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Learn Odoo

By : Greg Moss
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Learn Odoo

By: Greg Moss

Overview of this book

Odoo is management software that contains a set of open source enterprise management applications that help you modernize your business. Completely revised and updated, this comprehensive Odoo guide is a fourth edition of Working with Odoo. This book begins with an introduction to Odoo and helps you set up Odoo Online in your system. You'll learn how to start a new company database in Odoo and the basics of Odoo sales management. You will explore customer relationship management in Odoo and its importance in a modern business environment. Moving on, you'll learn how to install the purchasing application, set up suppliers, and begin purchasing and receiving products in Odoo. Next, you'll learn how to use the MRP module to create, process, and schedule the manufacturing and production order. Once you get to grips with the basic applications, you'll uncover how to customize Odoo to meet the specific needs of your business. You'll learn some advanced techniques for searching and finding information, and you'll be taken through business intelligence in Odoo. Towards the end of the book, you'll go in-depth into Odoo's architecture and learn to use Odoo's API to integrate with other applications. By the end of the book, you'll be ready to use Odoo to build enterprise applications and set up the functional requirements for your business.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)

Implementing E-Commerce with Odoo

In the previous chapter, we looked at the new Website Builder application and saw how it can be used to create a website with ease. Now that we understand the basics of getting a website up and running, this chapter will show you how you can extend a simple website to become a full eCommerce site that can take and manage orders. Even better, this functionality ties directly into sales management, which you learned about in Chapter 3, Exploring Customer Relationship Management in Odoo 12.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • An overview of commerce and how it is implemented in Odoo
  • How to install eCommerce and view the default web store
  • Modifying your online store to contain your products
  • How to use product variants such as color and size to provide customized options for the products you sell
  • Advanced product options such as alternative...