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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)

Getting to know the basic Odoo interface

After the installation of the sales order application, Odoo 11 takes you to the Discuss menu, where your inbox and other communication activities are located. You will also notice that Odoo provides small purple tear drops that provide helpful tips. These will show up in most Odoo applications you install.

As you can see, the application menus are across the top of the interface. Click the Sales menu to bring up the Sales application. This takes you directly to the Sales dashboard. As we have just installed the application, there is very little to see in the dashboard, but we can see the available menu options along the left edge of the interface.

The menus along the top allow you to change between the major applications and settings within Odoo, while the menus down the left side outline your available options in the current application...