A supplier portal built on your Odoo purchase orders
Giving external suppliers direct access to Odoo is usually the wrong move: it's unfamiliar to them, and it exposes far more than they need. Most purchase order back-and-forth (confirm this, we can't do that quantity, it'll ship Friday) can instead happen through a narrow portal that shows a supplier exactly their own open orders and nothing else.
Supplier portal
Purchase orders
- PO2231Confirmed
24 units · Due Fri
- PO2238
60 units · Due Mon
Interactive demo: a sample purchase order list.
How it connects to Odoo Purchase
The portal reads purchase.order and purchase.order.line records filtered to the logged-in supplier's res.partner record, showing open orders and what's expected on each line. When a supplier confirms an order or updates a date, that action calls the same underlying methods Odoo's own Purchase app uses (like confirming a PO), so the order's state in Odoo stays accurate without anyone on your team re-entering what the supplier said over email.
What changes for procurement
Purchase order status becomes something your team can trust at a glance instead of something scattered across an inbox: a confirmed order in Odoo means the supplier actually confirmed it, not that someone remembered to update the record after a phone call. That matters most for businesses juggling more than a handful of active suppliers at once.
Typical scope and timeline
A first version (one login per supplier, their open orders, confirm and date-update actions) is what the starting price below reflects. Letting suppliers attach documents, handle partial shipments, or manage multiple contacts per supplier company are each additional scope, quoted once the actual purchasing process is understood.
Pricing
From $790
Starting price for a per-supplier login, a list of that supplier's open purchase orders, and confirm/update actions. Multi-user supplier accounts or document uploads (packing lists, certificates) are scoped separately.
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