Overview

To authenticate with Odoo (Client Credentials), you need:

  1. Domain - The domain URL to your Odoo instance.
  2. Consumer Key - A unique identifier for your client.
  3. Consumer Secret - A confidential key used to authenticate the identity of the application (client).

This guide will walk you through obtaining these credentials within Odoo.

Prerequisites:

  • You must have an account with Odoo and installed the Odoo REST API by (Synconics Technologies Pvt. Ltd).

Instructions:

Step 1: Finding Your Odoo Domain

  1. Login to your Odoo account. On you address bar, The URL will be similar to: https://example.odoo.com. Your domain is the text after https://, which in this case would be example.odoo.com.

Step 2: Generating Your Odoo Client Credentials

  1. Log in to your Odoo instance with an administrator account.
  2. Go to Settings ‣ Users ‣ Users.
  3. Click on the user you want to use for REST API access.
  4. Click the OAuth applications button.
  5. Register an Application you want to interact with your Odoo instance
  6. Click on Save button to generate Consumer Key and Secret.

Step 3: Enter credentials in the Connect UI

Once you have the Domain, Consumer Key and Consumer Secret:

  1. Open the form where you need to authenticate with Odoo (Client Credentials).
  2. Enter the Domain, Consumer Key and Consumer Secret in their designated fields.
  3. Submit the form, and you should be successfully authenticated.

You are now connected to Odoo (Client Credentials).