Installing the Sales Management application
After clicking on Create Database, it can take a little time depending on your system before you are shown a page that lists the available applications.
This screen lets you select from a list of the most common Odoo applications to install.
There is very little you can do with just an Odoo database, without any applications installed. Now, we will install the Sales Management application so we can begin setting up our business selling t-shirts.
During installation of applications and other long operations, you will often see a Loading… icon at the center of your screen.
Configuring accounting data
With the installation of the Sales Management application, Odoo prompts you to configure the accounting package you will use with your company. For our example, we will be using the United States chart of accounts. As we have only installed one company in this installation, you will leave the company field as Your Company. We will see how to change the name of our company later in the chapter.
The following screenshot is the screen you will see during the installation of the Sales Management application:
There are several basic chart templates that are included with Odoo. These templates include:
- Advertising
- Agriculture
- Construction trades
- Financial services
- General Service-based business
- Legal Services
- General Product-based business
Tip
Odoo allows you customize your chart of accounts later. Most businesses will probably need to spend some time organizing their chart of accounts according to their requirements. We will cover how to manage accounts in Odoo in Chapter 8, Implementing the Human Resources Application.
The following screenshot is presented during the setup of the Sales Management application:
You are welcome to experiment with the currency and sales/purchase tax settings. For the purpose of our case study, we have selected the General Product-Based Business chart template and the USD currency. Once again, we have left the company field as Your Company. Click on Apply to finish installing the Sales Order Management application.