Fenua Growup:
from supplier
to end customer.
Indoor-growing & hydroponics distribution in French Polynesia. Two major builds: an Odoo maritime preorder module (cargo tracking, cut-offs, freight consolidation) and an automated pipeline that updates the product catalog from international supplier sites. All connected to a B2B+B2C site in French, XPF prices, French Polynesia delivery.
↗ fenuagrowup.com
Distributing in French Polynesia
from the other side of the world.
Fenua Growup sells indoor-growing equipment to grow shops, farmers and individuals — across all of French Polynesia. Its suppliers are in Shenzhen, Sydney, Berlin. Between the order and the customer there are 8,000 km, two weeks of cargo, XPF taxes, maritime cut-offs. All of it had to be handled natively in Odoo, with no parallel Excel.
The operational challenge
Maritime preorders: a customer orders today, the product arrives in 2–6 weeks. Track weight, volume, the carrier cut-off, consolidation between several suppliers and customers in the same container.
The catalog challenge
Over 200 products, prices changing every week on the Spider Farmer / Alibaba side, new models published without notice. Manual entry = unacceptable. It had to be automated end to end.
The stakes
Give the director a clean dashboard: which products are coming, when, for whom, at what total cost (purchase + freight + customs). And a fenuagrowup.com site always up to date, without a human ever re-entering a supplier price.
custom_preorder:
maritime, handled inside Odoo.
A tailor-made Odoo 18 module (v18.0.3.1.0) that transforms the quote → supplier purchase order funnel. Every line is traced: weight, volume, freight mode, cut-off, carrier, source (customer quote vs speculative order). The director steers the supply chain from a single screen.
Quote confirmed
The customer confirms an Odoo quote. The "to preorder" lines are identified automatically (stock = 0).
sale.orderGrouping wizard
An interface to group several quotes into a single supplier order. Optimises the container.
transient wizardMaritime PO
Supplier purchase order with calculated weight/volume, estimated freight (air vs sea), carrier cut-off, traceability.
purchase.order↳ Module features
Every PO line carries its dimensions. Cumulative total on the order, compared to container capacity.
Automatic transport cost estimate based on volumetric weight, destination, carrier.
A reference of carriers with their weekly cut-offs, rates, lead times. One-click selection.
Every line knows where it comes from: customer quote X, internal speculative order, minimum-stock replenishment.
Supplier purchase order with product images (80×80px), multilingual placeholder if an image is missing.
Several POs across several suppliers, grouped into a single container. Freight cost split pro rata.
From the supplier site
to fenuagrowup.com,
all by itself.
A dedicated repo fenua-growup-catalog that runs the full pipeline: scraping supplier sites (Spider Farmer, Alibaba, wholesalers), transform/translate/normalise in Python, staging in Supabase for review, then loading into Odoo via XML-RPC. No more manual entry — new products, prices and stock-outs arrive continuously on the site.
Sources
International supplier sites. Today: Spider Farmer (LED grow lights), Alibaba (broad range). Format: one folder per supplier in sources/, with config + mapping.
Scraping
Apify (ready-made actors for Alibaba) or Firecrawl (custom sites). Raw JSON output per supplier, with products, USD prices, images, specs.
Transform
Python pipeline that cleans, translates to French, normalises units, maps to existing Odoo categories, computes the XPF price (USD × margin × rate).
Supabase staging
Transformed products are stored in a staging_products table. Human review, or via a Claude agent, before pushing to production.
Load Odoo
load/ scripts that push into Odoo via XML-RPC. product.template + product.product, images, translations, assigning the right categories and suppliers.
Monitoring
Continuous monitoring of supplier prices and stock. Alerts if a price moves by more than 5% or a stock-out is detected. The director decides.
B2B+B2C store,
same experience.
The site serves two audiences: pros (grow shops, farmers) and individuals. Same funnel, but with XPF pricing, French Polynesia delivery included, OSB payment, and the guarantee that product pages are always in sync with suppliers.
Odoo + data pipeline,
fully integrated.
On the Odoo side: 21 custom modules (preorder, distribution, commission, integrations). On the pipeline side: cloud scraping, Python transformation, Supabase staging, XML-RPC loading. All orchestrated and monitored.
Odoo SH
21 custom modules deployed on Odoo SH. 3 branches (main/staging/production).
Apify + Firecrawl
Automated scraping of supplier sites · Alibaba actors + custom crawlers.
Supabase staging
staging_products table · human or Claude-agent review before prod.
Python
Transform pipeline, Odoo load scripts via XML-RPC, price monitoring.
OSB + Lyra
French Polynesia payment gateway · XPF · local instalments possible.
Portal distributor
B2B distributor portal · KPIs, dashboards, stock declarations.
HubSpot
Contacts, deals, companies synced via a dedicated Odoo queue.
Agent sourcing
A Claude agent that helps assess new suppliers and validate the catalog.
No more manual
product entry.
Before, adding 50 new SKUs took two weeks. Today they arrive continuously, validated in a few minutes per batch.
Three months of work,
delivered in phases.
The project was split into two distinct phases, delivered separately, so the client started getting value from the very first production release.
Preorder module
First deliverable: custom_preorder in production. The director manages maritime orders in Odoo, no longer in Excel. Immediate first ROI.
Catalog pipeline
Second deliverable: the fenua-growup-catalog repo with the first supplier (Spider Farmer). Manual validation of products at the pipeline output.
More suppliers
Adding Alibaba, generalising to the other sources. A Claude agent for batch validation. A site that updates continuously.
We stay around
Maintenance, adding new suppliers, price monitoring and alerts. The pipeline evolves with the needs.
Before, my product catalog was an endless to-do list. Today, the system proposes new items, I validate, it's online. And my maritime orders are finally clean.
↳ Director · Fenua GrowupLet's connect
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