Working with Odoo 11 - Third Edition

Creating your first customer

Helpful instructions prompt you to begin entering your first customer into Odoo by clicking the Create button.

This is the Odoo Customers form. Clicking Create will generate a customer record.

Silkworm sells T-shirts to both businesses and retail customers. For this example, we will use a fictional customer named Mike Smith who wishes to purchase several T-shirts. Odoo offers flexibility in collecting customer information, and by default most fields are not required. If you see a field that is purple, that is a required field. In Odoo 10, the only required field for the customer is the name.

The rest of the fields ...