Product sync Odoo -> Magento

[chrizzTs]

Dear all,
I am looking into integrating Odoo and Magento.

1. Product data (product catalog) -> Al further integration follows later hopefully.

Now my question is of which system to be the leading master data system. Do you have any experiences of pros / cons Magento sending products to Odoo and vice versa?

How is the integration with Odoo - Magento connector? Is it sending product information from Magento to Odoo or from Magento to Odoo?

Thanks in advance!

Best regards,
Chris

[rvalyi]

Hello @chrizzTs the base module called connector_magento is able to download on the fly some superficial product information as product encountered in the Magento sale orders might be missing in Odoo. Now this is not meant for real full blown catalog update from Magento to Odoo but just as something to help importing the orders even if some product is missing.

In any case when you want to synch the Odoo catalog between Odoo and Magento, you better have a big money or time budget for your project because this is consuming in expert consulting as you have a combinatorial explosion of possible data integrity issues that may occur as some Magento or Odoo user update some data in a way that is not exactly the basic covered use case (like you delete some color attribute in Magento before trying to export the catalog from Odoo).

When your e-commerce is big enough to fund such investment, then you can install (and eventually port) this module #200
but be prepared for troubles. In this case Odoo is the catalog master. Having Magento as the catalog master would be asking for even more troubles...

We at Akretion are one of the creators of this set of Magento connector modules and we also know the Odoo e-commerce solution. To offer a better solution to our existing Magento customers, we instead developped the Shopinvader open source set of modules to enable this kind of catalog integration without having a web stack that sucks like in the Odoo SA official solution. With Shopinvader we simplify by orders of magnitude the complexity to accomodate two different data models like Magento and Odoo as we basically only have the Odoo data model which is exported as denormalized in Algolia or Elastic Search to be used by the Rails based front end shop. You can read more at: http://shopinvader.com/
Today Shopinvader works well in v10 and is being ported to v12. It may not be very well documented yet. However when you master it it is already much more effective than the Magento+Odoo+connector stack...