Odoo Project: manage your projects, timesheets and planning in one tool
With Odoo Project, you connect sales, project management, timesheets, resource planning and invoicing in a single flow. You finally know who is working on what, how many hours have been spent, which resources are available and the real profitability of each project, assignment or job.
Why connect projects, planning, timesheets and invoicing in Odoo?
The real issue isn't just time entry. The real issue is knowing whether your hours are planned, profitable, properly tracked and correctly invoiced.
1. From quote to project with no re-entry
When a quote is signed, Odoo can automatically create the project and its related tasks. Sales reps, project managers and operations teams finally work from the same information.
2. Timesheets feed invoicing
Employees log their hours directly on tasks. If the project is sold on a time-and-materials basis, every hour recorded in Odoo can automatically prepare the upcoming invoice.
3. Planning is linked to resources
With Odoo Planning, you see who is available, who is overloaded and which assignments are understaffed. You handle workload conflicts, time off and resource trade-offs more easily.
🔗 Go further: For companies whose core business is projects (agencies, engineering firms, IT services companies), task management needs to be paired with an overall view of the organization. See our dedicated expertise on the page Odoo for service companies.
Tracking project profitability in Odoo
Each project becomes a clear control center: hours sold, hours used, costs, workload and margin.
- The dashboard compares planned or sold hours with the hours actually spent on the project.
- Payroll costs, purchases, expenses or subcontracting can be linked to the same analytic tracking.
- Gross margin and project profitability become visible without cross-checking several external files.
🔗 Expert tip: A project's operational profitability is only complete once your accounting validates it. To automate the link between your assignments and your financial statements, see our page on Odoo Accounting Expertise.
Project management for service companies and engineering firms
For a service company, an engineering consultancy or an engineering firm, what matters most isn't just moving tasks forward. You need to know whether the time spent stays in line with the budget, whether the assignment is drifting and whether invoicing really keeps pace with the work delivered.
Resource planning and team capacity
Odoo also lets you manage workload. You no longer just look at open tasks: you see whether the team really has the capacity to deliver, and you adjust the planning before delays show up.
How do you implement Odoo in your SME without breaking the bank?
Optimize your processes and control your costs: the complete guide to a successful Odoo ERP implementation.
How do you implement Odoo in your SME without breaking the bank?
Optimize your processes and control your costs: the complete guide to a successful Odoo ERP implementation.
How to succeed with an Odoo Project rollout
For Odoo Project to work, you have to start from your real business process: sales, delivery, time entry, resource trade-offs and invoicing.
What to put in place
- • Define the right billing model: fixed price, time and materials, prepaid, subscription or milestones.
- • Configure service products to trigger the right project logic in Odoo.
- • Define resource roles, skills and capacity in Planning.
- • Structure projects with stages, templates and standard tasks before launch.
- • Train teams on time entry, task tracking and good daily practices.
What to avoid
- • Deploying Project, Timesheets and Planning as 3 separate building blocks.
- • Letting planning or time tracking live outside Odoo in Excel or a shared calendar.
- • Creating projects with no template, no clear stages or no identified owner.
- • Copying an old tool exactly instead of making the most of standard Odoo.
How long does it take to set up Odoo Project and Planning?
Realistic estimates based on our field experience with service companies, engineering firms and job-based organizations.
Simple case
Simple task management, basic time entry and little invoicing logic.
Service or engineering SMEs
Sales-to-project link, task templates, time-and-materials invoicing, workload tracking and team training.
Structured case
Advanced resource planning, detailed analytics, capacity trade-offs and full test scenarios.
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