●  Free software with professional support

Open technology for
businesses that grow seriously

We implement, host and support open source solutions for electronic invoicing, payroll, laboratories and digital signature — designed for the Costa Rican regulatory framework.

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SOLVO
Business solutions

ECM — Efficient Company Manager

Ready-to-deploy Odoo suite: electronic invoicing (Hacienda 4.4), complete Costa Rican payroll and integrated accounting. Built for professional services firms, law offices and consultancies.

Electronic invoicing CR 4.4

Issues FE, TE, CN and DN with XAdES signature and direct submission to Hacienda via the djfacturador REST API.

CR payroll with CCSS

Automatic computation of income tax withholdings (Art.33 LISR), CCSS contributions, family tax credit, overtime and leaves through hr_holidays.

Provisions and accounting

Christmas bonus (Art.230), severance (Art.29) and multi-currency CRC/USD accounting fully integrated with Odoo's account.move.

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Laboratories and research

OpenTraceLab

Open source LIMS in Spanish

Laboratory Information Management System designed for university, analytical and research labs. Sample traceability, chain of custody, analysis protocols and auditable reports.

  • ✓Sample and results management with chain of custody
  • ✓Analysis protocols and equipment control
  • ✓Auditable reports exportable to PDF and Excel
  • ✓Aligned with ISO/IEC 17025
Discover OpenTraceLab → opentracelab.com
Firmador Libre

One application, three operating systems

Firmador Libre on GNU/Linux
GNU/Linux
Firmador Libre on macOS
macOS
Firmador Libre on Windows
Windows
Digital signature · Public sector and notaries

Firmador Libre

Sign official documents on Linux, macOS and Windows

Cross-platform desktop application to sign PDF, XML and ODF with Costa Rican digital signature certificates. We support firmador.libre.cr as a community tool — free, auditable, no license cost.

  • ✓XAdES signature compliant with Hacienda CR
  • ✓Compatible with BCCR FVA smart cards
  • ✓Available for Linux, macOS and Windows
  • ✓GPL v3 · free, no telemetry
See Firmador → firmador.libre.cr

For development teams we also maintain pyfva, an open source Python library to integrate BCCR's FVA into custom applications.

Inventory and risk

Organilab

Lab inventory and chemical risk analysis

Inventory of reagents and hazardous substances, SDS integration with GHS classification, risk mapping and waste management for multi-site laboratories.

Discover Organilab → organilab.org
Registering reagents in inventory
Reagent inventory
Hazardous substances with SDS and GHS
Hazardous substances · SDS/GHS
Risk analysis by area
Risk analysis
Safety protocols and procedures
Safety protocols
QR-based traceability
QR traceability
Auditable laboratory reports
Reports & informs
Lab furniture and shelves
Shelves & furniture
Multi-lab management within an organization
Multi-laboratory

Live captures of Organilab in production

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Production deployments at Costa Rican universities, laboratories and businesses.

Digital signature · Firmador Libre

Universidad de Costa Rica

Institutional support for BCCR digital signature and deployment of Firmador Libre to authenticate and sign official documents in academic and administrative procedures.

ucr.ac.cr
Organilab

Universidad Nacional

Multi-laboratory chemical inventory platform in production: reagent and hazardous substance control, GHS-classified SDS records and risk analysis at science faculties.

una.ac.cr
OpenTraceLab

ACOM Laboratorio

LIMS in production for full sample lifecycle traceability, analysis protocol management and auditable reports aligned with accreditation requirements.

acomlaboratorio.com
ECM Legal

Growbl

Odoo suite deployed for a law firm: Hacienda-compliant electronic invoicing (v4.4), Costa Rican payroll with CCSS, contractor invoicing flow and multi-currency accounting in daily operation.

growbl.net
Professional services

More than software: partnership

The code is free. The difference is made by the team that implements it, operates it and evolves it alongside you.

Turnkey implementation

Analysis, configuration, data migration and go-live. We deliver running systems, not half-finished projects.

Managed cloud hosting

We operate the cloud infrastructure for you: 24/7 monitoring, daily backups, managed updates and a documented SLA. You focus on your business, not on servers.

Support and training

Enterprise SLA, Spanish-language helpdesk, training for accounting, legal and technical teams. Continuous software evolution.

Python community · Latin America

We build in the open, with the region

#PyConLatam · pylatam.org

PyCon Latam is the regional Python conference for Latin America — the gathering where developers, researchers, educators and companies who build technology in Spanish and Portuguese come together. SOLVO is part of the organizing committee.

  • Regional gathering — talks, tutorials and sprints in Spanish, Portuguese and English, with attendees from across Latin America and the diaspora.
  • Local communities — PyCon Latam connects efforts with local groups: PyCon Colombia, PyCon Argentina, PyConCO, PyDay Costa Rica and many more.
  • PSF support — backed by the Python Software Foundation, with scholarships so students and new voices can attend.
  • Why we participate — we believe universal access to knowledge transforms institutions. We contribute open source code (pyfva, OpenTraceLab, Organilab) and organizing time.
pylatam.org → SOLVO on Open Collective GitHub
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