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    Complete User Guide of Odoo Mobile App for Android & iOS

    Updated 2 January 2024

    INTRODUCTION

    Everybody looks for comfort and easier way to shop online. This attracts customers to go for things available with ease. Reviewing the studies, the customers prefer to shop online via mobile phones rather than desktops.

    Now, you have an opportunity to turn your e-commerce into m-commerce. Therefore, Odoo Mobile App for Android & iOS will convert your Odoo Store into a flutter mobile application. Now it is not necessary to have desktops/laptops to shop from your store.

    This customer behavior inclined the interest of people toward online shopping. Thanks to e-commerce people can purchase things from anywhere and get them delivered wherever they want.

    Odoo Mobile App for Android & iOS allows you to transform your Odoo store into a flutter mobile application. It offers a better user experience and the customers can easily install the app on their mobile devices; hence, they can shop for the products effortlessly on the go.

    Check a brief overview of the Android Mobile App Backend configuration –

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    FEATURES

    1. One-Time Setup required- Setup and Configure your App with Odoo backend once and you are good to go.
    2. It allows the customer to sign up and reset their account password right through the app.
    3. Customers can Social Login* to their account as well (Gmail, Facebook, Twitter) (a paid feature)
    4. Odoo Mobile App for Android & iOS supports all types of products with or without attributes.
    5. It provides the facility for users to publish/unpublish products and categories on the app separately from Odoo Website.
    6. Platform (Website/App) from which the customer has bought the products frequently is tracked.
    7. This odoo apps help in managing unlimited Banners and Published/Expiry dates of every banner separately and product sliders and sliders modes(fixed/sliding)
    8. Allows the user to configure the selection criteria of products like New products etc in an Automatic/Manual.
    9. Enables customers to deactivate or delete their accounts from the Odoo Apps.
    10. Logged-in users can add/remove products to the wishlist on the app.
    11. Added multi-currency settings for customers to choose the required one.
    12. Bi-directional product cart sync from the website to the app and vice versa.
    13. Introduced a support page for customers to connect via email or contact number.

    OTHER FEATURES

    1. Odoo Mobile App for Android & iOS also helps in managing push notifications.
    2. The user can configure an action to trigger on the customer click like a product/category/custom collection page.
    3. Odoo Mobile App for Android & iOS helps in managing unlimited featured product categories.
    4. The homepage displays the highlights of the popular categories.
    5. It also supports products with multiple images and with features like Zoom-in, Zoom-out, and optimized images for faster loading.
    6. It facilitates the User to Configure the Pricelist at the backend to Apply Special discounts on the product(s) such as “App Only” discounts or vice-versa.

    INSTALLATION

    1. Once you purchase the App from the Webkul store, you will receive the link to download the zip file of the module.
    2. Extract the file from your system after the download finishes. You will be able to see a folder named- ‘mobikul’.
    3. Copy and paste this folder inside your Odoo Add-Ons path.
    4. Now, open the Odoo App and click on the Settings menu. Here, click on Activate the Developer Mode.
    5. Then, open on Apps menu and click on ‘Update Modules List’.
    6. In the search bar, remove all the filters and search ‘mobikul’. You will be able to see the module in the search result.
    7. Click on ‘Install’ to install it.

    WORKFLOW

    Configuration

    1. Login to your Odoo instance and go to Mobikul Module.
    1. Now, click on the Settings menu under Configuration Tab; here you can set extra features and addons for the module, and under Mobikul Configuration, you need to click on configuration.
    mobikul configuration setting
    1. Here, you can add the name of the app and set the API credentials;
    Odoo Mobikul configuration
    1. Now, click on the Advanced tab to set price list, country, orders, language, and other features.
    Advanced Setting for Mobikul
    1. Once done, go to the extra configuration Tab; here you can set terms and conditions for sign-up payment terms.
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    1. Under the configuration tab, go to FCM Registered Devices to check and create the devices.
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    1. Go to the FCM Registered Topics to create and manage these topics.
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    1. Here, you can also merge categories.
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    1. Navigate to the Extra Added Features, go to the banners menu and create a new banner
    1. Active/Archive– The banner could be in any state active/archive, that is if admin wishes to show the banner it can be in an active state whereas if the admin wishes to hide the banner it can be in an archived state.
    2. Action to be triggered – This means the admin can set the activity when a customer clicks on the banner. They can be-
      • Open product page- A product may be assigned to the banner which opens up when we click on the banner.
      • Now, Open Category page- A category may be assigned to the banner which opens up when one clicks on the banner.
      • Open Custom Collection page- A banner may be assigned a set of customizable products.
    3. Description– This section is for the admin to add any detailed information related to the banner.
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    1. After that, you can create the Featured Category by navigating to Extra Added features>  Featured Category.
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    1. Navigate to the Product Sliders; From here, the admin can either create a new slider or edit the existing one.

    Details

    • Name- The admin needs to enter the name of the Slider.
    • Product Selection-
      • Selection Criteria- The selection can be of two types-
        1. Automatic
        2. Manual
    • General Settings-
      • Sequence- Order in which admin wishes the slider to be visible in the frontend.
      • Slider Mode- Here admin can either choose the slider to be in the form of a sliding carousel or fixed in one place.
      • Maximum no. of products in a Slider- The number of products the admin wishes to see in the slider.
    • Description- If the admin wishes to add any sort of comment to the slider.
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    1. You can manage Push Notifications; navigate to the One Time Notification menu.
    • One-time Push Notification– They appear only for one time as the admin hits on ‘Push Now’. The admin needs to enter the content to be displayed in the notification and assign a product, category, custom collection page, or nothing to the notification. In advance setting, the admin can set the notification type-
    1. Token-Based(All Reg. Devices)– In this case, the notifications will be sent to all the registered devices.
    2. Token-Based(Selected Devices)-In this case, the notifications will be sent to selected devices.
    3. Topic-Based- Here, the notifications will be sent to according to FCM topics.
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    1. You can also manage Notifications Templates easily

    Notifications Templates- This is a condition-based Notification sent to the customer on the accomplishment of a particular condition. The admin can here enter conditions as per which the notifications get triggered on the front-end. You can associate a product, category, or custom collection page or do nothing to the notification. The admin can even edit the image of the Notification.

    Odoo Mobile App for Android & iOS  in backend
    1. You can also manage Notifications Messages easily.

    Notification Message- These are customer-centric notifications that are assigned to a particular customer. Here, along with the customer name admin can enter the display message, banner image, icon image for notification, and Banner-related to the notification.

    Odoo Mobile App for Android & iOS  backend
    1. Click on Catalogs Tab and then click on the mobikul category to manage Mobikul Categories
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    Android & IOS Login Page:

    Your business is successful when you have an attractive business that is really important. As a result, we have both the view of Android and IOS through which you can log in to the account.

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    Android and IOS view of the Homepage

    Homepage functions as a store-front window. The homepage is a page displaying a huge advertisement, without errors, or irrelevant news. It displays all the important stuff like etc. It also shows the Product featured Categories, Banner, and Product Slider. Moreover, the Homepage plays an important role in enhancing the sale of the products or any offers on your e-commerce app as it is the next step toward a visitor becoming a customer. On the homepage of this particular app, a user will get featured product category details, product banner, and product slider.

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    Some important parts of the Homepage:

    • Featured Category and associated Products– While shopping a customer can add any product to his bag and then continue with the shopping further. On the bag page, the customer will find the product added to the cart. The customer can also update the quantity of the product from the bag page. In order to highlight the popular categories on your app, you can convert any category to a featured category.
    • Banner -A banner should be attractive enough to easily grab the attention of the users. You can display special offers on your banners. Similarly, our Odoo Mobile app allows you to manage unlimited banners. From the Odoo backend, you can configure what to trigger when a customer clicks on the banner updated on the Mobile app like – a product, a category of mobile collection page.
    • Product Slider – Product Sliders display the rotating products, and configure the number of products to display on the Product Slider from the Backend. You can create various product sliders like deals of the day, discount offers, Seasonal Sales, etc.
    • Drawer Drawer includes all Mobikul categories like  Accessories, Men, Women, Electronics, sales, VIP, Eyewear, Home&decore, and Jewellery.
    Categories

    Search Suggestions in both the platforms

    Generally, in a mobile app, search functionality is available with integrated search suggestion functionality. A user can search for product suggestions regarding the product. Display the search suggestions for the product. For example. if a user wants to purchase a product “Apple In-Ear Headphone”, as soon as he will enter the word “Apple” all the product’s suggestions related to apple products will display.

    Related-Product

     Android and IOS View of My Account

    “My Account” displays all the relevant information of a user’s account. As a result, it displays the information like Account Info, Address Book, All orders, My Wishlists, Languages, and Sign out. The below screenshot shows the dashboard view of both Android and IOS views.

    Profile-page

    Android and IOS view of Sign-in 

    If a user wants to log in or sign up for his account then fill in all the credentials of the account.

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    Bags and wishlist

    While scrolling down Flipkart, Myntra, or any other e-commerce website, generally users collect their desired product in their wishlist of user accounts and they are not willing to purchase. On contrary, a bag is a place where the customer collects the products which he wants to purchase. After the completion of the payment, review the order of the product order.

    Wishlist

    The Checkout Process

    In an e-commerce business, the Checkout Process is an important part of the customer’s journey. As a result, when a customer places orders for the product, various stages while the processing out the checkout payment is Billing and Shipping Address, Shipping method, Payment Method, and at last Review of the order. Moreover, you can edit the billing and shipping address on the delivery address.

    Shipping

    The below screenshot shows the review of an order after the selection of payment method.

    Review-and-payment

    Push Notifications

    Push Notifications display the relevant information directly on the screen of devices. As a result, the chances of gaining the user’s attention are very high. Therefore, it is convenient for customers because without logging into the app every time, customers will get information through these notifications about ongoing deals. As a result, a notification will appear on their Mobile Device consisting of the same.

    Odoo Mobile App for Android & iOS

    Email verification

    Therefore, with the help of this app if a new user signs up or if the existing user login with some other social account initially he has to verify his email i.d then he needs to verify his account after that he will get access to place the order from the app. Therefore, send the verification link to the account. Once it’s verified a customer can place the order.

    Delete/ Deactivate Account

    The Odoo Mobile App user can delete their account. Also, if they don’t want to delete their account then they can deactivate the same either temporarily or on a permanent basis.

    Delete or deactivate account in Odoo Mobile App

    Add to Cart

    Improved the Add to cart feature and make it bi-directional. Now users can add products from the cart on the website and check them from the mobile app. However, you need to ensure that both platforms are logged in via the same user credentials.

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    Support Page

    The mobile app now has a support page that helps customers to get in touch with the support team. Also, you can call the support team directly via the contact number which opens up the mobile phone dialer.

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    Multi-Currency

    The Mobile app now supports multi-currency. It means now customers can select their desired currency which will update the product price on the website to the selected currency.

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    Wishlist

    Wishlist is further improved to easily add or remove products from it. It allows customers to save the desired products for future purchases. Additionally, you can create multiple wishlist for different requirements.

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    OTHER GUIDES

    Odoo Multi Vendor Mobile App

    Odoo Mobikul Delivery Boy App

    NEED HELP?

    Did you find the guide for the module Odoo Mobile App for Android & iOS helpful? Please feel free to share your feedback in the comments below.

    If you have any issues/queries regarding the module please raise a ticket at https://webkul.uvdesk.com/en/customer/create-ticket/.

    For any doubt contact us at [email protected].

    Thanks for paying attention!!

    Current Product Version - 1.0

    Supported Framework Version - Odoo V14, V13, V12, V11, V10, V9

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