Categorize purchases, report on what matters.
Add color-coded tags to RFQs and purchase orders, carry them automatically into vendor bills, and turn every tag into a live spend report — across companies, with no spreadsheets required.
The problem
Buyers juggle purchases across projects, cost centers, urgency levels, and campaigns that Odoo does not track natively. Without structured labels, categorization ends up in the reference field or an outside spreadsheet, breaking filtering, grouping, and month-end reporting — and the labels never reach the vendor bills that finance reconciles.
The solution
Purchase Order Tags gives buyers a shared, color-coded tag vocabulary that follows every order from RFQ to purchase order to vendor bill. Tags stay searchable, groupable, and reportable at every stage, with bulk tools so tagging a hundred orders takes the same effort as tagging one.
Everything tagging should do
Every capability below is implemented in the module.
Color-coded tag library
Create and manage a shared library of color-coded purchase tags, with an Orders smart button on every tag showing how many purchase orders use it.
Tags on RFQs and purchase orders
Apply multiple tags to any RFQ or purchase order from the form, the list column, or inline creation — no separate configuration screen required.
Full RFQ to vendor bill propagation
Tags carry automatically from a confirmed purchase order into the vendor bill created from it, so the buyer's categories reach the people who reconcile spend.
Tags on vendor bills
Vendor bills display purchase tags and let accountants edit them directly, shown only on bills (not customer invoices) to keep the accounting UI clean.
Bulk tagging wizard
Select any number of purchase orders or vendor bills in the list view and add, replace, or remove tags in a single action from the Actions menu.
Search and group by tag
Filter and group RFQs, purchase orders, and vendor bills by tag directly from the search bar, so slicing the pipeline by category takes one click.
Spend by Tag reporting
A dedicated Spend by Tag pivot and graph report under Purchasing turns tags into a live spend-by-category dashboard the moment they are applied.
Multi-company tag library
Tags can be shared globally or scoped to a single company, with a built-in record rule so multi-entity organizations see only the tags that apply to them.
Tag manager permission group
A dedicated Manage Purchase Tags group controls who can create, edit, or delete tags, while every purchasing user can apply existing tags to their orders.
How it works
Build your tag library
Create color-coded tags for the categories your team actually uses — projects, cost centers, urgency, campaigns, or vendors.
Tag RFQs and POs
Apply tags from the order form or list, or tag many orders at once with the bulk wizard, starting from the request-for-quotation stage.
Tags follow the money
Confirm the order and its tags carry automatically into the vendor bill, so finance sees the same categories the buyer assigned.
Filter, group, and report
Search and group purchase orders and vendor bills by tag, then open Spend by Tag for a live pivot of spend across every category.
Frequently asked
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Yes. When a confirmed purchase order is invoiced, its tags are copied onto the resulting vendor bill automatically. After that, the bill's tags are independent, so accountants can adjust them without changing the source order.
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Purchase Order Tags
Color-coded tags on every RFQ and purchase order that propagate all the way through to the vendor bill, with bulk tagging, group-by, and Spend by Tag reporting.
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