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Working with Odoo 10 - Second Edition

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Working with Odoo 10 - Second Edition

Overview of this book

Para 1: Take full advantage of the benefits of the Odoo module ecosystem whilst learning how to modernise your business with Working with Odoo 10. Covering everything from Odoo development essentials through to CRM and analytic accounting, this guide is a must-have for Odoo beginners. Para 2: A powerful set of open source enterprise management applications, Odoo 10 gives you access to a website builder, integrated e-commerce features, and a fast-growing community to allow you to transform your business. Para 3: With this Odoo book you?ll learn how to set up Odoo online, configure basic company settings, and then explore CRM in Odoo. You?ll cover all the Odoo development essentials and much more, including purchasing application, ERP systems, analytic accounting, and other recent Odoo features. Para 4: What?s Inside ? Understand Odoo installation & the basics of implementing Odoo in your business ? Explore accounting & finance setup and modules to help business efficiency ? Build a website with Odoo ? Customise and configure Odoo to an advanced level
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Working with Odoo 10 Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Chapter 2. Installing Your First Application

We have learned about the various applications that Odoo has to offer and how you can install Odoo on your own system. Before the release of Odoo 8, most users were focused on ERP and financial-related applications. Now, Odoo 10 has added several important applications that allow companies to use Odoo in much greater scope than ever before. For example, the website builder can be installed to quickly launch a simple website for your business. A task that typically would have been accomplished with a content management system such as Wordpress.

Despite all the increasing options available in Odoo, the overall process is the same. We begin by looking at the overall business requirements and decide on the first set of applications that we wish to implement. After understanding our basic objectives, we will create an Odoo database and configure the required company information.

Next, we begin exploring the Odoo interface for creating and viewing information...