Odoo Construction Business Show · 19 August
How many days does it take you to issue an IPC?
Ask a UAE contractor and the answers range from four days to three weeks. The three-week answers almost always share one cause — and it is not the software.
The BOQ lives in Excel. The measurement sheet lives with the QS. The retention ledger lives in a finance file nobody else opens.
Nothing is broken. Nothing talks to anything else. Every payment application is reassembled by hand, by someone who already has a full week.
What standard Odoo actually does — and doesn’t
We are an Odoo partner, so this is an uncomfortable thing to publish. It is also true.
Odoo out of the box handles projects, purchasing, accounting, inventory and payroll well. These five things it does not handle at all:
These are not settings you switch on. They do not exist in the standard product.
Any partner who tells you otherwise is planning to discover that during your implementation, at your expense. That is not hypothetical — it is the single most common way construction ERP projects in this region stall at month five.
Four questions worth asking before you buy anything
Take these to your QS and your finance lead this week. The time it takes to get an answer is the diagnosis.
If any of these takes more than five minutes to answer, the gap is not in your team. It is in the handoff between site, QS and finance — and no generic ERP closes it.
The deadline nobody in construction has priced in yet
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Days to appoint an ASP
If your annual revenue exceeds AED 50 million, you must appoint an Accredited Service Provider by 30 October 2026. Mandatory e-invoicing goes live 1 January 2027. The penalty for missing it is AED 5,000 per month, uncapped.
Construction has a harder version of this problem than most sectors, for a specific reason: your invoice is not an invoice. It is a payment application carrying measured quantities, a retention deduction, an advance recovery and often a variation annexure. Turning that into structured PINT AE XML is a billing-process question first and a compliance question second.
Most contractors we speak to have not started.
What we are showing on 19 August
Faceela is presenting at the Odoo Construction Business Show on 19 August, 2:00–3:00 PM. Online, free.
Our fifteen minutes are one continuous live flow on a single contract. No slides, no module tour, no company introduction:
Free — one page
The construction billing chain, with every gap marked
BOQ to IPC to retention to variation order to e-invoicing — with the break marked at every point where standard Odoo hands off to a spreadsheet.
- The one-page map, by email, immediately
- The session recording on 20 August — attend or not
- Nothing else. No list, no newsletter
Prefer to attend live? Register on Odoo’s event page
Faceela FZE LLC is an Odoo Ready Partner based in Sharjah, UAE, specialising in construction and manufacturing ERP.
