Odoo 9
Released October 1, 2015
New design & Navigation
Simply beautiful
Based on Material Design. Simple, clear, and great to work with.
Faster
Data loading is fast. Instantaneous apps switcher.
Simple filters & groups
Predefined filters allowing to view most useful data in one click.
Easy navigation
Rearranged menus to bring what you need closer to your fingers.
Fully mobile
The design will automatically and rightly adjust menu, lists, forms & fields to the size of the PC, tablet or mobile phone.
Usability & On-boarding
Contextual menu
Creation of dashboards per application for a better navigation, including overview of key indicators and pending next actions. Quick graphical overview of the evolution of the most relevant indicators.
On-boarding planners
Dynamic tips - small tutorials to help you configure Odoo based on your business needs, and step-by-step guide to get started, including tips & tricks.
Apps Split
HR and Marketing apps are split into Employees, Recruitment, Timesheet, Appraisal, Leaves, Expense, Survey, Email Marketing, Marketing Automation. Contact, Calendar, MRP and Repair are now separated apps.
DatePicker
New responsive Date Picker widget.
Customization tools
Easier access to configuration options in each app.
General form view improvements
Revision of the main forms to easily view and edit most important data, and removal of unused fields from the form.
Smart Translation
Keep the translation valid after changing e.g., a grammar mistake in the original version, but not after more important change.
Smoother Search views
Streamlined search views with smoother integration in pivot tables and graphs, along with dynamic grouping.
CRM
Better on-boarding
New Dashboard for a better overview of the sales activities. Useful tips and best practices to configure and deploy your CRM.
Activities and calls management
Organize sequence of activities per opportunity. Schedule activities. Log every activity immediately in the opportunity's chatter with predefined actions. Track, log and analyse the activities of your team.
Pipeline Management
Set up specific stages for each sales team. Possibility to create sub-stages to better organize the processes. Automatic archiving of lost opportunities. Manual archiving of other opportunities. Lost is no longer a stage but a separate field, enabling more powerful analysis of pipeline - e.g. Lost ratio per stage.
Customize stages
Customize your pipeline by adding description on stages.
Lead scoring
Score your leads based on explicit and implicit criteria. Decide which total score deserves to be converted into an opportunity.
Lost reasons
Analyze lost reasons on your opportunities to improve your sales effectiveness.
Revised configuration options
Activate leads if needed.
Sales
Simplified Price-lists
A single version per price-list. Easily add one or more price-lists to individual product depending of your customer’s segment. Configure it depending on ordered quantities and/or time period. 3 configuration modes for price-lists: None, simple or advanced.
Manage invoicing from sales orders
Invoicing policy is configured in the product but managed from the sales order.
Contracts have changed
Contract are split into Odoo Subscriptions for recurring invoicing and Odoo Sales with improved sales orders for other types. ex: Invoice is based on deliver/orders quantities, on prepaid services, time sheets and expenses, project tasks, etc.
New dashboard
Get a full overview on your activity, next actions and performances.
Sales order modified
Possibility to modify, remain opened, invoice kits.
Expiry date
By default, an automatic expiry date is calculated into the invoice.
Invoice tracking
Easily follow the created and confirmed invoices.
Create quotations
Online sales quotations are faster and easier to design.
Multi company rules
Automatically mirror sales orders and purchase orders in multi-company setup.
Incoterms®
Incoterms now appear on the invoice.
Subscription
Recurring invoice
Create recurring invoice rule for a customer.Recurring products are automatically linked to periodically invoiced contracts.
Customer Portal
Self-subscription & management from the customer portal, define service options and setup fees.
Reporting
Dashboard with graphs & KPI's.
Revenue recognition
Automatic recognition of revenues as they incur.
Accounting
Reports
Generate reports for any time period, comparing time period. Get dynamic calculation of certain fields eg. YTD earning. Create multiple annotations. Multiple standard reports are available - Profit & Lost, cash flow statements, cash reports, executive summary and aged payable/receivables, etc. Get standard reports and chart of accounts available for 80+ countries. Export to Excel and pdf.
Perpetual fiscal year closing
No need to report balance sheet accounts from one year to another. Automatic calculation of P&L based on chosen dates, only need to write the handling of earnings for closure. Choose lock entry dates for non advisers and all users.
Better reconciliation
Automatic reconciliations. New interface for manual reconciliations, for both open and paid invoices. Learning of account numbers based on first manual reconciliation.
Simplified configuration
Only few fields required to get started, simplified creation of accounts.
Analytic Accounting
Hierarchies in analytic accounts are replaced by tags on journal items, and filters on tags (work in progress).
Invoicing and Payments
Bank statements
Synchronization with 24,000 banks, mostly in US, Australia and New-Zealand. Importation of files in format: OFX, QIF, CSV, CODA.
Payments
Sepa payments. Check printing in US format.
Multi-company rules
Automatically mirror orders and invoices in multi-company setup (Create a sales orders in company A and automatically Odoo generates a Purchase Order in company B).
Dashboard
Actions and specific information based on journal type.
Customers payments
Batch deposit available. Customer Statements : Manage the follow-up from a single simplified interface.
Currency rate
Automatic update of currency rates base on a chosen frequency: daily, weekly, monthly.
Payments terms
Simplified management view.
Sign
Electronic contracts
Customized the editable fields in the PDF with the drag & drop function. Choose to repeat on every page some fields.
Multi-role
Send the right version depending of the position of the person who'll sign.
Document management
Prepare documents. Share documents to one or multiple person, with automatic consolidation of multiple signed documents sent in parallel. Create templates.
Legally valid
Legal in US, Europe, South Africa, Australia and New-Zealand.
VoIP
Calls on opportunities
Create a dial queue on customers or opportunities, call from the browser automatically or manually.
Receiving calls
An auto pop-up is generated for receiving calls.
Follow-up
Reschedule or send email for failed calls.
Miscellaneous
Integrated with Asterisk v13.2 VOIP server.
Point of sale
Loyalty cards and rewards system
Give points by order, by spent amount or by purchased products and setup a reward (discount, gift item or resale).
Kitchen & bar printing
Send your orders to the kitchen or to the bar, according to the product sold, through wireless.
Register customers
Select and create customer form easily. Take a picture of customer directly with your tablet.
Waitress tip management
Accept customers extra tips or convert their change into a tip.
Manual discounts
Allow manual cashier discounts.
Fiscal positions
Define a fiscal position per POS.
Split bills
Orders can be paid in separate payments or split into multiple new orders.
Restaurant floor plan
Get an overview of you restaurant floor and tables with the graphical editor. Know exactly who is sitting where and how many seats you have left.
Navigate orders per table
Assign orders to tables and makes changes on the go with the graphical editor.
Multiple barcodes
Configure multiple barcodes for the same product with barcode nomenclature.
Receipt reprinting
Let cashiers manually reprint POS receipts.
Project management
Customize pipeline
Change name of “task/issues”. Change the meaning of the green/red status. Create specific stages per project. Define the process through custom tool-tips for each stage. Create tasks from sales orders.
Service Rating
Configure the automatic email sent to customers after each milestone and receive their feedback directly. Analyze overall rating by project to improve your process.
Automatic project email address
A ready-to-use email address is automatically created at the project creation.
Create tasks
Send an email to a project to create a task. All recipients/cc. of the email will be added as follower of the task.
Portal front-end
Customers have access to their tickets from the portal.
Miscellaneous
Better statistics. Archive tasks. Help desk management removed and replaced by issues.
Website
Multi-Version
Prepare multiple versions of your website and switch from one to another in one click.
New building block
New building blocks, such as the "table" block for displaying detailed products info, the "Gallery" block for showcasing pictures or the newsletter popup.
New website editor
Improved usability and more flexibility.
A/B testing
Create two versions of a page and run live experiments to find out which one performs best. Analyze results directly on Google Analytics.
Link tracker
Add a tracking code to your URL's and measure all your marketing campaigns from the first click to the final sale.
Odoo Slides
Share videos and presentations directly on your website. Manage privacy by channel.
eCommerce
Sell digital products
You can now add digital products like eBooks to your online catalog.
Payment provider
Authorize.net and SIPS Worldline have been added to the list of online payment methods along with Ogone, Paypal, Ayden and Buckaroo.
New building blocks
Describe products in a table to give maximum of specifications.
Integration with Amazon and eBay
Configure product feed. Get orders.
New customer portal
Customers can follow their purchase statuses and history through a personal portal.
Order review
See details of your order at the end of the process.
Skip shipping address
Shipping address no more required when providing only services.
Product stock
Display available stock on products.
Blog
New building blocks
Easily put floating image inside your text block.
Authorship
Easily select the name of a coworker to grant blog post authorship.
Cover management
You now have the ability to easily remove the cover.
Gallery
Blog home page has been reviewed and improved.
Forum
Discussions & links
Share links from any website and start regular discussions threads.
Improved tag management
Easily filter questions and answers with tags.
Social sharing
Share your questions and answers on Facebook, Google+, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Improved user interface
Better browse through content with a cleaner front-end.
Inventory
Stock forecast reporting
Get forecast of product availability based on confirmed sales orders, purchase orders or manufacturing orders as well as internal moves.
New barcodes mechanism
New unified interface. Scan the goods and confirm the reception or sending of those only through the scanner. Support EAN13, EAN14.
Deliveries
Delivery methods reviewed. Easier and faster to fill.
Multiple barcodes
Create custom barcodes with specific codes to implement desired behaviors, such as a specific promotion.
Shippers integration
Support DHL, USPS, UPS, Fedex. Generate the sending labels from the shipper. Track and trace your packages from Odoo.
Event
Manage subscriptions
Register several people at once. During the subscription process, the participant will be able to detail each attendee in a new screen.
Auto confirmation
Automatically receive a confirmation of your event and registration.
Edit menu
Create a menu with several page for advanced events.
Promote
Promote your events with customized mailings and automatic reminders.
Customize
Add custom questions at subscriptions, per attendee or per subscription. Customize entrance badges and analyze attendee profile.
Purchase
Better search filters
Search products with the supplier reference on the purchase order.
Invoicing control
Automatic control between invoices and purchase orders.
Multi-company rules
Automatically mirror sales orders and purchase orders in multi-company setup.
Purchase orders
No more generation of draft PO. Auto-complete when generating a draft invoice.
Human resources
Split Apps
Odoo HR is now Odoo Appraisal, Odoo Expense, Odoo Fleet, Odoo Employees, Odoo Leaves, Odoo Recruitment and Odoo Timesheet.
Employees' monthly presence
HR managers can easily report employees' monthly presence with new menu entry and state.
Appraisals
Easily configure who should receive a form. Define & select forms per roles. Manage evaluation schedule with stages.
Employees leaves summary
HR managers can easily manage payrolls with new employees leaves summary. Use green button for approved and calculated leaves and grey button for pending leaves that will be managed later.
Expenses
Process each expense individually.
Dashboards
Get a dashboard per manager.
Timesheet
A new app to record your hours
Mobile
Chrome plugin app to enter time spent directly in Odoo. Cross device synchronization.
Easy recording
Click on button to record a time session from the browser. Work offline.
Get Organized
"Get things done" methodology used to manage planning. Statistics.
Mailing
Undelivered emails
Track last 24 hours undelivered emails, and get notified why they failed.
New email designer
Get new snippets and 9 themes to create your emails campaigns.
Action Button in Email
Actions - like approvals - are immediately available in the email notifications.
KPI's
Get real time statistics on email performance : delivery rate, open rate, click rate and bounce rate.
Link tracker integration
Add a tracking code to the links sent within your mail body and evaluate the revenue generated for each campaign.
Discuss
A new way to collaborate through Odoo
Mention
Mention Odoo users (@odoo_username) in the conversation to raise their attention.
Channel
Create open groups called Channels to follow discussions on specific topics.
Private Groups
Create secret groups and invite the users.
Canned response
Create shortcuts to use already-made template answers to common questions in the live chat.
Rating system
Let your customer leave his feedback about your company services through the live chat.
Direct Chat
Chat with your colleagues while working in Odoo apps.
Equipment Management
Warranties overview
Manage warranties & lifetime of equipment (e.g. laptops, machines, etc.).
Maintenance
Create maintenance requests & track them.