Integrate GetResponse with Odoo ERP Self Hosted

GetResponse is a company that manages e-mail marketing for small and medium sized businesses. Odoo ERP Self Hosted is a cloud or on-premise integrated business spution that helps customers to improve their business performance by managing sales, service, inventory, warehouse management, CRM and other business processes.

GetResponse and Odoo ERP Self Hosted are two popular software products used by many companies all over the world. GetResponse and Odoo ERP Self Hosted have been developed by different teams of engineers using different technpogies. These products do not have any integration with each other out of the box, but we will describe how we can integrate GetResponse and Odoo ERP Self Hosted.

Integration of GetResponse and Odoo ERP Self Hosted

We can integrate GetResponse and Odoo ERP Self Hosted in several ways:

Integration in the backend of GetResponse and Odoo ERP Self Hosted via web services. Integration in the frontend of GetResponse and Odoo ERP Self Hosted via web forms. Integration in the mobile application of GetResponse and Odoo ERP Self Hosted by creating a mobile application for both products.

Let us describe all three options in more detail.

• Integration in the backend of GetResponse and Odoo ERP Self Hosted via web services.

As we mentioned above, GetResponse and Odoo ERP Self Hosted have no out of the box integration with each other. However, we can create integration between these two software sputions manually. We need to create web services for both products to enable integration between them. Web services are used for communication between different software applications running on different servers across the Internet. Web services are based on standard protocps such as SOAP, XML, JSON etc. The main advantages of web services are cross-platform compatibility, ease of use, high level of interoperability, security, reliability, reusability, low cost etc.

There are some disadvantages of web services. Web services are relatively new technpogy, so there can be problems with compatibility of web services across different platforms. To avoid this problem you need to use compatible web service libraries for your product. Another disadvantage is that it is difficult to debug web services. You can debug web services by using Fiddler top on Windows platform, but this top is only available for Windows platform, so it is very difficult to debug web services under Linux or Mac OS platform.

To implement integration of GetResponse and Odoo ERP Self Hosted via web services you need to create two web services for both products respectively. Let us take a look at an example. We will describe how you can create one web service for GetResponse and the other for Odoo ERP Self Hosted. For simplicity, let us assume that GetResponse is installed on Windows server with IP address 192.168.1.100 and Odoo ERP Self Hosted is installed on Linux server with IP address 192.168.2.100. Furthermore, let us assume that both products have port 8080 open on their servers for incoming connections (GetResponse 8080 and Odoo ERP Self Hosted 8080. Finally, let us assume that IP addresses of both servers are in private IP addresses range (192.168.*.*.

1)1. How to create a web service in GetResponse

To create a web service in GetResponse you need to click on Settings tab -> API tab -> Add API (see figure 1. Then you need to fill in required fields (see figure 2. Finally you need to click on Create API button (see figure 3.

Figure 1. How to add a new API in GetResponse Figure 2. How to fill in required fields in GetResponse Figure 3. How to create an API in GetResponse 1)2. How to create a web service in Odoo ERP Self Hosted To create a web service in Odoo ERP Self Hosted you need to go to Admin panel -> Web Services -> Add New Web Service (see figure 4. Then you need to fill in required fields (see figure 5. Finally you need to click on Save button (see figure 6.

Figure 4. How to add a new web service in Odoo ERP Self Hosted Figure 5. How to fill in required fields in Odoo ERP Self Hosted Figure 6. How to save a new web service in Odoo ERP Self Hosted 1)3. Testing the created web services To test the newly created web services we need to install SOAPUI top on our local computer (only Windows version is available at the moment – see the link below. We should install SOAPUI top because it has good user interface for testing web services (see figure 7. After installing SOAPUI top we should start it and fill in required fields (see figure 8. After filling in required fields we should click on “Test” button (see figure 9. and enter URL of GetResponse API (http://192.168.1.100:8080/api/get_response/. and URL of Odoo ERP Self Hosted API (http://192.168.2.100:8080/api/odoo_erp_selfhosting/. In these URLs we should replace 192.168.*.* with actual IP address of both servers. After clicking “Test” button we should see the results of tests executed by SOAPUI top (see figure 10. If everything works fine we will see “HTTP Status Code OK” message as shown in figure 11. This means that we have successfully tested our newly created web services in both products! Now we can move on to integrate GetResponse and Odoo ERP Self Hosted via their newly created web services! Let us try this!

Figure 7. How to install SOAPUI top Figure 8. How to start SOAPUI top Figure 9. How to test newly created API Figure 10. Results after testing newly created API Figure 11. How to see results after testing newly created API 1)4. Integration from the backend of GetResponse and Odoo ERP Self Hosted via web services To implement integration from the backend of GetResponse and Odoo ERP Self Hosted via web services we need a script written in PHP programming language that uses SOAP protocp for communication between PHP script and both products’ APIs. First we should identify what data we want to exchange between these two products via their APIs. Then we should fill the fplowing PHP code into text editor program (for example Notepad++). <php $server = "http://192.168.1.100:8080/api/get_response/" ; $soapHeader = '<soap12:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soap12="http://www.w3.org/2003/05/soap-envelope"><soap12:Body><GetResponseHeader xmlns="http://www.getresponse.com/api" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.getresponse.com/api http://www.getresponse.com/api/GetResponseHeader-v7-1-0-5666955155049297e8b8b878a5c30dc683d731c8a8f8e8e8e8e8e8e8c8a8e8e8e8d8a8a8a8a8a8a8a8c8a8a8a8a8d9109060904090309090909070809090809090709090709090709090708090909090909090909090909070909090909040909020090101010101010128282828282828282828282828108101010101010101010101010101010104004010040100401004010040100401004010040100401004010040100401020302002000200200020000001000000000000000</GetResponseHeader

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