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    1. 157 votes
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        under review  ·  xeroAdminxero (Admin, Xero) responded

        Hi, I have just left a detailed comment on this topic with some initial thinking on how this would work – I would appreciate your comments on this.

        Thanks, Ronan

      • be able to get customer balances via the API

        for the purpose of knowing if a customer have overdue balances - so would need to return current balance and overdue amount.

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          5 comments  ·  Reports  ·  Admin →
          planned  ·  xeroAdminxero (Admin, Xero) responded

          I’ve reopened this issue just to be clear we haven’t forgotten about this and know this is a big issue for some developers. We’re looking to get overdue and outstanding amounts displayed separately in a future release.


          We have exposed a number of reports via the Xero API recently. The AgedReceivablesByContact and AgedPayabledByContact reports will download a summary of all outstanding invoices for a specified contact. This report also provided the total amount outstanding.

          See http://blog.xero.com/developer/api/Reports/#AgedPayablesByContact for more information.

          If you have any questions, have a look at our new developer answers site: http://answers.xero.com/developer/

          Dan..

        • API: Notify URL When Stuff Changes in Xero

          I'm requesting "web hooks" for the Xero API.

          Here's how they work: Customer provides a URL (http://myserver.com/xero/changed) to Xero, and when something is changed, Xero notifies that URL, perhaps indicating which records have changed.

          The Xero API provides methods that you can query and compare with previous results to see what has changed. However, this is not performant for large data sets, and detecting changes involves a lot of code.

          The competition has it - web hooks are supported by QuickBooks. Let's get them in Xero - it's a superior product in every other way.

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            planned  ·  xeroAdminxero (Admin, Xero) responded

            I have merged the “callback URL on Invoices” idea with this webhooks idea as we are leaning more towards web hooks, but still very much open to ideas.

            We agree it would make working with the API much more efficient.

            Please keep sharing your use cases and ideas if you haven’t already: they are a real help.

          • Allow attachments of PDF on payable invoices

            Store supplier invoices with the invoice transaction in xero. Doubles as a storage system and makes retrieval much easier. Worth paying the upper price plan for

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            • Credit Card payment API

              Store encrypted credit cards for customers and be able to initiate (through the invoice API) credit card payment via any credit card processor's API. Paypal Web Payments Pro would be good out of the box but ideally would be set up to work with most standard APIs.

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              • Add read-only access to accounting numbers for use in other systems

                I have an internal system that handles all the other metrics for our business, but the financial data is missing.

                We could either hand-enter the necessary data or build some sort of import functionality, but it would be best to query Xero directly so I can use that data in my internal system.

                Thanks for listening!

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                  3 comments  ·  Reports  ·  Admin →
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                    6 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →
                  • Update payments to allow Get and Post via the API

                    Have the ability get get payments via the PaymentID and also create payments via POST

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                      started  ·  xeroAdminxero (Admin, Xero) responded

                      We’re currently working on the Payments endpoint, adding GET method and adding more fields when creating the payments (e.g. currency rate).

                      We will consider adding a POST method, but this wouldn’t add the ability to update a payment – this is a limitation of the core accounting engine.

                    • Enable to import bank transactions through API

                      It is a must have for global companies whose banks' transaction info doesn't yet feed into xero

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                      • Allow split of single payment to multiple Invoices via API

                        For customers who's payment gateway settles the days total takings into your bank account in one lump sum at the end of the day, making single payment against single invoices via API is no good. It would be great to be able to recieve a payment to a bank account and split that payment to be applied against multiple invoices.

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                          3 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →
                        • allow third party apps to plug into the Xero interface

                          If the Xero interface could be configured to display data from and interact with the apps third party developers are creating similar to the way Facebook applications work inside their platform

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                          • allow notes in invoice output

                            there are some situations where it's useful to add a note to an invoice that's include in the invoice PDF. e.g a message about the reverse charge VAT treatment for EC customers. I would guess there's more exceptions like this where a note would be useful.

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                              under review  ·  xeroAdminxero (Admin, Xero) responded

                              You might consider adding a comment-only line item to the invoice. This would get printed on the PDF of the invoice.

                              If the message is to be added to lots of invoices, you could even consider defining a price list item with a description only. This would save re-typing the comment for each invoice.

                              A third option is adding a comment onto a docx branding theme template. If all EC customers could be assigned the same branding theme, the comment could be hard-coded onto the docx template.

                              We’ll certainly consider other options to make life easier for our customers.

                            • History & Notes

                              Expose invoice History & Notes through the API

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                                3 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →
                              • Be able to e-mail statements to receivable accounts via the API

                                E-mailing updates to receivable accounts about their payments via the API would be very useful. Via the web interface, this is possible by sending a statement.

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                                • Payroll Integration

                                  It would be great to have api access to payroll functions so that we can calculate PAYE and then create payroll entries automatically.

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                                  • GET Invoices & GET CreditNotes need more detail of credit notes

                                    GET invoices currently only shows AmountCredited but not the specific detail. GET CreditNotes doesn't show which invoice the credit was applied to

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                                      2 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →
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                                      • General Journal Improvements

                                        1) include transaction source and id to be able to link back to the source document of the journal eg AP/AR invoice etc 2) allow endpoint to be filtered by accounting date to be able to get just a certain period.

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                                        • Provide api functions to generate reports.

                                          I find the reports available in xero very minimal, especially compared to those my accountant are used to from Simply Accounting. Consequently, I wish there were an API I could use to generate my own reports rather than hope that the xero team will implement the exact report that my accountant is requesting.

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                                            started  ·  Ronan Quirke - XeroRonan Quirke - Xero responded

                                            Thanks for your votes and apologies this issue has not been updated in a while. I would be interested to hear some comments on whether the reporting functionality now in place in the API is sufficient: http://blog.xero.com/developer/api/reports/

                                            If not, love to hear your ideas!

                                          • Expose expenses functionality via the API

                                            Be able to at least import expenses via the api so Xero may be properly integrated with other expese tracking systems.

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