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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)

Using the Odoo runbot to compare Odoo versions

One thing to consider when comparing the two editions of Odoo is that Odoo Enterprise requires that you pay license fees. At first, you may think that this makes it difficult to try Odoo Enterprise for yourself. Fortunately, there is a handy service, called odoo runbot, that will not only help you with comparing the two editions but can also help you to test out any version of Odoo.

You can access odoo runbot by going to runbot.odoo.com/runbot, as shown in the following screenshot:

When you first navigate to odoo runbot, you are presented with a list of the Odoo Community builds. You will notice that there are branches for 10.0, 11.0, 12.0, and the master branch, which is the current build that will eventually become Odoo 13. If you keep scrolling down, you will find many alternative builds that are for specific configurations or...