What is a Light User in Odoo 20?

A Light User is a new, lower-priced kind of Odoo user for people who need Odoo for their own work rather than for running the business: time off, expenses, attendance, planning, point-of-sale shifts, warehouse scanning. In Odoo 20 every user form carries a Role with three choices, Light, User, and Administrator. Odoo’s pricing page calls the Light User “a cost-effective license”.

Odoo’s pricing page lists a Light User price well below a full user. Viewed from India on 24 September 2026, it showed “Light User at 195 Rs” next to Rs 580 to 950 per user per month for the Standard plan. Prices differ by country and billing period, and Odoo sells Light User licences through an Odoo Advisor with a customised quote rather than self-serve checkout.

According to Odoo’s pricing page: manage their own profile, leave requests, expense reports, referrals, appraisals, meal tracking, and attendance; view planning and manage worksheets; connect as an employee in a Point of Sale session; read the Knowledge app; and perform barcode scanning in the warehouse, without rights to create products or manage inventory.

Odoo’s pricing page is explicit: no access to core operational business applications, naming Sales, Purchases, Projects, and Accounting, and no access to advanced features reserved for Standard or Custom users. Those people need a full User.

Yes, under Odoo’s Enterprise Agreement version 13. Its definition of a Light User includes “any active employee record (from the human resources App) not linked to an active non-portal user account”, and Odoo’s pricing page describes a Light User as, among other things, an employee who exists solely as an HR record with no login. Archive the employee records of people who have left, and check your count with your Odoo contact.

Open Settings, Users & Companies, Users, and open or create the user. On the Access Rights tab, the Roles section has a Role with three options: Light, User, and Administrator. Choose Light, then keep that user’s access rights within what Light allows. In our Odoo 20 test database, new users started as Light by default.

Because Odoo 20 works out the role from the user’s access rights. Give a Light user any right outside the light set, for example Sales set to “User: Own Documents Only”, and the Role switches to User on its own. Switching the Role back to Light removes the rights that do not fit, which in our test set Sales back to No.

Yes. The Role field with Light, User, and Administrator is part of Odoo 20’s base code, so Community databases show it too. It limits what the user can reach, but Community has no user licence to pay, so there the Light role is about access, not cost.

Odoo’s pricing page limits warehouse work to barcode scanning without rights to create products or manage inventory. The Odoo 20 code is more generous: in Community, Inventory User and Manufacturing User are declared light, and in our test database a user with Inventory set to User stayed Light. Where the licence description and the software differ, confirm with your Odoo Advisor before relying on it.

Yes. Odoo’s Enterprise Agreement bases its standard charges on the number of Users, Light Users, and the subscription plan, and it lets the software collect the number of Users and Light Users to verify the subscription. Odoo’s on-premise documentation gives 30 days to act when a database has more users than the subscription covers.