Working with Odoo 10 - Second 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 customers is the name.

The rest of the fields are optional. ...