Guide
Moving from Odoo to Dopave
What moves, how it moves, and how you prove nothing was lost.
Dopave connects to Odoo with a read-only API key and reads your customers, suppliers, contacts, products, stock, open invoices and bills, and opening balances into a staging area. Nothing is written until you have reviewed it. You then load it, compare Dopave's totals with Odoo's, and go live on a cut-off date. If something is wrong, the load can be undone and re-read.
The steps
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1. Pick a go-live date
Usually the first day of a month. Everything before it stays in Odoo as history; Dopave starts with the balances and open items on that date.
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2. Connect to Odoo
In Settings → Switch to Dopave, enter your Odoo address, database, user and an API key. Dopave only calls Odoo's read methods; the key is stored encrypted.
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3. Review what was read
Each kind of record appears as a sheet with suggested tidying (phone formats, dates) and in-file duplicates flagged. A dry run shows what would be created and updated.
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4. Load, then prove it ties
Load the sheets, type in Odoo's totals (receivables, payables, stock value, counts) beside Dopave's, and print the certificate once they match. The go-live page checks that customer and supplier balances tie to the books.
Questions
Can I read Odoo again after loading?
Yes. A re-read updates the records it already loaded instead of creating duplicates, so you can catch up on the last few days before go-live.
What if my data is not in Odoo but in Excel?
The same screen reads Excel workbooks — every sheet, recognised by its columns in English or Arabic — and there are sample files for each kind of record.
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