We all know Odoo community is an open source complete ERP for a business. Why we prefer Odoo as our business management software? There are multiple plus points for choosing Odoo and one of the major points is Odoo is an open source software.

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How to install custom modules
in odoo

2. INTRODUCTION
 We all know odoo community is a open source complete ERP for a business. Why we prefer Odoo as our
business management software?. There are multiple plus points for choosing odoo and the one of the major
point is Odoo is a open source software.
 Actually odoo is a generic product that contain all the basic workflows that needed for a common
business like Trading business, shopping sectors, Restaurants, Point of sales, Supermarkets and other
common business. Then how can we make odoo as a best ERP software that adapt all the business flows
in our company. Yes.! We need to customize it.

3.  For achive your requirements you can customize in two ways.
 We can use Custom modules
 We can edit viva Front end.
 We all know Odoo have very good store for the products. We can check it here
(https://apps.odoo.com/apps/modules)

5.  We can see 13000+ apps in the store. And Day by day the number of contributions will become
huge. The Odoo community is a large scale community and activities and performances are very
high and fast.

6.  You can search and find the best app that suit to your business and achieve your
requirements.

7.  From the top we can see Categories, Free or Paid, versions. When you finds a module that
perfect for your business then first check the versions. Version of Odoo and apps version must
be same. If you find a paid module in apps store just search same featured app as free. Many
of the paid app’s features available as free apps too.

8.  Finally you find an app, then just download it by clicking the download button.

9.  Must check the version is compatible or not.
 Now we get a perfect app for our business, then how can we include to our odoo.

10.  After downloading it we can get a .zip file. You can extract it then you can get a folder contain
__init__.py , __openerp__.py or __manifest__.py and other files.
 You just copy the file and paste it in the folder(addons) of odoo.

11.  We can create a custom addon folder here.
sudo mkdir /../../odoo/<custom_addons>
sudo chown -R odoo:odoo /../../odoo/<custom_addons>
 Now you can add the custom_addons path in the config file.
sudo nano /etc/odoo.conf (provide the exact path of the config file)

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addons_path = /../../odoo/addons, /../../odoo/<custom_addons>
• Edit the addons_path and add your custom addon paths.
• You can past your new app into this custom_addons folder.
sudo scp -r <custom module>// root@<ip_address>:/../../odoo/<custom_addons>/

13.  After paste the module do not forget to restart your server.
 sudo service odoo-server restart
 Then you can go to your odoo home page
 <ip address>:8069/web

14. Then follow the steps..
● Activate developer mode.
➢ In Odoo V8 and V9 click on the right top Administration menu.
➢ Click on About odoo

15. ➢ Click on activate the developer mode.

16. ➢ In Odoo V10 and V11 Go to Settings
 Activate the developer mode.

17. ● Then update the module list by click the update button
➢ Odoo V8
• We can these menus under settings main menu.
➢ Odoo V9, V10 and V11

18. ➢ This option is available In ‘apps’ Menu

19.  Now your module is ready to install. Go to the apps and search your module, avoid the “apps” filter
from the search bar.
 Please note one important point, some custom modules may cause crash the DB or make some
conflicts and show errors. So before install the new module just take a backup file.
After the backup of the database search your custom module name and install it. And test it.

20. Refer this link for more:
https://www.cybrosys.com/blog/how-to-install-custom-modules-in-odoo

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