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Documents

✳︎ Document management with workflows

A shared document space with tags, workspaces and approval workflows. Incoming supplier invoices can be scanned, recognized and turned into accounting entries directly from the document inbox - paper stops at the scanner.

ODOO MODULE✳︎
CATEGORYFinance
Why it matters

The finance department is where every process in the company eventually lands - and where every disconnected tool sends its bill. Documents works because it does not import your business: it lives inside it. The invoice knows the order it came from, the payment knows the invoice, the report knows everything.

Documents move themselves - people only decide.

Month-end stops being an expedition. Bank lines match themselves, follow-ups chase debtors politely and relentlessly, and the P&L is not a document someone assembles - it is a screen that is always current. Your accountant stops being an archaeologist and becomes an advisor.

FIG.01 — THE RECONCILIATION
BANKINVOICESRECONCILIATION — LINES MATCH THEMSELVES
Technical drawing · Finance
How it works
the loop runs itself · tap a step to hold it
STEP 01Paper stops at the scanner
STEP 02OCR recognizes the invoice
STEP 03Approval workflow runs
STEP 04Draft entry ready in accounting
✳︎
Documents move themselves - people only decide.
Key capabilities
Spec sheet · 4 functions
Workspaces with tags and access rights
OCR: scanned invoices become draft entries
Approval and validation workflows
Requests: chase missing documents automatically
In an ERPSWISS project
Part of our 7-step delivery
STEP 1Configure
A business analyst maps Documents to your real processes - most changes take hours in Studio, not weeks of code.
STEP 2Integrate
It shares one database with every other module - no connectors, no sync jobs, no double entry.
STEP 3Train✳︎
Your team learns it in the training step of our 7-step journey - with docs in your Knowledge base.
Good to know

Documents in Odoo: one module, one shared database, zero double entry.

Documents is one of the standard Odoo applications in the Finance family. Like every Odoo module, it runs on the same database as CRM, sales, inventory and accounting - information entered once is available everywhere, with no connectors, no sync jobs and no manual exports. Companies choose Odoo Documents to replace a patchwork of disconnected tools with one integrated system that is easier to maintain and cheaper to own.

In daily work, teams rely on Documents for: workspaces with tags and access rights; ocr: scanned invoices become draft entries; approval and validation workflows; requests: chase missing documents automatically. Because the module is part of the Odoo platform, every action leaves a clean trail for reporting - managers watch live dashboards instead of assembling spreadsheets, and the numbers stay consistent across departments and companies.

ERP SWISS is an official Odoo partner. We implement and configure Documents for companies in Switzerland, France, Germany, the EU and Armenia - including localization, data migration, staff training and long-term support. A typical implementation takes weeks, not months: we configure the standard module to your processes first, and add custom development only where it truly pays off. Book a free demo to see it on your own scenarios.

See Documents working on your own processes - on a free demo.
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