Candelinas
Candelinas is a Greek retail and e-commerce brand running large-scale Shopify operations across Greece and international markets, with in-house manufacturing…
Retail EcommerceInside Candelinas
Candelinas is a Greek retail and e-commerce brand running large-scale Shopify operations across Greece and international markets, with in-house manufacturing feeding the catalogue. The customer profile defines what serious end-to-end retail-and-manufacturing on a single platform actually demands: a Shopify storefront carrying the consumer-facing volume, an in-house production cycle generating the products that fulfil the orders, a procurement and supplier surface feeding the production cycle with components, a warehouse layer keeping stock aligned across raw materials, work-in-progress, and finished goods, a courier and outbound-shipping flow carrying parcels to customers across multiple geographies, and a Greek regulatory backbone closing on every transaction in real time. Engagements of this shape, where direct-to-consumer e-commerce meets in-house manufacturing and the integration breadth that ties the two together, are exactly what Existanze's implementation practice is built for. Our methodology rests on fifteen years of systems-integration work, our proprietary EXN Middleware platform, a canonical data model honed across 90+ production integrations, and a portfolio of Odoo modules we author and maintain in-house. Candelinas chose Existanze for a net-new end-to-end build covering every operational layer of the business.
Greek end-to-end retail on Odoo with Shopify, MRP, procurement and EXN Courier
We delivered an end-to-end Odoo implementation for Candelinas across Sales, Purchase, Inventory, Manufacturing, Accounting, and Website. Each module is in scope because the operating model demands it.
Manufacturing carries the in-house production cycle: bills of materials for every product the catalogue offers, work orders generating against the demand signal, routings reflecting the actual production steps, and work-in-progress tracking against the warehouse position. Purchase and procurement run the supplier-and-component side, with the procurement workflow tied directly to the manufacturing demand so component orders land at the right time for the right production batch. Inventory carries the warehouse layer end-to-end, raw materials, work-in-progress, finished goods, with real-time stock position visible from the picking floor to the storefront. Sales handles the multi-channel commercial surface across the Shopify storefront and any direct or wholesale flows the brand runs.
Accounting sits on our EXN Greek Localization and EXN AADE MyData modules so every transaction reconciles to AADE in real time on the document classification codes the Greek tax regime requires. The integration layer is where the engagement gets distinctive. EXN Middleware sits at the centre of the operational stack and carries the bidirectional flows that an end-to-end retail-and-manufacturing operation actually runs on. Our EXN Shopify connector synchronises catalogue, orders, inventory, customer records, and the multiple storefront payment methods Shopify exposes between the storefront and Odoo on a canonical data model, mapping every checkout method tightly into Odoo's default payment handling, so a finished-goods replenishment from production updates the storefront in real time and a Shopify order lands directly into the fulfilment queue with the payment already reconciled inside the ERP. Multi-carrier outbound shipping runs on our EXN Courier service so a parcel can leave the warehouse on whichever carrier the rate sheet, the SLA, and the destination call for, with real-time traceability across every supported courier, Cash-on-Delivery handling, and post-delivery consolidation flowing back into Odoo on every parcel.
One canonical data model. 90+ production integrations. Fifteen years of practice.
We use Odoo as the delivery surface for systems integration work that operates one level above any single ERP.
What's underneath
EXN products
Our proprietary IP in production
- EXN Greek Localization
- EXN AADE MyData
- EXN Middleware
- EXN Shopify
- EXN Courier
A flagship Greek end-to-end retail reference on Odoo
The Candelinas engagement evidences how a fully unified retail-and-manufacturing stack should work when it is built right from the start. A single platform absorbs the supplier, the procurement, the production, the warehouse, the storefront, the courier surface, and the Greek regulatory backbone, with every flow on one data model and every transaction visible end to end.
For our practice, the engagement is a strong reference for net-new end-to-end Greek e-commerce on Odoo. We are systems-integration experts and long-term Odoo partners. We use Odoo as the key business framework for our systems deployability and integration work, providing businesses with a holistic environment to achieve across the board organization transparency. A Greek direct-to-consumer brand manufacturing in-house and selling through Shopify into international markets, all on a single Odoo platform with EXN Middleware at the integration boundary and EXN Greek Localization plus EXN AADE MyData carrying the regulatory surface, is what serious modern Greek retail-and-manufacturing on Odoo looks like when the platform is built for the full lifecycle from day one.