The report finance gave up on. The error that stalled a go-live. The integration that stayed “next quarter” for a year. Every request below came from a real production account — condensed and lightly edited for privacy. Pick your role and find your own workload.
A number is wrong and nobody knows why. CodeCobra investigates in the live database until there's a real answer — with the records that prove it.
Read more about this →“Why is my bank balance off by $35,000 every month for June and July? Is there an entry we made that caused it?”
Traced it to a journal entry posted in June and repeated in July, found the balancing side hit Cost of Goods Sold, and drafted the reversal — waiting on approval before touching anything.
“Outstanding receipts as of June 30 show $977K. What makes that up — is it payments that never bank-matched?”
Broke the balance down into its components and isolated exactly which portion was payments that never matched a bank statement line.
The number you need, in Odoo or in Excel — dashboards, pivots, exports and saved views.
Read more about this →“Can you build me a dashboard where I can see the cost of finished products against my price lists, and the margin if I sell at each price?”
Built the margin dashboard in Odoo. When a pivot showed impossible values on zero-stock rows it found the bug, fixed it, and verified exactly 39 cells changed with the pivots untouched.
“Please send me a list of customers that owe money above 90 days.”
Generated the overdue receivables list straight out of the live ledger.
Paste the traceback. It reproduces, root-causes, patches, tests and opens the pull request.
Read more about this →“[pasted traceback] I'm getting this error when trying to validate this batch.”
Set up a persistent monitor, refused to stop at “couldn't reproduce”, and drove it to a root cause in the procurement rule cascade.
“The copy button from that last change doesn't copy the text anymore.”
Found the regression, fixed it, and handled the edge case where an order has no site contact — so the fallback never leaves you without a phone number.
The field, button or warning your team has been working around for years.
Read more about this →“Can we make the delivery address on a sales order copyable to the clipboard, so I can paste it elsewhere?”
Added copy-to-clipboard on the address — then, on request, made the copied text link back to the sales order.
“On the delivery checkout page, we need to let the customer enter a PO number and pick a ship date.”
Built both fields into checkout, fixed the confirmation page, added a guard test, and pushed it all as a pull request.
Catalogs, variants, vendor pricing, bank statements — the data entry that eats a week.
Read more about this →“Create the master product with all forty variants from this vendor sheet.”
Built the master product and all 40 variants with vendor codes and pricelist entries — staged first for review.
“Can you create this bank statement in Odoo for me? It starts on page 43 of the PDF.”
Read the statement from page 43 onward and created the bank statement in Odoo, line by line.
QuickBooks, payment gateways, tax and shipping APIs — synced and un-stuck.
Read more about this →“Can you see why this payment did not sync to QuickBooks?”
Traced the sync failure to its cause in the connector and fixed the export.
“Review the QuickBooks connector. We want only POS invoices exported — propose a way to do this, but don't write any code yet.”
Analysed the connector, proposed the approach with trade-offs, and wrote no code — because it was told not to.
Old versions forward, other systems in, spreadsheets absorbed — with reconciliation at the end.
Read more about this →“Import the accounting history for the QuickBooks migration, with closing entries.”
Imported the history, set up the bank and credit-card journals, and reconstructed the prior year-end trial balance.
“Investigate whether these v13 custom modules can be migrated to v19.”
Assessed every module for feasibility, then migrated the ones worth keeping — theme, portal orders, extended product behaviour.
Net-new Odoo modules: models, views, security rules, tests, CI.
Read more about this →“I'd like a dispatch board where we can drag loads into rounds, and that assigns the truck.”
Built a drag-and-drop dispatch board as a real Odoo module — with browser tours running in CI so a regression can never silently ship.
“Build an online credit application with a signing workflow.”
Built the application form and the sign-off flow end to end.
Guides, SOPs and knowledge-base articles written for people who aren't technical.
Read more about this →“My employees are struggling with filters. Can you write a detailed guide with examples of contains, is-in, equals, not-equals and child-of?”
Wrote the filter training guide with worked examples drawn from their own database.
“Make a guide with screenshots for building product sets, matching the style of our existing knowledge base.”
Summarised the process for approval, wrote the guide in the house style, and published it to the staging and production knowledge bases.