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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)

Installing Odoo eCommerce

You can install Odoo eCommerce like any other Odoo application as shown in the following screenshot:

After clicking Install, Odoo will refresh the browser and you will be taken to the store page that Odoo has added to the WEBSITE menu. Odoo has a tutorial that takes you through the basics of the Odoo website. Here, you should see the basic Odoo shop setup that has been displayed using the data we've entered throughout this book:

You will notice that there is a placeholder showing you where the pictures for your product will display once you've added an image. We'll take a look at how to do that a bit later in this chapter.

Setting up Odoo is a straightforward task. The easy integration of your products, and eCommerce's relationships with other Odoo applications, means it is a much less complex approach than syncing Odoo to an external...