Mobile workflows
The requests and approvals people actually do every day, shaped for a phone screen.
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OdooERPmobileapplication
A mobile application on top of the Foundation's Odoo ERP, giving employees and approvers day-to-day workflows on the phone.
Engagement
Odoo ERP mobile application
Staff and managers are spread across offices and schools. The Foundation’s Odoo ERP only helped if people could clear requests and approvals from a phone — not only from a desk.
Requests and approvals move without waiting for a desk — one set of records, whether entered on web or phone.
Who carries the phone
Employees
Submit day-to-day requests from wherever the work actually happens.
Approvers
Clear queues between meetings and site visits, without opening a laptop first.
Operations
One system of record stays true whether the entry came from web or mobile.
What sits behind the app
Around 600 employees across offices and schools, with eighteen ERP modules behind the mobile experience.
Approver queues
Managers see what is waiting and act without reconstructing context from email.
Shared records
Web and phone write to the same Odoo record — no shadow spreadsheets.
Eighteen modules
The app sits on the Foundation’s full ERP footprint, not a slimmed-down side system.
How we approached it
Put the existing ERP in people’s pockets without fracturing the system of record.
Step 01 / 04
Start from real journeys
Leave, purchase, expense and similar flows — what staff already try to finish away from a desk.
Step 02 / 04
Design for interrupted use
Approvals happen between meetings. The UI had to be scannable in seconds, not a desktop port.
Step 03 / 04
Keep one record
Mobile is a client of Odoo, not a second database. Integrity beats convenience features.
Step 04 / 04
Roll out where people are
Offices and schools, ~600 employees — the app only works if it works on the networks they have.
Outcome
Requests and approvals move without waiting for a desk, managers clear queues from anywhere, and the Foundation keeps one set of records whether work started on web or phone.
The need
Staff and managers are spread across offices and schools. They needed the ERP in their pocket, not only at a desk.
What we built
A mobile application on top of the Foundation's Odoo ERP, giving employees and approvers their day-to-day workflows on the phone.
Requests and approvals move without waiting for a desk
Managers clear their queue from anywhere
One set of records, whether entered on web or phone
Proof metrics
Verified
~600
employees across offices and schools served by the ERP
Verified
18
ERP modules sit behind the app
How to read the numbers
- Verified. Measured on the named deployment.
- Industry benchmark. Published third-party reference; our delivery tracked in line with them.
- By design. A property built into the product.
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