It's just bizarre that a Status field isn't returned for Items via API. It's near impossible to filter out inactive Items that I don't wish to see.

I also don't understand how, on the Xero web app, any deleted / void Invoices, Bills etc don't show by default, and you have to tick a box to say that you want to see void items. Yet the Inventory screen shows inactive items in the list of active, and there's no way to hide them. IMO the Inventory screen should follow the same consistency as the other sections, and not show them unless you tick a box and search.

Please can we have this feature. It is a nonsense that key data like this just isnt available via the API, and the "under review" and the official statement from Adam are now a year old

Any updated timeline on this?

Limiting Inventory Items in ApprovalMax to Active Items
We have a number of Tracked Inventory Items which have been made inactive as they have been replaced with Untracked Inventory Items. While they are not available from the drop-down in the Item field in Xero, they still remain in ApprovalMax. I contacted ApprovalMax re this and they advised that "due to a bug in Xero API we cannot filter active items from archived", and recommended that we contact Xero and request that this bug be fixed.

I can see that enabling write on this flag via the API may be more complex and need more testing, but surely at least exposing it's value for read-only purposes would be trivial and require minimal testing!!

Agree with all comments below. Should be very easy to do (do you guys hire interns over the summer break??) and will have a big benefit to everyone needing this feature. Please give us an update.

Any update on this small feature. We do not want to display inactive items to our customers for selection within invoices. Thanks.

Also require this for our project

Still waiting for this attribute to be available. It is very important!

This would seem like a really easy addition to make, at least in the simple case of showing the status.

I don't understand why such an important field is not available.

This is a must and so important. please and thank you.

If an inventory item is in use, the delete function is not permitted. In the UI the inactivate function is recommended. Please expose this in the API.