Odoo ERP Insights & Updates Saudi Arabia

Published 8th February 2022

Odoo 14 expected features and updates

Saudi Arabian businesses are accelerating their digital transformation journeys under Vision 2030, yet many organizations still struggle with disconnected systems, manual financial processes, and limited real-time visibility. Decision-makers, CFOs, and IT managers often face the same challenge: how to scale operations while staying compliant with local regulations such as ZATCA and VAT requirements.

This is where Odoo ERP Saudi Arabia becomes a strategic enabler. With the release of Odoo 14, businesses in the Kingdom gained access to enhanced performance, smarter automation, and deeper localization—making it one of the best ERP systems in Saudi Arabia for growing and mid-sized enterprises.

As an official Odoo partner and trusted ERP expert, iWesabe helps organizations unlock the full value of Odoo through tailored implementation, customization, and long-term support in Saudi Arabia.

Why Saudi Businesses Are Rethinking ERP Systems

ERP adoption in the Kingdom is no longer optional. Competitive pressure, regulatory compliance, and rising customer expectations are pushing organizations to modernize their core systems.

Common ERP challenges faced by Saudi companies include:

Fragmented accounting and VAT reporting processes
Limited compliance with ZATCA e-invoicing regulations
Poor integration between finance, sales, inventory, and HR
High cost and inflexibility of legacy ERP software
Lack of real-time dashboards for executive decision-making

Modern ERP software Saudi Arabia must be flexible, scalable, and compliant by design. Odoo 14 addresses these needs with significant functional and usability improvements.

Odoo 14: A Smarter ERP Platform for Saudi Arabia

As we all know that Odoo is an open-source ERP (Enterprise resource planning) software including CRM, e-commerce, billing, accounting, manufacturing, warehouse, project management, and inventory management. Odoo was founded in 2005, From the base version (1.0) to version 4.0 it is called as Tiny ERP, then changed to Open ERP (Version 5.0 – 7.0) around 2007 and then from version 8.0 it is changed to Odoo Open ERP around 2012. Odoo is updating to a newer version every year with more updated features.

The Odoo 14 is expected to release in October 2020 with an extensive list of new features. Here we are discussing the area of enhancements that will expect in version 14.

Save Employees Time

Odoo 14 comes up with many time-saving hacks for users. This feature will surely helpful for users while processing documents like sales orders, stock transfers, etc.

Cross-App Integration

With the help of Odoo, cross-app integration users can integrate e-Commerce with rentals. Email templates can be integrated with the studio, this will save the user’s time creating the email templates. Also, documents can be integrated with any apps.

Smart Warnings

In an e-Commerce business, customers will get warnings about their order delay or other warnings related to order with the help of Odoo auto-bot. Odoo bot will send these type of warnings to the users using their smart warnings system.

Framework Changes

In version 14, the Odoo is coming up with the reworked ORM, JavaScript and Python. This will helps for smooth customization and great performance of the applications.

Snippet Tools

Odoo 14 is coming with many new widgets to build beautiful and functional websites effortlessly.

Chart Snippet
Countdown Snippet
Step Snippet
Product Catalog Snippet
Auto Pop up Snippet
Progress bar Snippet
Timeline Snippet
Number Snippet
Masonry Snippet
Big boxes Snippet
Product List Snippet

Updates in POS

Odoo added more features to POS inventory management and POS promotion and coupon program will possibly be moved to Odoo 14 Community Edition.

Data Cleaning Module

This is a new module will be available for enterprise users. This module will help to find duplicate records across multiple records and manages data redundancy.

Emoji Widget

By using emojis users can express the emotions and it will help the texts being live.

Dashboards

Odoo is introducing dashboards in the Expenses module and Purchase module.

Product Pricelist Report

This feature helps to print the pricelist of the product with corresponding currency from the product list itself.

Password Checker Bar

Password checker will help the user to check the password strength while creating an account through the portal. Based on the password, it will show the strength of password in the bar.

Easy Access to Record Rules and Access Rights

In this feature, the user can easily view record rules and access rights from its own view by activating developer mode.

Chat with Other Users from the Tree View

This feature comes up with a chat option with the other users. A display picture of user can see in the tree view by clicking on the display picture user can chat with them.

Schedule Activity from the Tree View

From the tree view, a user can easily view and schedule the activities for each record.

Visualization of Inventory Routes

With the help of diagrammatic representation, users can see the routes of products by diagrammatic representation and print the diagram as a PDF.

Odoo is the fastest growing ERP software. In Odoo 14, we are expecting so many features than the previous versions. These upcoming features will make new opportunities and growth in business for clients and users. We iWesabe will help you to customize any Odoo versions as per your needs.

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