Odoo Projects: hours and profitability
Tasks, hours and invoicing in one place. What makes this module valuable is not the boards: it is that a logged hour becomes an invoice and a profitability figure without anyone building a spreadsheet at month end.
What does the Odoo Projects module do?
iTechDev implements Odoo Projects and runs its own delivery on it, so what we say here comes from operating it rather than from the brochure.
- TaskThe unit of work. Hours are logged on it, conversation happens on it, deliverables attach to it.
- TimesheetThe time record on a task. It feeds the invoice and profitability.
- Service policyWhether you invoice on delivered hours, on milestones or upfront. It sets how the project bills.
- ProfitabilitySold versus the cost of logged hours. It appears by itself only if hours get captured.
- MilestoneA dated deliverable. It can trigger invoicing and lets you report progress without guessing.
See in detail
The difference between this module and any task tracker is what happens after you move the card: the hour your team logs against a task can become a customer invoice and feed project profitability, with no rekeying anywhere. That circuit — sell a service, have the project created automatically, log hours, invoice what was delivered and see the margin left — is what justifies putting projects inside an ERP instead of using a standalone tool. And it ships a piece almost nobody uses: the customer can enter through the portal to see their tasks and comment, with no Odoo user and no licence cost. The entry condition is uncomfortable but honest: if your team does not log hours with discipline, the module gives you nice boards and none of the three things that matter.
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When this module solves something
What the module includes
Tasks with stages
Board per project or stages shared across projects, depending on whether you want comparison or flexibility.
Subtasks and dependencies
Work hanging off other work, and tasks that cannot start until another finishes.
Time logging
On the task, from web or mobile, with cost per profile feeding profitability.
Sale linked to project
Confirming a service order creates project and task without anyone keying them.
Invoicing on delivery
You invoice what was actually logged, not what was estimated, and the order reflects progress.
Profitability
Revenue against hour cost per project, to know what kind of work is worth selling more of.
Customer portal
The customer sees tasks, comments and follows progress with no internal user or licence.
Milestones and status updates
Progress declared by the project — on track, at risk, on hold — instead of reported by hand.
Decisions to make before configuring
1Will hours be logged or not?
The decision that defines everything. Without hours there is no delivery-based invoicing and no profitability, and the module is just a board. If the answer is no, better known before paying to configure it.
2Shared stages or per project
Shared gives comparable reporting; per project gives flexibility and useless reporting. Almost nobody decides it and everybody inherits it wrong.
3Billable and non-billable projects
Separate customer delivery from internal work from the start. Mixing them contaminates profitability and does not get fixed later.
4Cost per profile
What each role’s hour costs. Without it, profitability is an invented number that looks like a report.
5What does the customer see?
Which tasks and fields are visible in the portal. Your internal stage names become commercial messaging the moment you open it.
6How it bills
On delivered hours, on milestones or upfront. Agreed with whoever collects, not left on default.
Tech stack
The tools and platforms we build it with — chosen for your problem, not for hype.
Questions about Projects in Odoo
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Contact us →Is Projects in Community?
Yes, along with time logging. What is Enterprise are the services apps around it — shift planning, helpdesk, field service — not project and task management itself.
Can the customer see and move the project?
They can view and comment through the portal at no licence cost. And if you want them to edit, project sharing offers three levels: read, limited editing of followed tasks, or full editing. We recommend limited: with full editing a customer can close a task you have not delivered.
Does it work if I bill hourly?
That is its best case. The service is sold, hours are logged on tasks and delivery is invoiced, with profitability coming from the same data. The condition is capture discipline: without logged hours there is nothing to invoice or measure.
Do you use it?
Yes, we run our own delivery in Odoo with this circuit: sale creating project, hours on tasks, invoicing on delivery and a customer portal. That is why what we describe comes from using it, though we do not publish our project data out of client privacy.
Can I see profitability per project?
Yes, and it changes decisions more than most reports: it tells you what work is worth selling more of and what you are subsidising. It depends on two inputs: hourly cost per profile and hours actually being logged.
How long until it is running?
Configuration is among the fastest. What takes time is the habit change of logging hours, which is not a software matter.
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The packages, with published pricing
- Arranque Odoo $29,900You are coming from Excel and want to get CRM, sales, purchasing and inventory in order before dealing with tax compliance.
- Fiscal Esencial $44,900RESICO individuals, RESICO companies up to $35M, or Title IV individuals with income below $4,000,000.
- Empresa MX $89,000Companies under the general tax regime, or Title IV individuals with income from $4,000,000: those required to file electronic accounting and DIOT.
- Empresa MX · Odoo.sh $98,000General tax regime with at least one of the five triggers: retailer addenda, payroll inside Odoo, your own PAC, an accountant on Contpaq, or selling on Mercado Libre.
- Comercio MX $139,000Retail and commerce selling on the floor and online, needing to invoice both.
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