Engineering & Surveying: When the Deliverable Is a Project, Not a Product

Studies, site surveys, boundary markings — billing time and milestones instead of boxes shipped.

Engineering firms and surveyors (bureaux d'études, géomètres-topographes) don't sell products off a shelf — they sell missions: a soil study, a boundary survey, a structural audit, each with its own timeline, team, and billing milestones.

Where spreadsheets fall short

• No link between the hours a team logs and what actually gets invoiced to the client
• Multi-phase projects (feasibility, design, site supervision) are tracked in separate documents
• Purchase of specialized equipment (GPS receivers, total stations) isn't linked to project costs
• No structured view of which missions are still open, on hold, or delivered

What Odoo brings

Technova's Ingénierie & Topographie package pairs Sales and Accounting with Project and Timesheets: each mission becomes a project with tasks your team logs time against, while quotes and invoices for studies, surveys and site supervision run through the same sales pipeline as any other business — just billed by mission instead of by unit.