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Odoo Project

Community + Enterprise

Organize and plan your projects

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

What Odoo Project does

Odoo Project is the app that gives your team one place to plan work, hand it out, and watch it move to done. Every project is a board of cards. Each card is a task with an owner, a due date, a stage, and the running thread of every comment, file, and decision tied to it. Agencies, consultancies, software shops, and construction PMs run client work on Odoo project management. Internal teams use Odoo project management for renovations, hiring rollouts, and product launches.

Odoo project management is built on a simple hierarchy. Project, then milestones, then tasks, then subtasks. The board, calendar, and list views show the same work in Odoo project management, so the PM and the people doing the work never argue about which list is current (the Gantt-style timeline view is part of the paid Enterprise tier). You can test Odoo Project 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

A PM opens Odoo project management and creates a new workspace for the client or the internal initiative. They set the start date, the customer, and the lead. They turn on milestones if the work bills against checkpoints, recurring tasks if some work repeats on a schedule, and task dependencies if certain tasks block others. Stages get named once. New projects start with a single placeholder stage; the team can add stages like To Do, In Progress, Review, Done in a minute, or copy a stage set from a template project.

Next, milestones get added for the big checkpoints, things like Design Approved, Beta Live, Final Walkthrough. Tasks slot under each milestone. A task gets a name, an owner (one person or several), a due date, a tag, an estimate in hours, and an optional role. Big tasks break into subtasks so the assignee sees a clean checklist instead of a wall of notes. If Task B can't start until Task A is done, the PM links them and Task B shows a blocked badge until A closes out.

From there the Odoo project management board carries the work. Each owner drags their cards across stages as they progress. Comments, files, and mentions stay on the card so context never gets lost in email. The PM watches the calendar for what's due this week, the timeline for the overall arc (Enterprise), and writes a status update on whatever cadence makes sense (weekly, biweekly, ad hoc) that rolls up open tasks, closed tasks, and a written note for the client. When tasks are done, hours flow into invoicing on their own and the Odoo project management workspace closes out without a final scramble to reconcile what was actually delivered.

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What's inside Odoo Project

Stage-Based Task Board
Every project has its own columns (you set them up to match how the team works, or copy them from a template project). Tasks live as cards that get dragged across stages. The board shows priority, owner, due date, tags, and subtask progress at a glance, so a standup runs off the screen instead of a status doc.
Project, Milestone, Task, Subtask
Work nests cleanly. A project holds milestones for the big checkpoints. Each milestone holds the tasks needed to hit it. Each task can break into subtasks for the actual to-do list. The PM sees the arc; the doer sees the next thing to tick off.
Task Dependencies and Blockers
Mark Task B as blocked by Task A and Odoo Project flags it on the board until A is closed. The owner of B sees the blocker on their card and the PM sees the chain on the timeline, so nobody starts work that should be waiting on someone else.
Recurring Tasks on a Schedule
Set a task to repeat every week, every two weeks, every month, or on a custom cadence. Recurrence runs forever or until a chosen end date. Weekly status checks, monthly retros, and quarterly reviews land on the board on their own, placed in the project's first stage with the owner and tags carried over.
Milestones Tied to Billing
Milestones aren't just checkpoints. When a project is wired to Sales as a billable engagement, hitting a milestone signals that the next invoice can be drafted from the sales order. Design Approved bills the design fee; Final Walkthrough bills the closeout. (Requires Sales + the billable-project setup.)
Roles, Owners, and Collaborators
A task can have one or several internal owners and an optional role (designer, PM, contractor). Clients and outside contributors get added as collaborators with a limited view of just the tasks they need to see. Internal people see everything; the client sees their slice.
Project Templates for Repeat Work
Save a finished project as a template with its stages, milestones, tasks, subtasks, and role assignments. Spinning up the next client engagement of the same shape takes a minute, not an afternoon. The template carries the lessons from the last run so the team isn't building from scratch each time.
Calendar (Community) and Timeline (Enterprise) Views
The same tasks show up on a calendar grouped by week or month. A Gantt-style timeline view that lays out the whole arc with milestones marked is part of the paid Enterprise tier (Project Planning). The PM checks the timeline for slip risk and the calendar for this week's load without leaving the app or exporting a single file.
Personal Stages on Top of Project Stages
Each person can run their own personal columns (Inbox, Today, This Week, Waiting) on top of the shared project stages. The team board stays clean and standard while each owner triages their own work the way they like. Moving a task across personal stages doesn't change the shared stage.
Status Updates and Customer Ratings
The PM writes a short status update with a colour (on track, at risk, off track) and an optional client-facing note on whatever cadence the engagement needs. Tasks moving into a configured stage can trigger an email asking the client to rate the work as happy, neutral, or unhappy. The ratings roll up into a project score the team can see on the project panel.
Built for

Is Odoo Project 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 Project

Odoo Timesheets logs hours straight against a task, so a developer or a contractor records time once and the hours flow into both project margin reporting and customer invoicing without anyone copying numbers. Payroll work entries come from Attendance, leaves, and the contract schedule rather than from timesheets directly; if you need timesheet hours to drive pay, that mapping is a custom bridge, not an out-of-the-box flow. Services lines from a confirmed Sales quote drop into a Project on their own, so the work to be done matches the work that was sold. Helpdesk (Enterprise) tickets can escalate to a real task on the right project with one click and the conversation history stays attached. Odoo Invoicing queues billable work as you reach each milestone or as hours accrue; the bookkeeper creates the customer invoice on whatever cadence the engagement runs on. Comments, files, and mentions on a task use the same chatter that runs across every Odoo app, so an email reply lands on the task instead of in someone's inbox.

Comparison

Odoo Project vs the alternatives

List-price comparison against the project management tools Calibre most commonly migrates customers off. The deciding factor is usually integration, not the line-item price. Odoo Project sits on the same database as every other Odoo app you install, so the data flows between modules without separate bridges.

Tool Per month (annual plan) What you get
Odoo Project CA$35.20/user/mo All Odoo apps included, free 15-day trial
Asana Advanced US$30.49/user/mo Project Management only
Monday.com Standard US$12/user/mo Project Management only
ClickUp Unlimited US$7/user/mo Project Management only
Jira Standard US$8.15/user/mo Project Management only

Annual-commitment rate where published; monthly list rate otherwise. Sourced from vendor pricing pages, 2026-05. Plans and regions vary. Full cost calculator on the Odoo overview page.

Pricing

What Odoo Project costs

One App Free
CA$0
forever
  • One app, unlimited users
  • Multi-company allowed
  • Odoo Online hosting
  • Dependent apps included free
If Odoo Project 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 Project

Is Odoo Project free?
You can test Odoo Project free on the Odoo 15-day trial. Beyond the trial, Odoo's one-app-free rule means it runs free for unlimited users, forever, but only if it is the only Odoo app you install. If Project is the only Odoo app you install, you pay nothing for the software no matter how many PMs, assignees, or collaborators you have. The free version of Odoo project management covers the task board, milestones, subtasks, recurring tasks, task dependencies, calendar, list, tags, roles, project templates, and the standard reports. The moment you add a second app, like Timesheets or Invoicing, the whole setup moves to the paid plan, which is around CA$35.20 per user per month billed annually for the full Odoo suite.
What's the difference between Odoo Project in Community and Enterprise?
The core of Odoo project management is the same in both. The board, milestones, tasks, subtasks, recurring tasks, task dependencies, roles, collaborators, templates, calendar, list, and basic reporting all work in the free Community edition. Enterprise adds the polish layer. The Gantt-style timeline view (Project Planning), the Forecast view for resource load across weeks, the polished iOS and Android mobile app, and Studio (the no-code customizer for task layouts) are Enterprise-only. Most services teams move to Enterprise for Odoo project management once they want the timeline view for client reporting.
Can we move our existing projects, tasks, and team setup into Odoo?
Yes. Odoo accepts CSV and Excel imports for projects, tasks, subtasks, users, stages, tags, and roles, which every major project tool can export. The work isn't the upload, it's mapping your existing fields to Odoo's structure. Your old Status might map to Odoo's Stage, your custom fields might not have a one-to-one match, and comment history may need a separate import path. Calibre handles the Odoo project management mapping during the rollout and keeps your old tool live as a read-only reference for the first month so a PM can always check what was logged before the cutover.
Does Odoo Project connect with timesheets and invoicing?
Yes, Odoo project management ties to both. Adding the Timesheets app puts a timer right on every task so an assignee can clock in, clock out, and the hours land against that task. Adding Sales and Invoicing wires the project to the deal it came from when the project is configured as billable. For fixed-fee work, hitting a milestone signals the next invoice can be drafted from the sales order. For time-and-materials work, the logged hours roll up into an invoice at the cadence you set, weekly or monthly, with the task names and hours itemised on the bill. The PM doesn't have to email a spreadsheet to the bookkeeper.
Is there a mobile app for Odoo Project?
Yes, the Odoo project management mobile app runs on iOS and Android. It covers the project list, the task board, the task detail screen, comments and mentions, file attachments, and an offline mode for spotty coverage that syncs the moment a signal comes back. A field PM walking a job site can update a task, add a photo, and tag a teammate without going back to the trailer. The polished mobile app is part of the Enterprise tier; Community users get the responsive web version, which works on a phone but isn't as smooth.
Can a task automatically repeat on a schedule?
Yes. Turn on recurring tasks inside Odoo project management and any task can be set to repeat every few days, weeks, or months. Recurrence runs forever or stops on a chosen end date. A new copy of the task lands on the board on the cadence you set, placed in the project's first stage, with the owner and tags carried over. Weekly status checks, monthly retros, quarterly reviews, and recurring maintenance visits all stop being something the PM has to remember to create by hand.
Can clients see only their own tasks without seeing the rest of our work?
Yes. Each Odoo project management workspace has a privacy setting that controls who can see what. For a client-facing engagement, you invite the client as a collaborator with portal access, which lets them see just the tasks shared with them, leave comments, and approve work, without ever logging into your back office or seeing your internal teams. Your team keeps full visibility on the full project, including the internal tasks the client never needs to see. The client view runs through the same customer portal as quotes and invoices, so they have one login for everything.

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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What you get

  • Free 45-minute scoping call with an Odoo-certified engineer
  • Module-by-module fit/gap assessment
  • Written, phase-by-phase quote
  • Named engineer for implementation and support
  • Data-export commitment in writing