Odoo ERP Connector

Full-featured Odoo 17/18/19 ERP integration for OpenClaw. Control your entire business via natural language chat commands.

📦 Full Source Code: https://github.com/tuanle96/openclaw-odoo

Quick Install

npx clawhub install openclaw-odoo

Overview

The Odoo ERP Connector bridges OpenClaw and Odoo 17/18/19, enabling autonomous, chat-driven control over 153+ business modules including: - Sales & CRM - Purchasing & Inventory
- Invoicing & Accounting - Projects & Task Management - Human Resources - Fleet Management - Manufacturing (MRP) - Calendar & Events - eCommerce

All operations use smart actions that handle fuzzy matching and auto-creation workflows.

Capabilities

Sales & CRM

• Create quotations with dynamic line items
• Manage sales orders (draft → confirmed → done)
• Search and filter orders by status, customer, date range
• Create and qualify leads and opportunities
• Move leads through CRM pipeline stages
• View full sales pipeline with revenue forecasting

Purchasing

• Create purchase orders from vendors
• Manage PO status (draft → purchase → received)
• Receive and validate goods
• Search and filter POs by vendor, status, date
• Track purchase history and vendor performance

Inventory & Products

• Create products (consumables, stockable, services)
• Query stock levels and availability
• Set reorder points and receive low-stock alerts
• Search products by name, code, or category
• Track stock movements and valuations

Invoicing & Accounting

• Create and post customer invoices
• Manage payment terms and schedules
• Query unpaid and overdue invoices
• Search by customer, date range, or amount
• Track invoice status (draft → posted → paid)

Projects & Tasks

• Create projects and organize by team/status
• Create tasks with priority, dates, and assignments
• Log timesheets and track project hours
• Search and filter tasks by project, status, assignee
• Manage project stages and closure

Human Resources

• Create employees and departments
• Manage job titles and work schedules
• Process expense reports and reimbursements
• Search employees by name, department, job
• Track leave requests and attendance

Fleet Management

• Create and track vehicles
• Log odometer readings and service records
• Track maintenance schedules and costs
• Search fleet by license plate, status, brand
• Generate fleet reports

Manufacturing (MRP)

• Create Bills of Materials (BOMs)
• Manage manufacturing orders (MOs)
• Track component requirements and production status
• Search MOs by product or status
• Link BOMs to product variants

Calendar & Events

• Create meetings and events with attendees
• Set reminders and locations
• Search events by date range or attendee
• Track calendar availability

eCommerce

• Publish products to website
• View website orders and customer activity
• Manage product visibility and pricing

Command Examples

Sales

• "Create a quotation for Acme Corp with 10 Widgets at $50 each"
• "Confirm sales order SO00042"
• "Show me all draft quotations from the past week"
• "What's the total revenue from completed orders this month?"
• "Create a quote for Rocky with product Rock"

CRM

• "Create a lead for Rocky, email [email protected], potential $50k deal"
• "Move lead #47 to Qualified stage"
• "Show me the sales pipeline with all open opportunities"
• "What leads are at proposal stage?"
• "Create an opportunity for Acme with $100k expected value"

Purchasing

• "Create a PO for 500 widgets from Supplier ABC"
• "Confirm purchase order PO00123"
• "Show all pending purchase orders"
• "Get me the vendor history for ABC Supplies"
• "What's on order that's overdue?"

Inventory & Products

• "Create a new product: TestWidget, $25 price, min stock 10"
• "Show products with stock below 20 units"
• "What's the stock level for Widget X?"
• "Search for all consumable products"
• "Set reorder point for Product Y to 50 units"

Invoicing

• "Create an invoice for Acme Corp with 5 units at $50 each"
• "Show me unpaid invoices"
• "What invoices are overdue?"
• "Post invoice INV-001"
• "Send a reminder for invoice INV-002"

Projects & Tasks

• "Create a project called Website Redesign"
• "Create a task 'Fix login button' in Website Redesign project"
• "Show me all tasks assigned to me"
• "Log 3 hours of work on task #42"
• "What's the status of the Website Redesign project?"

HR

• "Create employee John Smith, job title Developer"
• "Create department Engineering"
• "Show me all employees in Engineering"
• "Submit expense report for $45.99"
• "What are the pending leave requests?"

Fleet

• "Create vehicle: Tesla Model 3, license plate TESLA-001"
• "Log odometer reading: 50,000 miles for vehicle #1"
• "Show all vehicles with service due"
• "What's the maintenance cost for this month?"
• "Search for blue vehicles"

Manufacturing

• "Create BOM: Widget contains 3 Components A and 2 Components B"
• "Create manufacturing order: produce 50 Widgets"
• "Confirm production order #1"
• "What's the status of MO-001?"
• "Show all in-progress manufacturing orders"

Calendar

• "Create meeting: Team Standup, tomorrow at 10am, 1 hour"
• "Show me my meetings for next week"
• "What events do I have on the 15th?"
• "Schedule a 2-hour planning session with the team"

eCommerce

• "Publish Widget X to the website"
• "Show me website orders from this week"
• "What's my website revenue?"

Smart Actions

The connector handles fuzzy/incomplete requests with intelligent find-or-create logic.

How Smart Actions Work

Example: "Create quotation for Rocky with product Rock"

The system: 1. Searches for a customer named "Rocky" (case-insensitive, ilike matching) 2. If not found: Creates a new customer "Rocky" (auto-company flag) 3. Searches for product "Rock" 4. If not found: Creates a basic product "Rock" (consumable type, default price $0) 5. Creates the quotation, linking both the found/created customer and product 6. Reports what was found vs. created: - "Created quotation QT-001 for new customer Rocky with 1 × Rock at $0.00"

This pattern applies across all smart actions: - create_quotation — customer + products - create_invoice — customer + products - create_purchase — vendor + products - create_lead — partner (optional) - create_task — project + task - create_employee — department - create_event — event only (no dependencies)

Benefits

• Fuzzy matching: Searches are case-insensitive and forgiving
• Auto-creation: Missing dependencies are created automatically
• Transparency: Each response explains what was created vs. found
• No IDs needed: Use names instead of Odoo IDs
• Batch operations: Create multiple related records in one call

Architecture

Core Components

OdooClient — Low-level XML-RPC wrapper - Connects to Odoo 17/18/19 instance - Handles authentication via API key - Provides search(), searchRead(), create(), write(), unlink() methods - Built-in retry logic and error handling

Model Ops Classes — Business logic for each module - PartnerOps — Customers/suppliers - SaleOrderOps — Quotations and sales orders - InvoiceOps — Customer invoices - InventoryOps — Products and stock - CRMOps — Leads and opportunities - PurchaseOrderOps — POs and vendors - ProjectOps — Projects and tasks - HROps — Employees, departments, expenses - ManufacturingOps — BOMs and MOs - CalendarOps — Events and meetings - FleetOps — Vehicles and odometer - EcommerceOps — Website orders and products

SmartActionHandler — High-level find-or-create workflows - Wraps all Ops classes - Implements find-or-create workflows - Fuzzy name matching (case-insensitive) - Multi-step transaction orchestration - Detailed response summaries

Field Handling

The connector auto-detects required vs. optional fields: - Implicit defaults: Fields with Odoo defaults (e.g., state) are omitted - Smart creation: Auto-fills reasonable defaults for optional fields - Error reporting: Missing required fields raise clear OdooError with field name

Configuration

Plugin Config (openclaw.plugin.json)

{
  "url": "http://localhost:8069",
  "db": "your_database",
  "username": "[email protected]",
  "apiKey": "your_api_key_from_odoo_preferences",
  "timeout": 60,
  "maxRetries": 3,
  "pollInterval": 60,
  "logLevel": "INFO",
  "webhookPort": 8070,
  "webhookSecret": ""
}

Config keys are camelCase only.

Getting Your API Key

1. Log in to your Odoo instance
2. Go to Settings → Users & Companies → Users
3. Open your user record
4. Scroll to Access Tokens
5. Click Generate Token
6. Copy the token into your config

Environment Variables

Alternatively, set in .env:

ODOO_URL=http://localhost:8069
ODOO_DB=your_database
[email protected]
ODOO_API_KEY=your_api_key

The client auto-loads from .env if plugin config is missing.

TypeScript API

Basic Usage

import { OdooSession } from "./odoo/session";
import { loadOdooConfig } from "./odoo/config";
import { SmartActionHandler } from "./odoo/smart-actions";

// Load config from plugin config or env
const { config } = loadOdooConfig({ url: "...", db: "...", username: "...", apiKey: "..." });
const session = await OdooSession.connect(config);

// Test connection
const status = await session.testConnection();
console.log(`Connected to Odoo ${status.server_version}`);

// Use smart actions for natural workflows
const smart = new SmartActionHandler(session);

// Create a quotation with fuzzy partner and product matching
const result = await smart.smartCreateQuotation(
  "Rocky",
  [{ name: "Rock", quantity: 5, price_unit: 19.99 }],
  { notes: "Fuzzy match quotation" }
);
console.log(result.summary);
// Output: "Created quotation QT-001 for new customer Rocky with 1 × Rock at $19.99"

Smart Actions API

// Find-or-create a customer
const partnerResult = await smart.findOrCreatePartner("Acme Corp", {
  isCompany: true,
  defaults: { city: "New York" }
});
const partner = partnerResult.partner;
const created = partnerResult.created;

// Find-or-create a product
const productResult = await smart.findOrCreateProduct("Widget X", {
  list_price: 49.99,
  type: "consu"
});
const product = productResult.product;

// Smart quotation (auto-creates customer & products)
const orderResult = await smart.smartCreateQuotation(
  "Rocky",
  [
    { name: "Product A", quantity: 10 },
    { name: "Product B", quantity: 5, price_unit: 25.0 }
  ],
  { notes: "Created via smart action" }
);
const order = orderResult.order;
console.log(`Order ${order.name} created`);

// Smart lead creation
const leadResult = await smart.smartCreateLead("New Prospect", {
  contactName: "John Doe",
  email: "[email protected]",
  expectedRevenue: 50000.0
});

// Smart task creation (auto-creates project if needed)
const taskResult = await smart.smartCreateTask(
  "Website Redesign",
  "Fix homepage",
  { description: "Update hero section" }
);

// Smart employee creation (auto-creates department if needed)
const empResult = await smart.smartCreateEmployee("Jane Smith", {
  jobTitle: "Developer",
  departmentName: "Engineering"
});

// Smart event creation
const eventResult = await smart.smartCreateEvent(
  "Team Standup",
  "2026-03-01T10:00:00",
  { location: "Room A", attendeeNames: ["Alice", "Bob"] }
);

Low-Level Client API

// Search and read records
const partners = await client.searchRead(
  "res.partner",
  [["is_company", "=", true]],
  ["name", "email"],
  { limit: 10 }
);

// Create a record
const id = await client.create("sale.order", {
  partner_id: 42,
  order_line: [[0, 0, { product_id: 7, product_uom_qty: 10, price_unit: 49.99 }]]
});

// Update a record
await client.write("sale.order", id, { note: "Updated via API" });

// Delete a record
await client.unlink("sale.order", [id]);

// Execute workflow actions
await client.execute("sale.order", "action_confirm", [[id]]);

// Get field definitions
const fields = await client.fieldsGet("product.template");

Error Handling

The connector uses typed error classes:

import {
  OdooError,
  OdooAuthenticationError,
  OdooRecordNotFoundError,
  OdooAccessError,
  OdooValidationError,
  OdooConnectionError
} from "./odoo/errors";

try {
  const result = await smart.smartCreateQuotation("Acme", [{ name: "Widget" }]);
} catch (e) {
  if (e instanceof OdooAuthenticationError) {
    console.error(`Authentication failed: ${e.message}`);
  } else if (e instanceof OdooRecordNotFoundError) {
    console.error(`Record not found: ${e.message}`);
  } else if (e instanceof OdooAccessError) {
    console.error(`Permission denied: ${e.message}`);
  } else if (e instanceof OdooValidationError) {
    console.error(`Validation error: ${e.message}`);
  } else if (e instanceof OdooConnectionError) {
    console.error(`Connection error: ${e.message}`);
  } else if (e instanceof OdooError) {
    console.error(`Odoo error: ${e.message}`);
  }
}

OpenClaw Tools

The plugin registers 8 tools accessible via natural language:

Tool	Description
odoo_health	Config sanity check (no network)
odoo_test_connection	Live XML-RPC connectivity check
odoo_search	Search & read records with domain filters
odoo_create	Create records on any model
odoo_update	Update existing records
odoo_delete	Delete records
odoo_workflow	Execute model methods (confirm/cancel/post)
odoo_smart_action	High-level find-or-create workflows

Examples in OpenClaw

Natural Language Sales Order

User: "Create a quote for Acme Corp with 10 Widgets at $50 each"

OpenClaw → odoo_smart_action (create_quotation):
  1. Search for customer "Acme Corp"
  2. Search for product "Widgets"
  3. Create quotation with both
  4. Return summary

Result: "✅ Created quotation QT-001 for Acme Corp with 10 × Widgets at $50"

Pipeline Status Check

User: "Show me the sales pipeline"

OpenClaw → odoo_search (crm.lead):
  - Query all leads/opportunities
  - Group by stage
  - Calculate total revenue by stage
  - Return formatted summary

Result: "Qualified: $50k | Proposal: $100k | Negotiation: $75k | Total: $225k"

Inventory Alert

User: "What products are low on stock?"

OpenClaw → odoo_search (product.template):
  - Query products with stock < reorder point
  - List each product, stock level, reorder point
  - Suggest PO quantities

Result: "Widget X: 5 on hand (min 20) | Component Y: 0 on hand (min 10)"

Development

Project Structure

openclaw-odoo/
├── plugin/
│   ├── openclaw.plugin.json    # Plugin manifest + config schema
│   ├── package.json            # @openclaw/[email protected]
│   ├── tsconfig.json
│   ├── src/
│   │   ├── index.ts            # Entry point (registers 8 tools)
│   │   ├── odoo/               # Core: client, config, errors, retry
│   │   │   ├── client.ts       # OdooClient (XML-RPC wrapper)
│   │   │   ├── config.ts       # Configuration loader
│   │   │   ├── errors.ts       # Typed error classes
│   │   │   ├── retry.ts        # Retry logic
│   │   │   ├── smart-actions.ts # SmartActionHandler
│   │   │   └── models/         # 12 model operation classes
│   │   ├── tools/              # 8 OpenClaw tools
│   │   ├── services/           # Poller + webhook
│   │   ├── openclaw/           # OpenClaw API helpers + integration
│   │   └── utils/              # Validators + formatting
│   ├── tests/                  # 18 tests (Vitest)
│   ├── skills/odoo/SKILL.md    # This file (bundled AI context)
│   └── dist/                   # Compiled output (CommonJS)
├── README.md                   # User setup guide
├── CHANGELOG.md                # Version history
├── RELEASE.md                  # Release plan
├── GAP_ANALYSIS.md             # Multi-version compatibility audit
└── odoo-src/                   # Odoo source for analysis

Running Tests

cd plugin
pnpm install
pnpm build          # TS → dist/ (CommonJS)
pnpm run typecheck  # tsc --noEmit (strict)
pnpm test           # vitest run (18 tests)

Adding a New Smart Action

1. Implement the method in SmartActionHandler class (in src/odoo/smart-actions.ts)
2. Use findOrCreatePartner() / findOrCreateProduct() primitives for dependencies
3. Return an object with summary, the main record, and creation details
4. Add the action to the ActionSchema union in src/tools/odoo-smart-action.ts
5. Add a case in the switch statement to route the action
6. Add test in tests/

Example:

async smartCreateInvoice(
  customerName: string,
  lines: Array<Record<string, unknown>>,
  options: { invoiceDate?: string; extra?: Record<string, unknown> } = {},
): Promise<Record<string, unknown>> {
  // Find or create customer
  const customerResult = await this.findOrCreatePartner(customerName);
  const customer = customerResult.partner;

  // Find or create products
  const products = [];
  for (const line of lines) {
    const prodResult = await this.findOrCreateProduct(line.name as string, line);
    products.push(prodResult);
  }

  // Create invoice with resolved IDs
  const invoiceId = await this.client.create("account.move", {
    partner_id: customer.id,
    move_type: "out_invoice",
    invoice_date: options.invoiceDate,
    invoice_line_ids: products.map((p, i) => [
      0, 0, {
        product_id: p.product.id,
        quantity: (lines[i] as any).quantity ?? 1,
        price_unit: (lines[i] as any).price_unit ?? 0,
      },
    ]),
    ...options.extra,
  });

  return {
    summary: `Created invoice for ${customer.name}`,
    invoice: { id: invoiceId },
    customer: customerResult,
    products,
  };
}

Limits & Constraints

• Search limit: 100 records by default (configurable)
• Timeout: 60 seconds per request (configurable)
• Retries: 3 automatic retries on network failure
• Concurrency: Single-threaded; queue requests if needed
• Rate limiting: Follow your Odoo instance's API limits

Troubleshooting

Connection Issues

• Verify url, db, username, apiKey in config
• Check Odoo server is running: http://your-odoo-url/web
• Ensure API key is generated in Odoo user settings
• Check network connectivity and firewall rules

Authentication Errors

• Regenerate API key in Odoo
• Verify username (email format)
• Check that the user has API access enabled
• Ensure database name matches exactly

Missing Field Errors

• Field names must match Odoo version exactly (e.g., product_tmpl_id, not product_id)
• Some fields are read-only in Odoo (state, computed fields)
• Check Odoo model definition: Settings → Technical → Database Structure → Models

Smart Action Issues

• Fuzzy matching is case-insensitive but searches only the name field
• For exact matching, use odoo_search tool with id directly
• If a name exists in multiple records, the first match is used

Performance

• Large searches (limit > 100) may timeout
• Use date range filters: date_from, date_to
• Consider batch operations for bulk data

License & Support

This connector is part of the OpenClaw project. For issues, questions, or contributions, visit github.com/tuanle96/openclaw-odoo.

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Last Updated: 2026-02-23
Odoo Versions: 17, 18, 19
Runtime: Node.js (TypeScript)
Status: Production Ready