Odoo Subscriptions · set up by TechNext

Contracts that renew themselves.

IT Maintenance Contracts are the steadiest revenue Tri-Comp has — and the easiest to quietly lose. A contract nobody diarised expires; a client on a three-year-old rate never gets reviewed; an invoice raised late becomes an awkward conversation. Odoo Subscriptions holds every contract, bills it on schedule, and tells Tri-Comp what its recurring revenue actually is.

Odoo Subscriptions — Tri-Comp maintenance contracts and recurring revenue

The difference a contract register makes.

Nothing here is about working harder. It is about the difference between a contract that lives in a spreadsheet and one that lives in a system that acts on it.

Contracts in a spreadsheet

  • Renewal dates only get noticed if someone opens the file
  • Invoices raised manually, one client at a time, often late
  • No single number for monthly recurring revenue
  • Nobody knows which clients are consuming more support than they pay for
  • Price reviews get skipped because the maths is painful
  • A lapsed contract only surfaces when the client calls with a fault

One record holds the whole relationship.

Open a contract and everything is there — what was promised, what it costs, what has been used, when it renews, and every ticket and site visit delivered under it.

Maintenance Contract · SUB-0142 ACTIVE
ServiceIT Maintenance Contract — Standard
Scope28 workstations · 3 servers · network & firewall
SLA4 business hours response · next-day on-site
Preventive visitsQuarterly health check — auto-scheduled
BillingAnnual, invoiced automatically
Support used this term18 of 40 included hours
Tickets this term31 closed · SLA met on 30
RenewsAlert raised 60 days before expiry
Every ticket, site visit, part and hour delivered under this contract links back to this record — so the renewal conversation starts with evidence, not memory.

Illustrative contract — TechNext configures Tri-Comp's real tiers, entitlements and billing cycles.

Set the templates once. Sell them forever.

TechNext builds a subscription template for each of Tri-Comp's contract shapes — per-workstation support, per-server cover, 24×7 critical, CCTV and access-control maintenance, hosted VOIP, cloud licence resale. Quoting a new client becomes picking a template and a quantity.

Odoo Subscriptions templates — Tri-Comp contract tiers Odoo Subscriptions — recurring monthly billing plans

Clients manage their own contract.

Each client can open their portal and see the contract they're on, the SLA it entitles them to, the support hours consumed so far, every invoice raised and every service report delivered. Upgrades and additional seats can be requested there too — which turns a renewal from a chase into an easy yes.

Contract terms, always visible Hours used vs included All invoices in one place Service reports archived Request more seats or cover Online payment

What the client sees.

Their contract, their usage, their documents — in a portal carrying Tri-Comp's branding rather than a generic support tool's.

Odoo subscription portal — Tri-Comp client viewing their maintenance contract

The numbers behind a services business.

Recurring revenue, retention and lifetime value are what make a managed-services firm valuable. Odoo reports them out of the box — no spreadsheet reconstruction at year end.

Odoo Subscriptions analytics — MRR and recurring revenue Odoo Subscriptions retention and churn analysis

MRR & ARR, live

See monthly and annual recurring revenue at any moment, and how it moved — new contracts, upgrades, downgrades, churn — instead of guessing from last year's invoices.

Retention & churn

Retention analysis shows which cohorts of clients stay and which quietly leave. For a firm built on long client relationships, this is the number that matters most.

Renewal pipeline

Contracts approaching expiry are raised as CRM opportunities with a value attached, so renewals are worked like deals rather than remembered like chores.

Contract profitability

Support hours and parts delivered under each contract are costed against what the client pays — exposing the accounts that need a price review.

Automatic invoicing

Monthly, quarterly or annual — Odoo raises and sends the invoice on the due date, applies 9% GST, and chases it if it goes unpaid.

Upsell built in

Adding ten more workstations mid-term prorates the invoice automatically. No credit notes, no manual recalculation.

What Tri-Comp gains with Subscriptions