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We set up Odoo Project so tasks, hours, purchases and invoices meet on each project, and managers see margin while there is still time to act.
Odoo Project tracks project profitability by giving each project an analytic account to which timesheets, expenses, purchase orders and vendor bills are charged and customer invoices credited. UAE engineering consultancies, fit-out firms, IT services companies and agencies can bill at a fixed price, by milestone or by time and materials from approved timesheets, with service sales orders creating projects automatically.
Odoo Project Management UAE clients run work that is sold, delivered and billed as projects: engineering consultancies in Dubai, fit-out firms working across Abu Dhabi and Sharjah, IT services companies, marketing agencies and interior designers. Their common problem is that nobody knows whether a project made money until weeks after it closed. Hours are logged late or not at all, subcontractor bills are booked to general expenses, and invoices go out when someone remembers.
The Odoo Project app organizes work into projects, tasks and subtasks shown on kanban boards, lists, calendars and, in Enterprise, Gantt charts. Each project has an analytic account behind it. Timesheets, expenses, purchase orders and vendor bills can all be charged to that account, and customer invoices credited to it, which gives a live profitability view per project.
Billing is driven from the sales side. A service product on a sales order can create a project or a task automatically and be invoiced at a fixed price, by milestone or by time and materials from approved timesheets. We usually deliver Project together with Odoo Sales and Odoo Accounting. Contractors with heavier site and BOQ needs should also read Odoo for construction companies.
The products we configure, integrate and support on projects like this one.
Odoo Project
Odoo Invoicing / Accounting
Odoo Sales
Odoo CRM
Odoo Inventory
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Project updates in Odoo combine progress and money on one page per project.
From the signed proposal to the final invoice, each step links back to the project.
One shared database: every step updates stock, finance and reports in real time.
We match the setup to how your teams actually plan and bill, rather than switching on every feature.
Custom stages per project, task dependencies, subtasks, recurring tasks and deadlines.
Hours logged per task with a timer or manually, approved by managers before they are billed or costed.
Deliverables with dates that can trigger invoicing when marked as reached, common in consultancy and design contracts.
Enterprise views to schedule tasks and people across projects and spot overloaded team members.
Fixed price, milestone and time and materials, set per service product on the sales order.
Analytic accounts collect labor cost, purchases, expenses and invoices per project for a live margin view.
Clients can see shared tasks, add comments and review timesheets, which reduces status emails.
Drawings, approvals and minutes attached to tasks or filed per project in the Documents app.
Projects draw on almost every other area of the business. These are the connections we build most often.
Odoo supports these through accounting and tax configuration. Confirm treatments with your tax advisor.
UAE VAT at 5% applies to most project services billed locally. Milestone and time-based invoices from Odoo carry your TRN and the prescribed fields; timing of supply for long contracts should be confirmed with your advisor.
With corporate tax at 9% on taxable income above AED 375,000, clean revenue and cost allocation per project and entity supports both management decisions and tax workpapers.
Project invoices will fall under UAE e-invoicing, exchanged through Accredited Service Providers using PINT AE, from 1 January 2027 for businesses with revenue of AED 50 million or more and 1 July 2027 for others. Check the latest Ministry of Finance and FTA guidance.
Timesheets give evidence of hours worked, which helps when reviewing overtime and working hour limits under UAE Labour Law with your HR advisor.
General information, not tax or legal advice. Rules change; confirm current FTA, MOHRE and Ministry of Finance guidance with your advisor.
Project apps fail when they ask for more data than teams will give. These tips keep it practical.
Other pages on project delivery, timesheets and project-based industries.
We configure the system for the rules UAE businesses report against, and test it before go-live.
General information, not tax or legal advice. Confirm current requirements with the FTA, MOHRE or your advisor. See all UAE compliance guides.
On-site workshops in Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah, and remote or on-site delivery across the Northern Emirates and free zones.
Official sources and references
Facts on this page were checked against these sources in October 2026. Rules change, so confirm current requirements before acting.
Still have a question? Our consultants are happy to help.
Ask an ExpertFor fit-out and smaller contracting work it often is, combined with Purchase, Inventory and analytic accounting. Large contractors needing BOQ-based progress billing, retention and variation tracking usually add industry modules or customization, which we assess during scoping.
Yes. Projects and tasks can be shared through the customer portal, where clients see the tasks you choose, comment on them and, if enabled, review timesheets.
Each project has an analytic account. Timesheet costs, expenses, purchases and vendor bills are charged to it and invoices credited to it, and the project update shows revenue, costs and margin from those entries.
Gantt views for projects and tasks, along with the Planning app for scheduling people, are part of Odoo Enterprise. Community users have kanban, list and calendar views.
Yes. A fixed monthly service can be combined with a time-based service product on the same sales order, so the retainer is invoiced on schedule and extra approved hours are invoiced as delivered.
Staff can log hours in the Odoo mobile app or start a timer on a task from the browser. Many consultancies set a weekly timesheet reminder and lock periods after approval.
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