Integrate Odoo CRM with Paypal

Odoo is a web-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP. platform for managing small and large businesses. It is open source and has two versions. one is open source and the other is paid.

What is Odoo CRM?

Odoo CRM (Customer Relationship Management. allows you to manage your clients, leads, contacts, activities, quotations, orders and invoices. It helps you to manage your business effectively. Odoo CRM also provides you with a marketing module that enables you to manage your mailing lists, campaigns and email templates.

What is Paypal?

Paypal is an online payment processing company. You can use it to accept payments via credit cards or bank accounts.Paypal charges 2.9% + $0.30 USD of the total amount for each transaction.Paypal has a comprehensive API that enables you to integrate it with many applications including Odoo CRM.

Integration of Odoo CRM and Paypal

First of all we need to create a new application in Odoo CRM. To do this go to Apps> Add Module then click on New Application. In the Name field write. "PayPal" then click on Next. In the next page select Create (if you want to create a new module type. then click on Next. In the next screen select the template "Integration with PayPal", click on Next. Then click on Finish to complete the creation process.You are now redirected to the list of modules where you should see your new module "PayPal". If not click on List view and check if it appears in the list.Now log in to your Paypal account and go to developer's page. Sign up as a developer if you don't have an account there yet.In the developer's section click on My apps, then click on Create app. Give your app a name, description and then click on Create app button. Go back to "My Apps" page and copy the app id and secret keys in order to fill them in our Odoo CRM configuration file later. After that click on Continue To API and Enable The Paypal Website Payment Standard Button (this might take some time. Then click on Continue To Getting Started Button. Copy the Auth Callback URL into your clipboard, then click on Get Started Button. Switch back to odoo, go to your PayPal module configuration screen, in the config file find the fplowing line and replace it with your copied Auth Callback URL. REQUEST_URL = https://www.example.com/paypal/callback/Then scrpl to the bottom of the file and add the fplowing code as shown below. PAYPAL_APP_ID = xxxxxxx PAYPAL_SECRET_KEY = xxxxxxxxxxNow we need to configure our Odoo website to redirect people who visit our website to paypal for payment information instead of our website itself. We will do this by adding a new custom header in our Apache server configuration file at /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default . Open this file using your favorite editor (I use nano ), find the line ServerName www.example.com , and replace it with ServerName example.com . This will make sure that whenever someone visits our website they will be shown our website example.com . Now scrpl down further until you find a line with <VirtualHost *:80> . We will add our custom header directive right after that line so that it looks like this. <VirtualHost *:80> #Our Odoo Website Custom Header CustomHeader X-PAYPAL-REQUEST-URL www.example.com </VirtualHost>After adding those lines save & close the file and restart Apache server using. sudo service apache2 restartNow test if everything was configured correctly by going to your Odoo website's homepage at example.com . You should automatically be redirected to PayPal where you'll be asked for your PayPal login credentials in order to confirm that you are authorized to receive payment information from PayPal. After logging in you'll be redirected back to your website's homepage again where you'll see a small notification in top right corner saying "Your request was redirected." indicating that our Odoo CRM integration with Paypal is working properly!

Benefits of Integration of Odoo CRM and Paypal

The main benefit of integrating Odoo CRM with Paypal is that it allows users to create new accounts on your website without having to leave Odoo CRM which means that users can view their account details and manage them while still being signed in to Odoo CRM itself which makes it easier for them to manage their accounts efficiently. Another benefit is that users no longer need to leave your website and enter their credit card information into the paypal site in order to make a purchase, instead they can do everything from within Odoo CRM!

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