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Connecting Odoo: how to find your key

With Odoo Online only in the Custom plan; a self-hosted instance always has the interface.

Does not apply to the selected option.

How it works

  1. Sign in to Odoo as the user who may create sales orders — ideally one who stays with the business.

  2. Click your name at the top right → “Preferences” (in some versions “My Profile”) → “Account Security” tab.

  3. “New API Key”, confirm your password, name: dammi, choose the longest duration.

  4. Copy the key — it is only shown once.

  5. Paste it into dammi under Data › ERP system and save. dammi checks the connection right away and tells you in one sentence whether it works.

What dammi does next

  • Check first, then save: the access is only saved if your system answers correctly with the data you entered. Otherwise any previous access stays as it was.

  • The key is stored encrypted and never shown to you again. You only see since when it has been stored.

  • You start the first sync under Data › Sync. dammi fetches items, customers and, where your system keeps them, prices. This can take a few minutes; you may leave the page meanwhile.

  • After that dammi syncs on its own every night, and the status of your orders several times a day as well.

  • dammi creates every order from your customers in your system.

  • If your key expires, we remind you by email two weeks and three days before. If your system no longer accepts it, we write to you straight away.

Good to know

  • In Odoo 19 a key is valid for at most three months. Older or other Odoo versions may offer different durations. We show the expiry date reported by Odoo on the ERP system page. We remind you by email two weeks before — then create a new one and enter it.
  • Address: The full address of your Odoo instance, with https://.
  • Database: With Odoo Online usually the identifier from the address; when self-hosted the database name.
  • User: The login name the key belongs to. This user must be allowed to create sales orders.
  • API key: Replaces the password and is shown only once — choose the longest duration.
  • Whether an order arrives as a quotation or as a confirmed sales order is shown under Data › ERP system. If you would like to change that, write to us at info@dammi.app.
In the admin panel
Go to ERP system
Who can do it
Owners and admins