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  1. Provide endpoint for BAS signing link

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  2. It would be useful when processing transfers, and when searching for specific transactions for corrections, if you could view say two different bank accounts side by side on the same tab.

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  3. Allow us to have our invoices from Xero "sent by the xero network" so they automatically load into draft bills.

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  4. Make API endpoints for Activity Statement, Payroll Activity Summary and BAS Advisor report.

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  5. Per the documentation for Profit & Loss periods, the only way to always get a full month of data for previous periods is to start in a month with 31 days.

    Given we have a 30 June year end this is a pretty annoying workaround.

    The confusing thing is that setting up the Balance Sheet in a month with 30 days doesn't result in this issue and prior periods will automatically show the 31st day where applicable.

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  6. In the organisations settings API, it does not send through the PAYGW period for Australian entities. In our app, the user currently has to manually choose this in our app, whereas it could be automatic if it was added to the API.

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  7. Some lines in the balance sheet report are the result of formulas e.g. Net Assets. The formulas are included in the Excel export but not the API response

    Include the formulas in the API response so that the same functionality can be replicated

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  8. The current Clients get list end point has as a parameter to bring the last records have been modified. The new paginated clients, cannot be filtered by the same parameter. So I cannot bring only the records that have been modified

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  9. As a user of the API, I want to be able to update the status of an invoice without sending all of the line items along in the payload.

    Currently, if I'm updating an invoice's status via the API I need to explicitly send the line items along with the request. If I do not send the line items, Xero deletes and recreates all of the line items even though they're not pertinent to the action (not updating line items, amounts, etc.).

    This causes particular issues with inventory decimal precision. Every request needs to send the unitdp if you want…

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  10. Currently, the Journals API returns multiple lines due to Xero's audit trail and change tracking, which is understandable for compliance purposes. However, it would be incredibly helpful if there were a way to programmatically identify and retrieve only the latest active version of a journal entry. This would streamline integrations and reduce the need for additional filtering logic on the client side. A flag or endpoint for "latest active journal" would be a great enhancement!

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  11. In US Xero we would like invoices to go into Xero with the "Auto Tax" element switched on - by default they go in as "Manual Tax".

    We have looked at the Invoice endpoint on the Accounting API and can't see a way to do this, but did notice a Type for Auto Tax, but this is only available for GET (not POST).

    We need to make use of this feature with POST, even if it's only the high level "Auto tax" setting of Manual/Auto (we are happy for the From and To to be populated based on existing data).

    12 votes

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  12. We would need an endpoint to update the Bill Payment object created. Our use case is to update reference number for the existing bill payment.

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  13. Working for an organization currently migrating from MYOB to Xero - their decision.

    Replicating existing custom application is problematic due to apparent glaring deficiencies in the Xero API compared to MYOB, despite Xero's age advantage.

    An example is MYOB's Account Activity Summary End-Point - called AccountRegister - which lists activity by account by month.

    This end-point allows for a fast and simple process to compare Budget values to Actual values, without being forced to trawl through all the transactions, and all of the issues that can cause that to be incorrect.

    It seems inconceivable that such a basic end-point is…

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  14. Allow Client Custom fields to be retrieved with the GET Client API instead of requiring a separate call for each client. In addition to the detailed=true parameter, another parameter like customfields=true to bring all the values into a separate field as a json that can be unpacked.

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  15. Add ability to view and update customer finical details
    - Credit limits.
    - Credit Terms (Invoice due date).
    - Outstanding balances (possibly read only).
    - Discount.

    This will allow among other for 3rd part vetting process of customer onboarding to be seamlessly integrated.

    2 votes

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  16. 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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  17. Our customers need to be analyse Quotes and Invoices and link both with each other. Unfortunately, while you can create a sales invoice from a quote, there is no linking identifier between the two.

    It would be good to include the InvoiceID in the Quotes to know which invoice was create from the quote. If a quote can be invoiced multiple times, it would be good for this to be an Invoices collection.

    It would also be good to include the QuoteID in the Invoices endpoint to know this invoice originated from a quote and which.

    2 votes

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  18. We need to be able to fetch bulk, paginated History and Notes via the API. Now it only has the ability to fetch records for single invoice. It will be great if we are performing one time ETL and we are getting the time out 429 status in error and rate limiting issue.

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  19. I'd like to build an automation to enter various comments (of my choosing) in the discuss tab in Xero depending upon what the AI finds in the transaction. The current APIs don't allow for comments to be entered in the discuss tab in Xero.

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  20. With the introduction of the MANDATORY OPTIMISED FILTERS, some Xero customers that raise many ManualJournals can no longer access them via the API because the DATE field is not included as an optimised filter.

    It's imperitive to be able to filter all transactions by date.

    As such, all endpoints should have DATE field optimised.

    This ensures we can do things like the follow snippet to pull a single month of data without it putting strain on the xero servers.

    ?where=(date >= DateTime(2025,02,01) and Date <= DateTime(2025,02,28))&page=1

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