Construction loses money between the estimate and the invoice. The BOQ is built in Excel, purchase happens on site, labour is counted on paper, and nobody can say what a project has really cost until it is finished.
Odoo connects projects, procurement, timesheets, documents and accounting so project cost is visible while you can still act on it.
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Odoo ERP for construction connects project execution with the procurement, labour and accounting that pay for it. Projects and tasks carry the work breakdown, purchase orders and vendor bills are raised against the project, timesheets post labour cost to it, and the analytic account rolls all three into one number you can compare against the BOQ while the job is still running.
The single configuration decision that decides whether construction costing works in Odoo is the analytic account structure. Set it per project, per phase or per cost head before anything is booked — changing it later means re-posting history.
Taken from the project itself, not from a capability list.
Integrated BOQ management, procurement, project execution, billing and financial reporting on a connected Odoo ERP platform.
BOQ, site procurement and billing had been three separate records of the same job. Bringing them onto one project meant the cost figure was available before the project closed, not after.
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Odoo connects the applications a construction business runs on: projects and planning for execution, purchase for materials and subcontractors, timesheets for labour, documents for drawings and approvals, field service for site work, and accounting underneath all of it.
Projects, phases and tasks carrying the work breakdown, with the analytic account that every cost will be tagged to.
Scheduling site teams and equipment against task dates, so a delay on one activity is visible to the people it blocks.
RFQs, vendor pricelists and approval limits, with every order raised against a project so site procurement stops being invisible.
Labour booked to tasks and approved by supervisors, turning headcount on site into a cost figure on the project.
Drawings, specifications, approvals, measurement sheets and site photographs attached to the task or project they belong to.
Site visits, snag lists and handover work scheduled and closed from a phone, including when the site has no signal.
Vendor bills, customer invoices, retention, GST and the analytic reports that turn all of it into project profitability.
A purchase order raised for a site is tagged to that project. The vendor bill follows it. The timesheet a supervisor approves posts labour to the same account. Project profitability is then a report rather than a reconstruction.
These are the configuration decisions that are cheap to make now and structural to change later. We walk through each one before a single record is migrated.
Per project, per phase, or per cost head. Everything downstream — purchase, bills, timesheets, profitability — is tagged to this, and changing it after transactions exist means re-posting.
Deep structures give better control and are abandoned by site staff. We set the depth your supervisors will genuinely maintain, not the one that looks impressive.
Site engineer, store keeper or head office, and above what value approval is needed. Getting this wrong means either a bottleneck or uncontrolled spend.
Running account bills with retention held and released on milestones are not a default. The percentages and release triggers are configured deliberately.
As vendors with purchase orders, or as a service cost on the project. This decides how their bills, retention and TDS are handled.
Labour cost is only as true as timesheet discipline. We decide who enters, who approves, and on what day of the week before go-live.
Whether stock moves through an internal location per site or is expensed at purchase. The first gives you real consumption; the second is simpler and tells you less.
The right configuration depends on how your business actually operates, not on your sector label. Two companies with the same description on paper often need different warehouse steps, different approval chains and different reports.
We would rather say this before you buy licences than after. These are the areas where we scope real development, recommend a bolt-on, or tell you Odoo is the wrong tool.
Odoo holds the BOQ structure well but is not an estimating package with rate libraries and build-ups. Serious estimating usually stays in a specialist tool that feeds Odoo.
Odoo Planning schedules resources; it is not Primavera or MS Project. Complex dependency networks and float analysis need an external scheduler.
Internal plant charged out to projects by hour or day needs custom configuration. It is achievable and it is not standard.
Client-specific measurement books and certification formats are often fixed by contract and need custom QWeb report development.
Field Service handles intermittent connectivity; genuinely offline sites for days at a time need a different approach.
Statutory labour registers and site-level compliance vary by state and usually need either customisation or a separate system.
Implementing Odoo for construction needs more than installing the applications. Your ERP should reflect how your operations actually run.
Understand your project types, work breakdown, BOQ format, procurement approvals, billing and retention terms, and how labour is recorded on site today.
Map project, purchase, timesheet and billing flows onto Odoo, and fix the analytic account structure before anything else is configured.
Configure the applications above around your requirements rather than installing them at their defaults.
Prepare and migrate masters, open items and opening balances. Data cleaning is scoped explicitly, because it is usually the largest single task. See Odoo migration.
Connect the systems you are keeping and build only what configuration genuinely cannot reach. See integration and customization.
Your own team runs real transactions in a test database before go-live. Role-based training for the people who key them daily. See Odoo training.
Cutover planning, opening balance freeze, hypercare in the first weeks, then ongoing support and AMC.
We do not publish one implementation price, because the same application list costs very differently depending on the factors below. We do publish what moves the number, and the price is fixed in writing before work starts.
Construction cost control lives or dies on the analytic account structure, and that decision is made in week one. We have implemented Odoo for project-based construction and infrastructure businesses including NEXG and PV Constructions.
Product capabilities stated on this page are documented by Odoo. The configuration advice and limitations come from our own implementations.
Tell us how you bill and how you record labour today. Those two answers decide most of your Odoo configuration, and the diagnosis call is free.
