🐧 Penguin’s Latest Odoo Enhancements: November 26, 2025

🚀 What’s New in Your Odoo Environment

We’re excited to share the latest updates from the Innovation & Development Team — focused on improving transparency, configuration flexibility, payroll processing, expense handling, and multi-company usability. This release includes powerful enhancements for technical teams, HR, Accounting, and system administrators, along with important improvements to ensure a smoother Odoo experience.

🚀 New Features

🔹 User-Configurable GitHub API Key for PR Automation

Users can now configure their own GitHub API key within the system.

This enhancement provides:

• Better transparency when creating Pull Requests
• Improved traceability of automated actions
• The ability to auto-assign reviewers and manage PR metadata
• More secure and personalized integration with GitHub workflows

🔹 Employee Contract – Parent Company Selection in Branch Field

The Branch field in Employee Contracts has been updated to allow selection of the Parent Company.

This improvement is especially useful for multi-company environments where HR structures must align with corporate hierarchy.

🔹 Enable MTESS and IPS Fields Visibility for Parent Company

MTESS and IPS fields are now visible and configurable when working under a Parent Company.

This ensures:

• Improved compliance
• Consistent data across all company levels
• Better support for Paraguayan localization

🔹 Track Payment Report Generation Timestamp in Payslip Batch

Payslip Batches now store a timestamp every time a Payment Report is generated.

This offers:

• Better auditability
• Easier debugging
• More transparent payroll processing

🔹 Replacement of OCA Modules for Purchase Request & Tier Validation

The existing OCA modules for Purchase Request and Tier Validation have been fully replaced with custom in-house versions.

These new custom modules provide:

• Greater control over purchasing and approval workflows
• Logic fully aligned with internal business processes
• Improved maintainability and flexibility for future enhancements
• Removal of external dependencies for more stable long-term support.

✨ Improvements

⚙️ Enhanced Accounting Logic for Expense Reports

Expense report accounting has been improved to properly manage:

• Salary advances
• Outstanding balances
• Cases where expenses are paid directly by the company

This ensures more accurate accounting entries and cleaner financial reporting.

⚙️ Supplier Bill Closing Date Configuration for Expenses

Administrators can now configure a Supplier Bill Closing Date specifically for expenses.

This enhancement supports:

• Stricter closing controls
• More predictable accounting periods
• Better alignment with internal financial policies

⚙️ Extend Tier Validation to Payroll Batch

Tier Validation workflows have been expanded to include Payroll Batches.

This improvement brings:

• Greater approval control
• More robust audit trails
• Better governance across payroll operations

Need assistance with these updates?

Reach out to the Internal Support Team or submit a ticket via the Helpdesk module.

— Claudia Melgarejo

Innovation & Development Team