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Am 24.08.20 um 15:26 schrieb Bettina Pfeifer dygytally.de:

> sometimes it helps to imagine what you (your future odoo client)

> want to know after one, two, three ... years of sales. What would

> you like to know about all your sales, the products you sold.

> Which ones made trouble after sales, which ones made your odoo

> client happy, which ones led to more trades, which ones where hard

> to get and easy to sell or vice versa. Which ones need a lot of

> warehouse space, which ones need special care. How do you want to

> report on the past. What decisions should be made for the future.

Thanks. Good questions.


> And if you are able to generate the "list" you mention, that

> might be good starting point.

This list already exists and with a lot of specfic attributes added to
each item (machine) including each having it’s own price and even
possible different tax.

That’s why I doubt it’s a good idea to model these list/items using
`stock.production.lot` customizations.

The only thing that some machines may have in common is the base model
and manufacturer.
So from non-technical perspective it’s more like “product & variants”.
Not like “product & lots of identical product items”, like e.g. in the
smart phone case.)


Regards. Peter
by Pete Hahn - 04:00 - 24 Aug 2020

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  • Best model for selling unique products (used machines) 
    Hello,

I have a hard time to decide which Odoo model to use for selling unique
products.

The products are used machines. So in general one could think of a
generic product with manufacturer and model and a certain instance of it.
But since these are used items, they come with a lot of customizations
and other instance specific attributes like operation hours etc.
So it’s more like the product == instance.

We thought about using `product.product` for the brand/model and
`stock.production.lot` for the instance, but after some research in the
odoo v12 code I'm not sure if this is really the best option.

To me it looks like `stock.production.lot` is more about tractability of
instance of generic products **after** they have been sold, since
`stock.production.lot`  is very tightly tied to stock operations.

We need to have product instances already during the whole CRM, Quote,
SaleOrder process. I don’t see how to easily put `stock.production.lot`
on `sale.order.lines`.

The other option would be just going for `product.product` and assume
product == product instance.

I’m not really sure about benefits/drawbacks or maybe other/better
approaches.


Please give me your opinions about what model is best to use as a base
for selling unique items in odoo.

Thanks. Regards, Peter
    by Pete Hahn - 03:36 - 21 Aug 2020