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[Shalabh Aggarwal <shalabh.aggarwal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

     Openlabs released[0] a developer preview of Magento OpenERP connector,
combining the latest stable versions of the e-commerce platform and ERP
software, Magento 1.7 and OpenERP 7 respectively. This connector eradicates
the earlier problems of the Magento OpenERP connector as the code is
written from scratch. This connector is fully tested automatically for
regressions. The developers at Openlabs have followed the policy of ‘Simple
is Beautiful’ for the creation of this connector. The primary motive of
building this connector was to create a simpler, faster, clean and easily
extensible connector unlike the previous ones. The connector is developed
in the time frame of one week and is available for testing and use free or
charge.

Features of Magento OpenERP connector:

Multiple Magento instance architecture: The existing structure has been
retained with each instance having multiple websites with each website
comprising of different stores leading to a group of store views. The users
can import these Magento instance parameters to OpenERP with the assistance
of this connector.

Import and Export: Users can import catalogues, categories and products
along with customers’ information and addresses. The Magento OpenERP
connector imports every order status including the cancelled orders. The
other imported orders are pending, enqueued, started, done or failed. The
connector also creates a contact if it did not exist earlier.

Synchronization: The Magento OpenERP connector processes the import of
orders on the basis of the order status in OpenERP, thus synchronising the
information across the e-commerce and ERP platforms.

No Duplication: One individual task is created for each record to import in
OpenERP for sales order, customer, product and categories thus reducing
data redundancy.

Fully Tested: The connector and the integration is completely scrutinized
by unit test cases which check the functionality with different order and
product types and other combinations. The testing ensures that the
connector behavior is predictable and active development does not hinder
the working features. You can see it for yourself. [2]

The connector is still missing a few functions, which have been added to
our to-do list.[3]

Here are some of the to-do functions:

1. Export of stock levels

2. Export of tracking information

3. Multi-language support

4. Management of Magento Product types

5. Show OpenERP invoices on Magento customer account.


Please feel free to report any issues or suggest any improvements.

Contributions and suggestions to improve the connector are always welcome,
courtesy to the truly 100% Open Source nature of the software.

[0]: http://openlabs.co.in/article/openerp-magento-integration-version-7
[1]: https://github.com/openlabs/magento-integration
[2]: https://travis-ci.org/openlabs/magento-integration
[3]: https://github.com/openlabs/magento-integration/issues

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