Selling something that does not exist yet changes what a number on a listing means, so what Odoo sends to Etsy is what the workshop can genuinely commit to rather than what is sitting on a shelf.
A maker has no stock in the ordinary sense. There is a bench, a queue of work and a sense of how long each thing takes, and the number on an Etsy listing is really a promise about capacity. Most sellers guess it, then edit the listing after every batch, then stop editing it when a week gets busy, which is when the overselling starts and the dispatch times slip. Connecting Odoo and Etsy turns that guess into something the business already knows, because Odoo is where the orders, the components and the work in progress actually are. The listing then moves when the workshop does.

What Etsy offers is derived from what Odoo says can actually be made in the time promised, so a listing stops selling ahead of the bench rather than well behind it.
A variation retired in Odoo comes off the Etsy listing, so nobody buys a colourway the workshop stopped making and only finds out when the apologetic message arrives.
Etsy orders arrive in Odoo alongside every other order, so the work is planned from one list instead of a seller dashboard somebody checks in between other jobs.
Quantities move because the underlying position moved, so the evening spent correcting listings after every batch goes back to the person who had been spending it.
Alumio reaches Etsy through the interface it makes available, as it would any reachable system, and publishes the quantity Odoo says can be made and dispatched inside the window that the listing is promising to a buyer.
When a variation is discontinued in Odoo, Alumio removes it from the Etsy listing rather than leaving it sellable, so a buyer choosing an option is choosing from what the workshop is genuinely still willing and able to make.
An Etsy order is created in Odoo as it arrives with its variation attached, so it enters the manufacturing queue in order rather than sitting in a marketplace panel until somebody remembers to transcribe it that evening.
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A buyer orders something, the workshop is three weeks behind, and nobody tells them until they ask. That is where the next connection goes: the production queue itself, or the print partner who makes the item, because Odoo holds the order and Etsy holds the customer while the thing that decides the date sits between them. Alumio holds that connection alongside this one.
It can, and what gets published is the decision rather than the schedule. Alumio can send a straightforward Odoo quantity where you hold finished items, or a figure derived from components and capacity where you make to order, and publishes it to the matching Etsy listing on the cycle you choose. Orders come back as they are placed, because the workshop is waiting on them.
No, this is configured rather than coded. The listing somebody edits after every batch is what goes, along with the mental arithmetic behind it. Which Odoo values produce an Etsy quantity, and how variations map, are entries in Alumio's interface. Where availability has to be worked out from components rather than read from a figure, the Code Transformer carries that calculation.
From what can be made, not from what is held, which is a different calculation and worth setting up deliberately. A made-to-order seller has components, a queue and a dispatch promise, and Odoo knows all three, so an Etsy quantity becomes how many more of this the workshop can commit to inside the stated window. Publishing a guess instead is what produces the late dispatch that damages a shop.
A listing that sold a variation the maker had retired is the failure a buyer meets, because the page looks complete and the option is still selectable. Alumio watches each update live and records the Odoo variation with the Etsy listing it was written against, so anything refused raises an alert naming the variation and the reason. Retries run where configured, so nothing is quietly left on sale.
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