Founder & CTO
Diogo Duarte
Diogo Duarte works with Odoo since 2010. He is the ERPGAP CTO, resident Odoo Specialist Consultant and Developer.
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Diogo Duarte works with Odoo since 2010. He is the ERPGAP CTO, resident Odoo Specialist Consultant and Developer.
AI is starting to change how distribution companies sell, plan, stock, deliver, support customers, manage repairs, and compete. The question is not whether AI will affect your business, but how prepared you are when your competitors start using it well.
Diogo Duarte
· Jun 25, 2026 
The Zero-Click Paradox is changing how we consume content online. With answers now appearing directly in search results, creators and businesses are losing traffic and revenue.
Diogo Duarte
· Jun 15, 2026 
The paint industry requires precise control over formulations, raw materials, batch production, packaging, and inventory. As product portfolios grow, managing operations through disconnected systems becomes increasingly difficult. Learn how Odoo enables paint manufacturers to manage formulations, intermediate products, production planning, procurement, inventory, quality control, and financial reporting from a single platform, helping teams improve efficiency, traceability, and profitability.
Diogo Duarte
· Jun 4, 2026 
Step-by-step guide on setting up and testing PostgreSQL replication for Odoo 19 using Docker Compose — configure primary and replica databases, route reads/writes, and verify with logs.
Diogo Duarte
· Sep 23, 2025 
Odoo 19 introduces a new cron job mechanism that finally makes large data synchronizations reliable. By processing records in batches and automatically resuming after timeouts, long-running tasks like Shopify order imports can now run safely and continuously.
Diogo Duarte
· May 5, 2026 
C&L Aviation Group partnered with ERPGAP to build a secure B2B digital platform for aircraft spare parts. Using Alokai, Odoo, and Apache Airflow, the solution provides real-time stock visibility, controlled purchasing workflows, and full ownership over technology and infrastructure.
Diogo Duarte
· Dec 18, 2025 
Learn how ERPGAP uses Google Cloud Run, Redis and Alokai to deliver highly scalable, low-cost headless eCommerce solutions fully integrated with Odoo.
Diogo Duarte
· Dec 15, 2025 
Discover how migrating from Shopify to Odoo with a headless architecture powered by Alokai can help your business overcome scaling limits, reduce costs, and take full ownership of your platform.
Diogo Duarte
· Sep 25, 2025 
NetSuite is a strong ERP, but it comes with trade-offs: inflexibility, rising subscription costs, and limited advanced modules. This article breaks down the risks of NetSuite implementations and shows how Odoo offers a more flexible, cost-effective alternative for small and mid-sized businesses.
Diogo Duarte
· Sep 11, 2025 
Project management in engineering companies can be challenging due to the complexity of deliverables, multiple specialized teams, and layered workflows. While many tools exist, few offer the level of flexibility and integration that Odoo’s Projects app provides. Odoo Projects is a powerful yet intuitive application that adapts to all types of industries—including those with highly complex operations, such as engineering. Whether you're managing simple internal tasks or coordinating large-scale client deliveries involving multiple departments, Odoo Projects allows you to keep everything under control, linked, and visible.
Diogo Duarte
· Jul 14, 2025 
Imagine simply asking your Odoo system: “How many sales did we make last month?” … and getting the answer instantly. Or telling it: “Please send out all pending invoices tomorrow.” … without clicking through menus or running complex reports.
Diogo Duarte
· Jul 4, 2025 
A practical guide for merchants who have out-grown Shopify and want the freedom of a composable stack—combining Alokai’s headless storefront with Odoo’s all-in-one business suite—covering costs, customization, modern hosting options, and why most brands earn their money back in roughly two years.
Diogo Duarte
· May 23, 2025 
A practical guide to knowing when a growing business should stay on Odoo.sh and when it’s time to migrate to a self-hosted Odoo instance—covering cost, control, security, performance, and compliance considerations.
Diogo Duarte
· May 19, 2025 
Our Odoo project assessment service is designed to simplify complex implementations, align solutions with business needs, and respect your organization’s capacity for change. Discover how we help businesses regain momentum and achieve sustainable success.
Diogo Duarte
· Mar 20, 2025 
Did you know Odoo has built-in support for POSIX signals? This undocumented feature allows you to manage the server, by having a deeper understanding of the life cycle of http and cron workers.
Diogo Duarte
· Dec 17, 2024 
Many businesses manage multiple domains, such as an ERP domain for internal use, a B2C website for customers, and a B2B portal for client orders. However, using a single email domain across these platforms isn’t always practical and in some cases, maintaining distinct domains is essential to ensure clients don’t associate unrelated business entities.
Diogo Duarte
· Dec 12, 2024 
Using WordPress might be cheaper and quicker to set up, but Odoo has a significant integration advantage. When running an eCommerce business, you’ll need to handle shipping, returns, helpdesk, accounting, marketing, etc. These require extra software that most eCommerce platforms don't include or if they do, you will have a complex environment to deal with and lot's of double entry.
Diogo Duarte
· Nov 5, 2024 
Odoo boasts an impressive modular system, widely regarded as one of its most appreciated features by developers discovering the platform. You can install a module, and it can significantly alter the system's functionality—for better or for worse. But is this flexibility a strength or a potential pitfall?
Diogo Duarte
· Sep 2, 2024 
The Odoo module system is one of the greatest features that the Odoo framework has, it allows you to create your own module and change any part of the system. This requires understanding how the dependency tree forces the module updates.
Diogo Duarte
· Aug 14, 2024 
You've chosen Odoo for your business and now you need to understand the best option for hosting, let's understand what is the most suitable option for your business.
Diogo Duarte
· Aug 7, 2024 
Implementing an ERP system like Odoo or any other ERP often involves risks. Here are five major pitfalls to avoid.
Diogo Duarte
· Jan 16, 2024 
Odoo is a powerful tool that can help you manage your business. Here are the top 5 things you need to know before starting your project.
Diogo Duarte
· Dec 28, 2023 
Odoo has organized another release event after Odoo Connect in San Francisco, this time in Buffalo - New York. We had to present at this event to showcase our services and also connect with other partners and clients.
Diogo Duarte
· Dec 3, 2023 
Most times people fail to understand how Odoo interacts with the email server. We explain how it works and how you can set up configure your email server and Odoo
Diogo Duarte
· Jun 28, 2023 
Learn how to setup your development environment for Vuestorefront/Nuxt.js and Odoo development
Diogo Duarte
· Jun 20, 2023 
Why is it better to use Odoo+VueStorefront vs using a connector synchronizing other eCommerce Platform like Magento or Woocommerce
Diogo Duarte
· Jun 19, 2023 
Headless eCommerce means faster webshops and websites and also flexibility to change your shop.
Diogo Duarte
· Jun 9, 2021 
So you have a startup or a business idea and need a stable backend that can scale but has a strong data model already though for the international market. Do your homework and look at Odoo as a framework.
Diogo Duarte
· Jun 10, 2019 
Allow your business to transition from the monolith to the Headless paradigm in a seamless way.
Diogo Duarte
· May 17, 2023 
High-end furniture manufacturing is a very specific business with very specific requirements. Odoo is the perfect match, just needs some tweaking.
Diogo Duarte
· Sep 22, 2022 
GevenHout supplies wood for outdoor applications in the Netherlands and Belgium. The brand is the partner for the professionals.
Diogo Duarte
· Sep 19, 2022 
How to Setup an Odoo 15.0 development environment on Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish aims to help new Odoo developers to start fast understanding the several components you need too develop in Odoo.
Diogo Duarte
· Aug 24, 2022 
If you are doing serious eCommerce then Vue Storefront and Odoo makes lot's of sense. Take the best Headless system on the open source scene, using the most friendly and powerful technology.
Diogo Duarte
· Aug 20, 2022 
Odoo allows negative inventory values and that option has some advantages but also some challenges
Diogo Duarte
· Feb 14, 2022 
It's not another connector synchronization module, all the data sits in Odoo you just get a decoupled storefront.
Diogo Duarte
· Jul 11, 2021 
How to make your Odoo website and webshop blazing fast with memcached
Diogo Duarte
· Feb 27, 2020 
The quality checks will be triggered from each control point at a specific inventory operation or from the manufacturing operations.
Diogo Duarte
· Aug 27, 2019 
In this article we will explain our most frequent Odoo server architectures and how how we handle the release pipeline for our clients at OdooGAP.
Diogo Duarte
· Oct 3, 2020 
ERPGAP is a Certified Odoo Partner for the U.S. and we have already implemented several Manufacturing, Inventory and eCommerce projects using Odoo. Along with this, we're also using Odoo to develop Real Estate solutions for the U.S. market.
Diogo Duarte
· Nov 29, 2018 
Experience we have from other systems relates to what i hear from costumers that used Sage and Dynamics as an example. Ends up being opensource vs closed source, but not only that, but also the capability of reinventing ERP.
Diogo Duarte
· Dec 19, 2018 
Trust Accounting with Odoo, how can law offices use Odoo to control their practice.
Diogo Duarte
· Jul 24, 2019 
Just imagine having a full blown ERP that is open and integration friendly. Odoo can manage all your business for you from collecting payments, handling shipping and connec to with your third party service providers with full control.
Diogo Duarte
· Dec 15, 2019 
Odoo 13.0 was released on Odoo Experience 2019, 2nd October, check out what is new about Odoo v13 that stands out ?
Diogo Duarte
· Oct 8, 2019 
Having a ecommerce is much more that selling, that's just the start. We can connect you with the best online opensource base ERP on the market so you can handle inventory, helpdesk, RMA and even your accounting.
Diogo Duarte
· Oct 23, 2019 
Open software has already rooted itself deep within today’s Fortune 500, with many contributing back to the projects they adopt. We’re not just talking stalwarts like Google and Facebook.
Diogo Duarte
· Jul 4, 2016 
What are the main reasons to consider Odoo vs Wordpress with WooCommerce or Odoo vs Shopify or Odoo vs Magento.
Diogo Duarte
· Jul 28, 2019 
How to use NGINX to reverse proxy Odoo.
Diogo Duarte
· Jun 27, 2018 
A definitive list of search term operators can, in fact, be found in the source code, the operators give the possibility to search and manipulate records on odoo's database.
Diogo Duarte
· Jun 29, 2019 
Odoo documentation has improved a lot on the latest releases but still there some less known features on the UI development
Diogo Duarte
· May 4, 2020 
In a global and dynamic market, with changes occurring constantly to the products and also to what your customers need now and want in the future.
Diogo Duarte
· Jun 15, 2020 
Leads vs Prospects, which one comes first? Depends on the definition of your CRM, but now it requires looking deeper into the concepts.
Diogo Duarte
· Jan 29, 2017 
It has been a while since I've been waiting for LXC to be stable enough to use in production. Let me tell you why I think that LXD works like a daemon for LXC.
Diogo Duarte
· Oct 4, 2016 
How to use PostgreSQL Dockerized for Odoo Usage.
Diogo Duarte
· Jun 16, 2016 
Odoo Sales is a powerful, yet easy-to-use app. At first, I used the sales planner. Thanks to it, I got tips and tricks to boost my sales performance.
Diogo Duarte
· Mar 31, 2016 
Have you ever got a timeout while doing some long operation or some parallel call in the main process flow? Here is how you can solve your problem.
Diogo Duarte
· Mar 24, 2016