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What's new in Odoo 20 Industries

Ready-made Odoo setups for your sector, with new packages in Odoo 20.

25 industry packages
5 sector groups
13 brand-new packages

Industry packages are ready-made Odoo setups for a specific type of business. Each one combines the right apps with preconfigured settings, data and workflows, so a company in that sector starts from a setup built for how it already works instead of a blank database.

Odoo 20 adds new packages for sectors such as beauty parlors, physical and mental therapy, catering, interior design, vineyards, machine rental and public institutions, and updates existing ones for construction, hotels, property management and nonprofits. The descriptions below are based on Odoo's official Odoo 20 release notes.

Last updated 14 October 2026

6 new in Odoo 20

Construction & property

6 features
01

Construction Builder

The Construction Builder package appears under the name General Contractor. It uses section templates as a catalog of frequently performed work, so that quotations can be prepared faster by reusing these sections.

Why it matters Helps general contractors quote faster using section templates for frequent work.
02

Construction Developer

The Construction Developer package appears under the name Property Developer. It is built on Manufacturing and Inventory, using bills of materials, routings and locations, and offers cost-based quoting, a WBS view, worksite stock, a progress view and a dashboard.

Why it matters Helps property developers quote on costs and track worksite stock and progress.
03
New

Interior Design

An industry package for interior design firms. It covers inquiries received through the website, resource planning, procurement, project management and the tracking of project profitability.

Why it matters Helps interior design firms handle inquiries, planning, procurement, projects and profitability.
04

Property Management

The Property Management industry package can share the same database with the Property Owner Association and Real Estate industry packages, so these activities can be run side by side.

Why it matters Lets property managers share one database with owner association and real estate operations.
05

Property Owner Association

The Property Owner Association package supports a history of owners, running and reporting on general meetings, and distribution of costs based on meters. It can be installed in the same database as Property Management.

Why it matters Helps owner associations track owner history, run general meetings and distribute meter-based costs.
06

Real Estate

In the Real Estate industry package, matchmaking criteria can be adjusted directly in the matchmaking form. The package can also be installed together with Property Management in the same database.

Why it matters Lets real estate agencies adjust matchmaking criteria and run alongside property management.

5 new in Odoo 20

Rental, equipment & refurbishment

5 features
07
New

Agri-Equipment Rental

An industry package for businesses that rent out and maintain agricultural machinery, such as tractors, harvesters and other farm equipment. It covers both the rental of the machines and their maintenance.

Why it matters Helps agricultural machinery businesses manage rental and maintenance of tractors and harvesters.
08
New

Custom Industrial Equipment

An engineer-to-order industry package for EPC and turnkey projects. For custom industrial equipment, it supports every stage: design, prototyping, manufacturing, procurement, installation, maintenance and support.

Why it matters Helps engineer-to-order businesses run turnkey projects from design through installation and support.
09

Deposit module

The Deposit Management module, used by the beverage distributor and micro-brewery industry packages, can be installed on its own. Companies can therefore manage deposits without installing one of those industry packages.

Why it matters Lets businesses install deposit management on its own, without a full industry package.
10
New

Electronic Refurbishment

An industry package for businesses that refurbish electronic devices. It includes refurbishment grades to classify the devices and accounting under the VAT margin scheme for their resale.

Why it matters Helps device refurbishers grade refurbished electronics and apply VAT margin scheme accounting.
11
New

Machine and Tool Rental

An industry package for machine and tool rental. It covers rental contracts, quarantine of items when they are returned, down payments based on consumption, monitoring of run time and planning of maintenance.

Why it matters Helps machine and tool rental businesses manage contracts, returns, run-time monitoring and maintenance.

5 new in Odoo 20

Health, beauty & care

5 features
12
New

Beauty Parlor

An industry package for beauty parlors. It covers the management of customers, the booking of appointments, the follow-up of treatments and the invoicing of the services provided.

Why it matters Helps beauty parlors manage customers, appointments, treatment follow-up and invoicing.
13
New

Community Care

An industry package for community care organizations. It covers staff holidays and planning, residents together with their data and calendars, and the transfer of knowledge within the organization.

Why it matters Helps community care organizations plan staff, manage residents' data and calendars, and share knowledge.
14
New

Mental Therapy

An industry package for mental health professionals. It helps them manage their patients, therapy sessions and the notes taken during sessions, as well as the invoicing of those sessions.

Why it matters Helps mental health professionals manage patients, sessions, session notes and invoicing.
15
New

Pet Groomer

The Pet Groomer package is an industry package aimed at businesses offering pet grooming services. The available source gives no further detail about the apps or flows it contains.

Why it matters Helps pet grooming businesses run their services in Odoo.
16
New

Physical Therapy

An industry package for physical therapists. It covers patient care, the planning of therapy sessions, the tracking of treatments and the billing of the services provided.

Why it matters Helps physical therapists manage patient care, sessions, treatment tracking and billing.

5 new in Odoo 20

Hospitality, food & drink

5 features
17
New

Catering

An industry package for catering services. It supports the whole business flow, starting from the first contact with a client and going through to the planning of the work on site.

Why it matters Helps catering services run their business from first client contact to on-site planning.
18

Excise module

In the excise module, which is used by the micro brewery, beverage distributor and vineyard industry packages, the excise report shows production separately from inventory adjustments.

Why it matters Helps breweries, beverage distributors and vineyards separate production from inventory adjustments in excise reports.
19

Hospitality industries

The hotel, holiday house, guest house and campsite industry packages add housekeeping, consolidation of bar and restaurant bills, seasonal pricing, early check-in and late check-out options, and a dashboard.

Why it matters Helps hotels, guest houses and campsites manage housekeeping, seasonal pricing and consolidated bar/restaurant bills.
20

Hotel

The Hotel industry package tracks the number of guests and supports multiple companies and branches, so that several accommodation businesses can be run in parallel.

Why it matters Helps hotels track guest counts and run several companies or branches in parallel.
21
New

Vineyard

An industry package for vineyards. It covers the full wine-making flow of the business, from the grape harvested in the vineyard all the way to the finished wine.

Why it matters Helps vineyards manage the full wine-making flow from grape to wine.

4 new in Odoo 20

Professional & public services

4 features
22

Accounting Firm

This industry package adds handling of identity documents and anti-money-laundering checks for accounting firms. It also includes the Database app, which offers a dashboard for managing the databases of the firm's customers.

Why it matters Helps accounting firms handle identity documents, anti-money-laundering checks and customer databases from a dashboard.
23

Nonprofit Organization

The Nonprofit Organization industry package comes with improved donation receipts, which the organization issues to its donors. The petitions feature is not part of this package.

Why it matters Helps nonprofits issue better donation receipts; expect the petitions feature to be gone.
24
New

Public Institution

An industry package for public institutions. It covers citizen support, appointments, a citizen portal, the rental of facilities, community events and further services for citizens.

Why it matters Helps public institutions provide citizen support, appointments, a citizen portal and facility rentals.
25

Talent Acquisition

The Talent Acquisition package links applicants, the talent pool and job positions closely. It offers a friendlier interface, improved synchronisation and more accurate matching of talent to job positions.

Why it matters Helps recruiters match talent to job positions more accurately.

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Odoo 20 Industries questions

  • How many new Industries features are in Odoo 20?

    25 across 5 sector groups, 4% of the 637 new features in the release by TechUltra's count. By app: Construction & property (6), Rental, equipment & refurbishment (5), Health, beauty & care (5), Hospitality, food & drink (5), Professional & public services (4).

  • What are the biggest Industries changes in Odoo 20?

    In Construction & property, construction builder: helps general contractors quote faster using section templates for frequent work. In Rental, equipment & refurbishment, agri-equipment rental: helps agricultural machinery businesses manage rental and maintenance of tractors and harvesters. In Health, beauty & care, beauty parlor: helps beauty parlors manage customers, appointments, treatment follow-up and invoicing.

  • How do we get the Odoo 20 Industries features?

    If you run Odoo 16, 17, 18 or 19, they arrive with the upgrade to Odoo 20. A free written assessment lists your modules, the risks in your build and a fixed price. If you are new to Odoo, start directly on Odoo 20 with a fixed-price implementation, priced after a paid discovery week.

Sources: TechUltra's Odoo 20 feature guide; package descriptions are based on Odoo's official Odoo 20 release notes.

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