Business organizations often follow different payment collection and payment making methods. In many cases, the payments to suppliers or payments from customers are made as installments. Odoo ERP has the feature to configure and use different payment method in it. In Odoo, it is called Payment terms, we can set different payment terms and use it for both customer bills and vendor bills. In this blog, I will be explaining 'how to configure and use different payment terms in Odoo'.

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Payment Terms In Odoo

2. INTRODUCTION
 Business organizations often follow different payment collection and payment making methods. In
many cases, the payments to suppliers or payments from customers are made as installments.
Odoo ERP has the feature to configure and use different payment method in It. In Odoo, it is called
Payment terms, we can set different payment terms and use it for both customer bills and vendor
bills. In this blog, I will be explaining 'how to configure and use different payment terms in Odoo'.

3. • Configuration:
 We can create new payment terms from,
• Accounting--->Configuration--->Management--->Payment Terms
 Here we are creating a new payment term, “20 % advance within 3 days and balance in 10
days”

4. • Give payment term description in the provided space, this description will be displayed in the
invoice or sale order. Then add the terms, click on 'Add Item' and add the details of the term.
Please note that the last line of terms always should be the 'Balance', otherwise a warning
message will be displayed while attempting to save the payment term and we can’t save it.

5.  When we add a new Term, we will get redirected to the following wizard.

6.  From here you choose the type of Term, and the Due Date computation method.
• There will be three different Term Type,
 Balance
 Percent
 Fixed Amount
o We can select any of the Type according to our need. At the right side of the Term Type,
there is the option to select the Due Date computation method for that particular Type.

7.  The options are explained below.
 Day(s) after the invoice date
 The amount should be paid within the specified days after the invoice date.
 Day(s) after the end of the invoice month (Net EOM)
 The payment should be made within specified days after the end of invoice month.
 Last day of following month
 The amount should be paid within the last day of following month
 Last day of current month
 The amount should be paid within the last day of current month

8.  After all terms are set, click Save save the payment term.
After this we can set this payment term in Partner master or Sale order or Invoice.

9.  We can set payment terms in:
 Sale Order or Quotation
We can set payment term for a particular quotation or sale order
 Partner
We can set payment term in the partner master and whenever we select the partner, the payment
term will be automatically added to invoice or sale order.
 Invoice
We can set payment term for a particular invoice.

10.  Let us see how payment term is set in Partner master. Open the master form of a partner, under
Sale, Purchase, tabs we can see the Customer Payment Terms and Vendor Payment Terms
respectively. Click there and choose the appropriated payment term for the partner

11.  Now let us create a customer invoice for this partner. When we select the partner the payment ter
will be automatically added.
• When we check the journal entry we can see the entries are made according to the payment
terms.

12.  So this is how we configure and use Payment Terms in Odoo. Hope this piece of information was
helpful.

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https://www.cybrosys.com/blog/how-to-create-and-use-payment-terms-in-odoo

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