Every Odoo app,
explained for UAE business
50 Odoo modules — inventory, manufacturing, accounting, CRM, POS and everything in between. What each one does, who it suits, the trade-offs, and which of the 10 free-tier and 27 open-source apps you can start with at no licence cost.
Disclosure: as an Odoo affiliate, we may earn a commission if you subscribe through links on this page — at no extra cost to you. App facts last reviewed July 2026. Pricing and tax-compliance details change; verify current terms with Odoo before committing.
Finance & Accounting
Double-entry accounting, invoicing, expenses, documents and e-signatures.
Odoo Accounting
Full double-entry accounting that reconciles itself.
Finance teams that want the ledger fed by operations instead of by data entry
Odoo Invoicing
Send invoices, chase payments, get paid — without the full ledger.
Small businesses and freelancers that need to bill properly but not to keep formal books
Odoo Expenses
Photograph the receipt — approvals and reimbursement follow.
Companies with field staff, consultants or anyone regularly spending on the company account
Odoo Spreadsheet (BI)
A spreadsheet wired directly into your live business data.
Finance and ops people who live in spreadsheets but are tired of re-exporting the same data
Odoo Documents
Document management with workflows, not just a shared folder.
Businesses drowning in supplier bills, contracts and scanned paperwork
Sales & Point of Sale
CRM, quotations, retail and restaurant POS, subscriptions and rentals.
Odoo CRM
A pipeline that turns a won deal straight into an order.
Sales teams whose deals end in a physical order, delivery or invoice
Odoo Sales
Quotations, orders and contracts from one screen.
Businesses selling configurable products where quotes turn into fulfilment
Odoo POS (Retail)
A till that keeps selling when the internet drops.
Retailers who want the till, the stockroom and the accounts to agree without reconciliation
Odoo POS (Restaurant)
Floor plan, table orders and kitchen tickets in one till.
Restaurants, cafes and bars wanting one system for floor, kitchen and books
Odoo Subscriptions
Recurring billing, renewals and churn tracking.
SaaS, maintenance-contract, membership and retainer businesses
Websites & eCommerce
Site builder, online store, blog, forum, live chat and course delivery.
Odoo Website Builder
A drag-and-drop site that already knows your business data.
Businesses that want the website and the back office to be one system
Odoo eCommerce
An online store sharing one stock pool with your shop and warehouse.
Retailers selling through more than one channel who are tired of stock drift
Odoo Blog
Content publishing built into the same site as your store.
Companies running content marketing on a site they already build in Odoo
Odoo Forum
A public Q&A community with reputation and moderation.
Product companies wanting customers to answer each other
Odoo Live Chat
Chat on your site that can open a ticket or a lead mid-conversation.
Sites where a fast answer decides whether a visitor buys
Supply Chain
Warehouse, manufacturing, purchasing, quality control and maintenance.
Odoo Inventory
Warehouse management most SME software cannot match.
Distributors, wholesalers and any business where stock accuracy is the business
Odoo Manufacturing (MRP)
Real MRP — bills of materials, work orders, shop-floor control.
Manufacturers who have outgrown spreadsheets but cannot justify a tier-one ERP
Odoo PLM
Version control for products and engineering changes.
Manufacturers whose products revise often and need an audit trail
Odoo Purchase
Procurement that reorders before you notice the gap.
Buyers managing many suppliers and repeat replenishment
Odoo Maintenance
Preventive and corrective maintenance on your equipment register.
Factories, fleets and facilities with equipment that must not fail unexpectedly
HR & People
Employee records, hiring, leave, appraisals and company fleet.
Odoo Employees
The employee record everything else in HR hangs off.
Any company past the point where HR fits in a spreadsheet
Odoo Recruitment
An applicant pipeline that ends in an employee record.
Companies hiring often enough that email threads stop working
Odoo Time Off
Leave requests, balances and approvals without the email chain.
Managers approving leave in email and tracking balances by hand
Odoo Appraisals
Structured performance reviews on a schedule that actually runs.
Companies formalising performance management for the first time
Odoo Referrals
Turn employee referrals into a game with real rewards.
Companies whose best hires come from existing staff
Marketing
Email, SMS, social, events, automation and surveys.
Odoo Email Marketing
Campaigns to segments built from live business data.
Marketers tired of exporting CSVs into a separate email tool
Odoo SMS Marketing
Bulk SMS to the same segments as your email lists.
Businesses in markets where SMS still gets read
Odoo Social Marketing
Schedule, monitor and reply across social accounts.
Small marketing teams managing several accounts manually today
Odoo Events
Registration, ticketing and check-in for real or online events.
Organisers running conferences, workshops or recurring training
Odoo Marketing Automation
Multi-step campaigns that branch on what people actually do.
Teams running nurture sequences that depend on real customer behaviour
Services & Projects
Projects, timesheets, field service, helpdesk, planning and bookings.
Odoo Project
Project management that knows what the work is worth.
Agencies, consultancies and contractors billing against project budgets
Odoo Timesheets
Logged hours that turn straight into invoices.
Any business selling its people's time
Odoo Field Service
Dispatch technicians, capture the job, invoice from site.
Maintenance, installation and repair businesses with mobile crews
Odoo Helpdesk
Ticketing with SLAs, wired to the customer's order history.
Support teams whose answers depend on what the customer bought
Odoo Planning
Shift and resource scheduling staff can see on their phones.
Shift-based operations — retail, hospitality, security, healthcare
Productivity & Platform
Internal chat, knowledge base, VoIP, IoT, WhatsApp, Studio and hosting.
Odoo Discuss
Internal chat attached to the record being discussed.
Teams losing decisions inside general-purpose chat apps
Odoo Knowledge
An internal wiki that can embed live business data.
Companies documenting processes that keep changing
Odoo VoIP
Click to call from any record, logged automatically.
Sales and support teams working the phone all day
Odoo WhatsApp
Send order updates and reminders on the channel people read.
Businesses whose customers answer WhatsApp but ignore email
Odoo IoT
Connect scales, scanners, printers and cameras to your workflow.
Warehouses, production lines and shops with connected hardware
Odoo AI
AI assistance working on your own business records.
Teams wanting to cut manual data entry and drafting time
Odoo Studio
Customise the system without writing code.
Companies whose process does not match the software out of the box
Odoo for UAE Business — Common Questions
Is Odoo a good fit for UAE businesses?
It fits some very well and others poorly. Odoo is strongest where operations are the problem — warehousing, manufacturing, multi-branch retail, distribution — which describes a large part of the UAE economy. It is weaker as a pick-one-app tool, because most of its value comes from several modules sharing one database. On tax compliance specifically, verify the current UAE position directly with Odoo or a local partner rather than assuming.
Which Odoo apps are free?
Odoo's One App Free tier lets you run a single app at no licence cost for unlimited users — 10 of the apps in this directory qualify. Separately, 27 apps are included in the free open-source Community edition, which you can self-host at no licence cost if you have the technical capacity to run and maintain it.
What is the difference between Odoo Community and Enterprise?
Community is the free open-source edition you host yourself. Enterprise is the paid version, adding modules like Accounting, Studio, Helpdesk, Planning and Field Service, plus managed hosting, support and upgrade assistance. The apps in this directory are labelled so you can see which edition each one falls into.
How much does an Odoo implementation actually cost in the UAE?
The subscription is usually the smaller number. Most UAE businesses spend more on configuration, data migration and training in year one than on licences, particularly for Inventory, Accounting and Manufacturing. Simpler apps are realistically self-configurable. Get a written scope from a partner before budgeting, and treat any quote that ignores implementation as incomplete.
Do I need an official Odoo partner?
Not always. Invoicing, CRM, Project and Employees are within reach of a capable in-house team. Accounting, Inventory and Manufacturing are where most companies bring in help, because a wrong configuration produces output that looks right and is not. There are many Odoo partners across Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
What happens when Odoo releases a new version?
Odoo ships a major version roughly once a year. On Odoo Online the upgrade is managed for you; on self-hosted or heavily customised systems, every customisation needs re-testing. This is the main practical reason to customise only where your process genuinely differs from the standard behaviour.