Skip to content

Accounting API

← Customer Feedback for Xero API

Welcome to our official feedback forum for the Xero Developer API.

The Xero Community site is the best place to submit feedback for improving Xero Business

I suggest you ...

You've used all your votes and won't be able to post a new idea, but you can still search and comment on existing ideas.

There are two ways to get more votes:

  • When an admin closes an idea you've voted on, you'll get your votes back from that idea.
  • You can remove your votes from an open idea you support.
  • To see ideas you have already voted on, select the "My feedback" filter and select "My open ideas".
(thinking…)

Enter your idea and we'll search to see if someone has already suggested it.

If a similar idea already exists, you can support and comment on it.

If it doesn't exist, you can post your idea so others can support it.

Enter your idea and we'll search to see if someone has already suggested it.

  • Hot ideas
  • Top ideas
  • New ideas
  • My feedback

132 results found

  1. looking up addresses in xero would be handy like MYOB as i currently keep having to login to MYOB to get customer info

    looking up addresses in xero would be handy like MYOB as i currently keep having to login to MYOB to get customer info as we are contractors and are expected to know existing customers details

    1 vote
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    2 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close

  2. Asp.net C# - sample code for private application

    can you please provide some sample code , on how to connect to xero private apps for long time authenitcation. please help to us.

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    2 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close

  3. Make the due dates of bills available as a calendar feed

    It would be great if I could hook up the due dates of the bills that I have added to Xero to my Google calendar. It would help me more easily keep track of when I have to pay my bills by. Doesn't have to have much detail in it. Maybe just the number of bills due on a date.

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  General Requests  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    declined  ·  AdminXero Developer Platform (CEO / Founder, Xero Developer Centre) responded

    This forum is for API features and I’m afraid this does not include features like this. The good news is that there is already a 3rd party application providing a connection between Xero and Google Calendar: https://zapier.com/zapbook/xero/google-calendar/2516/create-google-calendar-event-from-xero-invoice/

    If you are keen to see this as a feature within Xero, you could make a request in our feature requests forum: https://community.xero.com/business/topic/23/

  4. A quote option would be good like MYOB has, as we do a lot of quotes that get chaged to invoices

    A quote option would be good like MYOB has, as we do a lot of quotes that get chaged to invoices

    1 vote
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close

  5. login upgrade

    It would be great not to have to enter my email address every time that xero times out it should only need the password to login

    1 vote
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close

  6. Sort on report column headers

    It would be very convenient if report column headers were sortable.

    For example, when I run a "Sales by Item" report, I'd like to click on the "Total" column header to re-sort the report by Total, either ascending or descending.

    If this sorting was available for all column headers, I could immediately find out:
    - best and worst selling product by sales revenue
    - best and worst selling product by units moved
    - most expensive product
    - least expensive product
    - lowest and highest average selling price

    ....all in seconds with just a few clicks on column headers, and without…

    1 vote
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Reports  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close

  7. Make receipting quicker and easier

    I am an owner/operator of my own business and even though I do have my bank account linked I generally use my personal credit card for everything so that I can leave my money in an offset account to minimilise interest. It means I do alot of receipting and find the process long and tedious as I have to go through approving / authorising etc just to do reciepts. If there was a quicker way of doing it would make life alot easier.

    1 vote
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close

  8. Create Bank Rule's for Bank Transfers

    Add a 3rd option for Bank Rules.
    Allow for transferring to a specified account.

    EG: I transfer money from my PayPal to my main account only.
    OR
    EG: I transfer money from my Skrill account to my main account only.

    And would like these to be reconciled even easer with automated bank rules.

    69 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    5 comments  ·  Accounts  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close

  9. Enable bulk editing of accounts and tracking data

    Currently it is very tedious to manipulate data in the system. I've made some adjustments to the way accounts and tracking are handled, and I am faced with going through hundreds of invoices one by one to create reports that make sense. It would be awesome to be able to check multiple items and modify them in this way (although I can see a problem with multiple line items), or else have some tools to migrate invoice line-items assigned to a particular account or tracking category to another one.

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    declined  ·  AdminXero Developer Platform (CEO / Founder, Xero Developer Centre) responded

    As this forum is for developer API functionality requests and yours relates to something that would need to happen in the main application, I’m afraid we have to decline this suggestion, but don’t take it personally – we would still love to see you make your suggestion in the Xero Community forum: https://community.xero.com/business/

    Love the migration idea if you are switching accounts or tracking though, so be sure to add a suggestion!

  10. Quick and Easy third party authentication

    I think there should be a quick way for third party applications to authenticate into the XERO API.. Because as far as I know there currently isn't a quick way for the authentication of users keys and certificates authenticated in a couple of seconds rather than minutes without requesting a lot of information from the web services (give and take how many invoices or contact information has to be recieved).

    1 vote
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    1 comment  ·  Authentication  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    declined  ·  AdminXero Developer Platform (CEO / Founder, Xero Developer Centre) responded

    Hi Michael

    It seems like you are basing this on your experience of using a private API application? We also have two other application types: partner API apps and public API apps that use the 3-legged OAuth process which to the end user is as simple as clicking a button in a 3rd-party app, logging into Xero and approving a connection between the other application and their Xero organisation. Overview here: http://blog.xero.com/developer/api-overview/

    You can see this in action by using the API previewer – if already connected to an organisation, disconnect and go through the process of connecting again – that is the same workflow as public/partner API apps use.

    Note this makes it easy for the end user, but there will always be work involved for the 3rd party applications themselves in terms of setup etc.

    Hope that is what you are after!

  11. Create invoices and credit notes via the api as Deleted or Voided

    My client requires invoices and credits too be synchronised between our software and Xero.

    This includes having invoices deleted and credits voided before they reach Xero.

    I would like to create deleted invoices and voided credits first time rather then having to create drafts and then delete/void them in a seperate operation.

    You shouldn't be able to do this via the Xero user interface but I should be able to do this via the API.

    1 vote
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    declined  ·  AdminXero Developer Platform (CEO / Founder, Xero Developer Centre) responded

    The Xero API must follow the same application logic as the main application. It is for this reason we must decline this request, but we are committed to exposing more functionality via the API such as the ability to void invoices and credit notes via the API once they are created.

  12. are able to enter several email addresses for customers.

    Several email addresses as in accounts payable and the person that deals directly

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close

  13. Add a "Hero" report module position to the Dashboard for beautiful graphical reports

    Some UI improvements -

    Add a Hero or Showcase module position to the Dashboard. Give users options to select from various graphic reports for things like profit and loss or daily sales.

    Or perhaps you allow the user to select and compare activity in multiple accounts and choose the type of output graph.

    You may even allow drag-and-drop positioning of multiple custom graphs or reports - on top of the listing of bank activity, accounts receivable, and accounts payable.

    Regards,
    - Aaron

    1 vote
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Reports  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close

  14. Make the 3-legged authorization process compatible with WP7

    I'd love to build an WP7 application for the Xero platform, however the step that involves navigating to the login page which is required to complete the OAuth process is blank on WP7 browsers.

    30 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    1 comment  ·  Authentication  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close

  15. Allow financial advisers to permanently delete records from the systen

    I think that Financial Advisers should have the ability to completely remove a record from the system. Or - this needs to be a permission setting on some future ACL implementation.

    What if an error occurs? Especially for folks like me who are synchronizing their billing system. As far as I am concerned - my billing system has the most accurate information. I want to be able to adjust for errors that may occur during sync - because I cannot effect the records in my billing system.

    These records have already occured. They are uneditable. Xero is simply copying those…

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    1 comment  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close

  16. Be able to have number of days billable in the invoice recievable template

    I run a equipment hire company and use xero to itemise and invoice the equipment hired out. The quantity field works well but i supply equipment over a number of days at a day rate. It would really help to be able to specify how many days any quantity of equipment was hired out for. In theory its just another quantity field called DAYS. Please Please Please. :)

    3 votes
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close

  17. Create a section for discounts for any goods and services in an invoice

    When entering invoices it would be nice to have a section to put any discounts that have been applied to the goods and services that I am entering.

    1 vote
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Accounts  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close

  18. open standards data & document formats

    At the moment I can import & export financial data via an Open Standards CSV format (& well-documented API's), which is great for interoperability with other systems :)

    Unfortunately this is not carried through universally, such as Custom Invoice Branding, which is reliant on ms docx formats.
    This excludes a significant potion of my own customer-base (many SME's/SMB's reducing overheads) that are increasing not making use of manu ms-based technologies (i.e. office), and are increasingly moving toward more "cloud-based" solutions, such as Google Docs (sample docs are an absolute mess in GDocs) & Open/LibreOffice.

    Please add support for common, Open…

    1 vote
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  General Requests  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close

  19. add a search function for accounts.

    1 vote
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Accounts  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close

  20. put the Chart of accounts in the Accounts tab.

    1 vote
    Vote

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
    You have left! (?) (thinking…)
    0 comments  ·  Accounts  ·  Admin →
    How important is this to you?

    We're glad you're here

    Please sign in to leave feedback
    Signed in as (Sign out)
    Close
    Close
1 2 3 5 7
  • Don't see your idea?

Accounting API

Categories

Feedback and Knowledge Base

(thinking…)