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.