Overview Legend 🧭
Overview Legend 🧭
Introduction
Octopus is a Belgian cloud accounting software. Entrepreneurs and their accountants work in the same dossier, from bookkeeping and VAT to invoicing and bank reconciliation.Activate Octopus
Partner keys
No partner keys and no approval: the connector is ready to use.Activate Octopus in your Chift account
One click in Connectors, then create connections straight away.
Connector settings
No connector-specific settings.Test Octopus
Vendor fees
No vendor fees, for you or your end users.
Connect Octopus
Octopus setup guide for end users
The full step-by-step, with screenshots.
- an Octopus user with webservice access: on by default for entrepreneurs, activated per dossier by accounting firms in Bestellen > Toegang tot webservice activeren
- for a sub-user, the webservice right granted in Beheer > Gebruikers
- sign in with their Octopus username and password
- choose whether to transfer analytical data
- select the accounting folder to connect
Rate limits
Octopus limits the number of API calls an integration can make over a time window, but publishes no figures. The limit applies per integration: all Chift connections share Chift’s. When it is exceeded, Octopus emails the integrator. Chift retries requests rejected with HTTP429 Too Many Requests. Chift automatically manages these limits to optimize performance and prevent interruptions. However, once the API rate limit is reached, Chift cannot bypass these limitations.
See Octopus’s API call limit documentation.
Limitations & specificities
Journal entries
Journal entries
Chift cannot add entries to a journal that is open in the Octopus interface at the same time.
Chart of accounts & VAT
Chart of accounts & VAT
Octopus only accepts accounts allowed for the journal’s type. An entry that uses another account is rejected.
Numbering
Numbering
Octopus numbers invoices and miscellaneous operations in the journal’s sequence. Chift books each one under the journal’s next number. A number you send that breaks the sequence is kept in the reference: the invoice reference for invoices, each line’s reference for miscellaneous operations.