Connect Odoo to Bouwflow: your invoices straight to your accounting
With the Odoo integration you send your sales and purchase invoices straight from Bouwflow as structured UBL into your Odoo accounting. You manage your job sites and projects in Bouwflow, your accountant processes the invoices in Odoo, and nobody has to retype an invoice.
What is Odoo?
Odoo is a Belgian software company and the maker of the ERP package of the same name, used around the world by millions of businesses in more than a hundred countries. The package is built from dozens of modules you activate separately, from accounting, invoicing and sales to CRM, inventory and purchasing. There is a free open source edition and a paid Enterprise edition with extra apps and support.
Plenty of businesses and accounting firms run their bookkeeping and administration on Odoo. For a contractor that is handy, because you do not have to make your accountant switch packages. If they work in Odoo, Bouwflow slots right in: you manage your sites, your projects and your invoices in Bouwflow, and your invoices flow through to the bookkeeping in Odoo.
What is Bouwflow?
Bouwflow is ERP software for construction contractors. From one place you manage your job sites, calculations, quotes, work orders, materials and the communication with your accountant. More than a thousand construction professionals use Bouwflow to run their project admin faster and more clearly.
The Odoo integration you see on this page is one of our direct connections to the tools you already use as a contractor, from your accounting and your bank to your calendar.
How does the Odoo integration work in Bouwflow?
You send your invoices from Bouwflow's Accountant module in a structured format that you read into Odoo. You decide yourself when and which invoices go over.
How Bouwflow plugs into your accountant- You draw up your sales and purchase invoices in Bouwflow, based on your quotes, work orders and progress statements.
- Through the Accountant module you send them in bulk as structured UBL, together with the pdf, ready to read into your Odoo accounting.
- You choose the period and whether you send your income, your expenses or both, so your accountant receives everything neatly in one go.
- The connection works one way, from Bouwflow to Odoo: you manage your sites and invoices in Bouwflow, your bookkeeping stays in Odoo.
Why contractors use Odoo with Bouwflow
No typing invoices twice
You draw up your invoices in Bouwflow, based on your quotes, work orders and progress statements. With the connection they then go over to Odoo as structured data, without anyone having to retype them.
Your bookkeeping stays in Odoo
If your bookkeeping or your accountant's runs on Odoo, you do not have to change a thing. Bouwflow feeds your Odoo accounting with your invoices, in the place where you already process them.
Sales and purchases in the same flow
Not only your sales invoices, but also your purchase invoices from suppliers and subcontractors go over to Odoo. That gives your accountant a complete picture of your job site.
Ready for electronic invoicing
Your invoices leave as structured UBL, and both Bouwflow and Odoo are connected to Peppol. That puts you straight in line with the electronic invoicing that is mandatory in Belgium.
The construction side Odoo does not have
Odoo is a general ERP package. Bouwflow is built for construction, with your sites, progress statements, work orders and material tracking. You do your project work in Bouwflow and let the financial result flow through to Odoo.
