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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

Adding delivery cost to quotation


The most common requirement for business is to add the delivery charges with the quotation, the delivery charges have to be computed based on some formula or rules given by the delivery company.

Delivery cost, in case of wholesale, is paid by either customer or supplier depending on the negotiation and most of the time cost of the delivery it is given by the shipping company as the shipping consignments are huge, the cost of the delivery cannot be estimated in advance.

Odoo have a built-in delivery computation framework that allows you to configure the delivery rules, to compute the delivery cost based on distance, weight, volume, sale price of the product or you can integrate with delivery service provider such as DHL, FedEx, UPS, USPS, to get the delivery price in real time. Such delivery providers are useful when you have an e-commerce store and your customer wants to choose delivery cost by themselves.

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