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  1. Align front-end and api behaviour to list Customers

    Following changes to the front-end of Xero there is now a difference between that and the api when selecting a list of Customers.

    Original Behaviour - shown on the API:
    All contacts start off as neither customer nor supplier. Once an invoice, bill or credit note is raised the isSupplier or isCustomer field is updated accordingly. The contact retains this status.

    New front-end behaviour:
    We look to see if any invoices or bills have been raised and categorise the contact accordingly.

    We have a client who has an Accounts Receivable Credit Note posted to it so appears as a Customer…

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  2. Support payment of non-base-currency bill from non-base-currency account

    Currently you can only create a payment for bill if

    1. the bill or the bank account is the same as the organisation base currency, or
    2. the bill and the bank account is the same currency.

    Please add support for the case where the bill and bank account have different currencies, neither of which is the organisation base currency.

    I get the following validation error through the API when attempting this:
    "The invoice, payment and organisation base currencies are all different. Xero cannot currently handle a 3-currency transaction."

    Related: https://central.xero.com/s/question/0D51N00004Xp9THSAZ/xero-wont-let-me-reconcile-two-payments-in-different-currencies

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  3. Posting Bank Transaction attachments should produce helpful error for DELETED transactions

    Right now it results in an opaque 500 error, which required me to reach to support.

    For example:
    ```
    POST https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0/BankTransactions/<transaction>/Attachments/kitten.png
    Accept: text/xml
    Content-Type: image/png
    Authorization: Bearer ...
    xero-tenant-id: <..>

    < /kitten.png
    ```

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  4. Need client code extra field in organization API call

    I am reaching out for assistance regarding a client code-related query. Could you please guide us on where to capture this information from the response? If the client code is not provided in the Xero GET Organisation API response, could you also advise on the appropriate steps to request the Xero team to add this property to our response? Your assistance in providing information on the client code is greatly appreciated.

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  5. Get list of attachment details by array of invoice IDs

    Currently to get an invoice attachment you need to make a call to the attachment endpiont for a specific entity id, then you need to make a call to the download end point for each found attachment.

    We need an efficient way to be notified of weather there is an attachment or not, othewise we will quickly hit our api quote just looking up attachments on invoices.

    Would be great if we could request all attachment details objects for an array of invoices to reduce the number of calls we need to make in order to find attachment details for…

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  6. Adding first attachment or removing last attachment to an invoice should trigger the invoice webhook

    Currently if you add an attachment to the invoice where none existed before, the invoice webhook is not fired, even though invoice.hasAttachments is changed to be true.

    Same for if you remove the last attachment on an invoice, this should trigger the invoice webhook as the hasAttachments is now false.

    Currently to get an invoice attachment you need to make a call to the attachment endpiont for a specific entity id, then you need to make a call to the download end point for each found attachment.

    We need an efficient way to be notified of weather there is an…

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  7. Include the notes area of Invoices in the Invoices Endpoint. I have many clients that want to track who created invoices for sales tracking.

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  8. Provide the OpenDate and ClosedDate in the Projects endpoint

    The Projects endpoint of the Xero Projects API does not include the OpenDate and ClosedDate as fields.

    These are useful for users to report with and should be included.

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  9. Pay Items API - allow access to the 'Display Name' field

    It would be great to be able to read the Display Name of the Pay Item.
    Also to be able to set the Display Name when creating a new Pay Item.

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  10. Include the AccountID field for PurchaseOrders and Quotes

    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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  11. Practice Manager - Job priority update via API

    Include priority as a field in job GET response.

    Include the ability to update the job priority.

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  12. "Bank Name"

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

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  13. Add Disposal Date to fixed assets in the API!

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

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  14. Be able to get receipts pdf through API

    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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  15. Calculate any lump sum payments you may receive within the NHS.

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

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  16. Reconciliation search box to allow multiple search words separated by commas

    Many people want the bank reconciliation api feature but since Xero wont do that, here are 2 ideas for helping some people reconcile invoices

    1. Allow multiple search words in the search box
      We have clients who pay 50+ invoices all in one batch. They give us a statement in pdf and csv but we have no way to enter that into the xero search except for 1 at a time. Allow us to make a list of invoice ids as a comma separated string and copy paste that into the search box

    2. Next to the search box, add an upload…

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  17. Chart of accounts via API - bank accounts

    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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  18. Set default branding theme ID on Contact POST

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

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  19. Show TrackingOptionID in LineItem in Invoices API (and other endpoints)

    The Invoices endpoint in particular (and many others in general), do not include the TrackingOptionID in the data set. Instead, they generally provide only the Name, Option and TrackingCategoryID.

    It is really important for being able to use "joins" on the data to incl;ude the TrackingOptionID .

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  20. API access to product attachments

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

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