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Introduction

This Privacy Policy describes how Trobz (“we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, and shares information about you when you use our services.

Information We Collect

We collect information you provide directly to us, such as when you fill out a contact form or communicate with us by email.

Information You Provide

Contact information: name, email address, phone number, and company name
Communications: messages you send us through our contact form or email

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and browsing activity, including your IP address, browser type, and pages visited.

Terms of Use

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Acceptance of Terms

By accessing and using this website, you accept and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use this website.

Use of the Website

You may use this website for lawful purposes only. You agree not to:

Use the website in any way that violates applicable laws or regulations
Transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional material
Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of the website or its related systems

Intellectual Property

All content on this website, including text, graphics, logos, and images, is the property of Trobz and is protected by applicable intellectual property laws. You may not reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works without our prior written consent.

About

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Trobz has focused on Odoo delivery since 2009. We combine functional consulting, architecture, development, migration, and long-term support in one delivery team.

AI in Odoo: Fundamentals of Vectors, Embeddings & the field_vector Module

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Fundamentals: Vectors and Embeddings

What Is a Vector?

In computer science and data work, a vector is an ordered list of numbers, for example [1.2, -0.5, 0.8]. In mathematics and physics, a vector describes magnitude and direction. In AI, it is used to represent features or coordinates in a multi-dimensional space.

What Are Embeddings?

An embedding is a vector that represents a real-world object, such as a piece of text, an image, a user or a product, in a form that machines can process and compare.

Canifa — Moving From a Costly, Rigid ERP to Odoo for Fashion Retail and Manufacturing

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Canifa replaced a costly, rigid ERP and disconnected store, website and production tools with Odoo, rolled out in phases from May 2017.

Cdiscount — An Odoo Back End for International E-Commerce Subsidiaries

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Cdiscount chose Odoo as the back end for its international e-commerce subsidiaries, starting in Vietnam and connecting it to the storefront, warehouse systems and SAP.

Contact

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CPC — Odoo for a New PET Recycling Plant in Vietnam

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Circular Plastics Company rolled out Odoo module by module at its new PET recycling plant in Vietnam, adapting processes proven in Myanmar.

Design Patterns in Odoo: Chain of Responsibility

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Imagine building a quality-inspection pipeline for a factory, where every product goes through a sequence of checks. At first, you hard-code the checks in one linear block of code. Over time, new checks are added, some need to be reordered and special cases appear. The large if/else block or monolithic function becomes hard to change, and adding or reordering checks becomes risky.

This is where the Chain of Responsibility pattern helps. In this post, we look at how the pattern works through three practical examples.

Design Patterns in Odoo: Facade

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When developing for Odoo, especially in large modules, you often need external libraries to extend functionality. These libraries can be complex and rarely fit naturally with the Odoo framework, which tends to lead to tightly coupled code that is hard to maintain.

The Facade pattern helps with this. It wraps such a library behind a simple, Odoo-friendly interface. Let’s look at how the pattern works and how Odoo uses it for external integrations.

Design Patterns in Odoo: Proxy

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If you work with JavaScript code in Odoo, you may come across Proxy. Proxy is a structural design pattern that provides a substitute for another object. A proxy controls access to the original object and can run extra logic before or after a request reaches it. Think of a security guard at a building entrance, who checks credentials before letting anyone in.

Overview of the Pattern

Sometimes accessing an object needs extra logic: delaying initialization, restricting access, caching results or handling other concerns. Changing the original object directly is not always a good idea, because it complicates the code and breaks the single responsibility principle.

Design Patterns in Odoo: Template Method

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Imagine managing shipping in Odoo with every delivery carrier’s logic crammed into one place. For each action (getting a rate, sending a package or tracking it), you would face a long if/elif/else block, and adding a new carrier would mean changing that code and risking the integrations that already work. It would be hard to scale, fragile and difficult to maintain.

This is where the Template Method pattern comes in. In this post, we look at the pattern and at how Odoo’s delivery module implements it.

Hưng Trí — Odoo HR and Payroll Across 10 Companies in Vietnam

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Hưng Trí replaced a decade-old HR system and Excel payroll with Odoo HR for more than 500 employees across 10 companies.

Introducing odoo-addons-path: A Developer-Friendly Tool to Manage Odoo Addon Paths

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Managing the addons_path setting in Odoo projects looks simple until you maintain several repositories, submodules and more. Each project layout organizes addons in its own way, and the order of the directories matters: a misplaced folder can silently override a module or load the wrong custom module.

odoo-addons-path removes that burden. It detects your project layout and assembles the final addons_path in the right order, so developers no longer configure it by hand and risk mistakes.

Introducing odoo-venv

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How do you install and run Odoo? It sounds like a simple question, but you may be surprised by how many valid answers there are, depending on who you ask.

Here is a non-exhaustive overview:

Odoo SA
- Maintains DEB and RPM packages
- Maintains the official Odoo Docker Hub image , built on Ubuntu images and its own DEB package
OCA (Odoo Community Association)
- Provides a Docker image for running tests: oca-ci
- Publishes OCA addons to a pip wheelhouse, which makes a pip-only approach possible
Odoo integrators
- Use Docker-based solutions, such as:
  - Doodba
  - Camptocamp’s docker-odoo-project

Each approach has its merits. But the more layers of abstraction a setup relies on, the more complex and challenging local development becomes.

Irrawaddy Green Towers — An Odoo Platform for a Fast-Growing Tower Company in Myanmar

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Irrawaddy Green Towers built an Odoo-based platform for its tower leasing business, connecting construction and energy monitoring systems with billing, rental, maintenance and cost accounting per tower.

KinderWorld — Odoo School Management for an International School Group in Vietnam

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KinderWorld replaced spreadsheets and standalone tools with an Odoo-based school management platform, built in four phases for operations, HR, CRM, procurement and parent and bus apps.

La Louve — Odoo for a Paris Supermarket Where Members Help Run the Store

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La Louve, a cooperative supermarket in Paris, went live on Odoo 9 in November 2016 with custom member management, scan-only checkout and automated purchasing, built as open source.

Manuchar Vietnam — Odoo for High-Volume Bulk Logistics

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Manuchar Vietnam moved high-volume bulk logistics onto an Odoo platform that captures weighbridge data in real time and automates service-based billing.

Mộc Phát — Odoo MRP for Wood Panel Production, Warehousing and Costing

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Mộc Phát, a producer of melamine-faced wood panels in Vietnam, moved from standalone accounting software to Odoo for manufacturing planning, warehousing, cost by lot and VAS accounting.

OneSky — An Odoo Training Management System for Caregiver Training Programs

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OneSky moved its caregiver training program in Vietnam from paper and Excel to an Odoo training management system.

Privacy Policy

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Introduction

This Privacy Policy describes how Trobz (“we”, “us”, or “our”) collects, uses, and shares information about you when you use our services.

Information We Collect

We collect information you provide directly to us, such as when you fill out a contact form or communicate with us by email.

Information You Provide

Contact information: name, email address, phone number, and company name
Communications: messages you send us through our contact form or email

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and browsing activity, including your IP address, browser type, and pages visited.

Puratos Grand-Place — Transparent Cocoa Purchasing and Quality Control on Odoo

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Puratos Grand-Place Indochina moved cocoa purchasing from farmers in Bến Tre onto Odoo, with purchase prices based on the London cocoa futures price and configurable quality control.

Service de Remplacement — A Centralized Odoo Platform for Replacement Farm Workers in France

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Service de Remplacement moved from an old desktop application to two connected Odoo instances, a back office and a marketplace, for replacements, payroll, invoicing and accounting across its network.

Services

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Trobz delivers Odoo services across the full project lifecycle through one integrated team.

Smartnet — An Odoo CRM for 5,700+ Users Across a Nationwide Sales Network

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Smartnet moved from a traditional CRM to an Odoo platform for lead management, field sales, its website and reporting, used by more than 5,700 people across 717 points of sale.

Terms of Use

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Acceptance of Terms

By accessing and using this website, you accept and agree to be bound by these Terms of Use. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use this website.

Use of the Website

You may use this website for lawful purposes only. You agree not to:

Use the website in any way that violates applicable laws or regulations
Transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising or promotional material
Attempt to gain unauthorized access to any part of the website or its related systems

Intellectual Property

The Real Cost of Delaying an Odoo Upgrade and How to Control It

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Most companies that delay an Odoo upgrade aren’t making a deliberate financial decision. They’re avoiding a disruption they can’t fully cost out, in favor of a status quo that feels manageable. The system runs. The team knows it. Finance hasn’t complained loudly enough.

That calculation is often wrong, and the error tends to grow over time.

This post breaks down what the delay actually costs: the charges that show up on invoices, the ones that don’t, and why the eventual migration gets more expensive the longer you wait.

Treedoo Education ERP

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UMA — Replacing a Rigid POS With Odoo for Stores, Online Sales and Supply Chain

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UMA, a furniture and home decor retailer in Vietnam, replaced a rigid POS system with Odoo in 2012 and extended the platform over five years to e-commerce, supply chain and HR.

US Fintech Startup — A Custom Loan Management System Built on Odoo

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A growing US fintech company built its own loan management system on Odoo with a dedicated Trobz team, replacing an inflexible third-party platform.

VAS Accounting

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Vietnam HR Core

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What OCA Contribution Tells You About an Odoo Partner

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Choosing an ERP partner is more than a technology decision. The partner you choose shapes how well the system fits your operations, how much risk the project carries and how easily the system can evolve in the years that follow.

When companies with complex structures compare implementation partners, they often look for evidence beyond a sales pitch. One useful place to look is the partner’s role in the Odoo Community Association (OCA), the non-profit organisation that supports the collaborative development of open-source Odoo modules.