Hi everyone,

The emailing invoices beta is going really well and we’d love to get a few more apps involved before making it generally available.

If you’re keen to add email functionality to your app please send your application name through to us at api@xero.com and we’ll get you involved.

Thanks,
Adam

We are progressing to deliver this feature in the New Year but before we open it to the broad audience, few beta users will get the chance to check this out and feedback.

We know that all of you are excited but spots are limited so please send your interest to api@xero.com if you want to be part of beta and we will invite the selected uses to participate.

Hi everyone,

Work on a new endpoint to send invoices via the API has now begun. We expect to be shipping early in the new year.

Thanks for your feedback and patience everyone.

Cheers,
Adam

- Update September 2016 -
Thanks everyone for continuing to add their votes and comments to this feature.

Emailing invoices via the API is still something we’d very much like to deliver, however it’s not likely to be done in the next 6 months.

Xero is now at the scale where we have to be extremely vigilant protecting ourselves against phishing and spam. Unfortunately that means a seemingly simple feature becomes a very challenge one.

It’s a challenge we’re keen to tackle, but there are a couple of other things we’ll be tackling first. Specifically the practice-level authorisation for the XeroHQ API and webhooks.

For now, you can see some workarounds documented here: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/invoices/#emailing

- Update April 2016 -
While this is still very much on our wishlist, we will be unable to provide this for at least another six months.

For now, you can see some workarounds documented here: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/invoices/#emailing

- Update January 2016 -
While this is still very much on our wishlist, we will be unable to provide this for at least another six months.

For now, you can see some workarounds documented here: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/invoices/#emailing

- Update October 2015 -
While this is still very much on our wishlist, we will be unable to provide this for at least another six months.

For now, you can see some workarounds documented here: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/invoices/#emailing

- Upate October 2015 -
While this is still very much on our wishlist, we will be unable to provide this for at least another six months.

For now, you can see some workarounds documented here: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/invoices/#emailing

While this is still very much on our wishlist, we will be unable to provide this for at least another six months.

For now, you can see some workarounds documented here: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/invoices/#emailing

The Xero app now allows you to have control over the sender’s name, email address and reply to address (see http://blog.xero.com/2013/06/more-control-over-your-emails/) which was a key requirement for using the API to trigger an invoice to be emailed. Previous Xero releases also added the ability to have online viewing of invoices and email templates for sending invoices, statements etc.

In amongst our other top developer requests we are now actively looking at how we can offer this functionality to developers.

Please remember you can download PDF’s of invoices which allows you to email invoices yourself and you can also mark these invoices as sent.

We have just released the ability to mark an invoice as sent through the API (http://blog.xero.com/2012/10/developer-update-mark-as-sent-through-api/). We hope that this, in addition to the ability to retrieve a PDF copy of an invoice will allow most developers to do the email part themselves.

Work is underway within Xero to provide more flexibility around the emailing of invoices, templates and being able to set a sender address other than the current user. Until this has been done and we can then expose it via the API, we will not be providing the ability to email invoices from Xero via the API.

Hi, I have just left a detailed comment on this topic with some initial thinking on how this would work – I would appreciate your comments on this.

Thanks, Ronan