Hi Matt. Firstly don't forget to vote on my previous message. If you want to do it using python, you must learn how develop an openerp module using python (many tutorials on the web) . For that, i recommend you to read the documentation for openerp developer. If you don't have this possibility, call a openerp developer who can do it for you Best regards.

Begins and after openerp community can help you to achieve your goal.