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  1. Remove personally identifiable information from error messages for compliance

    API error responses in Xero contain a substantial sack of unnecessary XML which complicates compliance with data-privacy legislation (GDPR for example). Included in the error response is the original request XML. The original request will most likely contain personally indefinably information which means these messages require substantial filtering before being returned into logging systems or error notification infrastructure.

    In some cases the error message itself contains customer information i.e. <Message>The contact name Bob Smith is already assigned to another contact. The contact name must be unique across all active contacts.</Message>. Perhaps in these examples it would be better if…

    3 votes
    0 comments  ·  Accounts  ·  Admin →
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  2. Add more precision for Items endpoint

    When getting an item from the /Items endpoint, even with unitdp set to 4, the TotalCostPool only provides 2 decimals of precision. Unfortunately I have plenty of items in my tracked inventory that have 4 decimal places of precision. This prevents me from getting the accurate average cost data.

    4 votes
    0 comments  ·  Items / Inventory  ·  Admin →
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  3. Apply same invoice due date logic like in the UI

    When creating invoices via Xero UI, contact and organization default due date rules are applied, which is great!
    But when creating invoices via API, due date field is left blank unless it's explicitly set in the API request. All this nice logic of applying contact and organization due date, in that order, is skipped for API created invoices, resulting in a rather inconsistent UX for end users.

    And to "use" that feature of Xero, each API application would need to reimplement same logic that Xero UI already has.

    I think keeping parity between UI and API would be very good…

    21 votes
    0 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →
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  4. Be able to change the ReportingCode on an Account

    It is currently not possible to update the ReportingCode and ReportingCodeName on an Account via the API.

    We would find it useful to correct discrepancies in the assigned reporting codes automatically via the API

    7 votes
    1 comment  ·  Accounts  ·  Admin →
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  5. Aged Receivables/Payables by all contacts in API

    Be able to get aged Receivables and Payables for all contacts via the API and not have to call them one at a time!!!!

    Surely this would be a massive help to your own API given I'm sure multiple people are just smashing the API by making call after call to get all the contacts out!!!

    57 votes
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  6. add line item ids to receipts/expense claims (and credit notes) on GET and POST successful responses

    as with the similar suggestion for manual journals, this would make it possible to keep data in sync between Xero and other systems. Without this ID, if anything so much as the status or one letter in the description changes, there's no way to truly verify you have all the correct lineitems without dumping them all and injecting them again from scratch. yes there are some workarounds, but they all have failure points somewhere without these IDs.

    47 votes
    1 comment  ·  Receipts & Expenses  ·  Admin →
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  7. Connect multiple Shopify store feeds from one organisation

    Lots of business have multiple Shopify stores, buy at present we can only use one feed from one shop.
    This means we still have to manually input data from one store and can't upscale using the system.
    I am sure there are many other retailers with a similar problem.

    16 votes
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  8. Provide Non-Crippled Access to Invoice URL via the API

    After waiting for years for the ability to access the Invoice URL via the API, it was unfortunately provided in a completely crippled manner.

    What should have happened is that the Invoice URL simply be provided along with the rest of the Invoice data through the paging API.

    Instead, it is provided on a per-invoice basis, requiring the use of an API call for every URL retrieved. Given the shockingly small limit to API calls, this makes this non-workable.

    Your competition, QuickBooks Online, allows 500 calls per MINUTE, compared to Xero's 1000 per DAY. If you had their API limits…

    107 votes
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  9. Payments API HasAttachments

    Hi there,

    Currently, there is no way to determine via the API if a payment has an attachment. We are able to retrieve any attachments via using the BankTransactions endpoint (using the payment ID).

    For completeness, we need to be able to have the HasAttachment attribute accessible when returning a list of payments - the only way to do this currently is to retrieve the BankStatements/ID/Attachments endpoint for EVERY single payment - which is a pretty big use of resources.

    Alternatively (a breaking change) - can we either be able to retrieve Payments via the BankTransactions end point. Adding "HasAttachments"…

    5 votes
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  10. Add ability to delete a ContactGroup

    I can create a new ContactGroup through the API yet I cannot delete that group?

    The documentation states "The DELETE method is used to remove a contact from a contact group or remove all contacts from a contact group."

    Neither of which I want. I want to remove the entire ContactGroup from existing.

    6 votes
    0 comments  ·  Contacts  ·  Admin →
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  11. provide access to the organisation conversion date

    2 votes
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  12. Please enable subfolders of folders within Xero files

    2 votes
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  13. New Feature - Contacts Reform

    • Contacts/Project Dashboard - The Contacts page could be improved with a dashboard of all relevant data for that Contact such as the P&L for the client and their projects. I would also like to see a Statement feature detailing all invoices and payments in journal display i.e. account debits and credits, filtered either by Contact and/or Projects.

    • Sales Pipeline – A New Leads/Tenders/Quotes feature would allow the Sales team to add details for new clients and projects. Unsuccessful New Leads could be demoted to Old Bids which would keep the contact, bid and project details on the system.…

    2 votes
    0 comments  ·  Contacts  ·  Admin →
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  14. incorporate LawPay into your payment services options

    Many lawyers cannot use just any Merchant Services provider, but Law Pay provides the necessary features for firms. It would be great if you could partner with them as Clio does.

    1 vote
    7 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →
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  15. Add ability to delete Attachments

    Using an A/R Invoice as an example, at the moment you can upload a new attachment, retrieve a list of attachments and download attachments. I would like to have the ability to delete an attachment - for example you might have uploaded the wrong attachment, but you need to login to the main Xero website to be able to delete the attachment.

    6 votes
    0 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →
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  16. 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

    4 votes
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  17. Expose reversal information in Journal endpoint

    Problem: if a Journal is reversed, Journal.SourceId may point to an invoice whose LineItems do not correspond to JournalLines.

    Proposed Solution: If a Journal is a reversal, expose the number of reversed journal via API, e.g.

    <Journal>
    <IsReversalOf>originalJournalNumber</IsReversalOf>
    ...
    </Journal>

    When it is useful: in the simplest scenario, when Invoice's LineItem is edited, the original Journal corresponding to the Invoice is reverted and new one is created. We end up with three Journals: Journal1 and Journal2 cancel each other, Journal3 reflects (the new version of) the invoice. Unfortunately, all three Journals have SourceID pointing to the (now modified) invoice. Consequently,…

    22 votes
    1 comment  ·  Journals  ·  Admin →
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  18. Increase the limit of API calls

    It would be great if the limit of API calls is increased. That way we can make more requests to Xero and not have the connection destabilise. This affects our customer experience as our customers ask us always

    22 votes
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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.

    4 votes
    0 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →
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  20. Prevent me from adding new contacts so easily from the "Add Bill" (and similar) screens.

    I have batches of 20 or more bills to add at once.
    I want to do them quickly.
    I know the supplier name is already in Xero and that autolookup will find the name if I just type the first 3 letters.
    But alas! I hit the TAB key before the autolookup feature has worked, and now I've created a new supplier called Ral, or Mad, or Win, or Upg, or...
    Please fix this, it drives me mad.

    2 votes
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