Level Up with Odoo 17.2: New Features

Odoo 17.2 is here, bringing a host of enhancements that make this release better than ever. From advanced spreadsheet features to improved inventory management, Odoo continues to elevate the user experience. Let’s explore the key highlights.

Documents App: Enhanced Spreadsheets

Let’s start with the Documents app to see what’s new in spreadsheets:

• Dynamic Collaboration: You can now add comments to cells and tag colleagues directly within spreadsheets, ensuring everyone stays in the loop.
• Version History: Never worry about making mistakes again. With the version history feature, you can restore previous versions of the document with a single click.
• Autofill Tables: Automatically populate tables and perform calculations effortlessly.
• Scatter Plots: Visualize your data in innovative ways, quickly identifying trends and patterns to make more informed decisions.
• Enhanced Gauges: Get better visual feedback on your performance, making it easier to track your progress.
• Improved Pivot Tables: Analyze data with advanced pivot table functionalities, customizing data views and extracting valuable insights with ease.
• Private Dashboards: Keep your dashboards private until you’re ready to share them with your team.

E-Commerce: Enhanced User Experience

In the e-commerce realm, Odoo introduces new features to enhance the user experience:

• Recurring Plans: Customers can now select recurring plans directly from the product page, streamlining the subscription process.
• Automated Future Payments: Future transactions are now automated, making the payment process effortless for customers.

Quotation Management

Moving on to quotations:

• Ordered Templates: Quotation templates are now sequenced according to your chosen order, making them quicker to find.

Accounting: Simplified Payments

Let’s see what’s new in the accounting app:

• QR Codes for Vendor Bills: Generate QR codes for vendor bills, making bill payments faster.
• Improved Reconciliation: The transaction matching process is now even simpler. Amounts are now editable, allowing for partial write-offs.
• EFT Files for Canadian Companies: Canadian companies can now create EFT payment files to upload to their bank.

Field Operations Optimization

For field employees:

• Planning by Location: Employees can now plan by location, optimizing routes and schedules for increased efficiency and reduced travel time.
• Product Pickups: Improve on-site operations by ensuring your team always has the right parts and tools for every job.

Inventory Management: Efficiency and Precision

Enhance inventory management with these new features:

• Lot Number Generation: Generate lot numbers for incoming products, making transfers more efficient and tracking more precise.
• Automatic Transfer of Lots and Serial Numbers: When transferring tracked products from one company to another, lots and serial numbers are automatically transferred.
• Split Pickings: If you know in advance that you’ll need to deliver on two different dates or to two different addresses, you can split pickings before validating them instead of waiting to create a back order.

Manufacturing App: Catalog View

Love Odoo’s catalog view? Now you can use it in the manufacturing app to add products to a bill of materials, manufacturing order, or repair order.

Customization with Studio

Customize your Odoo experience with ease using Studio:

• Customizable Buttons: You can now customize buttons to perfectly suit your needs.
• Easy Access to Excalidraw Illustrations: Empower your team with easy access to Excalidraw illustrations with a single click.

These are just some of the highlights of Odoo 17.2. For more details, check out the full release notes and stay tuned for future updates.