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R&D Sneak Peek

Christophe Klopfert, Product Owner

Our priorities

1. Onboarding of new users
2. Discovery (of existing functionalities)
3. Setting up (configuration & imports)
4. New features for existing users

Onboarding & Discovery : Accounting

Setting up example: the Product form

Sales & Cie

Sales Commissions

New module to compute the commissions of Sales persons

Achievements and Targets can be based on:

• Amount Invoiced
• Amount Sold
• Margin
• Sold quantity
• Invoiced quantity
• New MRR (if subscription)

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Possibility to combine different rules with

specific ponderation for specific products,

product categories or recurring period.

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Loyalty in Portal

Combo products “everywhere”

PoS + Sales, Ecommerce, Rental, Subscriptions

PDF Quote builder 2.0

• Translations
• Use any fields (based on a whitelist)
• Insert custom zones that can be manually modified for each quotation.

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Create products without leaving PoS interface

And barcode lookup !

Backend views directly to frontend

But also…

• 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

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eCommerce

New location selector widget

Sign in button in checkout form

Newsletter option

• 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

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… And more

Inventory / Purchase

Delivery dispatching

• order pickings in batch for delivery round
• assign vehicle to batch
• Map view of the batch

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Improved automated batches

• Allows to combine waves and batches

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Better putaways

• Can send products where they already are/were

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Revamped barcode app

And more…

• 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.

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• 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

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Inventory

Barcode

… And more…

• Down payments
• Purchase templates
• Structured data(UBL) stored in the pdf RfQ/PO for easy import in sales
• Merge RfQs manually
• Improved reports

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• 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

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Purchase

Shipping

MRP

MPS Updates

UI Revamp

Automatic Replenishment + Flexible Route

Gantt view improvements

zoom in/out, scroll horizontally, view one task per line and much more!

On-Demand Quality Checks

Shop Floor Improvements

Add Notes

Fold/Unfold Instructions

Next Operations

And 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…

Services

Top bar to browse related project records

Find the right people based on their skills

Tracking revisions in tasks

Products under warranty

• Planning by location
• Integration with Maintenance
• Cost of products in analytic accounting

• suggestion of similar tickets to support agents
• suggestion of relevant documentation to customers when they are submitting tickets

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• availabilities are taken into account when generating recurring shifts

… And more!

Field Service

Helpdesk

Planning

Accounting

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

• Send / Print UX
• Duplicates detection
• New Invoice layouts
• Invoice document preview “Pop-out”
• Peppol improvements

• Improved UX for Bank synchronization
• More providers
• Credit card management
• Improved Batch Payments matching
• Payment initiation

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• Annotations revamped
• Journal report update
• Date selection improved
• Financial budgets

… And more!

Invoicing

Banks

Reports

• Analytic Budgets
• Distribution Models Combination

• Intercompany transactions
• Improved Asset management & import
• Automated entries naming
• Email alias on Misc journals

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• Improved link with Documents app
• Improved Expenses integration

… And more more!

Analytic

Miscellaneous

Localizations

Investing massively

Countries with at least 1 PR since January 1st 2024

Our 19 offices

Our approach

• COA
• Default settings
• Fiscal Positions
• Taxes & Tax report
• Financial statements

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Basic package

Model updates

Specific features

• Additional fields on invoice, product, partner, etc.
• Additional values in existing fields

• Electronic invoicing
• Country specific reports, model or workflow

Localizations : More than

Accounting

HR / Payroll

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

• Definition of Templates
• Next Appraisal Date on public profile
• New Onboarding

• Order for other dates

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• Refer jobs by SMS
• Create a referral campaign from Recruitment

… And more!

Appraisals

Lunch

Referrals

• New Automation options
• Select your Vendor in RFQ approvals

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• Autonomy on models
• Contact multiple drivers

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• Department visibility by managers
• Presence Rework
• Request signatures from multiple employees
• Automate employees avatar

… And more more!

Approvals

Fleet

Employee

• Property fields on the complete flow
• Global csv export for banks
• Headover report
• Editable warnings on dashboard

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• Lot of improvements on existing localizations
• Belgium, Luxemburg, Kenya, US, U.A.E.
• New huge features
• Australia
• Switzerland
• Next on the roadmap
• Mexico, Spain, Germany, Indonesia

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… And Payroll

Engine

L10N

CRM & Marketing

A brand new app!

Take advantage of your communities to promote your content.� Send them a card they’ll be able to post online with a click.

WhatsApp added in a lot of flows (Inventory, Marketing Automation, …)

Better WhatsApp tools

Appointment

• Catch double-bookings

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• Pay per seat

Compute the booking price based on how many seats have been booked

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• Customize your pages

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… and many other improvements!

But also…

• 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

… and a ton of other improvements!

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Knowledge

Knowledge made easier

• Search inside your Articles 🔍

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• Insert Excalidraw Scenes into Articles 👩‍🎨

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• Clearer Navigation: Always locate your article 🚢

But also…

• Better Publishing Access 🌐

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…and a lot of other improvements! 👌

• Hierarchy View 📁

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Spreadsheet &

Dashboards

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

Combo

Waterfall

Scatter

Enhanced

Customization

Performances

• 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

… And more!

Documents

… At a glance!

• Access shared documents from Portal
• Attachments from deleted records are sent to the trash 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

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

• Addition of radio buttons
• Allow strikethrough
• Touch-compatible sign backend
• Send a batch of documents for signature

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Framework

Nice URLs

Before

After

Header

Too big

New mobile UI

• Multi-company switcher
• Print CSS
• New unit testing framework: HOOT
• Bootstrap updated to 5.3

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… And more

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@odoo.official

Christophe Klopfert

chkl@odoo.com

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Thank you!

Slides

http://tiny.cc/odoo18

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