How do I set up multi-company in Odoo?

Steps

1. Settings → Users & Companies → Companies: create child companies with currency and chart.
2. Grant users access to multiple companies; set default company on res.users.
3. Enable inter-company transactions module for automatic SO/PO between companies if needed.
4. Set company-specific fiscal positions, taxes, and banks on each res.company.
5. Duplicate or share products; set company_dependent fields on accounts and prices.
6. Assign warehouses and picking types per company; avoid shared stock locations without rules.
7. Test a purchase in Company A selling to Company B with consolidated reporting filters.

Common mistakes

• Users posting in wrong active company on navbar switch.
• Shared vendors without company-specific payable accounts.
• Inter-company SO without mirrored PO causing inventory imbalance.
• One warehouse used by two companies on quants.
• Consolidation attempted without elimination journals documented.

Odoo version notes

Multi-company is built into Community and Enterprise 16–18. Enterprise inter-company is smoother for SO/PO sync. Odoo 17 refined company switcher UX. Consolidation reporting may need accounting localization or BI export. On Odoo.sh, each company still shares one database—plan record rules carefully.

When to bring in help

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