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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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    Anonymous commented  · 

    To sum up for those who are coming to this issue fresh. You currently cannot access the statement lines from the "Bank Statements" tab via their API. You can access some of the lines through other API end points, but not the whole list.

    For context, this has been an issue since 2009. That's over a decade ago.

    It has over 2,000 votes to be resolved, more votes than any other issue, combined.

    Their competition, Sage, allows for it (https://developer.sage.com/api/accounting/api/banking/).

    This leaves me to think that Xero have painted themselves into a corner with the contract they have signed with their banking data providers, and are not allowed to.

    It's a real shame, and a huge black eye on a platform that otherwise is becoming an industry standard.

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