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  1. Be able to email approved invoices via the API

    1,548 votes
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    109 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →
    completed  ·  AdminXero Developer Platform (CEO / Founder, Xero Developer Centre) responded

    Hi everyone,

    The functionality to send sales invoices via email is now open to all apps.

    Check out the docs here: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/invoices#email

    There’s more functionality we could add around emailing but I’m going to close this request. Please feel free to create new specific requests for any additional email functionality you’d like to see going forward.

    Cheers,
    Adam

  2. Repeating invoices via the API

    Be able to create and manage repeating invoices (http://help.xero.com/#Accounts_RepeatingInvoice) via the API.

    1,104 votes
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    153 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →

  3. History & Notes

    Expose invoice History & Notes through the API

    574 votes
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    55 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →

  4. Expose the Online invoicing URL via the Xero API

    Xero has recently released online invoicing functionality within the main application (http://help.xero.com/#OnlineInvoices).

    Be able to retrieve the online invoicing URL via the Xero API.

    Note that this URL is only generated when the invoice is emailed within the Xero application. Exposing this field will be of limited value until further work is done to be able to email an invoice from Xero via the API (but that is a separate issue).

    462 votes
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  5. Be able to approve and send invoices via the API

    Have optional parameters when creating invoices via the API to approve invoices and send then immediately to the contact email address

    456 votes
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    49 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →
    completed  ·  AdminXero Developer Platform (CEO / Founder, Xero Developer Centre) responded

    You can now approve invoices via the API . See our latest release notes for more details – http://blog.xero.com/developer/v2-release-notes/

    At this stage the scope of this work is limited to allowing you to enter approved invoices and not trigger the sending of invoices via email. You can vote on that request here – http://xero.uservoice.com/forums/5528-xero-api/suggestions/1930769-be-able-to-email-approved-invoices-via-the-api

  6. allow notes in invoice output

    there are some situations where it's useful to add a note to an invoice that's include in the invoice PDF. e.g a message about the reverse charge VAT treatment for EC customers. I would guess there's more exceptions like this where a note would be useful.

    394 votes
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    17 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →

  7. Allow reverting allocations for Credit Notes and Overpayments via API

    This functionality is missing from API and available only via front end. We have almost finished implementation of Store Credits via Credit Notes and Overpayments, but luck of this functionality makes entire sync process very cumbersome.

    386 votes
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    23 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →

  8. Apply discounts to line items

    The main Xero application now allows the application of a discount on a line item. While discounts on line items can be retrieved via the API (GET) it is not possible to create a discount via the API (PUT/POST). Add your votes here if this is something you would like to see.

    264 votes
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    40 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →

  9. API Overpayments & Prepayments

    See the latest comments on this below

    225 votes
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    30 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →

  10. Allow attachments of PDF on payable invoices

    Store supplier invoices with the invoice transaction in xero. Doubles as a storage system and makes retrieval much easier. Worth paying the upper price plan for

    118 votes
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    14 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →
    completed  ·  AdminXero Developer Platform (CEO / Founder, Xero Developer Centre) responded

    We have released the ability to attach files to AP invoices today: http://blog.xero.com/developer/v2-release-notes/

    There have been some comments about adding attachments to other documents in Xero. For now, only receipts and AP invoices are supported as in the main application, but any changes to this in the main application, we will work to reflect in the API.

    Any questions about using the attachment functionality, feel free to ask a question in our forum: https://community.xero.com/developer/

    Thanks

    Ronan

  11. Credit Notes: apply as invoice payment & refund

    At the moment, you can create a credit note via the API but you cannot:
    - Apply the credit note as a payment to an invoice
    - Apply a payment to the credit note (thus refunding the customer)

    100 votes
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    18 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →

  12. Accept fractions of a cent in UnitAmount

    The majority of our invoices are for many hundred thousands of units, each of which cost something like USD$0.00015.

    The API currently rounds this LineAmount to 0.00 then complains that my total doesn't equal the sum of the lines.

    56 votes
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  13. allow Invoices to show line items

    Currently you can only retrieve line items by specifying a single invoice. Please make the functionality similar to the journals and allow the data to be paged using an offset of some sort.

    50 votes
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  14. Allow Batch Deposits through the API

    I would like to create batch deposits though the API. These show up as Payments:multiple in the account transactions. Currently the API even strips out BankTransactions when you try to view one of these via the BankTransactionID.

    46 votes
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  15. Expose the expected payment date on the Invoices endpoint

    38 votes
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  16. Ability to change ExpectedPaymentDate on invoice within lock period

    The web UI allows us to change the expected date on an AUTHORISED invoice that is issued before the period lock date. The API however does not allow this, and fails with warning about editing invoice in lock period.

    Contacting Xero support, I got this message: "With the web interface, there is a script that limit fields that can or cannot edited when lock date is used. Unfortunately the API does not have that ability so currently it is all or nothing. So to edit the invoice, the lock date has to be removed first. We don't have any immediate…

    36 votes
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  17. Mark invoice sent via API

    Add the ability to mark invoices as sent via the API.

    31 votes
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  18. GET Invoices & GET CreditNotes need more detail of credit notes

    GET invoices currently only shows AmountCredited but not the specific detail. GET CreditNotes doesn't show which invoice the credit was applied to

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    3 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →

  19. update tracking category for PAID invoice via api

    Since the operator has the ability to update any PAID invoice's tracking category and account code for any line items, then it should be also doable via API.

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    completed  ·  4 comments  ·  Invoices  ·  Admin →

  20. Enable an Attachment for Accounts Receivable (invoices to be sent)

    Attachments (one actually) are permitted for Receipts and Accounts Payable. They would also be very useful for Accounts Receivable (invoices to be sent to customers).

    Common attachments to be emailed with the Invoice are timesheets, quotes, and copies of acceptance certificates.

    Attachments help getting the customer to approve an invoice, in turn helping to get the cash back faster.

    17 votes
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