For the fellow Odoo Community members, I
am sure you are well aware about the vertical-hotel modules in the OCA
which provides seamless management & ease of business to the
Hotel-Restaurant Owners & Managers, you can download the free source
code from the Git repo here.
We got an astounding opportunity very
recently to showcase a proof of concept in collaboration with an IT
consulting company in USA by using these hotel management modules to
enhance it further and modify it such a way that we can build a Park
management system for one of the State Governments of USA for the
management of the parks and campsites associated with them, including
but not limited to the immense possibility of also managing their
Website, E-commerce, Point Of Sale, Reservations, Sales, CRM, Purchase
Activities, Accounting, etc management on just one platform. Kind of
like the famous quote from the movie, Lord of the Rings, “One System to
manage them all.“
We changed the Hotel which is basically a
Company in Odoo terminology into the Park which then can be useful to
establish a multi company/multi park management scenario, to keep the
inventory & accounting data separate for each park. As well used
rooms as campsites which can follow the same reservation process as that
of the hotel management system. We also used the Folio and POS
functionalities to make way to develop a functionality for the park
inhouse shops to sell and/or rent out products as well. But of course we
had to make changes wherever needed to make the flow similar to what
they might have needed, but this is to understand the potential and
reach of Odoo and open source technologies and how it can be twisted and
reconstructed to facilitate the needs of the business owners & end
users.
We have used Odoo ecommerce & it’s
related payment gateways with a layer of a website CMS theme which
allowed us to showcase yet another amazing Odoo feature where they
could realise how easy it can be to change the layout, color
combinations of their website, Make new pages & menus, Apart from
it, Event & Blog management without even having the need to know any
programming skills, Odoo CMS
allows drag-drop functionality to make all of the changes possible
directly from the Odoo GUI. Especially now with the introduction of Odoo
Studio you can customize existing apps or create a new Odoo app/Module
with just a few clicks directly from the interface without doing one
shred of code.
Unlike earlier days now with the
introduction of Odoo, It’s been well established that we have got one
stop solution for all the needs of any business application. Also it
being open source and the big community support gives way to plethora of
other new opportunities for the small to big scale businesses where
they do not have to spend chuck load of money to have an inhouse ERP software
which otherwise in our professional experience can be a very expensive
& loathsome process in terms of implementing it and user
acceptance.
If you want to know and learn more about presented “Park Management” concepts, you are welcome to write us at contact@serpentcs.com.
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