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Expose everything via the API
Everything visible in the web interface should be exposed via the API. In fact ideally the web interface itself would be a client of the API, which would ensure that all useful technology is exposed.
223 votesWe’re closing this request out and asking that developers suggest or vote for the specific features you’re after as it’s easier to get feedback to you on each request this way and also free up your votes. I’d like to reassure you we’re committed to offering the best API we can.
Tony Rule
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Allow third party apps to plug into the Xero interface
If the Xero interface could be configured to display data from and interact with the apps third party developers are creating similar to the way Facebook applications work inside their platform
34 votesIt is certainly a nice idea in a lot of ways, and Jesse’s use case example is good one.
On the other side, allowing 3rd party applications plug into the core Xero application present some quite major security implications. The data we hold on behalf of our customers is considered highly sensitive by us and we ensure we have bank level security across all aspects of our application.
Second to that, we are a design lead and focused company – we want our software to be really easy to use and remain simple and intuitive, so allowing 3rd parties to introduce interface elements into Xero would be something we would need to carefully plan for.
With this in mind, it would be quite an onerous task for us to implement a secure framework that would allow 3rd party applications to interface within Xero, in a sensible way that does not…
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Automatic credit card billing for recurring invoices
You currently allow invoices to be paid using credit card (DPS, PayPal etc).
If it's a recurring invoice (particularly if it's monthly) it'd be great if the client could opt to be billed automatically by credit card.
23 votesHi everyone,
This seems like a general Xero feature request rather than something for the developer API. As such we are declining this thread.
The good news is that development of this feature is in progress. Get all the updates from the Xero Business Community page https://community.xero.com/business/discussion/3573905#answer76925420
Cheers.
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Create a payment and mark "Pay by Check" via API
When paying a Bill in Xero you can check a box "Pay by Check". This will add a new "check" to the list of checks and the user can print these checks and mail them.
Would be helpful to allow this via the Payment API endpoint
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Implement support for the reference field in the new Overpayment and Prepayment Endpoints
The addition of Overpayment and Prepayment endpoints, for us is still not functional with the addition of the reference field in these. Without this there is no robust way to save a prepayment at one point in time, then be able to look this prepayment up later to be used for allocation purposes.
Same problem for Overpayments.
Hope this can be added very soon as we are looking forward to the XERO api having proper Prepayment support.
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Let an API link Xero bank rules to Excel, for big time savings
If this only let us export, import, create and delete, it would quickly give big time savings, avoid many errors and encourage better rule coding. However, its value will grow exponentially as we use the combined rules, of many clients, to copy rules between them and new clients. This could soon give all Xero users local and national Excel rule libraries. Their rules could reference rule creators, both for support and to encourage library contributions. The reputation of the rule creator, forum comments on each rule and the Likes (votes) of users will encourage much wider sharing of much better…
15 votesThe API is not suited to this purpose, this would need to be built in the main application in order for users to import/export. It could be exposed via the API also later on, but for now, the best place to show support for this functionality is in our community forum: https://community.xero.com/business/discussion/65371/
This forum is specifically for developer API functionality (exposing existing Xero functions through the API).
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API to set exchange rates
Create and API entry point to set default exchange rates, just like we do on the Settings page.
Rational: here in Poland, we're obliged to use the Polish Central Bank exchange rates on accounting. Having an API for it makes it possible for us the call it once everyday to set the rate for the next day. Without this we're not able to use Xero officially for bookkeeping. (we have to setup the rates for this whole calendar year!)
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Support compression in API request / response
It would be great to support compression e.g. gzip for API response payloads. Currently including the Accept-Encoding header within requests does not result in any resource size reduction.
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Xero Workpapers API
Xero now has an integrated Workpapers application (http://www.xero.com/workpapers). This is a placeholder to track requests and potential use cases so we can evaluate development of this feature.
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Exposing organization's timezone in ISO 8601 format
Currently Xero API exposes the timezone via Organisation endpoint as text eg. <Timezone>NEWZEALANDSTANDARDTIME</Timezone>
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Provide CreatedDateUTC
Provide CreatedDateUTC element so invoices, manual journals etc can be filtered using the new element in similar way like UpdatedDateUTC
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Add a payment gateway such as sagepay so that payments for invoices can be taken via Xero
It would be nice to beable to take a payment over the phone using a virtual terminal from within Xero.
Adding a take payment now button when an invoice is approved and adding a payment gateway such as sagepay for this would be very useful.
8 votesFor developers looking to integrate a payment system themselves (including SagePay) they can do so using this guide we have provided: http://developer.xero.com/documentation/api-guides/payment-services-integration-with-xero/
While providing an integration to SagePay as part of our payment services feature in Xero is not currently on the roadmap, you can raise and vote on a feature request for it in our Xero community: https://community.xero.com/business/topic/23/
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Sandbox Xero Accounts
We develop custom solutions/integrations for clients using Xero. One of the biggest issues we have is that if we develop an App for a Client; we connect their Xero account to the Production version of the App. However, once we do that, we don't have a TEST environment in Xero to test changes end-to-end.
It would be great to have a Sandbox account / test account that could be used to test like-for-like on Staging vs Production.
(ie for payments, we have a test payment gateway and a live payment gateway)
This would help to ensure we can test changes…
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Assign Linked Transactions to Projects via the API
Using Projects would be a great solution for my company, but without the ability to assign billable expenses to Projects via the API, they are not useful to us.
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Taxable payments report lodgement through Xero Tax
Recently lodgement of payment summaries through Xero Tax became available. You can also manually create these instead of handwriting the ATO forms which has been fantastic so far for our firm. It would be much appreciated if this was also done for the annual taxable payments report for the building and construction industry for tax clients who do not use Xero software.
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Ability to charge a merchant fee surcharge for payment via Eway
I would like to be able to add an additional 1.5% surcharge when people pay via credit card (eway)
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Be able to filter by items inside a list. e.g. Filter invoices by Line Item's Tracking Category
Be able to filter by fields inside an object which has lists. Such as Invoice's Line Items.
These fields contain important information such as tracking category, amounts, totals which would be a good functionality if one is able to filter using these information so to create more detailed reports6 votes -
Update Bank Transaction created by Bank Transfer
When you create a bank transfer, two bank transactions are created one on each bank account. There is no way to edit or reconcile the bank transactions that are created via the API. I would like the ability to do that.
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provide transactional support
Allow for batch create/update/delete operations to multiple API endpoints within a single transaction.
5 votesPublic API PM
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... make transaction data available via the API
It appears that there are two key things missing from the current version of the Xero API:
The Tables part of the API does not currently have a connection to the Nominal Ledger (Account) Transactions
The Reports part of the API connects to several of the standard reports, but doesn’t connect to the Account Transactions report.
Either of these would allow a full list of transactions to be accessed via the API.
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