Catervas tools library

Odoo Community

Restaurant point of sale, inventory and purchasing in the free Community edition.

AI capabilities

None in Community (Odoo AI is Enterprise-only).

Pricing

Free license. Hosting estimate: $11-30/mo (Elestio or a 2-4 GB VPS)

Open source

  • Code: https://github.com/odoo/odoo
  • GitHub stars: 55571
  • Latest release: 2026-11-05
  • Hosting: Odoo's official hosting is Enterprise-only (paid, proprietary). Community one-click: Elestio from $11/mo. Self-host with Docker, or Odoo partners.
  • Backing: Company-backed (Odoo S.A., Belgium). Odoo 20 launched at Odoo Experience on 2026-09-24. The 20.0 branch was committed 2026-11-05. No GitHub releases are used.
  • LGPL-3.0 (weak copyleft): free for commercial use. Only changes to Odoo's own files must be shared if you distribute them. Your own add-on modules can use any license.
  • Odoo Enterprise is proprietary and paid. In the repo's 20.0 branch these Community modules are LGPL-3: pos_restaurant, stock (Inventory), purchase, mrp (bills of materials, usable for recipes), pos_hr, hr_attendance, hr_holidays, pos_loyalty, pos_stripe, pos_adyen, pos_online_payment, mass_mailing, mass_mailing_sms, survey. NOT in Community (Enterprise-only): Planning (shift scheduling), kitchen/preparation display (pos_preparation_display), self-ordering kiosk/QR (pos_self_order), AI features, mobile apps, and Odoo's own hosting (Odoo Online/Odoo.sh run Enterprise).
  • The repo publishes no GitHub security advisories. The 2026 critical CVE-2026-25137 (CVSS 9.1, unauthenticated database manager) affects only NixOS's Odoo packaging, fixed in NixOS 25.11/26.05. Elsewhere, set a master password and keep /web/database off the internet. No 2026 critical for Odoo core found in CVE search.

Trust checks

  • Admin-verified listing: Pass · Reviewed by the Catervas team: links and prices checked Nov 5, 2026
  • License verified: Not checked · Open-core: Odoo Enterprise is proprietary (spec §20).
  • Active maintenance: Pass · Last release or commit 2026-11-05
  • No open critical security advisories: Pass · No unpatched critical or high advisories found. Keep it on the latest release.
  • Privacy and data policy: Pass · Self-hosted: your data stays on your own hosting.
  • Company or foundation backing: Pass · Company-backed (Odoo S.A., Belgium). Odoo 20 launched at Odoo Experience on 2026-09-24. The 20.0 branch was committed 2026-11-05. No GitHub releases are used.

Problems it helps with

  • Rising food costs: food-cost control, inventory and invoices: Gives a restaurant a free table-service POS (floor plan, split bills, kitchen printers) tied to inventory and supplier purchase orders. Recipe bills of materials show ingredient usage and cost per dish, so price creep is visible. Staff clock in at the POS, and the built-in email/SMS marketing and loyalty bring regulars back.
  • Rising labor costs and wage-law rules squeeze margins: Gives a restaurant a free table-service POS (floor plan, split bills, kitchen printers) tied to inventory and supplier purchase orders. Recipe bills of materials show ingredient usage and cost per dish, so price creep is visible. Staff clock in at the POS, and the built-in email/SMS marketing and loyalty bring regulars back.
  • Driving traffic: marketing, reviews and costly delivery apps: Gives a restaurant a free table-service POS (floor plan, split bills, kitchen printers) tied to inventory and supplier purchase orders. Recipe bills of materials show ingredient usage and cost per dish, so price creep is visible. Staff clock in at the POS, and the built-in email/SMS marketing and loyalty bring regulars back.

Works with

  • Stripe · POS payment terminals via Stripe and Adyen (LGPL modules), online payments, email marketing and SMS marketing (SMS uses Odoo's paid IAP credits), loyalty and gift cards, supplier purchase orders, b...

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