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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)

Setting up your own accounts

For default English installations, Odoo installs the standard United States Chart of Accounts template. Most companies, however, will need to modify this chart of accounts or even set up an entirely different chart of accounts to match the needs of their business. As an example, we are going to add an additional sales account specifically for T-shirts so that we can better organize our sales into types of products.

To set up a new account, go to the Invoicing menu and then down to the Configuration section, and under Accounting, choose Chart of Accounts. Odoo will present you with a list of all your current accounts in Odoo. Click on Create to add a new account:

Note that in our screen, we have specified the account code as 200010. Why did we choose this as the account code? Odoo had already provided 200000 for the general Product Sales account; therefore...