Devvista is an official Odoo partner. When you hire Odoo developers through us, you get engineers who build on Odoo every day: custom modules, integrations, portals, data migrations and Odoo 19 upgrades, on Community, Enterprise and Odoo.sh. Most placements start within two weeks.
Why that matters: a strong Python developer who has never worked inside Odoo spends months learning the ORM, inheritance model and upgrade path, and the code written in those months is often the code you later pay to replace. Our developers start on your backlog, not on tutorials.
What Our Odoo Developers Build
Custom Odoo Modules
New apps and extensions for workflows standard Odoo does not cover, such as rental logic, commission rules, multi-step approvals, job costing or compliance tracking. Each module has its own models, views, access rules and tests, and extends Odoo through inheritance instead of editing core files.
Integrations With Your Other Systems
Connections between Odoo and Shopify, WooCommerce, Magento, Amazon, shipping carriers, payment gateways, EDI partners, HubSpot, Salesforce and in-house software, built on Odoo's XML-RPC and JSON-RPC APIs with logging, retries and alerts when something fails.
Reports, Dashboards and Documents
QWeb PDF reports for invoices, quotes, delivery slips and certificates in your layout, plus pivot, graph and dashboard views that give managers the numbers they currently pull together in spreadsheets.
Portals, Websites and Front Ends
Customer and vendor portals, B2B ordering with customer-specific pricing, Odoo website themes, OWL components inside the Odoo interface, and separate React or mobile front ends that use Odoo as the system of record.
Migrations and Upgrades
Moving data from QuickBooks, NetSuite, SAP Business One or spreadsheets into Odoo, and upgrading older Odoo databases to Odoo 19, including porting and testing every custom module. Companies still running OpenERP-era versions often try to hire OpenERP developers to keep an old system alive; a planned migration to a current Odoo version is almost always the better investment.
Skills Every Odoo Developer We Place Has
Odoo development has its own way of doing things. These are the skills we check for before a developer works on a client system, and the questions worth asking any Odoo developer you consider.
The Odoo ORM and Inheritance Model
Defining models and fields, computed and related fields, onchange and constraint methods, and the difference between classical, extension and delegation inheritance. A developer who reaches for copying a standard module instead of inheriting from it will create upgrade problems for years.
Views, OWL and QWeb
XML form, list, kanban and search views with XPath inheritance, the OWL component framework used in the modern Odoo web client, and QWeb templates for reports and website pages.
Security and Performance
Access control lists, record rules and groups so users only see what they should, plus query awareness: avoiding loops that hit the database for every record, using read_group and batch operations, and profiling slow screens on real data volumes.
Testing, Git and Odoo.sh
Automated tests for business logic, branch-based development, code review, and working with Odoo.sh development and staging branches or a Docker-based self-hosted setup.
Certification and the Odoo Ecosystem
Odoo SA offers official certifications for each major version, which confirm a developer knows the framework and standard apps. We value certification, but we also look at real module code, familiarity with the Odoo Community Association (OCA) and its module repositories, and experience reading the Odoo source when documentation runs out.
Upgrade Awareness
Knowing which APIs changed between recent versions, writing code that is easy to port, and understanding how the Odoo upgrade service and community migration tools fit into a version upgrade.
Ways to Hire Odoo Developers
Whether you need to hire an Odoo developer for a single project or want Odoo developers on demand as your backlog grows, the engagement adapts. You can also pair a developer with a functional Odoo consultant when you need both process design and code.
Dedicated Odoo Developer
A full-time developer who works only on your Odoo system and joins your standups, ticketing and code reviews. This is the best option when you have an ongoing backlog of changes, integrations and reports, because the developer learns your configuration once and keeps building on it.
Part-Time or Retainer Support
A set number of hours each month for smaller companies that need regular fixes and improvements but not a full-time person. Unused capacity can be planned toward upcoming work such as the next version upgrade.
Project Team
Developers plus a functional Odoo consultant for a defined project, such as a new implementation, a migration from NetSuite or a large custom module. For full rollouts, our Odoo implementation service manages scope, timeline and delivery end to end.
How Hiring Works
First, a short call about your Odoo version, edition, hosting, current customizations and the work ahead. Second, we match you with developers whose experience fits, for example manufacturing, ecommerce integrations or accounting localization. Third, you interview them and review how they would approach one of your real tickets. Fourth, the developer starts, usually within two weeks, with access to a staging copy of your database rather than production.
If the fit is not right in the first weeks, we replace the developer. All code written for you belongs to you, lives in your repository and is covered by an NDA, which is standard for our Odoo work.
Functional Consultant or Technical Developer: Which Do You Need?
Odoo projects need two kinds of skills, and confusing them is a common hiring mistake. An Odoo functional consultant understands business processes and Odoo configuration: how to set up routes, taxes, approval flows and accounting so the standard apps fit your operation. An Odoo technical consultant, or Odoo ERP developer, writes code: modules, integrations, reports and migrations.
If your problem is that Odoo is set up wrong or your team is fighting the system, start with a functional review. If Odoo is configured well but cannot do what you need, you need a developer. Many companies need a bit of both, which is why we often pair them on the same engagement.
What It Costs to Hire an Odoo Developer
Rates vary mainly by location and experience. As typical market ranges, offshore Odoo developers often bill around $25 to $50 per hour, nearshore and Eastern European developers around $40 to $75, and experienced US-based Odoo developers and consultants around $90 to $175. Freelance marketplaces show lower numbers, but Odoo experience and code quality vary widely at the low end.
The cheaper hour is not always the cheaper outcome. A developer who edits core files or duplicates standard modules can save a week now and cost months at the next upgrade. When comparing options, ask to see how a developer would extend an existing model and how they test their code. We are happy to quote a dedicated developer or a fixed-scope project once we understand your system.
What to Prepare Before You Hire
A new Odoo developer becomes productive much faster when a few things are ready on day one. None of them take long, and they save paid hours in the first weeks.
Your Odoo Version, Edition and Hosting
Note which version you run, whether it is Community or Enterprise, and whether it lives on Odoo Online, Odoo.sh or your own server. This decides what kind of custom work is possible and how changes get deployed.
A List of Installed Custom and Third-Party Modules
Many Odoo databases carry modules from previous partners or the Odoo App Store that nobody has documented. A simple list, with who built each one and what it does, helps the developer spot conflicts and upgrade risks early.
A Staging Copy of Your Database
Developers should never test against live data. On Odoo.sh this is a staging branch; on a self-hosted setup it is a separate server with a recent copy of production. If you do not have one yet, setting it up is usually the first task.
Working Hours and Communication
Decide how many hours of overlap you need with your own team, especially if you are in the United States and your developer is offshore or nearshore, and which tools you will use for tickets, code review and daily updates. Agreeing on this upfront avoids the most common friction in remote Odoo work.
A Prioritized Backlog
Write down the changes you need, ordered by business impact, with an example of the current workaround for each. Even a rough list in a spreadsheet lets the developer estimate, group related work and deliver the most valuable items first.
Red Flags When Hiring Odoo Developers
Be cautious if a developer modifies files inside Odoo's core addons, copies whole standard modules to change one behavior, cannot explain how their code will move to the next Odoo version, does not use Git, writes no tests, or proposes custom code before checking whether configuration or Studio already solves the problem. Each of these shows up later as upgrade cost.
Also be careful with developers who only know one old version. Odoo changes meaningfully every year, especially in the web client, and experience on Odoo 12 does not translate directly to Odoo 19.