{"id":23847,"date":"2025-06-16T13:10:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T13:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/uncategorized\/lock-sale-order\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T12:00:56","slug":"how-to-lock-sale-order-in-odoo18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/bharath-india\/how-to-lock-sale-order-in-odoo18\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Lock Sale Order in Odoo18"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_24901\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OnvKNx4MftI?enablejsapi=1&autoplay=0&cc_load_policy=0&cc_lang_pref=&iv_load_policy=1&loop=0&rel=0&fs=1&playsinline=0&autohide=2&theme=dark&color=red&controls=1&disablekb=0&\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This video explains how to use the <strong>Lock<\/strong> feature on Sales Orders to prevent any further changes once an order has been finalized or processed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Prevention of Changes:<\/strong> Locking a Sales Order ensures that price, quantity, or shipping details cannot be edited accidentally.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Automatic Locking:<\/strong> The video shows how to enable &#8220;Automatic Locking&#8221; in Sales settings so orders lock as soon as they are confirmed.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Manual Locking:<\/strong> The video demonstrates how a manager can manually click the &#8220;Lock&#8221; button on any confirmed order.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Security:<\/strong> This provides an extra layer of security, ensuring that what the customer agreed to remains unchanged in the system.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Unlocking:<\/strong> If a change is absolutely necessary, the narrator shows how an authorized user can click &#8220;Unlock&#8221; to make edits.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Audit Compliance:<\/strong> Locking is helpful for financial audits, as it prevents tampering with finalized sales data.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Visual Indicators:<\/strong> The status of the order clearly changes to &#8220;Locked,&#8221; signaling to all users that it is finalized.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Impact on Invoicing:<\/strong> Even if locked, you can still generate invoices or register payments against the order.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video explains how to use the Lock feature on Sales Orders to prevent any further changes once an order [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bharath-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}