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  1. I have spent the past couple of weeks building a pretty hefty integration for a client to integrate their Salesforce platform with Xero.

    I have now hit an issue as the client wants to specify a String field to be pushed as the reference... This was not an issue with the Invoices as we used the URL field to define what Salesforce record needs to be updated form the API response.

    This would be a very good thing for developers to have a specific "External Id" field so clients can do what they like and we have one for ourselves!

    5 votes

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  2. I believe it is possible to export a batch payment file for subsequent import into your internet banking solution. It would create efficiencies to build outward direct bank feeds to set up payments on Bills. Then make it available via the API to set due/ payment dates and create payment batches.

    11 votes

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  3. Hi, it would be great to be able to automatically import time logs from Clockify per client and create weekly invoices.

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  4. It seems to be possible to supply the ItemCode but not the ItemID. I guess the ID is unique for each item? It would be really great in my opinion if the API could be consistent and the ID field was always used to specify a join whenever you are creating or updating anything.

    Consider the following use case:

    A web app with integrations to xero to do all of the invoicing, and inventory price management. Contacts (users), orders (invoices) and products (items) are stored in the app, but also created in xero. The app then stores the xero…

    7 votes

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  5. I've been using HubDoc for a while now and genuinely love what it does such as fetching invoices, extracting data, keeping everything organized. But every time I try to build any kind of automation around it, I hit the same wall: there's no API.
    No webhooks. No HTTP endpoints. Nothing to hook into.
    Every other tool in my stack talks to something. Make, Zapier, QBO, even smaller niche tools have at least basic API access. HubDoc is the odd one out — and it's frustrating because it sits right in the middle of the workflow.

    What I'd love to see:

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  6. Create a partnership with or API for quotewerks to be able to import or synchronize invoices and purchase orders from quotewerks to xero and visaversa.

    2 votes

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  7. 1 vote

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  8. 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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  9. • Contacts/Project Dashboard - The Contacts page could be improved with a dashboard of all relevant data for that Contact such as the P&L for the client and their projects. I would also like to see a Statement feature detailing all invoices and payments in journal display i.e. account debits and credits, filtered either by Contact and/or Projects.

    • Sales Pipeline – A New Leads/Tenders/Quotes feature would allow the Sales team to add details for new clients and projects. Unsuccessful New Leads could be demoted to Old Bids which would keep the contact, bid and project details…

    2 votes

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  10. Be able to at least import expenses via the api so Xero may be properly integrated with other expese tracking systems.

    7 votes

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  11. I understand that you are using the Microsoft .NET JSON date format internally but would it be possible for you to return a more agnostic version of the date in a seperate field e.g. UpdatedDateUTCAlt?

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  12. Either expose the time start in project time entries or expose project reports.

    This is extremely important when trying to calculate overtime and also to review timings when doing payroll.

    I actually cannot believe it is not already exposed.

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  13. hi guys,

    if a BARCODE field was present in the item it would enable using a barcode scanner when pick and packing the Xero order/invocie.

    Also, most items / products these days have a unique standard barcode and this would enable greater integration between Xero and EDI (Electronic Integration between suppliers )

    1 vote

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  14. It is very important to add an API that would allow us to pull the reconciliation data in order to connect it to our customized platform where we can add more AI logic which will make reconciliation much faster and easier.
    We can pull all bills and invoices, and it would be great if we can integrate the reconciliation of Xero in order. this way our developers can implement the logic that works for our business

    6 votes

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  15. Suppose, I have more than 500 companies to manage and each one uses different integrations eg: routable, adp, toast, square etc. How can I see which company is associated with how many integrations. I want to have a report or api that can provide me that information.

    Otherwise, there might be a possibility that for example: "Company A" in Xero might accidently or by human error be connected to "Company C" in routable instead of "Company A". Having some kind of metric can help in auditing/correcting such things else it could be a recipe for disaster.

    1 vote

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  16. Javelin CRM is a create CRM tool www.javelincrm.co.uk

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  17. Problem:

    The Xero phone number field only supports 13 characters in New Zealand and the UK. We have build an integration between Xero and BambooHR that is used by mutual companies in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. It has become a global necessity to keep mobile phone numbers with a country prefix. 13 characters, your current Xero limit, is not long enough and needs to be lengthened.

    Solution:

    We propose that Xero allows 20 characters in this field as BambooHR and many other companies now do.

    Benefit:

    Happy mutual customers who can data entry effectively important communication numbers.…

    1 vote

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  18. HSBC is the only bank that allows us to have bank accounts in multiple countries without needing to register a company in multiple countries. This feature is much better than just having a multi currency account as it reduces cheque clearing time by up to 90 days, and is possibly something that your other customers might be interested in if they are dealing in multi currency. My laziness requests auto statement downloads please for all types of accounts.

    2 votes

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  19. 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…

    8 votes

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  20. Currently the URL elements of various Xero resources appear to reject URLs that do not fit the http or https scheme. It would be very helpful if this barrier was removed.

    Both OS X and iOS are seeing an explosion of applications that implement custom URL schemes as a way to hook or callback. https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/iPhone/Conceptual/iPhoneOSProgrammingGuide/Inter-AppCommunication/Inter-AppCommunication.html

    My personal use case is a custom built warehouse management system. Our established application is hosted on premises, with client runtimes on OS X and iOS. We're integrating as a private app to Xero and will be pushing in contacts, payables and sales. All of…

    3 votes

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