Australia's Accounting-Led
Odoo Partner
Founded by accountants, for businesses that need their ERP to actually work with their numbers. We've helped 300+ Australian businesses transform how they operate — and we're just getting started.
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It all started in 2015, when Marlon and Jeri Wambeek — a husband-and-wife team with backgrounds in finance and technology — saw a problem they couldn't ignore: Australian businesses were drowning in disconnected systems, manual workarounds, and software that didn't speak the language of compliance.
What began as helping businesses connect tools like Cin7, DEAR, and Xero evolved into something far bigger. As they went deeper into implementation work, they discovered Odoo — a platform powerful enough to replace the patchwork entirely. WAO pivoted, and hasn't looked back.
Today, WAO Group is a team of over 40 professionals: Chartered Accountants, certified Odoo consultants, developers, and project managers — united by one goal: to make ERP implementation in Australia and New Zealand something that actually works.
"We understood the preciousness of time. Balancing work with family life meant finding tailored solutions — not just for us, but for the people we set out to help."
— Marlon Wambeek, Co-Founder & CEO
The Odoo Partner That
Speaks Accountant
Most Odoo partners are IT businesses that learned accounting software. We're the other way around — and that difference shows in every implementation.
The WAO Way
Every WAO engagement follows a proven four-stage process — from understanding your business to keeping it continuously improving.
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Where this is going
Every Odoo partner in Australia is talking about AI. Very few are saying the part that matters, which is that it does not work on a business that has not already done two other things. That is not a marketing position. It is the order the work has to happen in, and it is why we have built the firm the way we have.
One. A system.
Without a single system holding your operations and your accounts together, there is nothing for AI to reason about. Data spread across a spreadsheet, an inbox and three disconnected apps is not a foundation for anything — it is the problem itself. This is the work we have done for over a decade and it is still the first step. How we run an Odoo implementation.
Two. Numbers you can trust.
A system full of half-finished reconciliations, duplicated customers and stock that does not match the shelf will produce answers that are confident, fluent and wrong. Software does not know your bank feed has been broken since March. Getting the numbers right is accounting work, not software work, which is why we built a separate business to do it — bookkeeping, finance operations and virtual CFO, run by accountants, natively inside Odoo. WAO Business.
Three. Then the interesting part.
Once the system is real and the numbers are right, something becomes possible that was not before: asking your business a question in plain English and getting a straight answer from live data, instead of requesting a report and waiting two days for it.
We are not going to tell you this is shipping. DashIQ is in development and there is a waitlist rather than a product page. What we will say is that we run this approach on our own Odoo before we put it in front of anyone, and that most of what we learn from doing so goes straight back into the first two steps. Join the DashIQ waitlist.
If there is one thing worth taking from this, it is that the businesses which get value from AI over the next few years will not be the ones buying AI. They will be the ones whose systems and numbers were already in a state where it could be switched on. That work is unglamorous, it takes months rather than weeks, and it is available now. Here is what AI readiness actually involves.
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