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  1. add Contacts as an element to GET Journals

    This would allow much greater financial reporting flexibility. Like Tracking Categories, not all Journals have Contacts. Your new Xero report, P&Ls by Contact, leads me to believe the Xero data structure may support this. Thank you!

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  2. Include pagination for inventory items

    Currently the GET /Items API method does not support any pagination request parameters.
    This implies that we have to get all Items in one API call if we want to read all items, for instance during an initial historical sync.
    This is highly inefficient and will lead to issues for Xero accounts having a lot of items.

    Adding pagination parameters will help to reduce the payload returned by this API method, which I believe to be in the interest of both Xero and the Xero API users ...

    Thanks in advance for looking into this.

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  3. Expose UK VAT report via API

    For UK registered business, it would be extremely helpful to expose the information for the upcoming VAT Amount and due date.

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  4. Link AP tranactions to a 3rd party payment program

    The ability to run AP transactions into high volume payment program (BACS/ CHAPS/ Cheque run etc) rather than paying invoices manually...and record result against AP transaction

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  5. email to invoice gateway

    not sure if it is possible, but what about an email to invoice gateway.

    have an email address invoices@xero.com
    i can email any invoices i get to that address and it automatically populates a draft invoice in xero, based on the from address of the sender

    obviously you would need to have a bit of security, like a cryptic email address to send the invoices too, and it would be difficult to parse all invoices formats, but not impossible.

    even if it pulled out the generic details of each invoice, eg invoice no, from, date, total, it would save a…

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  6. Allow invoices to specify tax amounts in a separate currency

    UK VAT law requires that invoices present VAT amounts in Sterling, even when the invoice is in a separate currency. As a result, it's possible to have a Euro invoice with Sterling VAT amounts. (See VAT Guide 16.4 and 16.3.1). Obviously when charging the customer, these have to be converted to Euros and the total expressed in Euros, but the business owes VAT in Sterling, not Euros.

    Currently it's only possible to specify a single currency per invoice; now, if it were possible to stipulate the exchange rate to be used, that might make matters better, but in general we…

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  7. Add SagePay to invoice payment gateway, they are one of the most popular in the UK.

    Sagepay is one of the most popular payment gateways used in the UK, it would be a huge benefit to add sagepay as an invoice payment method option in xero.

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  8. Download Published reports in pdf format using api

    I want to download published (customized) reports from xero using api and upload it to sharepoint.

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  9. Allow setting Expected Payment Date on modified invoices

    The only way of modifying the Expected Payment Date via the API right now is to remove every payment first, then update the date and reapply the payments. We have customers paying via installments (of up to 30 payments) and it would seem a lot more logical to allow changing the Expected Payment Date.

    The reason why the Expected Payment Date is important to us is that we use it for cashflow forecasting.

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  10. 4 votes
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  11. Return RepeatingInvoiceID with Invoice GET

    The Xero website notifies you when you are viewing an Invoice that was created by a RepeatingInvoice. There doesn't appear to be a way to get that information from the API.

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  12. Send invoices to other accounting systems via their APIs

    You can already do a Xero to Xero invoice. I would like to link in to other on-line invoice aggregator services via their API and send an invoice to them electronically. I have a couple of multi national clients who refuse to accept invoices that are emailed with PDF attachments. They want me to use their invoice aggregator which either costs me money (if I integrate using their API) or time if I log on to their portal and manually enter each invoice (yeah right!).

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  13. add contact to a group when creating a contact

    when you are adding a new contact, have the option available to add the contact directly into a "group"

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  14. email notification

    As a manager, I would like to receive an email notification when an employee submits a new expenses through Xero.

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  15. Bank Rules Ideas

    Hello, I have a couple of ideas...
    1. Add Alphabetical SORT feature in Bank Rules
    2. Duplicate an existing Bank Rule, slightly modify and choose a different bank account to add it too.
    Thank you
    Warm regards
    Christel

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  16. Approvals screen side by side view

    It would be useful if invoices appeared in side by side view On the approvals screen to allow for easy checking and adjustments to data pushed in from OCR providers.

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  17. Manual Journals: Add Customer and Business unit to the API

    There is currently no wat to choose Customer or Business Unit on the line item in the Manual Journals, that I can see.

    I am using the c# api.

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  18. XERO for your Business

    We at Rayvat Accounting have expertise working on XERO accounting software. We are partners with XERO and service many Australian clients on XERO.

    Rayvat Accounting provides quality XERO bookkeeping services to its clients on Xero. We are advisors on Xero Platform.

    See my work: http://www.rayvataccounting.com/work-methodology/xero-for-your-business/

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  19. Add label to the Url feature of Invoice and Bill

    Please add a label option so it does not show the label of the api. We use this to link invoices to bills and bills to invoices as they are related for our business.

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  20. contacts

    I'd like to see each contact have their own email AND phone number, plus a note section i.e accounts/ workshop

    Also, at the moment, the second contact must have an email - I'd like to be able to add a contact with as many or as little fields filled out e.g Sometimes all I need to add is another name with no email or phone number

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