Add Items to Existing Sales Invoice with Xero Accounting API

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Getting Started#

Create a workflow to Add Items to Existing Sales Invoice with the Xero Accounting API. When you configure and deploy the workflow, it will run on Pipedream's servers 24x7 for free.

Configure the Add Items to Existing Sales Invoice action
1. Connect your Xero Accounting account
2. Select a Tenant ID
3. Select a Invoice ID
4. Configure Line items
Select a trigger to run your workflow on HTTP requests, schedules or app events
Deploy the workflow
Send a test event to validate your setup
Turn on the trigger

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Details#

This is a pre-built, source-available component from Pipedream's GitHub repo. The component is developed by Pipedream and the community, and verified and maintained by Pipedream.

To contribute an update to an existing component or create a new component, create a PR on GitHub. If you're new to Pipedream component development, you can start with quickstarts for trigger span and action development, and then review the component API reference.

Add Items to Existing Sales Invoice on Xero Accounting

Description:Adds line items to an existing sales invoice. [See the docs here](https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/accounting/invoices#post-invoices)

Version:0.0.2

Key:xero_accounting_api-add-line-item-to-invoice

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Code#

import xeroAccountingApi from "../../xero_accounting_api.app.mjs";
import {
  removeNullEntries,
  formatLineItems,
} from "../../common/util.mjs";

export default {
  key: "xero_accounting_api-add-line-item-to-invoice",
  name: "Add Items to Existing Sales Invoice",
  description: "Adds line items to an existing sales invoice. [See the docs here](https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/accounting/invoices#post-invoices)",
  version: "0.0.2",
  type: "action",
  props: {
    xeroAccountingApi,
    tenantId: {
      propDefinition: [
        xeroAccountingApi,
        "tenantId",
      ],
    },
    invoiceId: {
      propDefinition: [
        xeroAccountingApi,
        "invoiceId",
        (c) => ({
          tenantId: c.tenantId,
        }),
      ],
    },
    lineItems: {
      propDefinition: [
        xeroAccountingApi,
        "lineItems",
      ],
    },
  },
  async run({ $ }) {
    const {
      tenantId,
      invoiceId,
      lineItems,
    } = this;
    const data = removeNullEntries({
      InvoiceID: invoiceId,
      LineItems: formatLineItems(lineItems),
    });
    const response = await this.xeroAccountingApi.createInvoice($, tenantId, data);
    response && $.export("$summary", "Line item created successfully");
    return response;
  },
};

Configuration#

This component may be configured based on the props defined in the component code. Pipedream automatically prompts for input values in the UI and CLI.

Label	Prop	Type	Description
Xero Accounting	`xeroAccountingApi`	`app`	This component uses the Xero Accounting app.
Tenant ID	`tenantId`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Invoice ID	`invoiceId`	`string`	Select a value from the drop down menu.
Line items	`lineItems`	`string[]`	The LineItems collection can contain any number of individual LineItem sub-elements. At least one is required to create a complete Invoice. Refer to Tax Type, Refer to Line Items Example: `[{"Description":"Football", "Quantity":"20", "UnitAmount":"50000", "TaxType":"OUTPUT" }]`

Authentication#

Xero Accounting uses OAuth authentication. When you connect your Xero Accounting account, Pipedream will open a popup window where you can sign into Xero Accounting and grant Pipedream permission to connect to your account. Pipedream securely stores and automatically refreshes the OAuth tokens so you can easily authenticate any Xero Accounting API.

Pipedream requests the following authorization scopes when you connect your account:

offline_accessopenidprofileemailaccounting.transactionsaccounting.reports.readaccounting.settingsaccounting.settings.readaccounting.contactsaccounting.attachmentsaccounting.journals.read