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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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   Richard King commented  ·  Nov 12, 2021  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

   This feature would greatly improve our internal processes and make running our business more efficient.

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   Richard King supported this idea  ·  Nov 12, 2021

2. Allow add multiple Contacts with same name.

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   Richard King commented  ·  Nov 5, 2021  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

   +3 Votes from me. It's pretty common to come across more than one person with the same name. Has caused much frustration over the years.

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   Richard King supported this idea  ·  Nov 5, 2021

3. be able to retrieve account transactions via the api.

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   Richard King supported this idea  ·  Nov 5, 2021
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   Richard King commented  ·  Nov 5, 2021  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

   There's another 711 votes on this request that got declined in 2018 and is linked from the API documentation.. please attribute these votes to this one. https://xero.uservoice.com/forums/5528-xero-api/suggestions/2884040-reconcile-via-the-api

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   Richard King commented  ·  Nov 5, 2021  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

   We would really like access to this feature.. ideally as well to be able to reconcile payments via our own logic of matching transactions to invoices.

   Our use case would be to automate the reconciliation of our own customers payments since we have a large number of these. Having someone have to do this by manually clicking OK in Xero is not really maintainable.

   Other providers like Chargebee have built their own Chrome plugin to help automate this.. how crazy is that! https://www.chargebee.com/docs/2.0/xero-reconciliation.html

   It would also be a great feature to offer to ecommerce stores to be able to auto reconcile their online orders via an api..

   Seriously enabling this end point would unlock so much productivity, please consider it!

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4. Reconcile via the API

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   declined  ·  AdminKelly (Admin, Xero Developer Centre) responded

   Thank you for the continued feedback and for your patience on this long‑running request. We know that programmatic bank reconciliation and AI‑driven workflows are increasingly important to many of you, and we understand the frustration that this capability is not available via the Xero API.

   
   

   After reviewing this again with our legal, risk and banking teams, we have confirmed that we will not be adding the ability to reconcile bank statement lines via the API or to expose unreconciled bank statement data via the public API.

   
   

   There are a few key reasons for this decision:

   1. Regulatory and contractual obligations on raw bank data. Unreconciled bank statement lines are “raw” banking data – unmodified information that comes directly from banks. In markets such as Australia, this data is treated as banking data under consumer data rights regimes. Sharing it on to third parties (including via an open API) would require us to treat every consuming app as if it were a regulated data recipient, with substantial security, accreditation and liability obligations that sit on Xero as an intermediary as well as on those third parties. We have taken a policy decision not to operate as an intermediary for redistributing raw bank statement data.This ensures that the highest standards of banking security are maintained directly between the customer and their financial institution.
   2. Our data‑sharing boundary: unreconciled vs reconciled data. We draw a clear line between:

   • Unreconciled statement data, which is banking data supplied to us by banks and subject to the obligations above; and
   • Reconciled transaction data, which has been improved within Xero (for example, matched to contacts, invoices or accounts) and for which Xero is the custodian on behalf of the customer.

   1. We can expose certain reconciled/derived data through specific endpoints such as the Finance API’s Bank Statements Plus in limited, finance‑focused scenarios, but those endpoints are not designed or licensed for broad, high‑volume access to raw bank feeds or for third‑party replication of Xero’s bank reconciliation engine.
   2. Why “reconcile via the API” falls on the wrong side of that line. Supporting full reconciliation via the API would, in practice, require programmatic access to unreconciled statement lines and a way to push reconciliation decisions back into Xero. That would effectively recreate bank reconciliation workflows outside Xero while still relying on Xero to redistribute raw bank data, which is exactly the pattern our regulatory, security and contractual constraints are designed to avoid. For these reasons, this is not something we can safely or responsibly offer as an open API capability.

   
   

   We recognise that a small number of existing partner applications continue to receive limited access to certain statement data under legacy, contract-specific arrangements that pre‑date this policy. These specific arrangements are strictly managed under heightened security and compliance terms. To ensure we meet our current regulatory and risk standards, we are not extending these legacy permissions to new partners or applying them to any new use cases.

   
   

   We also hear the concern that “this is customer data and customers should be able to use it where they choose”. We agree that customers should have access to their own banking information, and open banking frameworks are designed to give customers direct access to that data from their bank or banking aggregator, without Xero sitting in the middle as a redistributor. For apps that need raw bank statements to power AI or other automation, the right pattern is to source that data directly from the bank or an accredited open‑banking provider, and then connect into Xero using the data structures we do expose.

   
   

   Our strategy for bank reconciliation is to invest in automation inside Xero, where we can manage risk, performance and user experience end‑to‑end. That includes features such as bank rules, suggested matches, cash coding, and newer improvements like statement-period bank reconciliation, enhanced bank feeds, and our AI-powered automation features, rather than exposing the underlying feeds for external reconciliation logic.

   
   

   We will continue to review our approach as regulation, banking connectivity and customer needs evolve, but we want to be clear and transparent that this specific request will remain declined under our current legal and risk framework. We genuinely appreciate the thought and passion that has gone into this thread, and we’ll keep focusing our efforts on making in‑product reconciliation as efficient and intelligent as we can, within those constraints.

   Thank you for the continued feedback and for your patience on this long‑running request. We know that programmatic bank reconciliation and AI‑driven workflows are increasingly important to many of you, and we understand the frustration that this capability is not available via the Xero API.

   
   

   After reviewing this again with our legal, risk and banking teams, we have confirmed that we will not be adding the ability to reconcile bank statement lines via the API or to expose unreconciled bank statement data via the public API.

   
   

   There are a few key reasons for this decision:

   1. Regulatory and contractual obligations on raw bank data. Unreconciled bank statement lines are “raw” banking data – unmodified information that comes directly from banks. In markets such as Australia, this data is treated as banking data under consumer data rights regimes. Sharing it on to third parties (including via an open API) would require us… more
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   Richard King commented  ·  Nov 5, 2021  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

   For those that are also stuck.. we are considering using the following solution to help reconcile transactions from our bank feeds.

   https://www.akahu.io/
   https://www.saltedge.com/
   https://nordigen.com/en/

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   Richard King commented  ·  Nov 5, 2021  ·  Edit…  ·  Delete…

   Hi there,

   We would really like access to this feature. It's not fair that we can't actually vote on this feature since it was declined in 2018. You're own API documentation says you can vote on this but it's not possible. https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/accounting/bankstatements/#bank-statements

   Our use case would be to automate the reconciliation of our own customers payments since we have a large number of these. Having someone have to do this by manually clicking OK in Xero is not really maintainable.

   Other providers like Chargebee have built their own Chrome plugin to help automate this.. how crazy is that! https://www.chargebee.com/docs/2.0/xero-reconciliation.html

   It would also be a great feature to offer to ecommerce stores to be able to auto reconcile their online orders via an api..

   Seriously enabling this end point would unlock so much productivity, please consider it!

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