This guide takes you to your first Odoo answer inside Claude. Budget five minutes, three of which are spent in Odoo generating an API key.

What you need: admin access to your Odoo, and a Claude.ai or ChatGPT account.

Create your Aidoo account

Head to app.aidoo.ai/register. Sign up by email or with Google.

Your 14-day free trial starts right away: no credit card, full access to Aidoo AI, unlimited requests.

Generate an API key in Odoo

Aidoo connects to Odoo with an API key, never with an account password.

In your Odoo:

Click your avatar in the top right → My profile
Account security tab → New API key
Give it a clear name (Aidoo) and a validity period
Copy the key immediately: Odoo will never show it again

Generating the API key in Odoo, then entering it in Aidoo.

This key is for the connection, not for your teams

It links Aidoo to your instance and reads the database structure. Each member then registers their own Odoo key under Team → Odoo token, and their requests go out with their own rights. An admin account is therefore fine here, production included. Details in Connect your Odoo.

Connect your Odoo to Aidoo

In Aidoo, open Odoo connection. Enter the URL first: Aidoo reaches the instance and fills in the database name on its own when it can.

Field	Example	Where to find it
Odoo URL	`https://my-company.odoo.com`	Your Odoo address; any path is stripped automatically
Database name	`my-company`	Detected automatically from the URL in most cases
Username	`[email protected]`	The login of the account that created the key
Odoo API key	`a1b2c3…`	The key you copied in the previous step

Click Test connection. A green Connected badge confirms everything is in place, then Save.

Your credentials are encrypted with AES-256-GCM before being stored. Details and edge cases in Connect your Odoo.

Add the connector in Claude or ChatGPT

No key to copy here: authentication runs through OAuth. The authorization screen is where you pick the workspace and the connector's rights.

In Claude.ai: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector
Name: Aidoo, URL: https://mcp.aidoo.ai/mcp
Connect → you are redirected to Aidoo
Sign in, pick the workspace to authorize, then Authorize

Adding the Aidoo connector in Claude.ai and authorizing access.

In ChatGPT: Settings → Connectors → Create
Name: Aidoo, URL: https://mcp.aidoo.ai/mcp, Authentication: OAuth
Create → sign in to Aidoo, pick the workspace, then Authorize

Creating the Aidoo connector in ChatGPT and authorizing access.

The connector is live immediately, in every conversation.

Ask your first question

Open a conversation and try:

What are my 5 latest quotations in Odoo?

The assistant works out it needs Aidoo, asks you to approve the call, queries your Odoo and shows the result.

If you see your real quotations: everything works.

Choosing the connector's rights

The authorization screen, right before you confirm, is where you tick what the connector may do. By default only read access is ticked: query, read, schema, report, print. The assistant can look at everything and change nothing.

To let it act, tick create, write or execute at that point.

Aidoo authorization screen: workspace picker, read permissions ticked, write permissions unticked. — The authorization screen: the workspace, then the rights. Read is ticked by default, write is not.

Rights can be changed later

Nothing is locked in: open API keys in Aidoo to add or remove a permission on a connector you already authorized. If your workspace has a staging environment, you set its rights separately from production. See Writing to Odoo.

What now?

Natural next steps:

Your first requests: ten annotated prompts to get the hang of it
Recipes by team: ready-to-paste prompts, by department
MCP tool reference: exactly what the assistant can do

If something goes wrong

The database name is not filled in automatically. Some instances disable database listing. Type it in by hand: it is usually the subdomain of your URL.

The connector does not show up in Claude. Open a new conversation. If the status reads Reconnect required, click the connector then Reconnect.

The assistant says it has no Odoo access. Check in Aidoo that the Odoo connection shows Connected, and that your trial has not expired.

Failure cases are covered in detail in Connecting with Claude and Connecting with ChatGPT.