Never run out of the fast-moving stock again
A velocity-based reorder cockpit, one-click supplier comparison and one-tap trade pricing layered on top of Inventory, Purchase and Sales — built for independent hardware stores juggling thousands of mixed SKUs.
The problem
Hardware stores stock thousands of low-value SKUs across unrelated categories — plumbing, electrical, fasteners, gardening — many sold loose, by weight, or by length. A popular fitting quietly sells out between checks, a cheaper supplier goes unnoticed, and trade customers get the same flat price as a walk-in. Generic retail POS tools were not built for this catalog, and full ERP suites bury the owner in accounting complexity they never asked for.
The solution
Hardware Store Management adds a focused owner cockpit on top of the Odoo apps you already run. A daily cron turns sales velocity into a risk-sorted reorder list, one click raises an RFQ to the cheapest supplier, a hardware category taxonomy keeps the catalog organised, and trade accounts get one-tap volume pricing — while Counter Staff keep a simple, back-office-free view.
Everything a hardware store cockpit needs
Every capability below is implemented in the module.
Velocity-Based Reorder Forecasting
A daily cron turns sales history into days-of-cover per product and warehouse, flagging out-of-stock, critical, and low-stock risk before the shelf is empty.
One-Click Bulk RFQ
Turn a single suggestion, or several at once, straight into a purchase order addressed to the cheapest supplier — no manual line entry.
Hardware Category Taxonomy
Classify products across plumbing, electrical, carpentry, gardening, machinery, fasteners, paint, hand tools and safety — and group, filter and report by category everywhere.
Loose, Weight, Length & Volume Sale Modes
Mark how each product is actually sold — per unit, by weight, by length, or by volume — so the catalog matches how counter staff really ring it up.
Supplier Comparison
See every vendor price for a product side by side, with the cheapest supplier and price computed automatically on each product.
Trade Accounts
Flag regular contractors and bulk buyers as trade accounts with their own discount, so they are ready for volume pricing the moment they order.
One-Tap Trade Pricing
A single button on the sales order switches the price list to the trade / volume pricelist and recomputes every line — no manual price list hunting.
Risk-Grouped Dashboard
A kanban cockpit groups every suggestion by risk level — out of stock, critical, low, or OK — so the most urgent reorders surface first.
Role-Separated Access
Counter Staff get a read-only cockpit plus catalog and stock lookup; Store Managers get full purchasing, sales and configuration access.
How it works
Tag the catalog
Set a hardware category and sale mode on each product, and list supplier prices for comparison.
Let the cockpit watch stock
A daily cron computes sales velocity and days-of-cover per product and warehouse, surfacing risk on the dashboard.
Act on the risk list
Select the at-risk suggestions and raise a purchase order to the cheapest supplier in one click.
Serve trade accounts fast
On a trade customer’s order, apply trade pricing with one button and every line recomputes.
Frequently asked
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No. Checkout, mobile POS and barcode scanning are already covered by Odoo’s core Point of Sale and Inventory apps. This module focuses purely on the owner/back-office cockpit: reorder forecasting, supplier comparison, and trade pricing, so it stays lean and installs alongside your existing setup.
Buy it on the Odoo App Store
Purchase, download and install directly from the official Odoo Apps Store — you'll always get the latest supported build.
Hardware Store Management
Velocity-based reorder forecasting with one-click bulk RFQs, supplier comparison and loose, weight and length sale modes — plus trade accounts with one-tap trade pricing.
Buy on Odoo App Store