What’s New in Odoo 18: Latest Features and Roadmap

Odoo is gaining popularity with each passing day. It is known as one of the most popular open-source ERP software's. It gives more and more reasons to the Odoo makers to continuously evolve and enhance the system. Every year, Odoo comes up with a new and improved version with much better functionality and new features/apps.

This year, Odoo will be unveiling its 18th version. Before the official launch, there have been talks in the Odoo Community- of the features or functionalities which are going to be there in the Odoo v18.

In our blog, we will be discussing some of the expected features of Odoo v18. Read further to know more about them:

Odoo 18 introduces Chat Hub, making it easier to manage and communicate across all open conversations.

Email Marketing

 New options have been added to the Contact List in Email Marketing.

 Email Marketing Contact Name Splitting

Email marketing module, you can now split the first and last names of recipients in the mailing lists for more personalized emails.

 New layout design for the setting up email templates with a preview for each design.

Product 

 Product Type in product has changed. The concept of storable product has been removed from products.

There is a field named Track Inventory which will appear when product type is consumable, and this will make that product as storable type.

 If a product is of type service, then we can plan the service according to different roles.

 Traceability or Tracking of product under the inventory tab has moved to General Information and Now there is no option for No Tracking. We have options for Tracking by lot, by serial number and by quantity.

 You can now add Combo Products for Website Sale as well as the POS Sale.

 Out of stock and sale ribbon base on variant.

 You can select whether you wish to show the Variants on the shop page through the snippet itself.

 When we are scanning the barcode and entering the value in the product barcode field, if that product doesn’t exist, it will create a new product with all the details.

Point of Sale

 In POS Categories, we can change the availability of products that are present in this particular category on the POS. Also the color of the POS category.

 Default Barcode Scanner in POS which will scan the barcode directly using the device camera.

In-Built Barcode Scanner

 Barcode scanners can create new records by scanning barcodes for the products not present in the inventory.

 POS In-Built barcode scanner can scan the barcode with the device's in-built camera.

 Print the receipt just from the receipt screen of POS.

 For a product to be available in POS, the boolean is outside of the sale Tab and another tab will handle all the POS configuration.

 Now in product, if a product type is of combo, then there will be no new tab for creating combo. There is a field in the "General Information Tab" for this, named Combo Choices.

 The UI of POS has changed. Now the product will come according to their point of sale category colors.

 Default barcode on POS receipt.

 Restaurant Kiosk

 Online Table Booking

 Booking Management

 Table Transfer

 QR Restaurant Menu

 Kitchen Display

 Can Apply Coupons

 PayTM Integration with POS

 Now we can print pdf in view just by ctrl + P.

 URL Improvements (Short URL) for any view.

 In the URL, if we change the odoo keyword to JSON, it will change the whole view in JSON format.

 Performance Improvements and fast navigation when fetching data from the DB.

General

 The Error Window UI has been changed.

 Login with Pass Key

User can login directly by using browser’s passkeys to any login.

 Xendit Supports Tokenization

Before till 17.0 Xendit payment provider didn't support the tokenization, but now in Odoo 18, Odoo will allow users to save the payment token and can use it in subscription for the recurring payment. Also customers will be able to use and pay directly from the saved payment details.

 Payment forms now display unavailable payment methods to internal users in debug mode for them to better understand why a given payment method is available or not. So internal users are able to check the reason for unavailability directly from the checkout forms (Ex. incompatible country, incompatible currency, etc.).

 Discard button has been changed as “cross” which looks better than “reload” button (as odoo 17 have).

 Approve a leave directly from the overview screen.

 Odoo 18 will allow you to determine which users will have access to the Shop page.

 In the website editor, the preview will show a popup with some extra features and functionality.

Sales

 New Sales Commission feature

This new feature in the Sales app can help set and monitor achievements & targets for salespersons to compute their commission.

Commission Plan menu in sales for each salesman commission with all the advanced features.

 Loyalty Points at online checkout & portal

Odoo 18 will allow users to access their Loyalty card or shop points directly from their shopper account portal.

 Sale order line

We have an edit button in product field only for the products which has variants & attributes. Now, We have the option to add description under product name, before it was present in new field.

 Quote Builder

We have a “Quote Builder” Option where we can customise our own design for Quotation.

 Users can create dynamic and customized PDF reports from the quote builder.

 Quotation creation from a spreadsheet directly from the sales order.

 Quote Calculator​

This will help sales users to get the cost with details for all products which are present in the sales order line, and that cost could include shipping cost, manufacturing cost, manufacturing hours, etc.

 In Odoo 18, Backend multi image upload dialogue box is now similar to website images upload dialogue box.

 Request Signature

Now we have the option to ask for signatures on documents from customers/vendors.

 Salesperson Commissions

This new feature will equip you in setting up commission structures for a sales team, incentivizing them to perform better.