Hi,

As a self-employed contractor paid hourly with a Thursday-Wednesday pay period, you can use Odoo to track your hours and reconcile payments without needing to send invoices. The best approach is to use Odoo's Timesheets app to record your daily hours, assigning them to a specific project for this client. The key is to create a custom report that aligns with your client's Thursday-Wednesday pay cycle, as Odoo's default week starts on Monday.

You can create this custom report using Odoo Studio (if you have Odoo Enterprise), which offers a user-friendly interface for filtering and grouping timesheet entries by your desired pay period. Alternatively, you can develop a custom QWeb report if you have the technical skills, or export the timesheet data to a spreadsheet and use a pivot table. The report should display total hours worked within each Thursday-Wednesday period, the date range, and ideally, your total earnings. By comparing this report with your client's payments, you can ensure accurate reconciliation. This method avoids changing core Odoo settings and provides flexibility in customizing the report to include other relevant information.