Accounting API
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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
69 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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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.
28 votesThere are no current plans to develop an API for Xero Workpapers, but please add your vote and a comment on potential use cases if this is something you are interested in seeing.
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provide transactional support
Allow for batch create/update/delete operations to multiple API endpoints within a single transaction.
10 votesThis is a cool idea. Unfortunately at the moment, it would be very difficult to implement and test, but keep your votes coming and we will see what we can do in future.
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