Description
Odoo Inter Company Transfer is an Odoo module that automates purchase and sales between companies in the same Odoo database. Group companies stop keying the same order twice.
The buyer company confirms a purchase order to the vendor mapped for a sister company. Odoo then raises a draft sale order for the seller with the same lines and the PO number as its reference.
When the seller confirms that sale order, the delivery order and the buyer's receipt are validated together. Posting the seller's customer invoice then creates and posts the vendor bill for the buyer. Each company pair has one record under Inter-Company > Configurations. It holds the source company, destination company, vendor, customer, and two automation switches.
It runs on Odoo Community. It needs the Purchase, Sales, Inventory, and Invoicing apps, which install with it, and works only with products shared across companies. To control which menus and records each company's users can open, you can also check Odoo Access Control Management.
Highlighted Features of Odoo Inter Company Transfer
Automatic Sale Orders
A confirmed purchase order to a mapped vendor opens a draft sale order at the selling company with all its lines.
One-Step Stock Moves
Confirming the inter-company sale order validates the seller's delivery and the buyer's receipt for the full quantity.
Auto-Posted Vendor Bills
A posted seller invoice posts a matching vendor bill on the buyer's purchase order, with the invoice number as reference.
Shared Products Only
A purchase order stops with an error naming the product when any line holds a product restricted to one company.
Linked Both Ways
Smart buttons and an Inter-Company tab connect each purchase order with its sale order in the other company.
Clickable KPI Dashboard
Four KPI cards show pending, completed, and configured transfers, and each card opens the records behind it.
Why Do We Need Odoo Inter Company Transfer?
Group companies buy from each other all the time. One branch orders stock and a sister company ships it, so the same deal must be recorded on both sides.
By hand, staff create the purchase order, then retype it as a sale order in the other company. They validate two transfers and enter the bill again, and figures drift apart.
Odoo Inter Company Transfer reads the company pair and builds each next document for you. Both sides always share the same lines, prices, and references.
In practice, the vendor bill takes the customer invoice number, such as INV/2026/00011, as its Bill Reference. Accountants match the two companies' entries without a lookup sheet.
Also, if you want to study stock levels across the warehouses these transfers move, you can check our module Odoo Advance Inventory Dashboard.
Odoo Inter Company Transfer Use Cases
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Central Warehouse Supply
A distribution company ships stock to its regional branches, and each branch order becomes a sale order at the hub.
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Manufacturer and Sales Entity
A sales company buys finished goods from the group's production company, with the bill posted as soon as the invoice is.
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Multi-Country Subsidiaries
Subsidiaries in separate legal entities trade through one Odoo database and keep each company's books in step.
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Retail Chains With Store Companies
Each store company reorders from the head office, and delivery and receipt close in one step. To ship lines from different warehouses, see Odoo Warehouse on Order Line.
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Group Finance Reconciliation
Group accountants match each vendor bill to its customer invoice by reference before the month-end close.
Map Buyer and Seller Companies
An inter-company configuration tells Odoo which two companies trade with each other. It also names the contacts each company uses for the other one.
- Create a record from Inter-Company > Configurations.
- Set the Source Company (Buyer) and the Destination Company (Seller).
- Pick the Vendor (in Source Company) and the Customer (in Destination Company).
- Switch on Auto Delivery Validation and Auto Vendor Bill Creation, both on by default.
- Odoo names the record after the pair, such as My US Company -> My Company (San Francisco).
- Same-company pairs and a second record for the same pair are rejected on save.
Create Sale Orders From Purchase Orders
Confirming a purchase order to the mapped vendor creates the matching sale order for the seller. That order stays in draft so the seller can review it first.
- Copy product, quantity, unit of measure, and unit price for every order line.
- Use the mapped customer and the PO number as the Customer Reference.
- Skip section and note lines so only product lines move across.
- Never create a second sale order for a purchase order that already has one.
- Stop confirmation when a product on the order belongs to one company only.
Validate Delivery and Receipt Together
With Auto Delivery Validation on, confirming the inter-company sale order closes both stock transfers. The seller's delivery and the buyer's receipt move to Done together.
Turn the switch off when the warehouse should validate by hand. For faster manual picking, you can also use Odoo Inventory Barcode Scanning.
- Validate the seller's delivery order for the full ordered quantity.
- Validate the receipt on the purchase order in the buyer company in the same step.
- Move the Inter-Company Status from SO Confirmed to Delivered.
- Keep partial quantities for manual validation when the switch is off.
Post Vendor Bills From Customer Invoices
Once the seller posts its invoice, the buyer company gets a vendor bill. The bill is posted at once, so both ledgers carry the same amount.
- Create the bill from the buyer's purchase order with its billed lines.
- Set the Bill Reference to the seller's invoice number.
- Use today's date as the bill date and post the bill automatically.
- Mark the purchase order's Inter-Company Status as Done.
- Control the step per company pair with Auto Vendor Bill Creation.
Track Inter-Company Transfer Status
Every purchase order shows how far its transfer has gone. The Inter-Company tab and a smart button take users to the document in the other company.
- Follow the status through Draft, SO Created, SO Confirmed, Delivered, and Done.
- Read the colour-coded status badge on the purchase order and in the Purchase list.
- Open the sale order from the Inter-Co SO smart button on the purchase order.
- Open the purchase order from the Inter-Co PO smart button on the sale order.
- List linked orders under Inter-Company > Purchase Orders and Sale Orders.
Inter-Company Transfer KPI Dashboard
The Inter-Company dashboard shows the transfer workload on one screen. Each KPI card opens the purchase orders or configurations that make up its number.
For deeper reports across companies, you can also send this data to Odoo Power BI Connector.
- Count Pending POs in RFQ or RFQ Sent state for mapped vendors.
- Count Completed Transfers whose status has reached Done.
- Sum the Total Volume of completed inter-company purchase orders.
- Count the Active Configurations set up between companies.
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