Odoo 19 officially launched at Odoo Experience 2025, held September 18-20, 2025, at Brussels Expo—arriving earlier than the traditional October/November release window. This isn’t just another incremental update. With over 12 million users worldwide, Odoo has established itself as one of the leading ERP solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, and version 19 represents the most significant transformation in the platform’s recent history.
Version 19 introduces AI natively into the ERP system without any additional modules or complex setups required. Odoo’s founder Fabien Pinckaers revealed that version 19 will be the fastest yet, with improvements making Odoo ten times faster and bringing it within reach of legacy ERPs like SAP with 10,000+ users. This release marks a fundamental shift from UI refinement to AI-driven capabilities, making it a compelling upgrade for existing users and an attractive option for businesses considering their first ERP implementation.
The Big Leap: Why Odoo 19 Is Different
From Generative to Agentic AI
Odoo 19 is the inaugural version to seamlessly incorporate AI throughout its applications, moving beyond the first AI attempts in version 18. Odoo 18 included initial AI features like text generation and automation, but Odoo 19 goes far beyond that with AI agents, natural language database queries, automatic field completion, lead generation, meeting transcripts, webpage generation, AI commands in email templates, voice-to-text, and much more.
Odoo 19 introduces artificial intelligence not as a separate feature, but as an integral part of all business processes, with new AI agents at the heart of this revolution. These intelligent assistants can be configured directly in Odoo Studio and learn continuously from company data.
Performance Revolution
Odoo 19 enables offline functionality, allowing users to edit and save their work even without a connection, along with frontend caching for an even speedier system and read replicas for horizontal database scaling. Menu caching speeds up page loads by up to 200ms, with optimized search using better operators, faster read group queries even across multiple user groups, and faster calendar rendering especially with large data sets.
Core AI Features: Intelligence Built Into Every Module
1. AI Agents and Natural Language Automation
Natural language input allows users to trigger and automate processes effortlessly, such as sending payment reminders or assigning tasks intelligently, enabling greater efficiency without requiring technical expertise. Users can automate complex workflows by simply describing what they need in natural language, with Odoo 19 able to update records, create new data entries, or trigger entire business processes without requiring custom code.
For example, you can type “create a new customer record when a lead reaches 80% probability” and the AI will set up the automation for you. This feature reduces manual tasks by up to 70% and eliminates the need for technical development skills.
2. AI-Powered Document Processing
Odoo 19’s Document AI automatically extracts and processes data from uploaded documents, instantly recognizing key information like vendor details, line items, amounts, and dates. This eliminates manual data entry errors and reduces processing time from minutes to seconds. The system learns from your corrections, becoming more accurate over time and adapting to your specific document formats and business rules.
3. Smart Meeting Transcription and Summarization
Users can start recording meetings, and once done, Odoo will automatically generate a summary of the meeting with AI, with this feature available across all Odoo apps, from Project to CRM or Accounting.
4. AI-Enhanced Email Templates
In Odoo 19, users can customize email templates with AI, with the integrated AI assistant adapting content to specific use cases in just a few clicks, adjusting wording, tone, and structure automatically. This makes it faster to create templates that are ready to use in any scenario with zero effort or added customization.
5. Intelligent Customer Support
Based on early previews, AI-powered customer support could help resolve up to twice as many issues and reduce ticket volume by 40%, representing a promising step toward faster, AI-driven support experiences inside Odoo.
6. Dynamic AI Fields
Users can add dynamic text fields that automatically generate content based on other data in the system, streamlining content creation across product descriptions, marketing materials, and customer communications.
Website and eCommerce: Modern Online Presence
Enhanced Website Builder
Odoo 19 expands the no-code website builder with new dynamic widgets, better mobile responsiveness, and improved multi-language SEO handling. The version introduces enhanced design snippets featuring updated contact forms, layout blocks, and call-to-action elements, enabling users to effortlessly create engaging, mobile-friendly content.
Built-in A/B testing tools and updated analytics mean companies can experiment with landing pages, track conversions natively, and make content changes on the fly. Odoo 19 will improve SEO with automatic SEO and accessibility checks providing detailed insights to optimize website ranking.
The transition to OWL (Odoo Web Library) has enhanced the loading speed and navigation smoothness of the Odoo 19 website, with enhanced blog designs, optimized breadcrumbs, and an intelligent user portal providing both visual appeal and outstanding user experience.
eCommerce Revolution
Odoo 19 brings a design overhaul to eCommerce features, expanding layout selection for shop pages and improving the look and feel of product pages with more design options. New features for Odoo 19 eCommerce checkouts include a new Unit of Measure selector, an improved Click & Collect widget, and variant previews on Shop Page.
Odoo 19 will add new Dynamic Snippets including eCommerce categories and payment methods, along with new integrations with Google Merchant Center and a partnership with worldwide print-on-demand service Gelato. The version will also integrate with social media eCommerce like Meta and TikTok.
SEO improvements include cleaner URLs, structured microdata, and optimized pagination for faster indexing, while performance enhancements add visibility controls for categories and attribute values plus better price filtering and sorting.
Point of Sale: Speed and Flexibility
Odoo 19 introduces a completely revamped Point of Sale system designed to deliver a faster, more flexible experience for businesses, with a modern, clean design featuring an optional dark mode for improved visibility and user comfort.
Self-service and kiosk functionalities are now built-in, making it easy to manage high-traffic environments efficiently. Workflows have been simplified with pre-set order types like Eat-In, Takeout, and Delivery, while restaurant operations are more organized with the ability to group orders by course.
Combo deals are more flexible—users can now create promotions with free items, mix-and-match offers, or tailored bundles to boost sales, and refunds can be processed directly through supported payment terminals. Quick payment buttons process payments in a single click, and minimal rights profiles let temporary staff handle only basic checkout tasks.
CRM and Sales: Smarter Customer Engagement
In Odoo 19, lead assignment is now rules-based and AI-supported, with business card scanning and live chat agents automatically generating new leads. AI agents in the CRM module automatically analyze incoming leads based on factors such as company size, industry and interaction history, allowing sales staff to focus their time on the most promising opportunities while the agent simultaneously creates quotes and sends follow-up emails.
Odoo 19’s enhanced Sales and CRM module features AI-driven lead scoring, smarter follow-ups, and integrated communication tools, with better customer insights and strong predictive analytics helping to close deals faster and strengthen client relationships.
Inventory and Manufacturing: Real-Time Control
Advanced Inventory Management
Odoo 19 offers real-time inventory tracking, barcode scanning, and predictive restocking, with automation in inventory and warehouse management minimizing stock-outs and overstocking. Odoo 19 delivers major warehouse management upgrades including a reworked barcode app, batch transfers, multi-step flows, cycle counts during operations, automated replenishment, and tighter integration with manufacturing and purchasing.
Manufacturing Excellence
Odoo 19 improves manufacturing operations with real-time production monitoring, IoT integrations, and predictive maintenance scheduling, offering features that reduce downtime, improve resource allocation, and boost overall productivity in production environments.
Accounting and Finance: Compliance and Automation
Odoo 19 accounting features new year-end reports, simplified bank reconciliation with OCR, WhatsApp reminders, improved localizations, and ISO20022 support making international operations easier. The version includes mobile-first reconciliation, tax timeline automation, PEPPOL and SEPA compliance, and an Odoo Expense Card to simplify spend management.
Odoo 19 will introduce virtual and physical expense cards to streamline employee purchases, save time on reporting, and give managers full control over spending policies. Virtual and physical Odoo Expense Cards streamline purchases, enforce approval rules, and minimize manual reporting.
Human Resources and Payroll: Workforce Excellence
Odoo 19 HR and Payroll improvements include skill management, goal templates, improved absence management, payroll master reporting, and automated workflows delivering clear efficiency gains. Odoo 19 will improve extra hour tracking by switching work entries to durations, allowing different compensation rates, and deducting payouts from the balance.
Odoo 19 will revamp the Time Off module with a refreshed UI, support for public holidays on database creation, overlapping time off entries, and localized data without requiring payroll. A modernized HR module with talent pools, enhanced payroll localizations, improved leave management, and overtime calculations ensures efficient workforce operations.
Industry-Specific Solutions: Tailored for Your Business
Odoo 19 significantly expands its range of industry-specific templates with new pre-built solutions for bakeries, marketing agencies, personal trainers, salons, food trucks, real estate, and veterinary services. These templates significantly reduce implementation time and offer ready-to-use configurations.
ESG and Sustainability: Meeting Modern Requirements
A particular highlight is the new ESG app, which enables automatic emissions calculations based on purchasing data. This is particularly relevant for European companies subject to increasingly strict sustainability reporting obligations, with the app generating legally compliant reports and helping companies achieve their sustainability goals.
The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) has made changes to its regulations in 2025, with companies required to disclose information on risks and opportunities arising from social and environmental issues, and the impact of their activities on people and the environment. Ahead of this change, Odoo 19 has introduced a dedicated ESG app for companies to measure and report their environmental, social, and governance footprint.
New Applications: Expanding Capabilities
Equity Management
Odoo 19 introduces an Equity app that lets users manage shareholder structures and transactions directly in Odoo. Features include cap table management for creating and updating shareholder registers, equity transaction tracking for share and option movements to improve transparency, and integration with HR and Finance to align equity management with payroll and reporting.
Enhanced VoIP
Advanced VoIP functionality with advanced telephony features takes business communication to the next level, with a sleek and advanced UI containing robust calling tools like direct call transfer and call merging, along with operator session limits with push notifications.
Framework and Technical Improvements
Enhanced User Experience
The mobile UI is now faster and cleaner, featuring pull-to-refresh, compact status indicators, and bottom sheets for smoother navigation. New multi-edit features let users apply bulk updates across date ranges using presets, with smarter interactions including zoom levels, off-hour folding, drag-to-resize tooltips, and a sparse mode for unscheduled tasks.
Improved Access Management
Improved group logic clearly separates manual versus inherited permissions, with a new interface to customize roles, scopes, and group structures. Access rights and record rules are now unified for better security, replacing “default user” with default access rights and granting app access by default to new users.
Advanced Automation
Users can create more advanced workflows with new automation triggers, message-sending options, and the ability to reorder server actions.
Business Intelligence and Reporting
Odoo’s spreadsheet evolves into a more serious BI layer with AI-powered analysis inside the ERP, resulting in less tool-swapping and more in-context insight. Once teams get access to real-time reporting across all modules, they can start focusing on other important tasks, improving performance and helping with cost-cutting, with management able to track the progress of each sector through easily understandable reports that make data-driven decision-making easier.
Collaboration and Communication
Odoo 19 has introduced amazing communication features that strengthen team collaboration, with teams able to share any document in real-time with smart chat integrations within the platform. Users can experience better accountability with Odoo’s improved task assignment system, getting a better idea of all distributed tasks and their progress.
Security and Compliance
The release emphasizes data protection with multi-factor authentication, advanced encryption, and GDPR-compliant tools, allowing users to confidently manage sensitive data and meet global regulatory requirements while reducing cybersecurity risks.
Customization Without Coding
Every business has unique requirements, and developers and users can now customize workflows and modules without complex coding, with Odoo 19 making it easier to create tailored solutions with improved drag-and-drop features.
Migration and Upgrade Considerations
When to Upgrade
For teams planning a migration or fresh implementation, it’s worth waiting until the initial patch cycle passes, as early adopters often encounter version-specific quirks or compatibility issues, especially with third-party modules, so giving it a few weeks before going live can help avoid surprises.
Support Timeline
Odoo 19 will be supported until Q4 2028, ensuring long-term stability and updates.
Migration Benefits
For users on Odoo 17 or 18, the benefit is the massive leap in AI and intelligent automation, with new features that can dramatically enhance efficiency and provide a competitive edge. For those on Odoo 16 or earlier, users will gain all the AI benefits mentioned above plus major performance and usability improvements from the last two versions, making the upgrade even more impactful.
Community vs Enterprise: Choosing Your Edition
Community remains a robust base, while Enterprise layers on the governance, compliance, analytics, and premium integrations teams usually end up needing as they scale. If growing into heavier reporting or regulated invoicing, Enterprise fits sooner.
The Competitive Advantage
For those evaluating Odoo against other ERPs, the Odoo 19 advantage is clear: Odoo’s core value proposition of being an all-in-one, flexible platform with no vendor lock-in is now supercharged with market-leading AI, making it a powerful choice for modern businesses.
The Belgium-based company Odoo is taking on giant SAP—the big name in the enterprise software realm—with its valuation of 5 billion euros ($5.3 billion) in a secondary share led by Alphabet’s venture fund and Sequoia Capital.
Real-World Impact: What This Means for Your Business
Productivity Gains
Handling large data sets can be time-consuming, but Odoo 19 has worked on the smooth handling of large datasets and operational speed, with optimized speed allowing users to manage workflows without delays. If organizations perform extensive operations on a daily basis, they can finally complete tasks in less time, with the latest upgrade also improving system reliability and supporting scalability.
Cost Reduction
AI is used smartly to automate mundane tasks, with automated invoice categorization and predictive inventory management helping the system reduce manual work. Businesses can now benefit from intelligent workflows that learn user behavior and provide recommendations to save time and enhance efficiency.
Scalability
Odoo 19 is resolutely at the forefront of embedding more advanced and upgraded capabilities to increase the level of automation, improve user experience, boost overall efficiency, and uncover new methodologies to reduce operational fatigue.
Future Outlook: What’s Next
Roadmap signals more AI leverage, deeper analytics, and continuing performance tweaks, so adopting version 19 sets users up for what 2026 brings rather than locking them into a “big jump” a year from now.
Conclusion: The Smart Choice for Modern Business
Odoo 19 isn’t a skin-deep refresh—it’s faster, cleaner, and more integrated, especially for teams juggling web, commerce, supply chain, and finance under one roof. Odoo 19 isn’t just an upgrade—it’s a smarter ERP designed to work with you, touching every layer of your business from AI-powered writing to sustainability reporting.
The combination of native AI integration, dramatic performance improvements, industry-specific solutions, and enhanced user experience makes Odoo 19 the most significant release in the platform’s history. Whether you’re running a small bakery, managing a manufacturing facility, operating a retail chain, or growing a tech startup, Odoo 19 provides the tools, intelligence, and scalability to compete and thrive in 2025 and beyond.
For businesses considering ERP implementation or upgrade, Odoo 19 represents a compelling value proposition: enterprise-grade capabilities at SME-friendly prices, powered by cutting-edge AI, delivered through an intuitive interface that your entire team can master quickly. The question isn’t whether to adopt Odoo 19—it’s how quickly you can leverage its transformative capabilities to gain a competitive advantage in your market.
With comprehensive support until Q4 2028, industry-leading AI features, and a proven track record serving over 12 million users worldwide, Odoo 19 isn’t just the smartest, fastest, and most powerful Odoo yet—it’s the ERP platform that will define modern business operations for the next generation.
