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Coworking:User Guide

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Contents

Introduction

Welcome to the Openbravo for Coworking User Guide.

This user oriented document has been designed with the aim of guiding through the process of learning Openbravo for Coworking, a vertical solution to manage coworking spaces. Openbravo for Coworking is built on top of Openbravo 3.

This user guide is split in several parts:

Openbravo 3 User Interface

If this is the first time you take a look into Openbravo, this is the right place to get valuable information which will help you at the time you first use Openbravo. This part gives an overview of the navigation, grid and form editing, tabs, filtering and interface customization.
If Openbravo is not new for you, you will discover new user interface capabilities which will make your daily work activities much more efficient

Openbravo 3 User Interface

Business Flows

This part lists and briefly explains a set of business flows.

There are several key business areas such as membership management, procurement, resource reservation, sales etc., tipically present in a coworking organization.
Those key business areas are related between each others, which leads us to the definition of the business flows.

To put us in context, each business flow is listed and briefly explained below:

Each of above listed business flow is explained in deep within the Openbravo application area where it can be executed.

Common Concepts & Processes

Openbravo for Coworking has been designed to allow an easy and intuitive way of working.
This approach implies that many concepts and process are common ones, therefore are present all along Openbravo.

This section lists and describes Openbravo concepts and processes with the aim of avoiding that the same concept or process is explained more than once.

Common Concepts & Processes

Openbravo Application Areas

Openbravo is split into different application areas. Each area is represented by a separate folder accessible from the Application menu in the top navigation screen area:

Application Menu

Each business area includes separates folders for:

Therefor this section of the User Guide details:

each Openbravo application area within the corresponding business flow.

General Setup

General Setup is the place where to configure basic Openbravo settings such as the enterprise model, users and roles as well as other more advance setting such as alerts, preferences and processes.

Master Data Management

Mater Data is a central repository of data where key information such as business partners and products can be created, configured and therefore shared accross other Openbravo application areas.

Procurement Management

Procurement Management supports the management of the orders, goods receipts and purchase invoices as well as the analysis of purchase related data.

Sales Management

Sales Management addresses the life-cycle of a sales process and besides provides the tools to analyze sales related information.

Contract Management

Openbravo for Coworking solution offers a powerful contract management module, that allows to dinamically manage all your memberships.

Resource and Reservation Management

Configure all the desks, offices, meeting and rooms or bookable spaces and set the booking options to be used in Members Portal, contracts or sales orders.

Financial Management

The "Financial Management" area supports daily accounting activities such as payable and receivable accounts management, assets amortization as well as the opening and closing of the accounting year.

How To

There are a series of How To documents addressing areas of special interest. Many of the guides present how to achieve particular business goals in a manner supported by Openbravo.

Appendix

Glossary

In Glossary you will find a brief and clear explanation about Openbravo main terms.

Screens Reference

In Screens Reference you will find a single repository of information about all Openbravo screens, fields and entities.

Final Note

Finally, it is important to remark that:

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