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Xero

This page contains the setup guide and reference information for the Xero source connector.

  • Tenant ID
  • Start Date

Required list of scopes to sync all streams:

  • accounting.attachments.read
  • accounting.budgets.read
  • accounting.contacts.read
  • accounting.journals.read
  • accounting.reports.read
  • accounting.reports.tenninetynine.read
  • accounting.settings.read
  • accounting.transactions.read
  • assets.read
  • offline_access

For Airbyte Cloud:

  • OAuth 2.0

For Airbyte Open Source:

There is two currently supported ways to authenticate with Xero:

For the bearer token strategy, please follow instruction to obtain all requirements:

  • Client ID

For the OAuth client credentials, please follow instructions to obtain all requirements:

  • Client ID
  • Client Secret

For Airbyte Cloud:

  1. Log into your Airbyte Cloud account.
  2. In the left navigation bar, click Sources. In the top-right corner, click + new source.
  3. On the source setup page, select Xero from the Source type dropdown and enter a name for this connector.
  4. Click Authenticate your Xero account.
  5. Log in and Allow access.
  6. Tenant ID - Enter your Xero Organisation's Tenant ID
  7. Start Date - UTC date and time in the format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ssZ from which you'd like to replicate data.

For Airbyte Open Source:

  1. Create an application in Xero development center.

For the client credentials, make sure you set the list of scopes mentioned above.

You can optionally use postman to generate the required access_token needed for the source setup.

The Xero source connector supports the following sync modes:

As Xero uses .NET, some date fields in records could be in .NET JSON date format. These dates are transformed into ISO 8601.

The connector is restricted by Xero API rate limits.

Config fields reference

Field
Type
Property name
object
credentials
string
tenant_id
string
start_date
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