Human Resources

Odoo Employee Referral: referral hiring software

Enterprise

Let your employees share job positions and refer their friends

Odoo Ready Partner
★★★★★4.9 on Clutch
Calgary, in-house team
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What it does

What Odoo Employee Referral does

Odoo Employee Referral is the Enterprise app that runs your company's referral hiring program. Employees see open jobs, share unique referral links with their networks, earn points as the candidates they referred move through the pipeline, and unlock rewards at the levels you set. The same database that drives Odoo Recruitment also tracks who referred whom, so the referrer gets credit when the hire happens.

Growing companies building hiring pipelines through staff networks, agencies running ongoing recruitment, and any business that wants to formalize the referral process rather than relying on ad-hoc tips uses it. You can test Odoo Employee Referral free on the Odoo trial; pricing kicks in only if you install more than one Odoo app.

For Odoo's own product overview, see Odoo's product listing.

How it works

The day-to-day flow

Setup starts on the Referral Configuration. HR defines the point values for each stage in the recruitment pipeline (a referral submitted earns one number, an interview earns another, a hire earns the most), the levels employees can reach as they accumulate points (5 levels ship seeded, named 1 through 5 with point thresholds, all renameable and editable), and the rewards available at each level (an extra day off, a gift card, a charitable donation, a company-branded item). HR also names the referral friend characters that appear in the gamified UI to make the experience feel less corporate.

From there, the day-to-day work is on the employee side. An employee opens the referral dashboard, sees open jobs filtered to their network's likely interests, and clicks Share on the role they want to refer. The system generates a unique tracked link (or a pre-filled email or LinkedIn message) tied to that employee. When a referred candidate applies through the link, the application lands in Odoo Recruitment with the referring employee tagged automatically; the referrer earns the configured points and the application shows on their dashboard.

As the referred candidate moves through the recruitment pipeline (applied, interviewed, offered, hired), the referrer earns more points at each stage. When the candidate is hired, the referrer earns the full reward and can redeem it from the rewards menu. The whole flow stays gamified on the employee side and reporting-friendly on the HR side: HR sees which employees refer most, which jobs get the most referrals, and which referral sources produce the best hires.

Calibre configures Odoo Employee Referral for Alberta businesses: step by step, in writing.

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What's inside Odoo Employee Referral

Unique Referral Links Per Employee
Each employee gets unique tracked links to every open job. Share the link by email, social media, LinkedIn, or text message, and the referred candidate's application lands tagged to the referrer automatically. The system tracks the referral all the way through the hiring funnel.
Points Earned on Funnel Progress
HR configures point values per stage in the hiring funnel. A referral submitted earns one number; an interview earns more; a hire earns the most. The referring employee sees their points grow as their candidate moves through the pipeline, so they stay engaged with the outcome.
Levels and Rewards System
Five levels ship seeded (numbered 1 through 5 with point thresholds at 0, 50, 100, 350, 800; all renameable and editable). Rewards at each level are configured by HR: an extra day off, a gift card, a charitable donation, a company swag item. Redemption runs from the employee's referral dashboard.
Gamified Employee Dashboard
The employee dashboard shows the open jobs that match their network's interests, the candidates they have referred so far, their current point total, their level, and the rewards they have unlocked. The interface is intentionally light and game-like to keep referral activity high.
Referral Friends as UI Characters
Whimsical characters (the referral friends) appear in the gamified UI to soften the corporate feel of the referral program. Employees pick a friend on their first visit; the friend follows them through the dashboard and shows up on shared links.
Per-Job Referral Configuration
Each open job can carry its own maximum points cap and its own bonus rules. A hard-to-fill executive role might have higher rewards than a standard role to incentivize referrals on the urgent positions.
Alerts and Campaigns
HR can run a referral alert (a one-off message to all employees pushing a specific role) or a longer campaign (a tournament where the top three referrers in a month get a bonus reward). Alerts and campaigns surface in the dashboard so employees see them when they next visit.
Tracked Link Analytics
Link clicks, applications submitted, and referrals hired all roll up to the referrer's dashboard and the HR overview. HR sees which employees drive the most engagement, which jobs get the most clicks, and which referral channels (LinkedIn vs email vs SMS) produce the highest conversion.
Automatic Referrer Tagging on Applications
When a candidate applies through a unique referral link, the referring employee is tagged on the application in Odoo Recruitment automatically. The recruiter sees the referrer on the candidate card, so when the hiring decision is made the referrer earns the right reward without anyone manually attributing.
Reports on Referral Source Quality
Pivot and graph reports break referral data down by employee, job, source channel, period, and stage outcome. HR sees which channels produce the highest-quality candidates (highest interview-to-hire rate, lowest first-year attrition) so future referral campaigns can lean on what works.
Built for

Is Odoo Employee Referral right for your team?

Outgrowing the entry-level tools

SMBs whose data lives in QuickBooks, HubSpot Free, or Excel spreadsheets that were set up when the business was smaller. The team now spends hours building reports by hand and reconciling between tools every month-end.

Operations across multiple tools

Retail, manufacturing, mechanical, or professional services businesses with 10 to 200 employees running on a patchwork of point tools. The team wants one database for the whole company instead of Zapier holding it together.

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Bundle

Apps people often run with Odoo Employee Referral

Odoo Employee Referral plugs directly into Odoo Recruitment, since every candidate referred lands in the same recruitment pipeline. The unique tracked links use Odoo's link-tracking infrastructure (the same UTM and short-URL system used by Marketing). Odoo Website hosts the public job pages the referral links land on (with the Online Jobs bridge). Odoo Employees stores the referring employee's record, their point balance, and the rewards they have unlocked. The HR Recruitment Reports module (a dependency) provides the pivot views that surface on the HR overview.

Pricing

What Odoo Employee Referral costs

One App Free
CA$0
forever
  • One app, unlimited users
  • Multi-company allowed
  • Odoo Online hosting
  • Dependent apps included free
If Odoo Employee Referral is the only Odoo app you install
Custom
CA$55
/user/month, billed yearly
  • Everything in Standard
  • Studio (no-code customizer)
  • Multi-company management
  • Hosting: Online, Odoo.sh, or on-premise
  • External API access
Choose this when you need custom layouts or multi-company management.
Calibre Implementation
Quote
phase-by-phase, in writing
  • Scoping, configuration, training
  • Data migration from your current tool
  • Named engineer through go-live and support
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Free 45-minute scoping call. Quote in writing before any code ships.

Pricing source: Odoo's published Standard and Custom plans as of 2026-05. Calibre quotes in CAD; conversion from Odoo's local pricing in your region may vary.

Questions

Common questions about Odoo Employee Referral

Is Odoo Employee Referral free?
Odoo Employee Referral is part of the paid Odoo Enterprise tier (around CA$35.20 per user per month billed annually for the full Odoo suite). You can test it free on the Odoo 15-day trial alongside every other app. Odoo's one-app-free rule applies in theory but the app depends on Recruitment to make sense (it tracks candidates through the hiring pipeline), so most deployments pair both apps and land on the paid Standard plan. The plan covers unlimited employees referring.
What's the difference between Odoo Employee Referral in Community and Enterprise?
Odoo Employee Referral is part of the Enterprise tier. There is no Community version. Community Recruitment lets you store a referral source field on each candidate, but the gamified dashboard, the points and levels system, the unique tracked links, the rewards configuration, the alerts and campaigns, and the referrer-tagged-on-application automation all live in Enterprise.
Can we migrate our existing referral history into Odoo?
Yes. Odoo Employee Referral accepts CSV and Excel imports for the historical referrals (date, referring employee, candidate, status), the points each referrer has accumulated, the rewards configuration, and the levels structure. The work is rarely the upload itself, it is mapping your existing point values and reward tiers to Odoo's structure cleanly so employees see their accumulated history when the system goes live. Calibre handles the mapping during the rollout.
Does Odoo Employee Referral connect with our recruitment pipeline?
Yes, automatically. The app is built on top of Odoo Recruitment: every referred candidate lands in the same pipeline, the referring employee is tagged on the application, points are earned as the candidate moves through stages, and the reward unlocks when the candidate is hired. Without Recruitment installed, the referral flow does not have a hiring funnel to track against, so the two apps work together in practice.
Can employees share referral links from their phone?
Yes. The Odoo mobile app (iOS and Android) shows the employee referral dashboard with open jobs, the share buttons for each role, and the candidate-progress view. An employee at a conference can share a job with someone they just met by tapping Share and pasting the unique tracked link into a message. Push notifications fire when one of their referred candidates moves stages or when a new role they might know someone for opens. The polished native mobile app is part of the Enterprise tier (Employee Referral itself is Enterprise, so this is implicit).
How do rewards work and who pays for them?
Rewards are configured by HR per level. Common patterns include an extra day of paid leave (the company pays through payroll), a gift card to a popular retailer (the company purchases and distributes), a charitable donation in the referrer's name (the company donates), or a company-branded item (the company ships from inventory). The system tracks point balances and reward unlocks; the actual fulfilment of the physical or monetary reward is a business process HR runs on the back end, with Odoo as the source of truth for who earned what.
Can we run referral campaigns or tournaments to push specific roles?
Yes. Referral campaigns surface specific jobs on the employee dashboard for a defined period. Referral alerts push a one-off message to all employees pointing them at a single hard-to-fill role. Tournament-style campaigns (the top three referrers in November get an extra reward) can be configured to gamify a hiring push. Each campaign has its own start and end date, its own audience, and its own bonus rules.

Working with Calibre

How long does a Calibre implementation typically take?
Single-module rollouts on an existing Odoo setup run 2-6 weeks depending on data migration scope. Greenfield Odoo with a multi-module rollout runs 4-16 weeks. Calibre commits to a written, phase-by-phase timeline after the free scoping call before any code is written.
How much does a Calibre implementation cost?
Cost depends on module scope, user count, custom work, and migration complexity. Calibre's posture is a written fixed-phase quote after the scoping call rather than an hourly engagement, so the cost is committed in writing before the first commit.
What happens to our data if we ever want to leave Odoo?
Everything exports. CSV, XML, or a full PostgreSQL database dump, yours on day one. Migrating off Odoo has been done before and it's not a one-way door.
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