Odoo Website PWA (Progressive Web Application)
Loads Like a website, Works like an App
The PWA (progressive web application) for Odoo website is designed to work as a normal app on the mobile device. However, unlike any native software application, the client doesn’t need to download it to its device’s memory.
Odoo Website PWA Introduction
A Progressive Web Application (PWA) is a website application that is designed to feel and work like an App. When opened in a mobile phone or similar devices it looks and operates like a native app.
A PWA essentially is a hybrid between a Native App and a website. It offers the features of an App such as offline content browsing, push notifications, etc. without the need of installing it to your device, saving storage space in the process.
You just hit the Pwa URL and use it with the feel of an App.
It also allows you to add it to the home screen of your device so you can access it with one click.
Odoo Website PWA Highlights
Scroll down to read about the PWA features in detail.
- Content caching
- Offline browsing
- Push Notifications
- Quick loading
- Simple Notifications Configuration
- Mobile Responsive Design of PWA
- Add To HomeScreen Feature
- PWA Icon Manager
- PWA Name Manager
- Loads on android and windows devices
- Safe (https protocol incorporated)
- Compatible For Multiple Odoo Websites
A Progress Web Application For Your Odoo Website
Over 80% increase in conversion was the result of BookMyShow’s Progress Web Application.
If it worked for them it would work for your Odoo website as well. So convert your Odoo Website into Progressive Web Application.
When the website PWA is loaded, the contents are saved in the cache so even if the internet connection goes out, they would be able to browse the content offline.
The customers can add your Odoo website PWA to their home screen.
Odoo Website PWA is designed to be OS independent (as PWAs are) so you do not need to constantly manage separate App for each platform.
“It Supports Multi-Website compatibility, so you can separately manage PWA features of each of your multiple Odoo Websites”
Add To Home Screen Popup
An ‘Add to Home Screen’ prompt is displayed when customer launches the main website.
Click on the Popup to add the PWA icon to the Homescreen of the device.
Now, next time just load the website from the homescreen in a click.
Browse In Offline Mode
On working internet connection, the website data is cached in the device.
So, if the internet connection is disabled, the user can still browse the website’s content which is already cached without any issues.
Multi-Website Compatibility Enabled
Are you managing multiple Odoo websites from the same database.
Then obviously you would want to have individual configurations of PWA for each website.
With Odoo Website progressive Web Application you can choose separate configurations for each of your websites.
Detailed Features
Here is the detailed list of Odoo Website PWA Features.
- Shows the status of the internet connective.
- page preloading to help the person to browse without connectivity.
- Allows the customers to add the PWA to their device screen.
- The Odoo PWA website can then be launched from the homescreen.
- Change the appearance of the PWA website icon.
- Set the long and short name of your PWA icon from Odoo.
- You can also change the splash screen background color.
- The push notifications can be configured with Firebase Project
- Send push notifications to PWA website users.
- Schedule the notifications in Odoo for a later date.
- No need to install or download in the device memory.
- Saves customer’s device storage.
- Combines the best web capabilities of website with that of native app.
- The customers of android and windows can access the PWA website directly through any browser.
- As no download/installation is needed, same PWA website on different devices.
- Pre design and store push notifications templates in Odoo
- Choose the target customers for the a push notification.
- Select recipients from odoo users, website users, public users or All.
- View the number of users using your Odoo PWA website from Odoo.
- The list is also useful while send push notifications.
- Made for those who run multiple websites from the Same Odoo.
- Configure separate PWA website for each website on the same Odoo.



