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Working with Odoo 11 - Third Edition

By : Greg Moss
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Working with Odoo 11 - Third Edition

By: Greg Moss

Overview of this book

Odoo is an all-in-one management software that offers an array of business applications, forming a complete suite of enterprise management applications. Odoo 11 comes with advances on usability, speed, and design. Working with Odoo 11 starts with how to set up Odoo, both online and on your own server. You’ll then configure the basic company settings required to quickly get your first Odoo system up and running. Later, you’ll explore customer relationship management in Odoo and its importance in a modern business environment. You'll then dive into purchasing applications with Odoo, learn some of the primary functionalities of ERP systems for manufacturing operations, and use analytic accounting to provide better reporting. After that, you'll learn how to work with Odoo for mobile, and finally, you will walk through the recent Odoo 11 features with respect to the community and enterprise edition, giving you a complete understanding of what Odoo can do for your business.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)

Setting up product variants

Another nice feature that comes with the e-commerce application is the ability to create product variants. This is a particularly important feature for the business case that we have been using throughout this book. Product variants allow you to offer different options for the same product; for example, a t-shirt will often come in various sizes and colors, or a computer company may want to offer a product with different memory options.

In Odoo 11, product variants are not turned on by default in the e-commerce application. To turn on the product variants option, click on Settings in the Configuration section under the Sales menu:

Under Product Catalog, select the option Attributes and Variants.

To create product variants, you need to navigate to the product you wish to create the variants for. Let's create variants for the Class of 2018 T-Shirt...