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Working with Odoo

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Working with Odoo

Overview of this book

With this practical guide, you will cover the essential modules to get Odoo up and running for your company. After installing Odoo, you will use its sales management application to enter quotes, create sales orders, and invoice customers. You will then learn how to integrate the CRM application to manage your leads and convert them into lucrative opportunities and sales. Next, you will set up your own purchase management system, assigning products to suppliers and tracking orders with the new warehouse management and routing system. Finally, you will learn how to use analytics to track project expenses and keep your accounts simple and easy to maintain and build an Odoo module to extend its functionality and make it work for you. Working with Odoo covers all the core installation and usage functionalities of this popular tool, helping you to fully implement a working ERP system through practical, advanced, real-world examples.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Working with Odoo
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Odoo and e-commerce


As I'm sure you are already well aware, e-commerce is a term that describes offering your products and services to customers electronically; typically on an Internet website. Over the years, e-commerce has made its way into more and more markets. There are increasing options to make payments on websites and now many mobile applications include the ability to make micro-transactions. E-commerce now covers a very wide field of options.

Popular e-commerce platforms

Like Odoo's late entry into the Website Builder/CMS market, Odoo is also introducing e-commerce functionality into a very mature market with several options. While there are hundreds, if not thousands, of viable e-commerce platforms out there, here are a few of the most popular.

Magento

A list of popular e-commerce applications would not be complete without Magento. Magento is open source, very popular, and was often the choice to integrate with Odoo. Even with Odoo's new e-commerce option, Magento will continue...