Base Business Document Import Phone
With this module, Odoo will be able to use phone or mobile numbers to find the appropriate partner when importing business documents. When the phone_validation module from the official addons is installed, the phone numbers are stored in E.164 format (for example: +33 1 41 98 12
- in Odoo. This allows reliable search on phone or mobile numbers when
importing business documents.
auto_awesome What this module does
AI-generated from the code · Odoo 18.0When importing business documents (such as supplier invoices or orders), Odoo can now find the right partner by matching the phone or mobile number written on the document, instead of relying only on names or VAT numbers.
This module adds phone-number matching to the partner search used during business document import. It works together with the phone validation feature and the base business document import module, and it installs automatically when both are present.
How it behaves: - When a document is imported and a partner is being looked up, the module checks whether the document provides both a country code and a phone number. - If so, it reformats that number into the standard international format (for example +33 1 41 98 12 34) using the country code. - It then searches existing contacts for a contact whose phone or mobile number equals that international number, and returns the first match found. - If no match is found, or if the country code or phone number is missing or cannot be parsed, the normal partner matching logic continues as before.
Where it appears: this is a hidden, automatic helper; it adds no menus, screens, buttons or reports. Users simply notice that imported documents are linked to the correct contact more often.
Which areas it touches: the abstract business document import model (business.document.import) and contacts (res.partner). It requires the Python phonenumbers library to be installed.
Depends on
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Availability by version
Reviewed: 2026-11-03Confirmation status: 4 confirmed, 5 with no information of 9 versions.
Sources · Odoo 14.0
Confirmed on 2026-11-03 in branch 14.0 of OCA/edi.
terminal Installation and usage
OCA documentation · Odoo 18.0Installation
Source · Odoo 18.0This module will be installed automatically if the modules phone_validation and base_business_document_import are installed.
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