I get why you can't do this, but it sucks. It's crazy that it's 13 years later and there isn't a better solution.

For others coming here, Xero's problem is that they are dependent on getting bank data from 3rd party data sources (typically not the bank themselves, someone like Yodlee or Plaid), and those contracts disallow allowing access to the data via API. Logically, this makes sense from the 3rd party's point of view. They make their money by selling access to the data. If they allow Xero to share this data via API, then someone could set up a Xero account, set up multiple feeds (say, for their own customers), then use the API to access the data without paying the 3rd party. It seems to me there should be a way around this though - something in the Xero user contract that says you won't do this blah blah.

+1, Xero Team, what are you waiting for ?

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13 years later still can't do this, what a f*ckin embarassment for the xero team. Overpriced crap compared to other products now.

+1

It's very disappointing that this can't be fast tracked/prioritised when there are so many people here that share the same frustrations. It's either costing us money or time to find workarounds

+1 its ridiculous a) that you dont have the API b) that you don't offer the functionality since 2018 to automatically reconcile bulk payments.
In our case we are a small business that has to spend £250 per month to have someone doing the reconciliation. Xero is great Since 20218 you havent heard your clients or resolved this!!!

I would like to +1 this feature.

I am trying to automate my book keeping as much as possible. My use-case is chasing stakeholders for invoices which we have payments for but no linked Invoice.

I would like to send them a Slack message with the invoice request, the user would then add the invoice via Slack and it would add it to xero and link it to this payment.

Xero is excellent in almost all ways but this is a potential showstopper and we are trying to find a replacement that autoreconciles straightforward transactions. Our bookkeepers currently get paid for hours of time every month just sitting in front of a screen pressing the OK button like idiots. Completely unacceptable in today's world. If you are not permitted to do auto-reconciliation via the API, then just implement it yourselves within the app. An easy project that could be done within a few weeks. No risk if you optionally only allow exact matches on reference or put in other such limitations. If you don't do it, your competitors will and Xero will be no more.

+1 our use case is very simple. Approx 400 transactions per day are paid into bank via Worldpay or PayPal. These transactions have a reference number that matches the invoice in Xero.

In the reconciling view most go green anyway because of a value match (values vary a lot but there can be incorrect matches).

We simply need to query unreconciled transactions and match each against the correct invoice. The days all exists in Xero at this point. Even connecting to open banking won't help is there is no API function to finish the job.

Not so much "open banking" when you are prevented from accessing your own transaction data because of intermediation. Xero needs to renegotiate these restrictions with Basiq, or start bypassing and going direct on behalf of your customers.

+1 following (can't vote as suggested here: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/accounting/bankstatements due to "Idea has been closed"

1000+ We have verbatim the same requirement as mentioned by James Sefton.
"We would like to be able to simply query if there are unreconciled transactions pending or not. Part of our integration issues late payment charges to clients and letters regarding late payments. We would very much like to do an API call to check that all transactions are reconciled before this automated action takes place. In our case, you do not need to divulge any information at all. A simple true or false for if reconciliation is up to date would be perfect for our use case."

When are we opening this card please? It's vital in this time and age that we automate tasks like this.

I don't understand why it would affect your partners. All the bank statements in Xero more or less follow the same format whether it's HSBC, PayPal, Revolut etc.
I woud like the ability to automatically reconcile the ones I know that can be. eg. a description containing PayPal should go to my PayPal GBP account. If there's an inter currency exchange between accounts, transfer those automatically. If I had an API for statements I could do this

+1000

I want to be able to perform more automated reconciliations, and leave transactions to the Xero UI for human handling. This is a real blocker and the biggest limitation in Xero IMO.

+1000

+1. We would like to be able to simply query if there are unreconciled transactions pending or not. Part of our integration issues late payment charges to clients and letters regarding late payments. We would very much like to do an API call to check that all transactions are reconciled before this automated action takes place. In our case, you do not need to divulge any information at all. A simple true or false for if reconciliation is up to date would be perfect for our use case.

+1 this is absolutely essential for any sort of bank reconciliation automation, major blocker for us

+1 a lot of reconciliation is no brainer type stuff having a human manually click it really unnecessary and besides the humans get it wrong sometimes anyways - a lot of reconciliation could be easily automated with just a few edge cases remaining which jeeds a human intervention - across all the organisations you have literally lifetimes of people clicking mouse buttons endlessly

I understand about the limitations of the api etc

but seems like there must be an answer to this - the data we newd is already within the platform and you have permission for that we really just need to be able to create rules and execute them automatically

what about a kind of private api that could only operate within the platform and could not send or receive any other data?