{"id":25429,"date":"2025-08-02T05:29:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/uncategorized\/merge-vendor-bill-intro\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:11:41","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:11:41","slug":"merge-vendor-bill-intro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/bharath-india\/merge-vendor-bill-intro\/","title":{"rendered":"Merge Vendor Bill Intro"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_35611\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"800\" data-origheight=\"450\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IyqBEMk6GI4?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<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This video explains the <strong>Merge Vendor Bills<\/strong> feature in <strong>Odoo18<\/strong>, demonstrating how to combine multiple bills from the same vendor into a single document to simplify payment processing and reduce administrative overhead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>The Purpose of Merging<\/strong>: The narrator explains that merging is used to consolidate several draft bills from the same vendor into one, making it easier to manage payments and reconciliation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Navigating to Vendor Bills<\/strong>: To start, navigate to <strong>Accounting &gt; Vendors &gt; Bills<\/strong>, where you can see all your current pending and draft invoices.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Selecting Bills for Merging<\/strong>: The demonstration shows how to select multiple draft bills from the same vendor using the checkbox in the list view.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Executing the Merge Action<\/strong>: By clicking the <strong>Action<\/strong> (gear icon) menu and selecting <strong>Merge<\/strong>, Odoo automatically combines the lines from the selected bills into a single new draft bill.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Handling Bill Details<\/strong>: The video highlights that the resulting merged bill retains all individual product lines, taxes, and price details from the original documents, ensuring no data is lost during the process.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Vendor Consistency<\/strong>: A key requirement shown is that the bills must belong to the <strong>same vendor<\/strong> for the merge action to be successful.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Streamlined Payments<\/strong>: The video concludes by showing that once merged, you only need to validate and register one payment for the total amount, rather than processing each bill individually.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video explains the Merge Vendor Bills feature in Odoo18, demonstrating how to combine multiple bills from the same vendor [&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-25429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bharath-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25429","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=25429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tenthplanet.in\/odoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}