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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

Leads and opportunities


Odoo provides two primary documents for managing interactions with your customers or potential customers. You can think of the Leads as less critical, and perhaps less likely to turn into a real sales situation than an opportunity. A good example of Leads would be that you get a few dozen business cards from people you met at a conference. You could add each of them as a Leads for further follow up. An example of an opportunity would be if you met someone at a conference and had a detailed conversation on how your company provides appropriate services.

Many people get confused between when to use Leads and when to use opportunities. The best way to remember is that Leads are intangible and are essentially potential contacts. Opportunities should be more clearly defined, have some sort of expected income of successful, and provide significant project details and scope compared to a simple lead.

Turning on Leads in Odoo 10

When you first install the Odoo CRM application...