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Add Purchase Order (PO) number to invoices
It would be useful to add PO number to invoices as a separate field.
At the moment we have to add it to the reference.
Large enterprise clients expect to see their PO number in the top right area of the invoice but it sometimes isn't clearly visible when we put it into the reference and then their procurement department rejects the invoice.
2 votesAs 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/
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allow use of the enter key to move through the fields when inputting data
Currently you have to tab across but when entering lots of numerical data it is much quicker to use enter on the number pad instead
2 votesAs 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/
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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 voteHi 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!
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Company wide integration
Hi I am setting up a new business and I wanted to ask on here the best way to setup the platform from the ground up for a single company wide visible business starting from the Xero base. Can I add salesforce CRM, Google documents etc. There are obviously really expensive ERP that do this but I am wondering if there is a way of doing this with cloud
1 voteHi Matthew
I will have to decline this posting as this forum is for developers to make feature requests for the developer API, so not the best place to ask.
It would be great if you posted your question in the Xero small business forum though: https://community.xero.com/business/topic/22/ – you will get some useful answers from others, and I will be happy to jump in and give some advice too.
Ronan
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Allow Bank Rules to Find & Match
I have lost of customers who make payments "on account" against one or more invoices. If these payments come into a bank account regularly and use the same reference (e'g a customer account number), a bank rule which sets the customer and allocates the whole payment to only that customer's invoices (e.g. against oldest invoice first, splitting if required) would speed things up no end. Much faster than me going through Find & Match every time.
1 voteThanks for your suggestion. This forum is for use for our developer API – any product requests such as this can be sent direct to customer care who track support and raise them with our product team.
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1 vote
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/
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1 vote
You have given us no information that could help us. If you have believe you are seeing an issue, I suggest you check our status page: http://blog.xero.com/developer/api-status/ – contact details there also should you need to report an issue that has not yet been reported.
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Cash Sale e-commerce
Where is the API for a cash sale? ie. a paid up in full sale made online e-commerce in realtime, do you have to raise an invoice against a customer called Cash Sale? NZ delivery addresses have GST inclusive, and Offshore addresses are GST zero rate. will the api look at the country field and do this for you?
1 voteThe best place to go for assistance is the Xero Answers for Developers site: http://answers.xero.com/developer/
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allow more flexibility for positioning of logos on invoicing template as currently you cannot centralise.
Traditional UK Invoices for small businesses would not look like the ones you can currently produce from your template. There is very little flexibility as to where the logo can be positioned and it does not allow other elements to balance. I do not have the expertise or ability to get someone elese to create a new docx template.
1 voteAs 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/
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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 voteThe 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.
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be able to attach supplemental documentation to outgoing invoices - not just PDFs, but excel files and jpgs
I have clients who, when they bill their clients, are required to submit spreadsheets, copies of documents etc WITH their invoice - many state and government jobs require this. It would be great if it could be done within Xero rather than go out to the "normal" email to send both the Xero invoice and the attached documents.
1 voteAs 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/
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Have integration with or an import function for Quotewerks
Create a partnership with or API for quotewerks to be able to import or synchronize invoices and purchase orders from quotewerks to xero and visaversa.
1 voteAs this forum is for developer API functionality requests and yours relates to something that Quotewerks would need to build. We have an API that will facilitate this.
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put print/email and other options buttons on the bottom of lists as well - convenience
If you go into invoices and tick a bunch to print, you have to scroll back to the top again to hit print. If you are doing individual invoices, this can be annoying and time could be saved simply if the buttons were on the bottom as well.
1 voteThanks for your suggestion. This forum is for use for our developer API – any product requests such as this can be sent direct to customer care who track support and raise them with our product team.
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how to use query string with url
i want to get all the invoices where name contains abc, i am using c# for integration, i have tried this
.ForUri(new Uri("https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0/Invoices?where=Name.Contains(abc)"))
this will trough an error bad request, how to do this correctly1 voteCode questions are best asked in our developer community: https://community.xero.com/developer/
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Allow ID to be specified for new records
This assists when syncing data from external systems or allowing data. For example if I were to sync my CRM's SystemUsers into Xero it would be very useful to share the same GUID on each side.
1 voteIt would not be possible to allow an external system to set a GUID within Xero, but there are options:
For contacts, you can specify a Contact number: http://blog.xero.com/developer/api/contacts/
And for Invoices, you can specify an Invoice number.
For both of these, you can then retrieve that entity from Xero without knowing the internal Xero GUID.
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Instant Search Box
In my previous software (WHMCS) there was a "Instant Search" fuction which you could type a Invoice Number, Quote Number, Credit Note, or even client name and it would bring up there details instantly if you press enter, or you could see a list of matching results (Like google instant search) and the click the one you want.
I Think this would be the icing on the cake for me, I LOVE Xero so much, this is the only function it is currently missing.1 voteAs 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 where there is already a thread for this: https://community.xero.com/business/discussion/55791/
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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 voteAs 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/
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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 voteAs 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/
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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 voteAs 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/
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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 voteAs 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/
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