Customer orders entered for review
Emailed purchase orders are read, matched to customers and products, and staged in Odoo for a person to confirm.
Odoo integration consulting
Connect Odoo to the rest of your business.
Odoo runs sales, inventory, purchasing, manufacturing and accounting for many growing companies, all in one set of apps. We build the connections and tools around it, so orders, supplier paperwork and reports reach Odoo without being retyped.
Keep it, then extend it
What Odoo does well, and where teams outgrow it.
Where Odoo shines
- Many apps on one database
- Room to adapt
- A documented way in
Where teams hit the limits
- Orders arrive outside OdooPurchase orders, quote requests and supplier confirmations come in by email and PDF, and someone keys them in.
- Other tools hold part of the pictureMarketplaces, shipping carriers and specialist tools each keep their own records, and the hand-off is an export.
- Customizations that age badlyHeavy changes to Odoo itself can make each yearly upgrade harder, so some work is better built beside it.
What changes
The same week, with the connection.
Today
- The order desk types emailed purchase orders into Odoo and looks up products by hand.
- The ecommerce manager updates stock on each marketplace after the Odoo count changes.
- The operations lead opens three screens each morning to find late deliveries and stuck approvals.
With the connection
- Orders wait in Odoo already matched to customers and products. The order desk confirms each one.
- Orders, stock and shipments stay matched across channels. The ecommerce manager watches for exceptions.
- Late deliveries, unpaid invoices and stuck approvals arrive in one morning list. The lead follows up.
What we build around it
Connecting Odoo to the rest of your work.
Supplier invoices matched before entry
Bills are read and matched to the purchase order and receipt, with differences flagged for whoever approves payment.
Stores and marketplaces in step
Orders, stock levels and shipments kept in step between Odoo and your online channels.
Quotes from current stock and cost
Quotes built from Odoo prices and availability, with approval for anything outside your margin rules.
Reminders on overdue work
Late deliveries, unpaid invoices and stuck approvals reach the right person each morning.
Reports across Odoo and other systems
Odoo figures combined with sales, marketing and operations data in one scheduled report.
How it starts
What happens after you reach out.
You work directly with a senior builder from the first call to launch, not a hand-off to a junior team. How we work
Before we start
What we need from you.
- Someone on your team with admin rights sets up our access. We walk them through it.
- You choose what the connection can see and change, and you can switch it off at any time.
- We build and test on sample data before touching live records.
- Needs Odoo's Custom plan.
Technical details for your IT team
Outside connections to Odoo need the Custom plan; One App Free and Standard don't include them. A user your admin sets up for the connection creates a key in Odoo under Preferences, Account Security, New API Key, giving it a description and an expiry date (see Odoo's guide). The key can do whatever that user can do, so we ask for a dedicated user with only the access it needs. Keys expire after three months at most, so we plan for renewal. Odoo is retiring its older connection methods (by Odoo Online 21.1 and Odoo 22), so new work uses the newer format. Running NetSuite or QuickBooks instead? See our NetSuite and QuickBooks pages.
FAQ
Common questions.
Do we have to replace Odoo?
No. Odoo stays your system of record. We build around it and connect what it doesn't reach.
Doesn't Odoo already connect to our other tools?
Odoo has many built-in connectors and community apps, and you should use one if it fits. Custom work makes sense when a step spans several systems, needs judgment, or the app doesn't keep up with upgrades.
We're on the Standard plan. Can you still help?
Yes. Reading documents and building reports from exports don't need a direct connection. If a direct connection would pay for the Custom plan, we'll tell you.
Will this make our Odoo upgrades harder?
We avoid changing Odoo itself where we can. Most of what we build sits beside it, so your yearly upgrade stays simpler.
Are you a certified Odoo partner?
No. We're an independent integration consultant and development team. We build with Odoo's official developer tools and approved access, using the access your team grants, and we work alongside your Odoo admin or implementation partner rather than replacing them.
Sources
- Odoo 19.0 documentation: External JSON-2 API (plans, keys, deprecation)
- Odoo: Pricing and plans
- Odoo 19.0 documentation: Odoo.sh
Facts checked against the vendor's own documentation, November 2026. Names are trademarks of their owners. Inkwell is independent and not affiliated with these companies.
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Tell us how you use Odoo today.
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