Automotive, France
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Case Study
Renel Auto
Renel Auto Accessoires sells spare parts and accessories for classic cars in France.
Renel founded the business in 1965, and it still trades under the family name.
Catalogues are split by marque, with separate sections for Citroën, Renault and Peugeot.
That mix means a single reference can be the last one on the shelf.
Owners restoring a Traction Avant, a 4CV or a 203 buy from the shop online and in person.
Stock also travels to swap meets and shows, which Renel lists on the site.
Renel Auto ran its stock, sales and counter on Odoo 15, which kept slipping further behind current Odoo.
Its shop front is PrestaShop, so both systems talk through a bridge rather than sharing one database.
Years of project work had settled on top of the standard build, and none of it moves by itself.
A version jump changes the framework those customisations are written against, so each one has to be reworked.
Part records, stock figures, customers and order history all had to land whole on the other side.
Losing the link to the storefront was the bigger risk, since orders and stock cross it every day.
Lifting a shaped, connected setup onto a new release without changing how the shop works was the real job.
Webkul moved the whole Renel Auto environment from Odoo 15 to Odoo 19 in one project.
Code, data and integrations went across together, and the team checked each part against the new release first.
Webkul has run the same move for an American hardware supplier, whose Odoo 19 migration covered ten custom modules.
Three things move: the business data, the customisations sitting on top of Odoo, and the integrations.
Data migration ran first, moving the Odoo 15 records into Odoo 19 for validation against the source.
Every customisation was reviewed, adapted to Odoo 19 and tested rather than reinstalled as it was.
Core processes were then walked end to end, from purchase and stock through to sale and delivery.
Issues thrown up by the move were fixed before the upgraded environment went into production.
Renel Auto sells from a PrestaShop storefront while Odoo holds the stock and the orders.
That bridge was already running on Odoo 15, so it had to keep running on Odoo 19.
Webkul carried the integration across with the rest of the move, then tested the sync once Odoo 19 was up.
Catalogue data, stock and orders keep moving between the two systems the way they did before.
A part reference such as CI01288 tells you nothing about what the part looks like.
Renel handles chrome trim, badges, seals and switches that read almost the same on paper.
So Webkul added the product image to each Odoo sales order line, and to the delivery slip as well.
Staff picking an order now see the part next to the reference instead of matching codes by eye.
That image travels onto the paperwork, so whoever packs the box has the same check.
The counter runs on Odoo POS, where a product card leaves the seller little room for a name.
Classic car parts carry long descriptions, because the model, the year and the variant all sit in the name.
Widening the POS product card let those longer names and descriptions show in full.
Two warehouse fields also went into the Product Information popup: the output location and the storage category.
Sellers can now read where a part sits without leaving the sale or asking the warehouse.
For a shop working off old stock and salvage shelves, that is the difference between a quick sale and a hunt.
Renel Auto now runs its parts business on Odoo 19, with its data, its custom work and its storefront link intact.
Nothing changed in how the shop sells while the platform underneath it moved forward.
Their PrestaShop store still syncs with Odoo, so online orders and stock stay on the same footing as before.
Both counter and warehouse changes came out of daily practice rather than the upgrade itself.
Picking and packing lean on the product image, and the counter reads stock locations straight from the POS.
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