This presentation aims to highlight how Odoo users can take advantage of accessing their database from the outside. Odoo is certainly extendable from our opensource model that encourages the community to add and modify the internal software to fit their needs. However, many are not aware of the advantages of working with the External API. Using XML-RPC, the user can connect to their database from outside the system. In this talk, we will be going through basics and best practices when using the External API. Some of the benefits we will be talking about: Large Imports/Exports, Data Syncing, Data Corrections, and a few others. This talk is aimed towards developers that are looking to extend their implementation of Odoo. The presentation will show code in Python but XML-RPC works with various languages so that is not a requirement. During the talk we will go over code snippets and key points for the users success when implementing through the External API.