Odoo v18 will be released in October 2024.
Wondering what new features and improvements might be coming your way?
Let's dive into the potential updates that could make your business life easier and more efficient. Ready to explore? Let's go! 🚀🔍
Sales App
The Product form
Simplified configuration for setting up products.
Sales Commissions
A new module to compute the commissions of Salespersons
Achievements and Targets can be based on:
Amount Invoiced
Amount Sold
Margin
Sold quantity
Invoiced quantity
New MRR (if subscription)
Possibility to combine different rules with specific ponderation for specific products, product categories or recurring periods.
Loyalty in Portal
Improved customer loyalty features integrated into the portl.
Combo Products “Everywhere”
Combo products are available across PoS, Sales, e-commerce, Rental, and Subscriptios.
PDF Quote Builder 2.0
- Translations
- Use any fields (based on a whitelist)
- Insert custom zones that can be manually modified for each quotation.
Point of Sale App
Backend views directly to frontend
Create products without leaving PoS interface
And many more…
- Free orders in PoS restaurant
- PoS events
- Product with variants displayed like in e-commerce
- New designs for better UX at login and payment screen
eCommerce App
New location selector widget
Sign in button in the checkout form
... And many more
- One page checkout
- Hide /shop page for unknown customers
- /shop and product pages redesign
- Various SEO improvements
- Generate a mega menu based on ecommerce categories
- Allow multiple warehouses on a website and display stock quantity on the product page
- Improved Click&Collect flow
- Order confirmation before payment
Inventory / Purchase App
Delivery dispatching
- order pickings in batch for delivery round
- assign vehicle to batch
- Map view of the batc
Improved automated batches
Allows to combine waves and batches
Better putaway
Can send products where they already are/were
Revamped barcode app
And more…
Inventory
- Valuation by lots
- Inter-company lots/SN
- New push rules and flexible routes
- MTSO: MTO that can pick a part in the stock and procure the remaining
- Package content report contains QR code with all serials inside
- Allow to scan QR code containing mass data.
Barcode
- Hide reserved lots/serials
- Hide theoretical quantity in inventory adjustments
- Forbid users to add products not in the picking
- Aggregate lines of same products in batches
- Barcode app can be installed as a PWA on mobile devices
- Sign deliveries
- Sound when scan was OK
Purchase
- Down payments
- Purchase templates
- Structured data(UBL) stored in the pdf RfQ/PO for easy import in sales
- Merge RfQs manually
- Improved reports
Shipping
- Shipping methods availability per weight, volume, and/or product tags
- New shipping connectors for Fedex, DHL and USPS.
- Improved Fedex, DHL and UPS
- Better pickup point selection, in backend and frontend, for compatible connectors
MRP
Master Production Schedule Updates
Gantt view improvements
zoom in/out, scroll horizontally, view one task per line, and much more.
On-Demand Quality Checks
Shop Floor Improvements
Improved UI and added functionalities for shop floor operations.
And many more …
- Project & MO Link
- Quality and multi step for Repair Orders
- Repair for Rental Returns
- MRP Documents Refactor
- Product Catalog for BOM, MO, Repair
- Mass Produce Redesign
- Work in Progress Management...
Service
Top bar to browse related project records
Find the right people based on their skills
Tracking revisions in tasks
Products under warranty
And many more …
Field Service
- Planning by location
- Integration with Maintenance
- Cost of products in analytic accounting
Helpdesk
- suggestion of similar tickets to support agents
- suggestion of relevant documentation to customers when they are submitting tickets
Planning
- availabilities are taken into account when generating recurring shifts
Accounting App
A new Invoicing for Enterprise!
- Same Dashboard
- Easier onboarding
- More features
Invoice edition
- Product & description in one column
- Layout configuration preview
- Tax selection guide
Lock dates
- Wizard revamp
- Hash on send rather than on post or on demand
Reconciliation: Kanban quick create
And Many more…!
Invoicing
- Send / Print UX
- Duplicates detection
- New Invoice layouts
- Invoice document preview “Pop-out"
- Peppol improvements
Banks
- Improved UX for Bank synchronization
- More providers
- Credit card
- Improved Batch Payments matchingmanagement
- Payment initiation
Reports
- Annotations revamped
- Journal report update
- Date selection improved
- Financial budgets
Analytic
- Analytic Budgets
- Distribution Models Combination
Miscellaneous
- Intercompany transactions
- Improved Asset management & import
- Automated entries naming
- Email alias on Misc journals
- Improved link with Documents app
- Improved Expenses integration
HR / Payroll App
Attendances
- Report on Over time
- Management of fingerprints
- New Onboarding
Recruitment
- Jobs menu on Website
- Onboarding rewritten
- Regex to parse job boards incoming emails
- Post on Job Boards directly (Monster) - work in progress
- Conditional questions on the website for each job position
- Populate job position from applicant’s pool based on Skills
Time Off
- Remove Active fields from Time Off & Allocations
- Performance improvement
- Display of pending allocations requests
- Display the working hours in the Calendar
- Approve directly from Overview screen
- Option to include/exclude Public Holidays
- Option to hide/show Time off types from the Dashboard
Appraisals
- Definition of Templates
- Next Appraisal Date on public profile
- New Onboarding
Lunch
- Order for other dates
Referrals
- Refer jobs by SMS
- Create a referral campaign from Recruitment
Approvals
- New Automation options
- Select your Vendor in RFQ approvals
Fleet
- Autonomy on models
- Contact multiple drivers
Employee
- Department visibility by managers
- Presence Rework
- Request signatures from multiple employees
- Automate employees avatar
Engine
- Property fields on the complete flow
- Global csv export for banks
- Headover report
- Editable warnings on dashboard
CRM & Marketing
A brand new app! - Social Share
Take advantage of your communities to promote your content. Send them a card they’ll be able to post online with a click.
Better WhatsApp tools
WhatsApp added in a lot of flows (Inventory, Marketing. Automation, ...)
Appointment
Catch double-bookings
Pay per seat computes the booking price based on how many seats have been booked
Customize your pages
And many more ..!
- A lot of Social Improvements
- Design your Marketing opt-out page
- Define the visibility of your Event (via a link public or logged users only)
- See who clicked in your Mailings
- Better Mail Composer
- New Marketing Automation onboarding
- Easier Mail Server configuration
Knowledge App
Knowledge made easier
Clearer Navigation: Always locate your article
Search inside your Articles
Insert Excalidraw Scenes into Articles
Better Publishing Access
Hierarchy View
Spreadsheet & Dashboards App
Comments on cell
Use the power of Discuss in Spreadsheet
Lists & Pivots edition
Edit dynamic pivots in order to add or edit:
- dimensions
- measures
- domain
Data tables
Use data tables to quickly:
- sort
- style
- filter
- add new records
New charts & options
And many more …!
- Improved UX for dashboards creation
- New functions (INDIRECT, INT, CELL & ODOO.RESIDUAL)
- Improved VLOOKUP
- Restore data from Version History
- Copy-paste from one spreadsheet to another
- Addition of plain text format
- Addition of sheet granularity in Find & Replace
Documents App
At a glance!
- Access shared documents from Portal
- Attachments from deleted records are sent to thetrash in Documents
- Reach attached documents from Accounting (as
- from a task for instance)
- Preview XML file if a PDF embedded
- Use SHIFT+S in the Split Tool to spot white pages and preset the scissors
- Batch upload improvement
Sign App
Request a signature from any document
Request a signature from any document in Odoo and be notified when it is signed automatically
Reminder
Control signature reminders more easily than ever, or disable them in a single click
... And more!
- Addition of radio buttons
- Allow strikethrough
- Touch-compatible sign backend
- Send a batch of documents for signature
Framework
Nice URLs
New mobile UI
And many more ..!
- Multi-company switcher
- Print CSS
- New unit testing framework: HOOT
- Bootstrap updated to 5.3
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