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  1. 162 votes
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  2. be able to get customer balances via the API

    for the purpose of knowing if a customer have overdue balances - so would need to return current balance and overdue amount.

    158 votes
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  3. Inventory items: additional fields

    There are a number of fields supported by inventory items within Xero, not yet exposed via the API:
    - Name
    - PurchaseDescription
    - Quantity on hand
    - Whether or not it should be 'tracked'
    (+ a bunch of others)

    This request is to track reading and creating / updating these fields via the API

    156 votes
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  4. 147 votes
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  5. PUT/POST tracking categories and options

    Be able to create tracking options via the API. Also when creating invoices via the API allow the creation of tracking options within Xero's existing tracking groups if they don't exist.

    134 votes
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  6. General Journal Improvements

    1) include transaction source and id to be able to link back to the source document of the journal eg AP/AR invoice etc 2) allow endpoint to be filtered by accounting date to be able to get just a certain period.

    129 votes
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    11 comments  ·  Journals  ·  Admin →
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  7. Fixed assets API

    Provide an API for the fixed assets module.

    128 votes
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    We’re pleased to announce that the Assets API has now been released: https://devblog.xero.com/assets-api-making-your-fixed-assets-restful-98f9eb42e2c5

    Please give it a try and let us know if you have any feedback. This is only the beginning for the Assets API so please add new user voice requests if there are any specific features you’re still after,

    The docs can be found here: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/assets-api/overview/

    Cheers,
    Adam

  8. A fully featured JSON API, with no XML requirements whatsoever.

    Title says it all, pure JSON, nothing else. All the same features as the XML one, but at a different endpoint.

    118 votes
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  9. 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 →
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    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

  10. be able to get approved invoices in PDF format via the API

    Be able to query Xero with an invoice number and get a PDF returned of the approved invoice

    108 votes
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  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 →
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  12. Single Sign on provider

    Allow users to sign into 3rd party applications using Xero as a single sign on provider (probably through OpenID).

    97 votes
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  13. Add read-only access to accounting numbers for use in other systems

    I have an internal system that handles all the other metrics for our business, but the financial data is missing.

    We could either hand-enter the necessary data or build some sort of import functionality, but it would be best to query Xero directly so I can use that data in my internal system.

    Thanks for listening!

    93 votes
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  14. Idempotent requests

    At the moment, its rather difficult to recover from a network interruption that happens when you send the request to Xero API, and you loose the connection before you receive the response from Xero. There is a fair number of reasons why this could happen at any time.
    In such a situation you really have no way of knowing if your request was even sent fully, or if it was received by Xero, nor what was Xero's response.

    This is not specific to Xero, as all APIs out there have this same problem, as its simply how the web works.

    87 votes
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  15. 76 votes
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  16. Allow adding Contacts to Contact Groups

    When you GET a Contact via the API you are returned the ContactGroups that they belong to. But if you try and update their ContactGroups with a PUT or POST the API will just ignore the ContactGroups XML element.

    It would be really useful for automating the organisation of Contacts, if you allowed us to update the ContactGroups for a Contact in a similar way that you can add LineItems to an Invoice.

    75 votes
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  17. 74 votes
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    10 comments  ·  Contacts  ·  Admin →
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  18. Add lineitemID to credit notes endpoint

    Adding a GUID to the credit note line items as used by the invoice line item would allow for more efficient retrieval of data .

    71 votes
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    completed  ·  10 comments  ·  Credit notes  ·  Admin →
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  19. Please provide response types in JSON

    Please considering providing response types in JSON as JSON is much easier to process in PHP. Please consider doing this but letting us append an extension to the URL, i.e.

    https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0/Accounts.json
    https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0/Accounts.xml
    https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0/Accounts (defaults to xml)

    This approach would let you support other response types too.

    69 votes
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  20. Adding payments to invoices via API

    Be able to record a payment on an AR invoice via the API. Specify the date , amount and which bank account the money is being paid to

    65 votes
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