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Learn about our Odoo integration.

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Overview

You can synchronize accounting data with a merchant’s own Odoo instance using our Odoo integration. Unlike QuickBooks Online, Odoo isn’t a single hosted platform — every merchant runs their own Odoo server (self-hosted, Odoo.sh, or Odoo Online), so there’s no OAuth redirect. The merchant enters their Odoo URL, database, username, and an API key directly, and Sync2Books validates them synchronously. For more details about the supported data types and operations, see Odoo integration reference.

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Set up the integration

See Set up the Odoo integration to learn how to connect a company to Odoo.

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Supported operations

Odoo support is newer than QuickBooks Online and covers fewer transaction types today. The table below reflects what’s actually implemented, not what’s planned.

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Why bill payments and expenses aren’t supported yet

QuickBooks has one flat list of accounts — a bank account is just a chart-of-accounts entry with AccountType: "Bank", so posting a payment or expense only ever needs one kind of reference. Odoo (like Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central) keeps the chart of accounts and the “journal” a transaction actually posts through as two separate things — Odoo’s account.payment model requires a journal_id, not a chart-of-accounts id. Nothing in the connector resolves that yet, so both operations fail with a clear, deliberate error rather than guessing at the wrong journal.

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Authentication

Odoo uses direct credentials, not OAuth. When connecting a company, Sync2Books validates the credentials against Odoo’s own common.authenticate RPC call and stores the connection immediately — there’s no redirect step.

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Connection status

Connections can have the following statuses:
  • connected — Connection is active and credentials were validated
  • disconnected — Connection was disconnected
  • pending — Reserved for OAuth-style integrations; Odoo connections go straight to connected or fail outright

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Common use cases

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Customer and supplier sync

Push customers and suppliers created in your application into a merchant’s Odoo instance as contacts, correctly flagged as customer or vendor.

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Chart of accounts sync

Create accounts in Odoo directly, or read Odoo’s existing chart of accounts to map transactions to the right place.

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Vendor bill sync

Create a vendor bill in Odoo — Odoo lets this happen in a single API call, unlike Business Central’s two-call header-then-lines split.

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FAQs

See Odoo FAQs for answers to common questions about the integration.