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  1. Import bank statement lines via the API

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    working on it  ·  AdminKelly (Admin, Xero Developer Centre) responded

    Thanks for your continued feedback and patience on this long-standing request. Our team has started to build this out, and we’re looking forward to sharing more as development and testing progresses.

    This release will support ingestion of bank statement data via the Bank Feeds API for accounts where a bank feed has not been established and allow customers to automate the current manual file upload process.

    As part of this work, we’ll be running a beta with a small group first (from mid June) so we can test the experience and gather feedback before broader availability. We’ll continue to post updates here as we reach key milestones.

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    Gerhardvr commented  · 

    Not having an API that we can utilise in the case where our financial institutions are not partnered with Xero, is crucial. Frankly, for Xero to assume that South African banks, for example, would like to integrate into Xero is the pinnacle of self grandeur. SA bank couldn't care less about Xero, since Xero doesn't really feature in the bigger scheme of things in South Africa.

    We receive daily bank statements from our banks in various formats (SWIFT etc) and have the ability to process these files into a format that can manually be loaded into Xero. However, manually loading them into Xero is a useless exercise. We receive statement files from our banks every time a transaction goes through our bank account. We want to load the data into Xero as we receive the data. This simply cannot be done manually. The only option is an API which is not available.

    Frankly, this is most probably going to cause us to seriously look at migrating away from Xero.

    Looking at how many comments this thread has had since Jan 2021, I suggest you seriously review your stance on this point.