Hi there,
Testing Odoo for 2 companies (a holding + a very early-stage one), currently on Pennylane and looking for a cheaper, more scalable solution. A few questions, mostly French GAAP context:
- Multi-company with accounting module only/free?
It seems possible to run 2 companies under a single free account using only the Accounting app. Has anyone done this in practice? Any limitations?
- Automatic invoice numbering
With only the Accounting module activated (no Sales), invoice numbers don't seem to increment automatically. Is this expected? Is there a setting to fix it or does it require another module?
- Clearing supplier/third-party accounts
I imported past bank transactions, which generated payable entries (accounts payable / suspense accounts). How do you easily identify which ones are still open, i.e. for which I still need to post a supplier invoice to clear the payable by recording an expense? Is there a dedicated view or report for unmatched/uncleared entries?
- Tax declaration planning: how do you handle non-standard periodicity regimes?
Odoo's fiscal calendar seems to support only basic periodicity settings (monthly / quarterly / annual + a delay). But some tax regimes follow a more complex cycle: instalments based on prior year figures, paid at fixed dates during the year, then a single annual regularisation filing.
Two concrete examples in the French context:
VAT under the simplified regime (RSI): two semi-annual instalments + annual CA12
Corporate tax (IS): four quarterly instalments + balance at filing
How do you handle this in practice? Do you ignore the Odoo planner and manage instalments as manual journal entries? Is there a cleaner setup people have found?
- Migrating one company, starting fresh on the other
One entity already has existing accounting. The other (early-stage) has none yet. What's the recommended approach : import a trial balance for the existing one and start clean for the other?
Thanks in advance!