Accounting

Updates a single spent or received money transaction

post/BankTransactions/{BankTransactionID}

Path parameters

BankTransactionIDstring uuid required

Xero generated unique identifier for a bank transaction

Query parameters

unitdpinteger

e.g. unitdp=4 – (Unit Decimal Places) You can opt in to use four decimal places for unit amounts

Headers

Idempotency-Keystring

This allows you to safely retry requests without the risk of duplicate processing. 128 character max.

Request body

Example request

{
  "BankTransactions": [
    {
      "Contact": {
        "UpdatedDateUTC": "/Date(1573755038314)/",
        "BrandingTheme": {
          "CreatedDateUTC": "/Date(1573755038314)/"
        },
        "BatchPayments": {
          "BankAccountNumber": "123-456-1111111",
          "BankAccountName": "ACME Bank",
          "Details": "Hello World",
          "Code": "ABC",
          "Reference": "Foobar"
        },
        "Attachments": [
          {
            "AttachmentID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
            "FileName": "xero-dev.jpg",
            "Url": "https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0/Accounts/da962997-a8bd-4dff-9616-01cdc199283f/Attachments/sample5.jpg",
            "MimeType": "image/jpg"
          }
        ]
      },
      "LineItems": [
        {
          "LineItemID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
          "AccountID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
          "Tracking": [
            {
              "TrackingCategoryID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
              "TrackingOptionID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
              "Name": "Region",
              "Option": "North"
            }
          ],
          "RepeatingInvoiceID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
        }
      ],
      "BankAccount": {
        "Name": "Food Sales",
        "AccountID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
        "UpdatedDateUTC": "/Date(1573755038314)/"
      },
      "BankTransactionID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
      "PrepaymentID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
      "OverpaymentID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
      "UpdatedDateUTC": "/Date(1573755038314)/"
    }
  ]
}

Response

Success - return response of type BankTransactions array with updated BankTransaction

Example response

{
  "BankTransactions": [
    {
      "Contact": {
        "UpdatedDateUTC": "/Date(1573755038314)/",
        "BrandingTheme": {
          "CreatedDateUTC": "/Date(1573755038314)/"
        },
        "BatchPayments": {
          "BankAccountNumber": "123-456-1111111",
          "BankAccountName": "ACME Bank",
          "Details": "Hello World",
          "Code": "ABC",
          "Reference": "Foobar"
        },
        "Attachments": [
          {
            "AttachmentID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
            "FileName": "xero-dev.jpg",
            "Url": "https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0/Accounts/da962997-a8bd-4dff-9616-01cdc199283f/Attachments/sample5.jpg",
            "MimeType": "image/jpg"
          }
        ]
      },
      "LineItems": [
        {
          "LineItemID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
          "AccountID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
          "Tracking": [
            {
              "TrackingCategoryID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
              "TrackingOptionID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
              "Name": "Region",
              "Option": "North"
            }
          ],
          "RepeatingInvoiceID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000"
        }
      ],
      "BankAccount": {
        "Name": "Food Sales",
        "AccountID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
        "UpdatedDateUTC": "/Date(1573755038314)/"
      },
      "BankTransactionID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
      "PrepaymentID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
      "OverpaymentID": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
      "UpdatedDateUTC": "/Date(1573755038314)/"
    }
  ]
}

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