Point of Sale: Odoo 16 Community Book

Products

Let us look at how to create a new product in this module. The process of creating a product is similar to that of creation in the purchase module. Products menu is visible in the main window of the module itself. The products provided in the window can be used to retail products within a company. The page will show the Kanban view of the list of products given. The page can be viewed in list view as well. Any of the provided products can be selected to get the further details of the product. And the Edit option can be used to make corrections if required.

The Filters and Group by option will help you in sorting the provided products according to a particular criterion.Group by option helps you in categorizing the products according to your wish.

To create a new product, you can go to the Create icon.

Here, you can provide a name for the product in the provided space. An image of the product can also be added for further clarification on the product. Now, you have an option to decide whether the product is sold or purchased. Under the General Information tab, you can add additional information, such as product type, invoicing policy as ordered quantities, or delivered quantities as well. Below that, units of measure, purchase units of measure, the sales price of the product, customer tax, cost, category of the product, internal reference, barcode, and company can be added in the provided spaces. An internal note about the product can be given in the internal notes field.

Under the Attributes and Variants tab, various products can be included using the Add a Line option, as shown below.

You can see the various attributes and their values in the allotted fields. Under the Sales Tab, you have details on upsell and cross-sell, point of sale, extra product media, sales description, eCommerce shop, and sales warning option to get filled.

In the upsell and cross-sell options, you have optional products, accessory products, and alternative products options. Below the point of sale, you have space to give the available point of sale option to trigger to make the particular product visible in the point of sale, to weigh which scale option to trigger, as well as the category of the product to get mentioned. In the eCommerce option, you can mention the website on which it should be published and the categories as well. In the extra product media, you have Add a Media option, which may be a photo, video, or any other. In the sales description, you can provide a short description of the product.

Now, the next tab is the purchase. Here different vendors can be added with the help of Add a Line option very easily. Here, you can easily mention the vendor, currency, price, and delivery lead time according to the allotted space.

Under the vendor bills option, the vendor taxes and control policy can be provided. Below the purchase description, you can easily include a short description on the purchasing of the product.

Under the Inventory tab, you can determine the routes of operations.

Under the routes option, you have various routes provided, such as repair, buy, dropship subcontractor on order, manufacture, resupply subcontractor on order, and dropship. If required, you can view the diagram as well. Under the logistic option, responsible officers can be added for the operations of inventory, weight, volume, manufacturing lead times, customer lead time, HS code, and origin of goods as well. Manufacturing lead time is used for the average time in a day for producing a product, and customer lead time is the delivery lead time in a day requested by the customer.

Under the counterpart locations option, you can mention the production location and inventory location. You can add descriptions for receipts, internal transfers, and delivery orders in the provided space.

Below the Accounting tab, you can mention the income account in the receivables option. The Expense account and price difference accounts can be given in the payables option. In the automatic email at invoice option, an email template can also be added without any risk, which helps to send the email to a product-specific email when the invoice is validated. Finally, got to the Save icon to get the product added to the list.