Odoo S.A. ships its mobile app for Odoo Enterprise and Odoo Online only. If your company runs Odoo Community, the open-source edition, you have three realistic ways to put it on a phone. Here is what each one gives you and where it breaks.
1. The mobile browser
Open your server address in Chrome or Safari and sign in. It works everywhere and costs nothing, and for a quick look at a record it is fine. The problems start with daily use: the pages are the desktop web client squeezed into six inches, list views need horizontal scrolling, buttons are small, the session expires and asks for the password again, and nothing works without a signal.
2. A home-screen shortcut (PWA style)
Odoo lets you add the web client to the home screen so it opens full-screen without the browser bar. It looks more like an app, but it is still the same web pages: same small targets, same offline limit, same re-login. It is worth doing for users who only check things occasionally.
3. A native app that reads your Odoo
A native app signs in with the user’s Odoo login, asks the server for its menus and view definitions, and draws them with phone controls. XProERP does this for Community 16 to 20: list, kanban, form, calendar, pivot and graph views sized for a thumb, Gantt and map views, chatter, Discuss with voice and video calls, recent screens readable offline, and a Point of Sale that keeps selling without network. Nothing is installed on the server and your access rights apply unchanged.
Side by side
- Setup: browser none; shortcut two taps; native app install plus server address.
- Speed on a 4G phone: browser and shortcut load the full web client each time; the native app draws from cached view definitions.
- Offline: browser and shortcut none; native app reads recent screens and runs the Point of Sale.
- Sign-in: browser and shortcut re-login when the session expires; native app keeps the session and supports QR sign-in and two-factor login.
- Cost: browser and shortcut free; XProERP $1 per user per month after a 7-day trial.
Which one should you pick?
Occasional users: the home-screen shortcut. Sales reps, warehouse staff, drivers and cashiers who live in Odoo all day: a native app pays for itself the first week. Try XProERP on your own database for 7 days and let the team decide.