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  1. Quotes and PurchaseOrders are the only endpoints remaining where the lines do not include the AccountID.

    For consistency, it would pay to include these fields.

    Hopefuly, this is a simple request since AccountID was added to CreditNotes, Invoices and RepeatingInvoices recently.

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  2. Please add "Bank Name" field to "Accounts" API. Currently, this API provides only Account details.

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  3. It would be really useful to have the date a disposal was registered in the API

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  4. Currently it's possible to add a 0 value transaction on a bank account using the web interface by clicking "New Transaction" selecting "spend money" then adding a positive sum to one account and a negative sum to another account.

    When attempting this with the API you get a validation error "The Total for this document must be greater than zero".

    This is a simple request to remove the additional validation on the API to allow this transaction to be added (like you can in the web interface).

    Something similar can be achieved with a manual journal, however these don't support…

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  5. Now the receipt is downloadable in the transaction:payment. However it would also be great if the receipt downloadable through API without the need of user to go in the xero account and download it.

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  6. In the current version of Xero, the deletion of allocations from PrePayments and Credit Notes is not allowed via the API and can only be done via the web interface.
    It is a much-needed feature and we have tens of hundreds of clients who are asking for it.

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  7. Calculate any lump sum payments you may receive within the NHS.visit https://paidhours.co.uk/

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  8. As the Organisation creation wizard limits the import of Chart of Accounts to 1000 when they exceed this they need to be imported via the API. Causing additional pain to transfer the bank balance from the chart of account type pushed in via the API to a newly created chart of account to connect the bank feed to.

    The constraints on the API is that the Credit cards and Paypal account types can only be created as type Bank Account type. This means that the client is unable to connect the correct Bank feed as the Account Type is incorrect.

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  9. Be able to set the default branding theme ID on contact POST

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  10. It's great that we can create and delete repeating invoices via the API, but we also need the ability to update them, especially options such as ApprovedForSending, Next Invoice Date, and Due Date.

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  11. The API doesn't currently offer access to product attachments. This would be useful in our case.

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  12. A U.S. nonprofit's statement of activities groups expenses by activity, not by account. It would be helpful to be able to add an account to a blank report more than once so the account can appear under different groups, and to be able to apply a filter to each group by one or more tracking categories. This would allow us to create a report using the Blank Report template that mimics the statement of activities.

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  13. I've previously used ODATA when filtering requests - e.g. MYOB.

    It provides an 'IN' operator for the filter, so you can request using a list of items.

    e.g. ?where=Code IN ('1234','1245','1236','1237','1238')

    Obviously, this translates directly to the common SQL clause - WHERE column_name IN (value1, value2, vlaue3, etc)

    Thus avoiding the need for multiple request, or paging an ALL accounts request and then filtering locally.

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  14. For example any network, process issues etc may cause a request to create an invoice (or other resource) to occur, but the response to never be recorded. Potentially causing the process to retry this action.

    One way is to add a idempotency key which Stripe for example does nicely here: https://stripe.com/docs/api/idempotent_requests

    Another way would be to have a non consumer facing external ID, for both the resource and lineitems that can be set by the application and then check for its existence later. Or allow the application to set the UUIDs for these resources

    For something as accurate as accounting,…

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  15. We aren't able to connect a 3rd party uncertified app due to already being at the limit of 2. This poses quite an issue for us!

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  16. A customer of ours need to pull Invoices via the Xero API and are particularly interested in the COGS value of sales in order to calculate a Gross Profit value.

    Unfortunately, that value does not appear in the Invoices endpoint.

    I ran some tests where i posted a sale, then posted a purchase with items with a higher purchase price, then edit the sale and increase the quantity.

    I then checked journals and i could see a reversal jounral for the COGS that used the old COGS value, and a reposting using the new COGS value.

    This implies the data…

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  17. When a contact has been added or removed from a group, or when a group is changed the UpdatedDateUTC on the contact should also be change to reflect this.

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  18. There are currently endpoints for adding time logging to Xero, but not for interacting with the running timers.

    It would be really helpful to be able to do this, so that I (and others) could have external tools (in my case a StreamDeck) able to start and stop timers.

    I would also like to be able to request information on what the timer is currently on in order to get live feedback.

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  19. Once a quote has been ACCEPTED it would be very useful to then turn this into an Invoice via the API, as per the manual user task of pressing the "Create Invoice" in the Xero web portal.

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  20. I would love to be able to send a remittance advice via API. There are a couple of scenarios where this is would be useful:
    1. Monitoring the bank feed for reconciled payments and sending the Remittance ass appropriate
    2. Generating a payment file from a list of invoices that are being paid and sending the remittance as appropriate

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