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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

What is a CMS?


The Website Builder application available for Odoo 8 through Odoo 10 can be considered what is commonly known as a CMS. A CMS is a collection of tools that allows you to structure, organize, and manipulate your website without having to interact directly with the inner workings of your website. A key feature of a CMS is the ability for non-programmers and those with little technical expertise to create and edit content on the website once the initial structure of the site has been designed.

In many ways, Odoo is coming into a very crowded market that has a great variety of both open source and paid CMSs you can choose to build your website. Here are few of the more popular website CMSs, all of which at this point have considerably more configuration options and greater levels of adoption.

WordPress

WordPress is arguably the most popular CMS that companies may choose to deploy for their websites. More than a decade of maturity and a massive install base means there are plenty...