Odoo News August 2026

Odoo Experience goes global, but Odoo 20 still launches in Belgium

For the first time, Odoo Experience is taking place in five countries, with events spread across September:

• Mexico City: September 2–3
• United States: September 2–3
• Kenya: September 3–4
• India: September 11–12
• Belgium: September 24–26

That raised an obvious question: when does Odoo 20 actually launch? The individual event pages all promote Odoo 20 and the new version, which could suggest an early September release.

Fabien Pinckaers has now clarified it: the earlier events will offer previews of Odoo 20, while the final release remains September 24 at Odoo Experience in Belgium.

Odoo launches Accountants Network in Germany

Odoo has expanded its official Accountants Network to Germany, connecting accounting firms more closely with companies already using Odoo.

The programme gives participating firms:

• Free access to their clients’ Odoo Online databases
• One central dashboard to manage multiple clients and permissions
• Visibility on Odoo’s website, helping firms attract new Odoo customers
• Training and support from Odoo, including accounting and e-invoicing guidance

To join, firms must already manage the accounting of at least two active Odoo customers, register their team with professional email addresses, and apply through Odoo.

For Odoo, the move strengthens the link between its software and the accounting firms supporting customers day to day — especially as e-invoicing pushes German accounting further towards digital workflows.

Odoo 20 gets a cleaner, softer interface

Odoo’s leadership has recently shared several glimpses of the new Odoo 20 interface.

Screenshots from Odoo founder Fabien Pinckaers and Odoo R&D’s Fabrice Henrion show the refreshed design in the CRM pipeline, graph views, Contacts list, and app launcher. The design is still a work in progress, so some details may change before release.

Here’s what stands out so far:

• New Material Design icons replace Font Awesome icons
• Grey headers and white content areas create clearer visual separation
• Rounded borders give buttons and inputs a softer look
• Pastel colours are used for tags and statuses
• Cleaner controls remove some unnecessary icons and visual clutter
• A refreshed app launcher introduces larger, more colourful app icons

The overall direction is subtle rather than radical: Odoo 20 looks lighter, cleaner, and more consistent while keeping the familiar structure of existing views.

Fabien also confirmed that the work is not purely visual: chatter performance has been hugely improved in Odoo 20.

Date arrows come to the search bar

Odoo R&D also previewed a small but useful change to search: date navigation arrows directly inside the search bar.

The arrows let users move backwards and forwards between date periods without rebuilding the filter each time — a simple UX improvement that could save a few clicks in everyday workflows.

Odoo hits 120,000 event registrations per month

Odoo’s event machine is getting big.

Fabien Pinckaers shared that Odoo is now seeing around 120,000 registrations per month across its business shows, trainings, and Odoo Experience events.

The chart he shared shows monthly registrations regularly landing around the 100k–140k range, underlining just how large Odoo’s event ecosystem has become.

As Fabien joked: at this point, Odoo may be becoming an event company too.

Odoo 20 expands its built-in phone system

Odoo is giving its Phone app a major upgrade in version 20, with recent previews on socials showing more phone functionality moving directly into Odoo.

The biggest addition is a visual call-flow builder, where companies can design how incoming calls are handled without coding. Odoo founder Fabien also confirmed that users will be able to buy phone numbers directly in Odoo and automate incoming and outgoing call flows.

Some of the features shown so far include:

• Buy and manage phone numbers directly in Odoo
• Build call flows visually, with menus, groups, queues, voicemail, audio messages, redirects, and more
• Make and receive calls in Odoo, with notifications across multiple devices
• Log, record and transcribe calls within Odoo

Odoo R&D's Fabrice says the goal is to bring these PBX capabilities directly into Odoo rather than relying on separate phone-management tools.

One limitation for now: the new features require Odoo Phone numbers and Odoo’s phone service. Support for bringing your own carrier (BYOC) is already on the roadmap.

For companies using Odoo for CRM and customer service, this could mean one less external system to manage.

Odoo Experience 2026 agenda is live

The full schedule for Odoo Experience 2026 is officially locked in. 

Beyond the main keynotes, this year's agenda packs hundreds of community, technical, and functional sessions across every corner of the Odoosphere.

Here are some of the biggest talk trends and what they signal for Odoo 20:

• Logistics and manufacturing: With 27 talks on the schedule, supply chain and shop floor talks take the top spot so far. These sessions highlight Odoo 20’s heavy push to replace legacy ERPs in complex factory and logistics environments

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• AI and automation: 25 sessions will explore AI embedded directly into database logic. This shows how Odoo 20 is turning AI into a core architectural layer with agentic AI and native MCP connectors

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• Finance and compliance: 20 talks will cover e-invoicing, direct tax submissions, and multi-company consolidation. They’ll show how Odoo users can eliminate localisation friction and optimise global accounting

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• HR and operations: 16 talks will focus on global payroll, remote attendance, and shift scheduling. These sessions highlight how Odoo 20 is preparing to manage larger, multi-entity workforces out of the box

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• Customer use cases: 16 sessions will showcase real-world setups across healthcare, non-profits, aerospace, and hospitality, proving Odoo 20’s growing readiness for mid-market enterprise migrations

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• eCommerce, Website and POS: 24 talks span online store setups, native SEO tools, and mobile POS tools

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• Engineering and architecture: 13 technical sessions dive into Odoo 20’s underlying framework updates, including permission model unification (ir.access), OWL 3 reactivity, and database scaling

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• Sales and CRM: 11 talks will focus on quotation refinement, recurring billing models, and AI presales tools.

Check out the full agenda

Community talk

All the hot topics and discussions Odoo users are buzzing about this month. 

Odoo adds AWS to its cloud hosting mix

From September 24, Odoo will broaden its use of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Odoo Cloud databases hosted outside the EU, alongside its existing infrastructure providers. Customers hosted in the EU are not affected, and no action is required.

At first glance, this sounds like a major infrastructure move. In practice, probably not.

AWS is not completely new to Odoo: it has already been an authorised sub-processor for several years and has also been used for upgrades. Adding AWS alongside providers such as OVH and Google Cloud is therefore unlikely to noticeably change much for customers.

The more interesting angle may be commercial. With several major cloud providers competing to host Odoo’s growing infrastructure, Odoo potentially gains more flexibility on capacity and pricing.

For users, though, nothing really changes. Odoo gets another infrastructure option outside the EU, while customers continue using Odoo as before.