We have learned about the various applications that Odoo has to offer and how you can install Odoo on your own system. Before the release of Odoo 8, most users were focused on ERP and finance-related applications. Now, Odoo 11 has added several important applications that allow companies to use Odoo in much greater scope than ever before. For example, the website builder can be installed to quickly launch a simple website for your business, a task that typically would have been accomplished with a content management system such as WordPress.

Despite all the increasing options available in Odoo, the overall process is the same. We begin by looking at the overall business requirements and decide on the first set of applications that we wish to implement. After understanding our basic objectives, we will create an Odoo database and configure the required company information.

Next, we begin exploring the Odoo interface for creating and viewing information. We will see just how easy Odoo is to use by completing an entire sales order workflow. We will finish up the chapter by reviewing some of the more advanced sales order configuration options.

Topics that we will cover include:

• Adding a password-protected database to our installation
• Installing and configuring the Sales Management module
• Using interface features to view, edit, and find information
• Entering a new customer
• Adding our first product to sell
• Writing an order and confirming it for invoicing