Base - Company Legal Information

base_company_legal_info folder_open OCA/multi-company open_in_new

Tools License: AGPL-3

This module adds legal fields on companies :

legal_name : Also called 'Official Name' or 'Business Name', used in official documents
legal_type : to mention the juricial form of the company : Ltd ('Limited company' in many countries), SARL ('Société Anonyme à Responsabilité Limitée' in France), GmbH ('Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung' in germany, Austria), etc.

With that design, you can now use the name field for the Trade name of your companies.

auto_awesome What this module does

AI-generated from the code · Odoo 16.0

Adds legal name and legal type fields to companies and prints them automatically in the footer of every PDF report, so official documents show the correct legal identity of your company.

This module lets you store the official legal identity of each company separately from its everyday trade name. On the company form, next to the company registry number, you get two new fields: the legal (official) name and the legal type, such as Ltd., SARL or GmbH. The regular company name field can then be used for the trade name.

A third field, the report legal description, is calculated automatically from these two values: it uses the legal name if filled in, otherwise the normal company name, and appends the legal type after a comma when one is set. You do not type it yourself.

The calculated legal description is added to the footer of all standard PDF report layouts (light, bold, boxed and striped), just before the existing report footer.
The new fields are visible on the company form for users who can edit companies.

It touches the company model res.company and the report layout configuration model base.document.layout, where the legal description is shown read-only. No checks, restrictions, emails or scheduled jobs are added.

Depends on

web

Models and fields (2)

res.company · extends an existing modellegal_name, legal_type, report_legal_description
base.document.layout · extends an existing modelreport_legal_description

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Availability by version

Reviewed: 2026-11-03

Confirmed (verified in repository and branch) Estimated (unverified) No information

Confirmation status: 1 confirmed, 8 with no information of 9 versions.

Sources · Odoo 16.0

Confirmed on 2026-11-03 in branch 16.0 of OCA/multi-company.

terminal Installation and usage

OCA documentation · Odoo 16.0

Configuration

Source · Odoo 16.0

go to the company form view and set the new information.
The new informations are now available in the external Layout background used for official reports. (quotation, invoices, etc.)

If you create your custom report, you can call the new computed field report_legal_description

No verified information in OCA: Installation, Usage.

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