How Sales Order Numeration Works for Imported Orders

By default, imported orders are created in Odoo with the original order reference as the order number. However, when configuring VentorTech e-commerce connectors, you may set up a different way to handle numbering of imported orders. For that, you need to configure specific settings in the Sale Orders tab of the connector configuration:

Parameters: What Do They Mean?

The following parameters determine how sales order numeration works:

Use Odoo SO numbering – When this option is enabled, Odoo will use its own internal sales order sequence to generate the order number. For example:

S00001
S00002

This means the imported Shopify order will follow Odoo’s standard sales order numbering rules instead of keeping the original Shopify order reference as the main order number.

Sales Order Prefix – This field allows you to define a custom prefix that will be added to the generated sales order number.
For example, if the prefix is set to:

SHOP-

then the sales order numbers may appear as:

SHOP-S00001
SHOP-S00002

This is useful when you want to easily identify orders coming from Shopify. Also, if you have multiple connections, you can set separate prefixes for each of them.