Hello,

(running Odoo 14 enterprise)

Using the Anglo-Saxon accounting method and standard costing, the COGS is recognized together with the outgoing invoice so that revenue and cost are always in the same period.

This works great for stock items, where the incoming cost is put on the balance sheet until the items are sold.

But, how can we achieve this for service items?

For example: we sell software licenses to customers, where we would like to book a COGS (automatically, via standard costing) when the outgoing invoice is booked.

Only after the sale, we will purchase said licences from a vendor.

Were looking at a dropshipment-like / consumable-type setup, but this would take away the possibility to make it a subscription product.

Thanks for all suggestions.

Documentations:

Inventory Valuation Configuration — Odoo 16.0 documentation

Anglo- Saxon Accounting in Odoo 16 Accounting | Odoo v16 Enterprise Edition Book (cybrosys.com)