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  1. I'm new to the concept of connected companies, despite having about a dozen related companies all on Xero for several years. Until now, we've manually captured the invoices that get raised between the companies.

    Is there not a dashboard tool of some sort that could get added, so show the balance owing in one company vs the balance receivable in another, thus allowing easy confirmation that the balances reconcile and that all transactions have been considered by both parties?

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  2. For UK VAT registered organisations, allow the date of the last VAT return submitted to be exposed via the API

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  3. I want to create a tracking option ((i.e) Add tracking option) under the respective tracking category, using Xero tracking category API for my organisation. But while creating data using 'put' Requests method, it is not creating.

    I am using the below condition in python:

    response = requests.put(url=url, auth=oauth, data=xml_string)

    I want to know, what is the format for the data to be updated in the requests, for both content type xml/text and application/json.

    xml_string and url, I given is below:

    xmlstring='<Option><Name>S11963</Name></Option>'
    url = 'https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0/TrackingCategories/{Tracking
    Category}/Options'

    where Tracking_Category='620815a2-a7c6-4b85-8b01-ffb254ab34ad'

    Error: <ApiException xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">\r\n <ErrorNumber>500</ErrorNumber>\r\n <Type>UnknownErrorException</Type>\r\n <Message>An error occurred in Xero.…

    3 votes

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  4. when using the universal search, the search never finds invoices or bills ending in 00. For example search for invopice number "2300" this will return zero results. If the search is conducted from within the Sales search the invoice can be found.

    This issue also relates to Purchase orders and bills ending in 00

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  5. 2 votes

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  6. 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.

    7 votes

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  7. I would like to be able to do a monthly cash flow projection. I would start with the cash flow from the past 12 months. I would present the average for each line item and give the forecaster the option to increase or decrease the figure for the coming 3 months. It would need some work to break out the revenue figure by account and to give a way to put in a projection for accounts or opportunities yet to be won by the sales team.

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  8. I would love to have as short cut straight to Purchase orders from the main dashboard. :-)

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  9. When one is a bit behind on the reconciliations I think it would be useful to be able to filter the statement lines which need to be reconciled to show monies received only so that invoices can be quickly reconciled and overdue invoices sent off to clients. This would save trawling through pages of statement lines or searching payments in online banking then searching for that transaction among the reconciliation pages

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  10. If I want to print an overview of quotes and invoices, I have to "print screen" it would be great to have a print overview button

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  11. 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…

    3 votes

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  12. 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 reports

    6 votes

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  13. 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.

    5 votes

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  14. 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

    22 votes

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  15. Add a custom ID for all Objects on Xero.

    We're building a system to manage and sync data across multiple platforms, and we're having many issues keep data in sync with bulk inserts and writing back to our own IDs. For example when bulk inserting payments we cannot match them to the payments on the system as there is no unique number we can pass through and no other field is reliable. Due to the API rate limits we're forced to use Bulk inserts so we cannot update on an individual basis.

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  16. Make all API endpoints use consistent parameters and behave consistently

    2 votes

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  17. sometime if one person in the office is looking for a particular company by its previous name, this happens from time to time and the name has already been changed in WFM or Xero then you have to switch to Companies office to find out the new name.....

    if you had something similar to companies office where you could have a previous name list so that when you search, if you search an old name it will still bring up the client.

    also some of our clients use an alias as to avoid public actually knowing their real name, most…

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  18. Update documentation for Prepayment allocations. In current documentation you get the feeling that prepayment can have allocation only on Invoice, but if you send CreditNote or another Prepayment it works correctly.

    It would be awesome to write this down in documentation and next time name the element TransactionID, or somehow so you don't think only Invoice is supported.

    http://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/prepayments/#title6

    2 votes

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  19. 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.

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  20. When adding Customers response with what Name is a duplicate,
    With Email Addresses give the email address that failed validation, I have a list of +-20 valid email addresses but Xero seems to believe one or all are invalid

    2 votes

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