How to run your own Odoo SaaS platform

Why would you sell Odoo as SaaS?

Because your clients don’t want to manage a server. They want to click “Sign Up” and have their ERP running in 10 minutes. And you want recurring revenue, not one-off implementation fees.

The architecture (high level)

You need three things:

A control plane — where you manage tenants, servers, backups, billing
Tenant servers — actual Odoo containers running per-customer databases
DNS + SSL automation — so acme.yourplatform.com just works

The hard parts (we’ve solved them)

1. Tenant isolation

You can’t put 100 clients in one Odoo database. Solution: one Postgres database per tenant, shared Odoo Python code, isolated data. Use dbfilter = ^%h$ so each subdomain maps to its own DB.

2. Automated provisioning

Click “new tenant” → Odoo database created, filestore initialized, NPM/Nginx proxy route added, Cloudflare DNS record created, SSL issued, admin email sent. Total time: under 60 seconds.

3. Backups that actually work

Per-tenant daily backups to S3/Backblaze. Retention policies. Tested restore process. Disaster recovery plan. Most partners forget this until the first outage.

4. Upgrades

Odoo ships a new version every year. Your tenants expect to upgrade. You need a one-click upgrade path per tenant that’s safely tested.

5. Billing

Stripe/HyperPay/PayTabs + usage tracking. Plan limits (max users, max DB size). Dunning when a card fails.

Our shortcut: WT SaaS Odoo Kit

We built all of the above as a reusable module: WT SaaS Odoo Kit.

It includes:

Control plane Odoo module (manage servers, stacks, tenants)
SSH-based server provisioning
Nginx Proxy Manager integration (DNS + SSL)
Cloudflare DNS automation
Backup & restore wizard
Health checks and monitoring
Tenant drop wizard with type-to-confirm
“Connect As Admin” for one-click impersonation

We use it in production to run our own SaaS platform. It handles 50+ tenants across 5 servers without breaking a sweat.

Economics

If you charge $50/month per tenant and have 100 tenants:

Monthly revenue: $5,000
Server costs (5 VPS × $40): $200
Your net: ~$4,800/month with near-zero incremental effort per customer

Compare to doing 100 one-off Odoo implementations: you’d need an army of consultants.

Ready to start your SaaS?

Two options:

Buy the kit, run it yourself. We install it on your server, train you, you’re off.
Let us operate it for you. We provide the infrastructure and first-line support, you focus on selling.