Partner Code - Customer and Vendor Reference Codes

Partner Code brings clean, predictable customer and vendor numbering to Odoo contacts. Instead of one free text reference, every contact gets an automatic code based on what it actually is, with customers and vendors numbered in their own separate series and each company free to keep its own prefix and range.

What it does

You set a Partner Type on the contact, Customer, Vendor, Customer and Vendor, or Other. From that, the module assigns a customer code, a vendor code, or both, each drawn from its own configurable sequence, so your customers run in one series like CUS/00001 and your vendors in another like VEN/00001. Codes are sticky once assigned, so a customer you later mark as a vendor keeps its customer code and simply gains a vendor one. Everything is configurable from a dedicated Settings section: the prefix and number of digits for each series, whether codes are assigned automatically or on demand, and whether people may type their own. In a multi company database each company gets an independent number range and its own prefix, and the code is issued by the company that creates the contact, with uniqueness enforced per company. You can also show the code next to the partner name across sales, purchase, invoicing and payments, and find any contact by typing its code.

Who it's for

Businesses that need real customer and vendor reference numbers in Odoo, the way larger ERPs assign separate number ranges per role, rather than relying on the single built in reference field. It fits finance and operations teams that quote a customer number or a supplier number on documents, groups that run several companies and want each to keep its own numbering, and anyone migrating from a system where every partner already had a code. It installs on Community and needs no accounting or Enterprise app.