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Notify URL When Stuff Changes in Xero - Webhooks

I'm requesting "web hooks" for the Xero API.

Here's how they work: Customer provides a URL (http://myserver.com/xero/changed) to Xero, and when something is changed, Xero notifies that URL, perhaps indicating which records have changed.

The Xero API provides methods that you can query and compare with previous results to see what has changed. However, this is not performant for large data sets, and detecting changes involves a lot of code.

The competition has it - web hooks are supported by QuickBooks. Let's get them in Xero - it's a superior product in every other way.

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pdelaurentis shared this idea  ·   ·  Report…  ·  Admin →
completed  ·  AdminXero Developer Platform (CEO / Founder, Xero Developer Centre) responded  · 

We’re happy to announce that the invoice webhooks work has been completed! We now support both invoice and contact events.
We know there are lots of other events in Xero that would be useful to you as webhooks. To help us prioritise which ones to focus on next, please create separate suggestions and vote on the ones you’d like to see us implement.

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  • Katherine Curtis commented  ·   ·  Report

    Checking in to see how this is going. This is a feature we are really looking forward to.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    any news to share on this? Web hooks coming or not??

  • Federico commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hello! Are there any news on this feature? Thanks.

  • Tika commented  ·   ·  Report

    As a partner app, the webhooks and filtered events of interest should be setup on the 3rd party app registration like in Quickbooks so we don't need provide to customers with instructions to configure the webhooks we need!

  • Dianne commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi, it would be so helpful to change your api so we can sync both ways from Xero to timely.

  • Tim commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'd love webhooks to help keep me informed on changes. I'm not a customer but am considering my options for my SME.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Could you please narrow down 'extremely close' to AWS and a projected pathway timeline?
    Are we talking end 2016? end 2017? to have web hooks in place.

  • Johnny O commented  ·   ·  Report

    Looking forward to Webhooks. It can't come soon enough. :-)

  • Ani commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hi there it would make so much easier if you guys can change your api so we can sync both ways from Xero to timely
    It would save time and money
    Please create this option

  • Gaëlle commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hu zapier go notifications from xero changes ! That's mean a ray of hope for us ?

  • David commented  ·   ·  Report

    @ Xero - Any news on this?

  • Isaac commented  ·   ·  Report

    Come on guys! You can do it!

  • Jesse Archer commented  ·   ·  Report

    Any news on this? Can we expect webhooks this year?

  • Wilson McCoubrey commented  ·   ·  Report

    I would LOVE to see webhooks implemented. For us personally, this would take a lot of pressure off the API quota and be much more efficient. All we need is a notification of when an invoice and/or its line items changes.

    Will we see this feature in 2016?

  • Ken commented  ·   ·  Report

    I'd like to second this BIG TIME. We use Slack to coordinate all kinds of things, and getting various notifications out of Xero via Webhooks would be revolutionary because we live inside Slack. This is becoming a "get with the times" requirement.

  • Eliot Slevin commented  ·   ·  Report

    Hey everybody,

    I work for Hoist.io, which is an integration platform to make dealing with apis much easier. With a few previous Xero employees in the team, it’s no surprise that over the last five years we’ve worked with the Xero API extensively, and we've been wanting webhooks just as much as everybody else.

    That’s why we’re excited to announce our Xero Connector. Now any developer can subscribe to events from their own Xero accounts, or their users accounts. Never poll for new or updated data again! We're currently open for early access, if you're interested we'd love to talk to you

    http://hoist.io/xero-webhooks

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