What’s New in Odoo 19: Powerful eCommerce & Inventory Enhancements for 2025
Introduction
Odoo finally released version 19 of its open source. supporting business operations and tasks. Providing more new features in modules such as accounting, CRM, HR, inventory, and more for an e-commerce website.
In general, an e-commerce website needs more flexibility and facilities to provide an easy and scalable platform. Enhancing the control between sales, inventory, and invoices.
Odoo’s latest eCommerce updates bring a smoother, more engaging shopping experience for both customers and businesses. The /shop page now offers improved layouts, clearer attribute filters, and customizable product blocks, while checkout has been refined with better layouts, mobile cart summaries, and flexible payment methods, including Cash on Delivery. Enhancements like a redesigned comparison tool, stock availability for delivery and Click & Collect, and dynamic catalog templates make product browsing more user-friendly. On the marketing side, businesses can benefit from improved SEO for product pages, Google Merchant Center synchronization, and optimized eCommerce URLs. Additional features such as abandoned cart emails, interactive empty screens, and onboarding steps help businesses convert more visitors into loyal customers.
Integration between e-commerce and inventory.
Odoo’s latest updates streamline inventory management with smarter automation and clearer insights.
- The master production scheduler now better distinguishes demand types and adjusts forecasts when actuals exceed expectations.
- simplifies replenishment by removing outdated fields.
- Reordering rules are more powerful with horizon settings, deadline tracking, and demand-based quantity suggestions, while products’ on-hand quantities can now be updated directly.
- Logistics are enhanced with features like packages within packages, merged packaging and UoM models, simplified physical inventory, and automatic product route configurations.
- Traceability reports now display partner and warehouse details for greater visibility, while WhatsApp shipping notifications and UPS signature requirements improve delivery communication.
Invoices and suppliers management Updates
In the Odoo 19 release, several improvements were introduced to the accounting system to enhance operations, increase accuracy, and enhance transparency. When importing supplier invoices via XML or OCR, Odoo automatically searches for purchase order references within the invoice, including item descriptions, to match them with current purchase orders. Annotations added to reports also appear directly in the report's chat, facilitating communication between teams.
It has become possible to reset customer or supplier invoices to drafts when needed, a feature available since version 18.0. The review of invoices has also been improved so that only authorized users are allowed to post transactions, while a "Pending Review" tag is automatically assigned to accountants to ensure data accuracy. After the invoices are reviewed, they can only be modified by authorized users.
Regarding the tax reports, the (+) and (-) signs have been removed from the items to simplify the presentation, and handling transfers is now performed directly within the report. Additionally, a new feature for tax declarations has been launched, supporting deadline management and automatic validation, and it can be customized according to the requirements of each region. The feature of the tax supply date has also been added in countries where it is required, along with improved procedure names in the menus to make their titles clearer and easier to read.
Overall, these enhancements help businesses reduce stockouts, optimize reordering, and gain tighter control over supply chain operations.بشكل عام، تساعد هذه التحسينات الشركات على تقليل نفاد المخزون، وتحسين إعادة الطلب، والحصول على تحكم أكثر دقة في عمليات سلسلة التوريد.
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