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Creating and Managing New Product


You are now ready to create products!  Follow the steps below to create a new product in Odoo. 


1. Go to Inventory > Products > Products




2. To add a part, click on 
Create.



3. Fill in the details of the product as described below:


General Information Tab


  • Select Can be sold or Can Be purchased
  • Product Name - Put in the product name here.
  • Product Type - Select the type of the product between Consumable, Service, and Storable product.
    • Consumable - If you choose this product type you wont have stock on hand.
    • Service- This is for service type products eg Freight
    • Storable Products- These are the any products whi.ch can be stored. Stock on Hand can be measured for Storable products
  • Internal Notes - Enter any additional description in this field. 
  • Sales Price - Enter the selling price here.
  • Customer Taxes -Choose customer taxes here.
  • Cost - Enter the cost.
  • Unit of Measure - In Odoo, Unit of Measure is the holding/selling unit of measure. Choose the unit of measure for the product here.
  • Purchase Unit of Measure - In Odoo, Purchase Unit of Measure is the purchase Unit of Measure. Choose the unit of measure for the product when purchased.

Note: It is very important to select the correct product category when creating a new product. The product category dictates to what accounts will the transactions be posted to when you have transactions (e.g., sales, purchases, adjustments) for the products in the future.


Attributes & Variants Tab


Please refer to topic creating product attributes and topic creating product variants.


Sales Tab


If you want a detailed description other than the product name to appear on the sales order invoice then you have to fill this sales description field. 


Purchase Tab


  • Fill in Vendor details (record the vendors of the product) and refer to topic Adding vendor special pricing page for more information on.

  • Vendor Taxes - Select the vendor tax from the dropdown.

  • Control Policy - On ordered quantities or On received quantities.

  • If you need a detailed description than the product name to appear then you need to fill the Purchase Description


Inventory Tab



  • Routes - Specifies how a product enters in to the business. 
    •  Eg - Buy or Manufacture etc. 
  • Fill out the Operations, Logistics, and Traceability details.
    • No Tracking - The products wont have Lots and Serial Numbers
    • Lots - Track a product by Lots/Batches
    • Unique Serial Number - Track a product by unique serial number


  • Responsible - The person who is creating the product acrd will be the responsible person.
  • Weight- The weight of the product
  • Volume - Volume of the product

Routes is the process in which a product comes in to a system. So you can select whether you buy the product , manufacture the product etc.

4. Click on Save.

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