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Odoo API Development & Integration
Sometimes the integration you need doesn’t exist as a product: an internal system, a partner’s bespoke platform, a data flow unique to your operation. API development is building that bridge properly, whether that’s consuming someone else’s API from Odoo or exposing Odoo’s data safely to the outside world.
We work with Odoo’s external API (XML-RPC/JSON-RPC), build custom REST endpoints inside Odoo, and consume every flavour of external interface, including the awkward ones.
What the work involves
- Custom REST endpoints on Odoo. Purpose-built controllers with authentication, rate awareness and versioning, exposing exactly the operations partners need and nothing more.
- Consuming external APIs. Robust clients for third-party services with retry logic, idempotency and failure queues, so a partner’s flaky Tuesday doesn’t corrupt your data.
- Webhook infrastructure. Inbound webhook handling with verification and replay tolerance, and outbound event delivery with acknowledgement tracking.
- Security as a requirement. Scoped API keys or OAuth, least-privilege access, audit logging. An ERP’s API surface is an attack surface and we treat it that way.
- Real precedent. Our public connectors and the open-source bol.com API client we maintain are this discipline in shipped form.
How integrations go live
- Systems and data mapping. Which system owns which truth, what flows in which direction, and a written mapping document covering fields, taxes and edge cases.
- Architecture chosen for reliability. Scheduled, verifiable, replayable syncs sized for your peak volumes, not the demo.
- Staging sync against real structures. The integration runs against copies of your live systems, with the awkward records included deliberately.
- Reconciliation before trust. Counts and values compared across systems until the numbers agree on evidence, not optimism.
- Cutover with monitoring. Production go-live with logging, failure alerting and an agreed reconciliation cadence for the first month.
Common questions
XML-RPC or REST for talking to Odoo?
Odoo's native external API works well for many cases; custom REST endpoints win when you need tailored payloads, performance or partner-friendly contracts. We'll pick per use case, not per fashion.
Can you build an API for our mobile app or customer portal?
Yes, backing a bespoke frontend with clean Odoo endpoints is a common engagement, including auth design and response shaping for mobile constraints.
How do you handle API rate limits on external services?
Scheduled batching, backoff strategies and queue-based smoothing, designed per provider. It's the difference between an integration and an outage generator.
Not sure where to start? Book a free discovery call and we’ll map your current setup, or request a free Odoo health check if you’re already running Odoo.