how many items a customer can choose in a combo and which ones are free.
- Minimal access rights: Seasonal staff can be restricted from sensitive actions (opening sessions, cash in/out, discounts).
- Broad delivery platform support: Integrations with Takeaway, Careem, Grubhub, Deliveroo, and more (per the video).
- Retail checkout speed: Quick payment buttons enable one-click payments.
Service & revenue lift: Shorter lines, fewer kitchen mishaps, and smarter upsells translate into happier guests and higher average order values-
Spreadsheet
Odoo 19 turns Spreadsheet into a serious BI companion:
- New chart types: Radar, geo, sunburst, and treemap charts for hierarchical and geographic data.
- Dynamic pivots: Collapse/expand rows & columns; sort by measure; filter numbers by criteria.
- Command palette & pinned side panels: Work faster with Cmd/Ctrl + K and operate in multiple panels at once.
- Mobile-first: Spreadsheets are fully usable on mobile devices.
- Import clarity: After imports (e.g., contacts), Odoo surfaces the newly added records immediately—navigate via breadcrumbs to the full list.
Why this matters: Faster insight-to-action cycles for finance, ops, and growth teams—without leaving Odoo.
Documents
The document backbone for your operations gets smarter:
- AI-driven organization: Describe your sorting rules in natural language; Odoo auto-files contracts, insurance docs, and more—creating activities for the right assignees.
- Email-to-PDF: Emails without attachments sent to an alias are converted into PDFs automatically for easy preview, storage, and search.
- Universal preview & quick actions: Preview HTML, PDF, TXT, XML, and more; one-click share, download, rename, and details.
- Deep app integration: Insert files from Documents anywhere in Odoo using the slash command; Accounting/Audit reports can pull annexes directly from Documents.
Filing takes care of itself, audits run smoother, and everyone can find the right file in seconds. Less admin, more execution.
Sign
Close approvals and agreements with less friction:
- Redesigned interface: Cleaner layout and easier configuration of multiple signers directly within the document.
- Multi-document envelopes: Upload many PDFs at once; Odoo bundles them into a single envelope for recipients to sign in one go (define order, add fields).
- Productivity boosters: Copy/paste fields across templates; auto-complete common fields; support for digital certificates; send sign requests via WhatsApp where appropriate.
- Progress for non-portal signers: Show remaining documents right after they sign one.
Approvals close in one pass, customers sign without friction, and your team stops babysitting paperwork.
E-Commerce & Website – SEO, Conversions, and Customer Experience
- SEO optimization: Product pages are now prepared for Google Rich Results. URLs have been refined, and duplicate content is avoided.
- Google Merchant Center integration: Products can be synchronized automatically – ideal for Google Shopping campaigns.
- Improved checkout: Mobile-first checkout, Click & Collect with separated stock tracking, and more flexible payment options.
- New layouts & product displays: Carousels, grids, extended filters, and better image handling.
With these improvements, your Odoo online shop becomes not only more visually appealing but also more visible on Google and more profitable in sales.
ESG & Sustainability – a new chapter in Odoo 19
- CO₂ footprint: Complete emission reports following the GHG Protocol and Bilan Carbone standard.
- Emission factors: Automatic calculations based on quantity (€ or kg) or imported from certified databases.
- IPCC integration: International standards ensure maximum accuracy.
- Social indicators: Gender pay gap reports, diversity metrics, and departmental statistics.
With the ESG app, sustainability is no longer a side task but an integrated part of the ERP system.
Conclusion: Why you should switch to Odoo 19 now
Odoo 19 delivers:
- A modern UI & higher productivity
- Comprehensive AI features
- Optimized core apps for CRM, Accounting, HR
- Industry-specific solutions for any business model
- SEO & e-commerce on a new level
- ESG reporting as a competitive advantage
This makes Odoo 19 the most comprehensive and innovative release to date. Companies upgrading from Odoo 18 to Odoo 19 gain immediate efficiency, transparency, and future-readiness.
As Germany’s No. 1 official Odoo Gold Partner, OBS Solutions supports you throughout the upgrade – from analysis to migration to go-live.
Contact us today, and let us show you how Odoo 19 can take your business to the next level of digital excellence.
