What's new :
Odoo version 17 reinvents the user experience with major improvements to the website and e-commerce. In this exploration, discover discover the latest features that offer advanced customisation, integrate Instagram, optimise image management and revolutionise payment design.
Get ready to plunge into a new world where Odoo is redefining web and e-commerce standards.
What's new on the website :
1. Additions and improvements to blocks
The website's capabilities have been enhanced by the introduction of new building blocks such as buttons, images and videos, while also improving existing blocks, particularly the banner block. In addition, improvements have been made to the carousel block, making it easier to reorganise the images used.
2. More functional forms
In the form, a new feature now allows website visitors to add several files simultaneously.
3. Personalisation of grids
The customisation of website grids has been improved. By allowing you to define the spacing between elements in a grid, it is now possible to drag and drop blocks of internal content anywhere in the grid.
4. Access to Instagram
The ability to display the Instagram feed on the website has been made possible by the addition of the "Instagram Page" block.
5. Make your website unique
The customisation of the website has been optimised. You can now customise the navigation bar by changing the font and colours of the elements that make it up. In addition, improvements have been made to the customisation of the colours used for the themes.
6. Using images on your website
New features have been introduced to the library of shapes used to frame images on the website. It is now possible to update images in WebP format, allowing you to optimise site speed by using compressed images efficiently while maintaining reasonable quality. Adding a dynamic touch to your website is also made easier thanks to the possibility of integrating new hover effects on your images. What's more, images added by URL are now saved in Odoo, ensuring that they are preserved even if the original link is deleted.
7. Work faster
From now on, you can go directly to the top bar as soon as you create your website, eliminating the automatic return to the home page in edit mode.
8. Give free rein to your creativity
The website's text processing and creation capabilities have been extended. This includes the ability to highlight specific parts of your texts to make them stand out. In addition, the introduction of a new font size system aims to improve the responsiveness and consistency of the website, offering more advanced customisation.
9. Integration of ChatGPT
A significant improvement has also been made by enabling the use of GPT chat to create and modify texts and descriptions that are consistent with the purpose of the website.
Several alternatives are proposed and you can now decide to guide the generation by the AI with the length and style characteristics.
What's new in e-commerce
The main thrust of the new features in version 17 is focused on improving the ergonomics of e-commerce.
1. Add descriptions to your e-commerce site:
The ability to formulate detailed descriptions for products within e-commerce is now available
2. Add labels to your products:
The ability to add labels to products as soon as the labels are created, followed by subsequent filtering of products based on these labels, is now integrated.
3. Payment design :
The E-Commerce payment design has been redesigned with :
- New animations for the shopping basket
- A more mobile-friendly design
4. The billing address for payment on the e-commerce site:
During the payment process, the customer's address is automatically detected, making it easy to add and change their address. What's more, it's possible to link the delivery address and billing address together, simplifying management for the customer.