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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
69 votesIt is certainly a nice idea in a lot of ways, and Jesse’s use case example is good one.
On the other side, allowing 3rd party applications plug into the core Xero application present some quite major security implications. The data we hold on behalf of our customers is considered highly sensitive by us and we ensure we have bank level security across all aspects of our application.
Second to that, we are a design lead and focused company – we want our software to be really easy to use and remain simple and intuitive, so allowing 3rd parties to introduce interface elements into Xero would be something we would need to carefully plan for.
With this in mind, it would be quite an onerous task for us to implement a secure framework that would allow 3rd party applications to interface within Xero, in a sensible way that does not…
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API to set exchange rates
Create and API entry point to set default exchange rates, just like we do on the Settings page.
Rational: here in Poland, we're obliged to use the Polish Central Bank exchange rates on accounting. Having an API for it makes it possible for us the call it once everyday to set the rate for the next day. Without this we're not able to use Xero officially for bookkeeping. (we have to setup the rates for this whole calendar year!)
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Create a payment and mark "Pay by Check" via API
When paying a Bill in Xero you can check a box "Pay by Check". This will add a new "check" to the list of checks and the user can print these checks and mail them.
Would be helpful to allow this via the Payment API endpoint
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Support compression in API request / response
It would be great to support compression e.g. gzip for API response payloads. Currently including the Accept-Encoding header within requests does not result in any resource size reduction.
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Implement support for the reference field in the new Overpayment and Prepayment Endpoints
The addition of Overpayment and Prepayment endpoints, for us is still not functional with the addition of the reference field in these. Without this there is no robust way to save a prepayment at one point in time, then be able to look this prepayment up later to be used for allocation purposes.
Same problem for Overpayments.
Hope this can be added very soon as we are looking forward to the XERO api having proper Prepayment support.
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Xero Workpapers API
Xero now has an integrated Workpapers application (http://www.xero.com/workpapers). This is a placeholder to track requests and potential use cases so we can evaluate development of this feature.
30 votes
Public API PM
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Exposing organization's timezone in ISO 8601 format
Currently Xero API exposes the timezone via Organisation endpoint as text eg. <Timezone>NEWZEALANDSTANDARDTIME</Timezone>
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Provide CreatedDateUTC
Provide CreatedDateUTC element so invoices, manual journals etc can be filtered using the new element in similar way like UpdatedDateUTC
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Taxable payments report lodgement through Xero Tax
Recently lodgement of payment summaries through Xero Tax became available. You can also manually create these instead of handwriting the ATO forms which has been fantastic so far for our firm. It would be much appreciated if this was also done for the annual taxable payments report for the building and construction industry for tax clients who do not use Xero software.
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Be able to filter by items inside a list. e.g. Filter invoices by Line Item's Tracking Category
Be able to filter by fields inside an object which has lists. Such as Invoice's Line Items.
These fields contain important information such as tracking category, amounts, totals which would be a good functionality if one is able to filter using these information so to create more detailed reports14 votes -
Update Bank Transaction created by Bank Transfer
When you create a bank transfer, two bank transactions are created one on each bank account. There is no way to edit or reconcile the bank transactions that are created via the API. I would like the ability to do that.
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Open up the Pay Run (Global) to the API
It is currently not possible to get/post/push data related to the payrun for the global edition. This limits integration with systems who can help with the administration of the payroll.
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Assign Linked Transactions to Projects via the API
Using Projects would be a great solution for my company, but without the ability to assign billable expenses to Projects via the API, they are not useful to us.
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Return TrackingOptionId from GET BankTransactions
TrackingCategories returns IDs for both categories and options as follows
<TrackingCategory>
<Name>My Category</Name>
<Status>ACTIVE</Status>
<TrackingCategoryID>a020cd2b-31ac-49a4-b459-f8ffbe854e7c</TrackingCategoryID>
<Options>
<Option>
<TrackingOptionID>dc167d85-6c3a-4261-b7f9-4fda00c2e38d</TrackingOptionID>
<Name>My Option</Name>
</Option>GET BankTransactions with a bank transaction id specified returns both the category id and name, but only the option name (no id).
<Tracking>
<TrackingCategory>
<Name>My Category Name</Name>
<Option>My Option Name</Option>
<TrackingCategoryID>23333b58-b938-479c-9bdd-5a599bec698c</TrackingCategoryID>
</TrackingCategory>
</Tracking>12 votes -
provide transactional support
Allow for batch create/update/delete operations to multiple API endpoints within a single transaction.
10 votesPublic API PM
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Ability to charge a merchant fee surcharge for payment via Eway
I would like to be able to add an additional 1.5% surcharge when people pay via credit card (eway)
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Allow Custom URL Schemes
Currently the URL elements of various Xero resources appear to reject URLs that do not fit the http or https scheme. It would be very helpful if this barrier was removed.
Both OS X and iOS are seeing an explosion of applications that implement custom URL schemes as a way to hook or callback. https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/iPhone/Conceptual/iPhoneOSProgrammingGuide/Inter-AppCommunication/Inter-AppCommunication.html
My personal use case is a custom built warehouse management system. Our established application is hosted on premises, with client runtimes on OS X and iOS. We're integrating as a private app to Xero and will be pushing in contacts, payables and sales. All of…
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... make transaction data available via the API
It appears that there are two key things missing from the current version of the Xero API:
The Tables part of the API does not currently have a connection to the Nominal Ledger (Account) Transactions
The Reports part of the API connects to several of the standard reports, but doesn’t connect to the Account Transactions report.
Either of these would allow a full list of transactions to be accessed via the API.
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Supply <Attachments> elements in standard endpoints when `page` is given
Currently, it seems that you need to make a separate call to get <Attachments>. Being able to get this supplied on the standard invoices/bank transactions/manual journals/credit notes endpoints when
pageis given would help lower the number of API calls without much increasing the amount of data sent.6 votes -
Bring back Xero Personal
I have previously used Xero personal and I have never found anything that I would rather use. I miss it and would love for you to bring it back to all the people who love to be organised but don't own a business.
6 votes
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