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  1. be able to retrieve account transactions via the api.

    Provide an API to retrieve the transactions of an account. (e.g. something like this Profit & Loss report-> click on the YTD value of an account)

    More discussion in the thread https://community.xero.com/developer/discussion/326819/

    1,211 votes
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  2. Website URL in API feed

    Please include the Website URL in the API feed. Thanks.

    6 votes
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    4 comments  ·  Contacts  ·  Admin →
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  3. Return TrackingOptionId from GET BankTransactions

    TrackingCategories returns IDs for both categories and options as follows

    <TrackingCategory>
    <Name>My Category</Name>
    <Status>ACTIVE</Status>
    <TrackingCategoryID>a020cd2b-31ac-49a4-b459-f8ffbe854e7c</TrackingCategoryID>
    <Options>
    <Option>
    <TrackingOptionID>dc167d85-6c3a-4261-b7f9-4fda00c2e38d</TrackingOptionID>
    <Name>My Option</Name>
    </Option>

    GET BankTransactions with a bank transaction id specified returns both the category id and name, but only the option name (no id).

    <Tracking>
    <TrackingCategory>
    <Name>My Category Name</Name>
    <Option>My Option Name</Option>
    <TrackingCategoryID>23333b58-b938-479c-9bdd-5a599bec698c</TrackingCategoryID>
    </TrackingCategory>
    </Tracking>

    12 votes
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  4. allow ItemID to be specified when adding line items

    It seems to be possible to supply the ItemCode but not the ItemID. I guess the ID is unique for each item? It would be really great in my opinion if the API could be consistent and the ID field was always used to specify a join whenever you are creating or updating anything.

    Consider the following use case:

    A web app with integrations to xero to do all of the invoicing, and inventory price management. Contacts (users), orders (invoices) and products (items) are stored in the app, but also created in xero. The app then stores the xero id…

    17 votes
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  5. Expose internal unique identifiers in the API when retrieving reports

    Because we currently extract accounts through reports, we don't get the internal unique identifier and have to match on number and name. If the user re-names or re-numbers an account in Xero (and this is likely to happen to other entities) we lose the connection to the account stored in our system and the user potentially loses data.

    31 votes
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  6. add custom fields to contacts

    Ability to create or edit additional 'custom' fields to use for notes, additional phone numbers, job descriptions, etc.

    228 votes
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    26 comments  ·  Contacts  ·  Admin →
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  7. Validate only option for POST and PUT

    Currently when you POST or PUT, Xero will either accept or reject each of the entries. Provide an option to POST or PUT data (Invoices) and have the results returned WITHOUT actually updating any data. That would allow an All or Nothing approach to batch data submission.

    5 votes
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  8. allow sales unit prices to be to 3 decimal places - to avoid rounding errors

    when a supplier generated sales invoice is received it would be nice to be able to agree to their grant total

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  9. PDF's attached to purchase invoices have a URL link so that they can be used by 3rd party apps

    PDF Invoices that are attached in Xero have a URL that 3rd party apps can link to

    e.g a purchase invoice has an attachment which is thescanned copy of the invoice, we would like a url so we can link the pdf to a web app

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  10. Enter budgets via the API. Both historical and current.

    This would allow us to build tools to do bulk budget exports for multiple periods from our current system. (I think that budgets import might be coming through the user interface anyway, in which case this isn't really needed).

    156 votes
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    not planned  ·  15 comments  ·  Accounts  ·  Admin →
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  11. Partial payment feature for invoices coming through API

    Enable the ability to split payments on a bank rec coming through the API so we can reconcile merchant payments from two separate machines on 1 day. 1 invoice, 2 payments currently unable to split.

    2 votes
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  12. Allow rules to apply to invoices coming through the API (especially Vend)- So you can automatically add account codes, analysis codes etc.

    Rules to apply to invoices recived through the API - analyisis codes

    3 votes
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  13. Improve the format of responses for Report endpoints

    See http://answers.xero.com/developer/question/47411/ for more detail

    28 votes
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  14. Be able to retrieve & e-mail statements to receivable accounts via the API

    E-mailing updates to receivable accounts about their payments via the API would be very useful. Via the web interface, this is possible by sending a statement. API request is to be able to retrieve a statement report and email it via the API

    117 votes
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    not planned  ·  10 comments  ·  Accounts  ·  Admin →
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  15. Add a report - AgedPayables List - Balance @ Date . Same for AgedReceivables.

    To validate back against the balance sheet.

    68 votes
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  16. be able to specify and get all the bank account details fields for a contact

    59 votes
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  17. Add Foreign Currency Gains and Losses report to API

    27 votes
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  18. Allow the full UTF8 character set in Contact Names

    Names containing accented characters, eg: Nuñez, are rejected when uploading a new Contact.

    20 votes
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  19. Include Recursion Details in Invoice EndPoint

    3 votes
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  20. provide transactional support

    Allow for batch create/update/delete operations to multiple API endpoints within a single transaction.

    10 votes
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