Island Mart
Retail & Commerce
Products, customers, website, orders, purchasing, and inventory.
Today might bring:A customer places a sudden order for 100 supply kits.
Learn moreISLANDBYTE ODOO LAB
Learn Odoo through a company
that actually runs.
IslandByte Odoo Lab is a continuously operating ERP learning environment.
From retail and engineering to manufacturing,
we put real business problems into Odoo and work through them.
We start with Community standard flows,
then research OCA,
and only then decide if IslandByte extensions are warranted.
STANDARD
Odoo Community
Understand native ERP flows first
COMMUNITY
OCA
Do not reinvent mature community solutions
SOLUTION
IslandByte Extensions
Extend only with a clear gap
LIVING COMPANY
Not learning buttons —
learning how a company runs.
Island Works
Engineering & Projects
Quotes, projects, timesheets, materials, and field work.
Today might bring:An engineer arrives on site and finds materials are short.
Learn moreIsland Factory
Manufacturing & Supply Chain
Purchasing, raw materials, BOMs, production, and maintenance.
Today might bring:100 units to produce, but key materials cover only 60.
Learn moreHOW WE SOLVE
Start from standard flows —
so every extension has a basis.
01
Odoo Community
Understand standard ERP flows first.
02
OCA
When native falls short,
research mature community solutions.
03
Gap Analysis
Operate, reproduce,
and find where the process actually breaks.
04
IslandByte Solution
Only when a clear gap exists,
design a dedicated extension.
EXPERIMENTS
Experiments in progress
Every question starts from a business problem —
not from "which module to install.\
LAB-S1-001
100 expedition supply kits —
what happens in ERP?
Ready to start
LAB-S1-002
Inter-company transactions within one group —
why duplicate orders?
Planned
LAB-S1-003
A calendar —
does that mean a restaurant reservation system?
PLANNED · Island Table
THE LAB METHOD
A continuously growing Living Lab
This is not a disposable demo database.
Every quote, purchase, production run, stock move, and experiment result
stays in the same world,
becoming context for the next question.
Question
Hypothesis
Operate
Evidence
Outcome
Improve
All companies, people, and transactions are fictional; no real customer data is used.
What should the next experiment
investigate?
Is an Odoo workflow giving you trouble?
We select suitable problems
and validate them in the Lab.