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  1. Migrate the Pay Run API from Payrolls

    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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  2. Create API to get VAT return

    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.

    31 votes
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  3. Xero datya for regulatory reporting

    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.

    3 votes
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  4. Add Progress Percent Completed in Invoice

    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.

    6 votes
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  5. API Health Check

    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.

    6 votes
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  6. [bug]push invoices via private api unable show on invoices list system

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

    1 vote
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  7. External Id fields on Contacts, Invoices and Purchase Orders (or URLs for all)

    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!

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    11 votes
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  8. Emailing invoices should respect the organisational email settings

    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

    5 votes
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  9. Call a webhook when a Quote is accepted

    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.

    36 votes
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  10. Use F6 to copy down line above as Sage does. Would save so much time when entering invoices

    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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  11. Access checks via API call

    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.

    89 votes
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  12. Grant Read-Only API access please

    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

    7 votes
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  13. invoke receipt sending via API

    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?

    8 votes
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  14. Add a "Retry now" button to force webhooks in "Retry" status

    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).

    9 votes
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  15. Invoice/Webhook - When posting Invoices, be able to set a flag to stop the Webhook from sending the same data back

    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.

    17 votes
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  16. Request multiple ManualJournalIDs with a single call

    We have over 100k Journals. If something changes, I may need to look at a few hundred ManualJournalIDs on Xero. Right now, I have to either page through 100,000 at 100 per page (takes about 4 hours), OR request them one at a time.

    It would be great if there was some way to pass a list of up to 100 ManualJournalIDs at a time to Xero, and get the details for them.

    6 votes
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  17. Inventory items webhooks

    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.

    25 votes
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  18. Enable copying of purchase orders to bills

    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…
    19 votes
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  19. Creating Repeating Journals via API

    Be able to create and manage repeating journals via API

    18 votes
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  20. add an endpoint for BankStatements so we can read the bank feed through the API

    We need to automatically recognize certain payments withing the daily bank feed statements and create overpayments on the respective client accounts.
    The information is already available as the lines of the statements are available in the portal so it is just a matter of exposing it through the API.
    Currently this is done by our accountant which takes a lot of his time for no good reason as this can easily be automated.

    2 votes
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