Background Report Printing

Background Report Printing makes slow, heavy reports safe to run. A big batch print of hundreds of invoices, or an Enterprise financial report covering a full year, normally freezes the browser while Odoo builds the document. This module moves those heavy reports into a background queue and hands each finished file back through a download center in the top bar, while small prints keep downloading instantly the way they always have.

What it does

The module intercepts the standard Odoo Print menu and the Enterprise financial report PDF and Excel buttons, so nothing changes in how your team prints. Small prints, under a record threshold you configure, download instantly exactly as they do today. Larger batch prints are sent to a background queue that renders the PDF on the server, so the browser never hangs. Enterprise financial reports such as Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet and General Ledger are handled the same way, and are sent to the background based on how much data is behind them rather than their date range, so a small report always stays instant and only a genuinely heavy one is queued. When a report is ready, the same per-user download center that Background Data Export uses lights up with a red counter, and a single click downloads the finished PDF or Excel file.

Who it's for

Any Odoo team that prints large batches or runs heavy accounting reports and has watched the browser freeze while the file builds. It is ideal for finance users waiting on a year-end Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet or General Ledger, and for operations teams that batch print hundreds of invoices, pickings or quotations at once. It pairs with Background Data Export, reusing the same background queue and per-user download center, so heavy reports and heavy exports both run safely in the background and land in one familiar place.