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Odoo Online Implementation
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- This document summarizes **Odoo's Online services **, our Success Pack
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- **implementation methodology **, and * best practices * to ** get started **
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+ This document summarizes **Odoo Online's services **, our Success Pack
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+ **implementation methodology **, and best practices to get started
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with our product.
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*We recommend that new Odoo Online customers read this document before
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during the implementation.
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Once you purchase an Odoo Online subscription, you will receive
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- instructions by e-mail on how to activate or create your database. From
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+ instructions by email on how to activate or create your database. From
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this email, you can activate your existing Odoo database or create a new
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one from scratch.
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If you did not receive this email, e.g. because the payment was made by
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- someone else in your company, contact our support using our
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+ someone else in your company, contact our support team using our
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`online support form <https://www.odoo.com/help >`__.
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.. image :: media/getting_started02.png
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database ready to be used.
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In order to familiarize yourself with the user interface, take a few
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- minutes to create records: *products, customers, opportunities or
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- projects / tasks *. Follow the blinking dots, they give you tips about
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+ minutes to create records: *products, customers, opportunities * or
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+ * projects/ tasks *. Follow the blinking dots, they give you tips about
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the user interface as shown in the picture below.
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- Read the documentation on our website:
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`https://www.odoo.com/documentation/user <https://www.odoo.com/documentation/user >`__
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- - Watch the videos on our eLearning platform (Free with your first Success Pack):
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+ - Watch the videos on our eLearning platform (free with your first Success Pack):
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`https://odoo.thinkific.com/courses/odoo-functional <https://odoo.thinkific.com/courses/odoo-functional >`__
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- Watch the webinars on our
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`Youtube channel <https://www.youtube.com/user/OpenERPonline >`__
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- - Or send your questions to our online support through our
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+ - Or send your questions to our online support team through our
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`online support form <https://www.odoo.com/help >`__.
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What do we expect from you?
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We ask that you maintain a single point of contact within your company to
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- work with our project manager on your Odoo Implementation . This is to ensure
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+ work with our project manager on your Odoo implementation . This is to ensure
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efficiency and a single knowledge base in your company.
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Additionally, this person must:
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- - **be available at least 2 full days a week ** for the project,
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otherwise you risk slowing down your implementation. More is better with
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the fastest implementations having a full time project manager.
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- - **have authority to take decisions ** on their own. Odoo usually
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+ - **Have authority to take decisions ** on their own. Odoo usually
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transforms all departments within a company for the better. There
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- can be many small details that need quick turn arounds for answers and
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+ can be many small details that need quick turnarounds for answers and
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if there is too much back and forth between several internal decision
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makers within your company it could potentially seriously slow everything down.
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- - **have the leadership ** to train and enforce policies internally with full support
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+ - **Have the leadership ** to train and enforce policies internally with full support
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from all departments and top management, or be part of top management.
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Integrate 90% of your business, not 100%
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- **Do it the Odoo way, not yours. ** Be flexible, use Odoo the way it
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was designed. Learn how it works and don't try to replicate the
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- way your old system(s) works .
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- **The project first, customizations second. ** If you really want to
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customize Odoo, phase it towards the end of the project, ideally
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after having been in production for several months. Once a customer
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starts using Odoo, they usually drop about 60% of their customization
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- requests as they learn to perform their work flows out of the box, or
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the Odoo way. It is more important to have all your business processes
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working than customizing a screen to add a few fields here and there
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Our project managers are trained to help you make the right decisions and
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measure the tradeoffs involved but it is much easier if you are aligned
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Start your free trial and play with the system. The more comfortable you
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+ are navigating Odoo, the better your decisions will be and the quicker
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and easier your training phases will be.
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Nothing replaces playing with the software, but here are some extra
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Your Odoo Online subscription includes an **unlimited support service at
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no extra cost, 24/5, Monday to Friday **. To cover 24 hours, our teams
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- are in San Francisco, Belgium and India. Questions could be about
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- anything and everything from: specific questions on current Odoo features and where to configure them, bugfix requests,
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- payments or subscription issues.
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+ are in San Francisco, Belgium, and India. Questions could be about
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+ anything and everything, like specific questions on current Odoo features and where to configure them, bugfix requests,
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+ payments, or subscription issues.
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- Our support can be contacted through our
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`online support form <https://www.odoo.com/help >`__.
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Note: The support team cannot develop new features, customize, import
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features.
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We provide the option to upgrade in a test environment so that you can
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fill our `online support form <https://www.odoo.com/help >`__ to make this request.
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Success Pack Services
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The Success Pack is a package of premium hour-based services performed by
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- a dedicated project manager and business analyst. The initial alloted hours
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- you purchased is purely an estimate and we do not guarantee completion of
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+ you purchased are purely an estimate and we do not guarantee completion of
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your project within the first pack. We always strive to complete projects
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- in the middle of your implementation, new detail descoveries , or an increase
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+ to us not being able to do so; for example, a scope expansion ( or "Scope Creep")
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+ in the middle of your implementation, new detail discoveries , or an increase
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in complexity that was not apparent from the beginning.
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- The list of services according to your success pack is detailed online:
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`https://www.odoo.com/pricing-packs <https://www.odoo.com/pricing-packs >`__
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The goal of the project manager is to help you get to production within
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the defined time frame and budget, i.e. the initial number of hours
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His/her role includes:
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- - **Customized Support: ** by phone, e-mail or webinar.
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- - **Training, Coaching, and Onsite Consulting: ** remote trainings via
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sessions, you will be expected to pay extra for travel expenses
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and accommodations for your consultant.
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- - **Configuration: ** decisions about how to implement specific needs in
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pricing structures, etc.)
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- - **Data Import **: we can do it or assist you on how to do it with a
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template prepared by the project manager.
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- If you have subscribed to **Studio **, you benefit from following
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extra services:
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- **Customization of screens: ** Studio takes the Drag and Drop approach to
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customize most screens in any way you see fit.
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- - **Customization of reports (PDF): ** Studio itself will not allow you
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to customize the reports yourself, however our project managers have
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access to developers for advanced customizations.
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no extra cost. However, our project manager can coach you on how to utilize
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the building blocks of the website designer. The time spent will consume
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- - **Workflow automations: ** e.g. setting values in fields based on
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In case of customizations that would require a developer’s intervention, a
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Implementation Methodology
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- We follow a **lean and hands-on methodology **, that is used to put
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customers in production in a short period of time and at a low cost.
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The goal of the **Kick-off call ** is for our project manager to come
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working environment. To do so, go to the Odoo.com account in **My
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