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  1. Make Purchase Order contacts work the same as Invoice contacts

    Keeping with continuity, make a purchase order contact the same as a contact via an invoice or credit note, meaning the Xero API automatically matches them to the Name field or adds them if it can't find them.

    Currently we must upload an address book and then link the contact using the ContactID or ContactNumber for Purchase Orders.

    Why have one way of doing something, then another for something else?

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  2. Shortcut to PO's

    I would love to have as short cut straight to Purchase orders from the main dashboard. :-)

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  3. 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,…

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  4. Store application data against invoices, payments, credit notes, etc.

    Allow an extra field so that the application can store data with the invoice, credit note, purchase order, payment, etc.

    Other third party sites allow this in the form of an array, in Xero's case, this would be XML an data field or JSON data field.

    This will enable apps to quickly access data using their own pointers, or variables, etc.

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  5. When entering a bill, could there be an option included to repeat certain information on the next entry?

    This feature requests really applies to Bill entry. Is it possible to include a feature where there is an option to re-enter a new bill to the same supplier and where the date previously entered will automatically repeat? This would make data entry quite a bit quicker.

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  6. Can we have the old feature of the A-Z tabs at the top when searching for contacts?

    We used to have A-Z tabs on the top of the window to enable us to search for a contact. Could this feature be re-enabled as currently we cannot browse the contacts - we have to type in a name.

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  7. Should be able to retrieve and set Inventory Item status.

    Should be able to retrieve and set Inventory Item status, i.e. whether Active/Archived or deleted

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  8. I want to store custom value on invoice and get the set that custom file value using API

    Hi I want to create on extra filed on Invoice and want to access that extra custom field should api and want to get and set that value of custom field using api.

    Waiting for your reply thank in advance.

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  9. how can i send purchase order to xero via api in c#?

    I am using XeroApi.dll, v1.1.0.33 SDK for OAuth and send Invoices to Xero with same SDK. But i can't find purchase order endpoint to create it.

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  10. Add the ability to filter by Updated Date on Files API

    This should be similar to the Modified After parameter for invoice requests. The UpdatedDateUTC field is available int the body of the file response and users would like the ability to filter on this.

    This is in lieu of webhooks notifying users of the file API of changes, which is a separate requested feature.

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  11. XERO for your Business

    We at Rayvat Accounting have expertise working on XERO accounting software. We are partners with XERO and service many Australian clients on XERO.

    Rayvat Accounting provides quality XERO bookkeeping services to its clients on Xero. We are advisors on Xero Platform.

    See my work: http://www.rayvataccounting.com/work-methodology/xero-for-your-business/

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  12. 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…

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  13. 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

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  14. Manual Journals: Add Customer and Business unit to the API

    There is currently no wat to choose Customer or Business Unit on the line item in the Manual Journals, that I can see.

    I am using the c# api.

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  15. Add a URL field to the PurchaseOrder object to bring it in line with Invoice.

    Add a URL field to the PurchaseOrder object to bring it in line with Invoice.

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  16. have a method to Download/Export BACS payment file in API

    have a method to Download/Export BACS payment file in API

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  17. GET Organisation: expose 'edition' field

    It would be useful for us (and I'm assuming others) if you were able to find out which edition (Starter, Standard etc) of Xero an organisation was configured as

    https://community.xero.com/developer/question/37641416

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  18. Filter reconciliation to show only monies received

    When one is a bit behind on the reconciliations I think it would be useful to be able to filter the statement lines which need to be reconciled to show monies received only so that invoices can be quickly reconciled and overdue invoices sent off to clients. This would save trawling through pages of statement lines or searching payments in online banking then searching for that transaction among the reconciliation pages

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  19. Create Bank Transaction via API problem

    Hello. I use Xero API and I got the problem with bank transaction method.
    Does bank account should be "enablepaymentsto_account = true" for this or not?
    Thanks

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  20. Add 'does not contain' to the list of filter options in bank rules

    I have a group of transactions coming in through the bank where only one small part of the refence is common to them all - this I have used for a bank rule.

    However, there are other transactions including this small suffix which get accidently picked up from time to time - I would like to be able to exclude these from the bank rule to prevent accidental mispostings.

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