Hi everyone,
I’m looking for honest feedback from people who have experience with Odoo, ERP implementation, BPMN, or enterprise approval workflows.
Over the past year, I built an Odoo-native approval workflow engine.
Timeline:
- Jul-Sep 2025: built the first working version
- Sep 2025-Mar 2026: adapted it for a large listed company, used by nearly 20,000 employees
- Mar-Apr 2026: refactored the architecture and added more product-level features
What it does:
- BPMN-based visual approval designer
- approval tracking and history
- user / user group / position / reporting-line assignment
- countersign and anyone-approve logic
- designed to work inside Odoo instead of as an external approval system
I’m now thinking about turning it from a project into a real product.
My questions:
Should this be positioned as an Odoo module, a BPMN workflow engine, or an enterprise approval platform?
Who would be the best first users: Odoo partners, internal IT teams, or companies already struggling with approval complexity?
What should be open-sourced, and what should remain commercial?
What would you need to see before trusting something like this in production?
I’m not trying to hard-sell here. I’m trying to understand how people would evaluate this kind of product and what direction would make the most sense.