Belgium · France · Odoo for operations
Bring quotations, jobs, field work, teams, purchasing, inventory, contracts and invoices together in an Odoo environment aligned with operational reality.
At Underside, we help contractors, installation companies and maintenance providers structure end-to-end management: from the first customer enquiry to invoicing, with clear visibility over field teams, costs and profitability.
Operations before software
A contracting business combines labour, equipment, travel, subcontracting, supplier purchases, schedules and emergencies. It also needs field photos, documents and customer approval to flow reliably before progressive or final invoicing. A useful construction ERP connects these moving parts without forcing office-centric processes onto field teams.
The complete flow
A shared workflow keeps every team aligned while retaining the data needed for scheduling, job management and margin analysis.
Problems → answers
Technical variants, supplies, hours, margins and options are scattered across sheets and previous files.
With Odoo: templates, product libraries, variants, sections, options, price rules and approvals make detailed quotes reusable and consistent.
Emergencies, leave, skills, territories and equipment dependencies make static spreadsheets obsolete immediately.
With Odoo: Planning and Field Service provide shared availability and let coordinators reassign work as conditions change.
Plans, instructions, photos and feedback travel through email and chats with no dependable history.
With Odoo: each project or field task brings documents, tasks, messages, photos, time and customer approval together.
Hours, materials, purchases and overruns arrive too late to support decisions.
With Odoo: sales, costs, timesheets, purchasing, inventory and analytic accounting create one view by job.
Materials are ordered without demand visibility, reserved manually or consumed without clear allocation.
With Odoo: sales and project demand can drive replenishment, reservations, transfers and traceability.
Preventive visits and renewals depend on manual reminders, creating missed service and revenue.
With Odoo: Subscriptions, Helpdesk and Field Service organise maintenance cycles, commitments, reminders and recurring billing.
Pragmatic architecture
Underside favours Odoo's standard capabilities and configuration to protect clarity, maintainability and future upgrades. We develop adaptations when operational reality, the field experience or a valuable integration genuinely requires them.
Beyond implementation
When the standard reaches its limit, our technical capabilities let us build the useful missing link without turning Odoo into a closed system. We create business platforms, portals, automations, software integrations, field applications, APIs and custom modules.
Customer portals and role-based interfaces for both office and field users.
Actions, alerts, documents and approvals triggered at the right moment.
APIs and connectors that move the right data between systems.
Focused modules where a differentiating requirement warrants a durable adaptation.
A connected ecosystem
Sync with an existing industry system; migration of customer, quotation, contract or service history; links to accounting, suppliers or e-commerce.
Web forms into Odoo CRM, customer portals for documents and service visits, and automatically generated field reports.
A field app or mobile interface, scheduling, geolocation or vehicle tracking, plus automated reminders, notifications, documents and approvals.
Functional foundation
Qualify enquiries, sites, contacts and opportunities before technical analysis.
Build, approve and turn complex offers into operational commitments.
Structure phases, tasks, ownership, documents, milestones and progress.
Schedule technicians and manage mobile execution.
Buy, reserve, transfer and consume materials in the right place.
Connect time and cost to each job to track variances and margin.
Invoice under the agreed rules and maintain administrative continuity.
Organise support, SLAs, preventive care, renewals and recurring service.
The Underside method
Observe flows, friction, data and objectives.
Define the target, priorities, ownership and roadmap.
Assemble standard Odoo and validate scenarios.
Build only the extensions that are needed.
Prepare data and teams with real-life cases.
Stabilise, measure and evolve by priority.
The starting point
We map the real workflow, duplicate entry, exceptions and existing tools. The assessment separates standard capabilities, configuration, integration and development, then establishes a realistic scope.
Who is it for?
Why Underside?
A robust solution requires three perspectives: understanding the economics and constraints of your operations, mastering standard Odoo, and having the engineering depth to integrate or develop cleanly. Underside brings them together in one Belgian team serving Belgium and France.
We start with real decisions, responsibilities and exceptions.
We assemble modules into one coherent, maintainable flow.
We connect, automate and develop where value is clear.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Odoo can connect CRM, quotations, projects, job sites, purchasing, inventory, time, invoicing and accounting. The right scope depends on your processes and field constraints.
Field Service, Planning, Project, Timesheets and Inventory can schedule technicians, share job information, track time and materials, attach photos and collect customer approval.
Yes. Sales, purchases, inventory usage, timesheets, subcontracting and invoicing can feed a consistent analytic structure for each job.
Sometimes. An assessment identifies what should be replaced, retained or integrated. The objective is to improve the whole flow, not migrate for its own sake.
Yes, when a reliable API, exchange format or other interface is available. We define master data, ownership and error handling.
Cost depends on scope, users, migration, integrations, adaptations and rollout. A sound estimate follows an assessment; we do not invent a generic price.
Let's talk operations
Let's connect commercial commitments, the work delivered and profitability.