Xero

Accounting for small businesses. Agents find contacts and invoices, draft sales invoices and bills, approve and email invoices, record payments, add notes and read financial reports.

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Category
Payments & accounting
Ways to connect
2
Actions for agents
12
Triggers
2

Start trial Read the Xero setup guide

Ways to connect

A company admin connects Xero from the Integrations page in Everdeck. Keys, tokens and secrets are encrypted before they're stored, and the connection's Test button checks it works before any agent uses it.

Every way in uses an app you create with Xero, so access stays under your control. The setup guide walks you through it.

  • Your Xero app (sign in) Your OAuth app

    Create an OAuth app of your own with Xero, paste its client ID and secret into Everdeck, then sign in to Xero and approve access. Access runs through your own app, never one Everdeck shares with other customers.

  • Xero custom connection (paid; AU, NZ, UK and US only) Your OAuth app

    Create an app of your own with Xero and paste its credentials into Everdeck. The connection then works without anyone signing in.

What agents can do with Xero

An agent can only use the actions its charter grants. Each action has a risk tier, and the tier decides whether it runs on its own, asks first or always asks a person.

Runs on its own 9

Looking things up, writing to Everdeck's own records and changes one step can undo. Once an agent's charter grants one of these, it runs without asking, unless you set it to Ask first in the charter or one of your approval rules covers it.

  • Search contacts Tier 0 · Read Outside content

    Find customers and suppliers by text (matches name, first and last name, contact number, company number and email) or an exact where filter such as EmailAddress=="[email protected]". Returns ids, email, account number, status and outstanding balances.

  • Create a contact Tier 2 · Reversible Outside content

    Add a customer or supplier. Name is what appears on invoices and currently has to be unique, so search first. Customer or supplier status is set automatically by the first sales invoice or bill.

  • List invoices and bills Tier 0 · Read Outside content

    List sales invoices (Type ACCREC) and bills (ACCPAY), up to 1,000 per page, with totals, amount due and dates. Filter by statuses, contact ids, a where expression or text in invoice number and reference. Line items are left out; use get_invoice for them.

  • Read an invoice or bill Tier 0 · Read Outside content

    Read one invoice or bill by InvoiceID or invoice number, with line items, tax, totals and payments.

  • Draft an invoice or bill Tier 2 · Reversible Outside content

    Create a sales invoice (ACCREC) or a supplier bill (ACCPAY) as a draft, or as SUBMITTED to put it in Xero's awaiting-approval list. Drafts do not touch the accounts or reports. Sales invoice numbers come from the organisation's settings; for bills put the supplier's invoice number in invoice_number.

  • Get the online invoice link Tier 0 · Read Outside content

    Get the link to an approved sales invoice on Xero's online invoice page, where the customer can view, download and (if set up) pay it. Not available for drafts. Use it in your own emails.

  • Add a note to an invoice Tier 2 · Reversible Outside content

    Add a note to an invoice's or bill's History and notes, for example what a customer said about payment. Notes are internal (shown as System Generated) and cannot be edited.

  • List accounts Tier 0 · Read Outside content

    List the chart of accounts with code, name, type and tax type. Use codes on invoice lines and bank accounts (Type BANK, or EnablePaymentsToAccount true) for record_payment.

  • Run a report Tier 0 · Read Outside content

    Run a standard report: ProfitAndLoss (fromDate, toDate; defaults to this month), BalanceSheet and TrialBalance (date), BankSummary (fromDate, toDate), or aged receivables or payables for one contact (contact_id required). Results are rows and cells as laid out in Xero.

Always asks a person 3

Payments, deletions, permission changes and anything that can't be undone. A person approves every use, and no charter or approval rule can switch that off.

  • Approve an invoice or bill Tier 4 · Money or irreversible Outside content

    Approve a draft or submitted invoice or bill (status AUTHORISED). It is then posted to the accounts, included in reports and tax returns, and can be paid or emailed. An approved invoice can no longer be deleted, only voided.

  • Email a sales invoice Tier 4 · Money or irreversible Outside content

    Email a submitted, approved or paid sales invoice (ACCREC) to the contact's primary email and to contact people marked for invoices, using the organisation's default template. It comes from the Xero user who connected Everdeck and marks the invoice as sent.

  • Record a payment Tier 4 · Money or irreversible Outside content

    Record money received for a sales invoice, or paid for a bill, against a bank account (or an account that allows payments). The invoice must be approved; the amount is in the invoice's currency and cannot exceed the amount due. This does not move money; it updates the books.

Actions marked Outside content return what people outside your company may have written, such as emails or comments. Agents treat it as information to check, never as instructions.

What can start work

Set a trigger up on the Intake page, and your rules there turn what arrives into tasks for your agents.

  • A sales invoice or bill was created or changed, including approval, payment, voiding and archiving (Xero INVOICE events). The event names the InvoiceID only; read it with get_invoice.

    Xero sends it to the address the Intake page gives you, as it happens.

  • A contact was created or updated, including archiving (Xero CONTACT events).

    Xero sends it to the address the Intake page gives you, as it happens.

Work an agent can take on

Examples for apps in Payments & accounting. What an agent does with Xero depends on the actions you grant it.

  • Draft invoices for a person to check and send.
  • Find unpaid invoices and list them for follow-up.
  • Sum up balances and recent transactions in a weekly report.

Set it up

The Xero setup guide walks through each way to connect: what to set up first and the fields to fill in, then how to start work from its triggers on the Intake page.

Read the Xero setup guide

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