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Approved hours become Odoo invoices

Customers sync with Odoo. Approved hours go there as a draft invoice per customer.

How it works

From your workday to Odoo—no retyping.

You connect with an API key from Odoo (Voorkeuren › Accountbeveiliging › Nieuwe API-sleutel). Also enter your account name from the web address: bedrijf in https://bedrijf.odoo.com. A second field asks for the database name (Instellingen › Database beheren, usually the same as the domain). Half5 then imports your customers and projects from Odoo. Half5 checks Odoo regularly for changes made there.

1
Connect Odoo

Paste your API key and your customers and projects come across.
2
Approve the week

A manager approves or rejects each person's submitted hours. Managers see registered hours only, never anyone's timeline.
3
Invoice

You create the invoice from an hours report. It appears in Odoo as a draft.

What carries over

What the Odoo integration handles.

From an hours report you create draft invoices: one per customer, containing only billable hours that haven't been invoiced yet. If your organisation uses approval, only approved hours qualify. The draft appears in Odoo.

Customers in sync
Customers sync both ways with Odoo. A customer you add in Half5 appears there, and one from Odoo can be booked on in Half5.
Projects
Projects come from Odoo, and your team books hours on them in Half5.
Hours booked in Odoo
Approved hours can also be booked in Odoo itself. Only submitted and approved hours go there; nobody's timeline does.
VAT
Invoice lines use the VAT rates set up in your Odoo administration. Reverse-charge invoices are supported.
Sending
Send the invoice by email through Odoo or as a Peppol e-invoice, or mark it as sent yourself.
Changes reach the draft
As long as the invoice is still a draft in Odoo, changes you make in Half5 are passed on to it.
Hours are never billed twice
Hours on an invoice are locked to it. Delete a draft and you choose whether its hours become billable again.

Frequently asked questions

How do I connect my time tracking to Odoo?

Which hours are sent to Odoo?

Can an hour be invoiced twice?

Hours on an invoice are locked to it. Delete a draft and you choose whether its hours become billable again.

Which plan includes the Odoo integration?

Basic, Plus and Pro. The first 14 days are free.

Your timeline doesn't go anywhere. It's end-to-end encrypted on your own devices. Your employer, your manager, and Half5 can't open it, and no integration gets access. Only customer data and invoices with submitted hours are sent to Odoo.

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