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  1. Xero has 'system' accounts where journals are not posted, but values are calculated by reports. Therefore when pulling the journals from Xero, we can not accruately recreate the balance sheet and P&L (as vital journals are missing). Therefore in this respect the Xero API is incomplete.

    Specific examples of the Journals API misses:

    1. Retained Earnings journals (this is instead calculated by a report)
    2. Unrealised FX journals (again calculated and shown only in the report)
    3. May also be the case for other system accounts.

    The calculations made by the reports could be made available via the API to provide a complete…

    47 votes

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  2. This would allow us to locally sync purchase orders and reduce API usage and increase speed.

    25 votes

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  3. This is not a suggestion is a petition.

    The payload of the organisation used to bring the email set up in the organisation itself, until 1 week ago that broke my integration,
    My integration serves invoices to the Costa Rican Government IRS and is broken at the moment, had to set up a default/dummy email on the part of the invoice that says who emits the Invoice and there will be issues with people not accepting Invoices due to the default email.

    The customers of my customer will get their Invoices not accepted and those are >10k Invoices.

    My customer…

    1 vote

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  4. I would like to see how much has been calculated to 'pay to customs' for the current period. The same value seen in the current VAT report.

    12 votes

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  5. With the Payrolls functionality being deprecated, the Pay Run https://developer.xero.com/documentation/payroll-api-us/pay-runs API will also be deprecated. By our understanding, this functionality, will still be available via the web UI ("Business > Pay Run"). Maintaining this subset of functionality after the overall Payroll deprecation would be useful for tools such as importers of 3rd Party payroll details.

    1 vote

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  6. We use Xero as our main accounting system. Every month we have to produce a number of reports for the regulator. In order to do this, we need access to the account balances, debits and credits as they need to be aggregated and for various calculations such as yield and cost of funds. None of the API's provide this information and we have resort manually download various reports in excel format and then use these as input to our process.

    Adding the debits and credits to the Accounts API would be perfect and allow us to automate our processes.

    1 vote

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  7. Add "PercentCompleted", "TotalEstimate" and "InvoicedPreviously" in Fields you can insert into a custom template so that invoices generated from Projects so the customer can see how far they are along the job and each task is toward completion.

    2 votes

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  8. With Microservices now being all the rage, applications consuming Xero APIs need to be able to deal with their availability/non-availability. A "health-check" similar to the Java Microprofile Health service (see https://github.com/eclipse/microprofile-health) would support to enabling/disablng functionality related to Xero APIs based on the result these "health-checks". As a result user interfaces could enable or suppress functionality that requires the use of Xero APIs depending on these health-checks.

    2 votes

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  9. 2019 Jan 11 09:46 /api.xro/2.0/Invoices PUT 200 Xero Api wrapper - NUALCYHX7TBOBY2IEFZKKOKKA50HMR

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  10. I have spent the past couple of weeks building a pretty hefty integration for a client to integrate their Salesforce platform with Xero.

    I have now hit an issue as the client wants to specify a String field to be pushed as the reference... This was not an issue with the Invoices as we used the URL field to define what Salesforce record needs to be updated form the API response.

    This would be a very good thing for developers to have a specific "External Id" field so clients can do what they like and we have one for ourselves!

    5 votes

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  11. There is a setting to set the reply email address, however sending an invoice via the api currently doesn't respect this setting, the emailed invoice will still have the user's email address even though the email settings specify a different email address

    3 votes

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  12. When a quote is accepted by a customer, add the option to call a webhook.

    This would allow for integration with job tracking software and a secondary call to the quote API (https://xero.uservoice.com/forums/5528-xero-accounting-api/suggestions/7040008-quotes-via-the-api) would allow me to retrieve the relevant information (customer, description, line items etc) in order to generate a job sheet for the accepted quote with all the relevant data for workers to begin the job.

    18 votes

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  13. Can you please add a feature similar to Sage that copies the cell data above when pressing F6. Great for entering sales and purchase invoices rather than having to select from drop-down lists etc - would save so much time. ie, descriptions and our specific analysis cells.

    1 vote

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  14. The idea is to traverse the checks object, and the transaction associated via API. In the end should be able to jump to associated transaction and download attachments too.

    32 votes

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  15. For some integrations we want to only ever read from Xero. One great example is when we replicate a production Xero system into a test system. In those cases we NEVER want to write to production. Other cases are where clients only want data extracted from Xero.

    This seems a simple ask - just disallow PUT, POST, and DELETE, and allow only GET.

    Cheers,
    Daniel

    3 votes

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  16. The sending of receipts is fine for one off... but when there are many, it becomes tedious. Could it possibly be enabled to be invoked from the API, so that a whole lot could be sent automatically?

    4 votes

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  17. With Webhooks enabled, it is pointless to have the webhook send the same data back to us when we are posting the data to Xero.

    9 votes

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  18. If the webhook listener goes offline, the webhook server will try to send the data with increasing delays up to 24 hours where it will stop.

    The issue is that if our listener crashes during an extended period of time, we might have to wait for an extra long period of time before it is retried.

    Adding a "Retry now" button would allow devs/admins to restore the webhook to their "OK" status much earlier (ie. as soon as the listener has been fixed).

    3 votes

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  19. Many thanks for adding Invoice/Contact webhooks. We'd love to get inventory items to be the next cab off the rank.

    Syncing stock for tracked items is what we're trying to achieve. So if we could be told when inventory items have changed, specifically in terms of QuantityOnHand.

    12 votes

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  20. Currently the Xero UI allows users to copy a purchase order to a bill which is useful for tracking an order through to payment. This functionality however is not present in the API. The API also does not provide any reference between a bill created in this way and the original PO, so it is impossible to determine whether or not a Bill was created in this way.

    I propose that the API enables a few things:

    • Provide the bill/invoice/purchase order ID with the original purchase order. This ID would be the newly created records ID and allows us to…
    8 votes

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