OCTOBER 2024 63 new features announced
What's new in Odoo 18
Official Odoo release notes
General and usability
- Readable, editable URLs such as /odoo/project/5/tasks
- ALT SHIFT U shortcut to switch companies
- Clearer error messages, with technical details you can share
- Apps installable natively on mobile (Barcode, Point of Sale, Attendances)
- Passwordless sign-in with a passkey
- Gantt view with unlimited horizontal scrolling
- Import images and files directly with the importer
Accounting
- Statistical alert on invoices with unusual amounts or dates
- Analytic budgets without dates on the lines
- Bank reconciliation: simpler matching of batch payments
- Import of PDF bank statements with automatic extraction
- SEPA QR codes in the vendor payment wizard
- Custom invoice templates built with Studio
- Improved detection of duplicate vendor bills
Sales
- Combo products that let the customer choose among several options
- Commission plans by sales team
- Customer purchase order dropped in by drag and drop to create the order
- Simplified pricelists, exportable to PDF, CSV or XLSX
CRM
- Expected revenue updated automatically when the quote is confirmed
Purchase
- Dedicated screen for manually matching purchase orders and vendor bills
- Lot numbers generated automatically on receipt
- New agreement type for requests for quotation with fixed quantities
Inventory
- Automated wave picking
- Backorders created before validation, with separate deliveries
- Lots and serial numbers tracked across companies
- Putaway rules that group identical products
- Package location editable without creating a transfer
Manufacturing
- Redesigned Master Production Schedule, with yearly planning
- Improved mass production wizard
- Work-in-progress entries recorded for materials and labor
Project
- Allocated hours shown as a progress bar in the Gantt
- Cost and revenue tracking by analytic plan
- New project burndown chart
- Projects shared with edit rights to portal users
HR and Payroll
- Payroll localizations installed automatically by country
- Contracts signed by more than two people
- Employee bank accounts in a dedicated menu
- Signature requests processed in bulk
- Skills categorized by color
Website and eCommerce
- In-store pickup with a stock check at the point of sale
- Delivery method chosen at the payment step
- Mega menus built on shop categories
- Category pages customizable with building blocks
- Product images converted to WebP automatically
Point of Sale
- Fully redesigned interface
- Create and edit a product directly at the register
- Customer display on a remote device, with no IoT box
- QR code payment from the customer's banking app
- Table merging for groups in restaurants
Marketing
- Posts tailored to each social network
- New LinkedIn interface: comments, likes, deletion
- Marketing automation templates for eCommerce
- WhatsApp messages that can be scheduled in a campaign
Spreadsheets and business intelligence
- Pivot tables editable directly
- Calculated fields and additional measures
- Date granularity extended down to the second
- New functions: SEQUENCE, INDIRECT, OFFSET, CONVERT, CELL
- Cell comments with user mentions
- Version history and restore
- New charts: area, combo, horizontal bar, doughnut, radar, waterfall
Localizations
- Germany: GoBD audit trail, DIN5008 report in XML
- Spain: TicketBAI at the register, Batuz e-invoicing
- Brazil, Colombia: e-invoicing and eCommerce integration
Source: official Odoo release notes. Scope: Odoo Enterprise.
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