Optional products

The use of optional products is a marketing strategy that involves the cross-selling of products along with a core product. The aim is to offer useful and related products to customers, which may result in an increased sale.

For instance, if a customer wants to buy a car, they have the choice to order massaging seats, as well, or ignore the offer and simply buy the car. Presenting the choice to purchase optional products enhances the customer experience.

Optional products on quotations

With the Odoo Sales application, it is possible to add or modify optional products directly on quotations by navigating to the Optional Products tab on a quotation form.

How to add optional products to your quotations on Odoo Sales.

Tip

Click the Customer Preview button to reveal a preview of the quotation customers would receive via email, along with the optional products they have a chance of adding to their order.

Preview your quotations on Odoo Sales.

In practice, customers are able to add different optional products to an order by clicking the 🛒 (shopping cart) icon, located to the right of the optional product line. If a customer selects all the optional products suggested, these additional items are automatically filled in on the quotation that is managed by the salesperson.

How to select optional products on Odoo Sales.

When the customer adds an optional product(s) to an order, the salesperson is instantly notified about the change, along with any other change the customer makes to an order. This allows salespeople to stay up-to-date with everything related to an order in the backend of the Sales application.

How to follow each movement made by your customers on Odoo Sales.

Optional products on quotation templates

Note

Be sure to review the documentation on how to Quotation templates to better understand how quotation templates work before reading the following information.

For quotation templates, just like a typical quotation form, there is also an Optional Products tab, wherein related products or services can be added to a quotation template.

To add optional products to a quotation template, navigate to Sales app ‣ Configuration ‣ Quotation Templates. Then, either select an existing quotation template to edit, or create a new one by clicking New.

On the quotation form, click Edit, then click the Optional Products tab. Under the Optional Products tab, click Add a line, and select the desired product to add as an optional product to the quotation template.

Tip

It’s best to offer optional products that would encourage a customer to add additional items to their order, or entice them to purchase a more expensive version of their initially selected product.

For example, if a customer purchases a wooden chair, some optional products could be: a warranty on that chair and/or a wooden chair with leather seats.

When the desired optional product(s) have been added, click Save to save all changes.

Note

There is no limit to how many optional products can be added to a quotation template.

The products added in the Optional Products tab are present in the quotation, by default, whenever that particular quotation template is used.

How to add optional products to your quotation templates on Odoo Sales.