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What the Import button of Octopia Connector does, step by step

The Import button on the Import Existing Octopia Data screen starts the import of products and offers for an Octopia account, depending on the tick boxes you set, and when it finishes it shows a notice with the counts and leaves an entry in the sync log.

FlexigoTech · Editor in charge: Víctor Gómez · Updated 5 November 2026

Key facts

Versions
Odoo 17, 18, 19 and 20
Checked
in the connector's source code, version 20.0 · against the sources linked at the end
Reading time
4 min

Before you open the screen

The button is present in Odoo 17, 18, 19 and 20.

  • Check your permission. You need Octopia Manager: the Configuration and Import Existing Data parts of the menu ask for it, and without it you do not see that part. The Octopia part asks for Octopia User.
  • Open Octopia › Configuration › Import Existing Data. The Import Existing Octopia Data screen opens.
Diagram made from code, not an Odoo screen: from top to bottom, the menu path Octopia, Configuration, Import Existing Data and the Import button, with the original labels from the module code
Diagram of the menu path and the button, valid for Odoo 17, 18, 19 and 20 (not a screenshot).
  • Find the Import button. According to its view condition, it is always visible on that screen, in all four versions.
Diagram made from code using the module's published translations, not an Odoo screen: the button text by Odoo language, Importar in Spanish, Importieren in German, Importer in French, Importa in Italian and Importar in Portuguese
The same button as it reads in each Odoo language (a diagram, not a screenshot).
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What to tick before you press it

The form on that screen has these fields:

  • Account: the Octopia account the import runs on.
  • Import Products: ticked by default. If you untick it, the button skips the products part.
  • Create Missing Odoo Products: ticked by default, and only visible while Import Products is ticked. Its help reads: «Create the Odoo product (barcode = GTIN, internal reference = seller reference) when no match exists. When off, unmatched catalog entries are skipped and counted.»
  • Import Offers: ticked by default. If you untick it, the button skips the offers part.
  • Sales Channel: only visible while Import Offers is ticked; it is the sales channel the offers are imported for. If you leave it empty, the account's default sales channel is used.

What the button does when you press it, in order

  • In Odoo 20, products first. If Import Products is ticked, the button starts the import of the account's products, with Create Missing Odoo Products as you left it. It adds Products: … created, … updated, … skipped to the summary.
  • Offers next. If Import Offers is ticked, it starts the import of the account's offers for a sales channel: the one in Sales Channel or, if that is empty, the account's default sales channel. It adds Offers: … created, … updated, … skipped to the summary. What each offer field means is covered in the Octopia Offer fields.
  • Then the summary. It joins the texts with « | ». If no import was ticked, the summary is Nothing selected.
  • Then the log. It creates an entry in the account's sync log: of referential type, with a successful result and the text Adoption import: … followed by the summary. It creates it even when the summary is Nothing selected.
  • Finally the notice. It shows Octopia import finished, a success-type notice set as sticky, with the summary as its message.

How to read the result

  • Read the summary in the notice. With both imports ticked, you will see the two texts joined, products first and offers second, separated by « | ».
  • Check the skipped count for products. With Create Missing Odoo Products unticked, unmatched catalog entries are skipped and counted, so part of that count may come from there. If you want them created, tick the box before pressing the button.
  • If you see Nothing selected., you pressed the button with both import boxes unticked. Open the screen again and tick what you want to bring in.

What to check afterwards in the log

The button's entry is not the only one written to that log, so it helps to tell them apart by their text.

  • Look for the Adoption import: … entry for your account: it is the button's and carries the same summary as the notice.
  • If you see Referential refresh incomplete: … with an error result, it comes from the scheduled task Octopia: refresh referentials (categories, brands, carriers, typologies), which runs every seven days and is active on install. It leaves that entry when one of its steps fails, and it shares its type with the button's entry.
  • If you see Discussion queue pull: … ToTreat thread(s), it comes from the task Octopia: pull discussions (ToTreat queue), which runs every fifteen minutes and is active on install.

Subscription and versions

The module is a one-off payment per Odoo version and needs the FlexigoTech Cloud subscription on the Connector plan: €49 a month or €490 a year, excluding VAT, with up to three platform accounts. The connection goes through FlexigoTech Cloud, which stores the credentials encrypted. Without a subscription, or with the service suspended, whatever the subscription provides stops; your data stays in your Odoo. The module is published on Odoo Apps for 17, 18, 19 and 20, and the button exists in all four.

How FlexigoTech can help

If you are implementing Odoo and want the connector ready, FlexigoTech implements Odoo 17, 18, 19 and 20 and builds custom connectors and integrations. For other buttons of the module, see the rest of the Octopia Connector articles.

Keep reading

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Checked in the connector's source code (version 20.0) and the linked sources

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