Most teams ask for "a dashboard" when what they need is one number they can trust, seen every morning. Odoo already has several tools for that. This article walks through them, from the simplest, so you can pick the lightest one that does the job.

When a user can see something they should not, or cannot do something they need, the answer is almost always in one of four layers: groups, access rights, record rules and the interface itself. Knowing which layer does what saves a lot of trial and error.

Selling by weight means the cashier puts the item on the scale and the price follows from the weight. For that, the weight has to get from the scale into the Point of Sale. There are three common ways to do it, and the right one depends on your Odoo version, your scale and your counter.

An Odoo database is two things: a PostgreSQL database with the records, and a filestore with the files. When a hosting plan or an Odoo.sh project says the database is too big, it is usually the filestore. This article explains where the space goes and how to measure it before you change anything.