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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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*We recommend that new Odoo Online customers read this document before
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Once you purchase an Odoo Online subscription, you will receive
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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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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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In order to familiarize yourself with the user interface, take a few
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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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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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- Or send your questions to our online support through our
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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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efficiency and a single knowledge base in your company.
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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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- **Have the leadership** to train and enforce policies internally with full support
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the Odoo way. It is more important to have all your business processes
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are in San Francisco, Belgium, and India. Questions could be about
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