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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

Using revenue recognition


Selling subscription contracts is one of the possible ways of selling services with the Odoo subscription application. Consider the kind of business where advance payment is received from the customer against the subscription contract. It is a liability and not an actual sale. This customer advance is registered as a deferred revenue instead of being registered as a sale. Every month, liability will decrease and income will be incurred from the advance received. This accounting mechanism is called revenue recognition.

Let's see how we can set up the revenue recognition in Odoo without using subscription application.

How to do it...

  1. To enable the Revenue Recognition feature for the accounting application, go to Configuration | Settings. Search for Revenue Recognition and select it. Then, click on APPLY to activate the feature.
  2. The next step is to create a deferred revenue type by going to Configuration | Management | Deferred Revenue Type. Deferred Revenue Type has to...