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Odoo 10 Implementation Cookbook

By : Mantavya Gajjar
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Odoo 10 Implementation Cookbook

By: Mantavya Gajjar

Overview of this book

Odoo is a Python-based ERP system and is completely open source. Odoo is a comprehensive suite of business applications offering a wealth of functionalities that can be deployed to meet your business needs. This book will help you manage the different functionalities of your business and optimize it. You will learn in detail about the various facets of the business process such as sales, accounting, purchases, manufacturing, and inventory. We will cover each of these topics in detail and learn how Odoo handles all these tasks with much ease. With its modular approach, you will be able to build customized solutions, take advantage of the Odoo 10 system in your organization, and master basic administration. We will cover modules and applications in Odoo that will help optimize quality checks. You will also be able to customize major reporting functions for your teams and set up forms and documents for sales, purchase, inventory, and so on. By the end of the book, you will be able to use the major functionalities of Odoo 10 and fully implement them into your business.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Create and configure your products


The most important thing in Odoo is to configure the product before you start selling. A product is used to define the stockable product, consumable product, or a service.

Other than the types of product there are many tricky configurations available on the product form that is required by the different applications, such as Income, Expense, and Tax configuration form Accounting application, routes and the barcode required by the Inventory application.

Note

The product configuration may change depending on the list of the application installed, on your instance. In my case, I have installed only Sales application.

Let's create a consumable and service type product to see how Odoo treats them and execute the business flow accordingly.

Getting ready

We assume that you are working on the duplicated instance, if not, create a duplicate instance and try to configure products on that.

How to do it...

  1. To create the product, go to Sales | Sales | Products. Click on the...