Xero Accounting

Xero is a cloud accounting platform for small businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers that provides invoicing, bank reconciliation, payroll, expense management, and financial reporting. The Xero Accounting API exposes full-featured REST endpoints for invoices, contacts, bank transactions, accounts, items, journals, reports, and more. All Xero APIs share a single OAuth 2.0 authorization layer, require the Xero-Tenant-Id header to scope requests to an organization, and are served from api.xero.com.

Xero Accounting publishes 6 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Accounts API, BankTransactions API, BankTransfers API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Accounting, Small Business, Invoicing, Bookkeeping, and Financial Reporting.

Xero Accounting’s developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, documentation, pricing, signup flow, and 8 more developer resources.

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30.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 30/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessSelf serve

7 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Accounting Small Business Invoicing Bookkeeping Financial Reporting Software-as-a-Service

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 30.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.9 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20

Access Clarity 4.7 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 30/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 7

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Xero Accounting Scopes

6 scopes · authorizationCode

6 scopes

SCOPES

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup

Signup

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

OpenAPI Specifications

OpenAPI Specifications

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

MCPServer

MCPServer

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: xero-accounting
name: Xero Accounting
description: Xero is a cloud accounting platform for small businesses, accountants, and bookkeepers that provides invoicing,
  bank reconciliation, payroll, expense management, and financial reporting. The Xero Accounting API exposes full-featured
  REST endpoints for invoices, contacts, bank transactions, accounts, items, journals, reports, and more. All Xero APIs share
  a single OAuth 2.0 authorization layer, require the Xero-Tenant-Id header to scope requests to an organization, and are
  served from api.xero.com.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/xero-accounting.png
tags:
- Accounting
- Small Business
- Invoicing
- Bookkeeping
- Financial Reporting
- Software-as-a-Service
tags_raw:
- Accounting
- Small Business
- Invoicing
- Bookkeeping
- Financial Reporting
- SaaS
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/xero-accounting/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-05-11'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: xero-accounting:connections
  name: Xero Connections API
  description: OAuth 2.0 connections endpoint for listing the Xero tenants authorized under an access token.
  humanURL: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/guides/oauth2/auth-flow
  baseURL: https://api.xero.com/connections
  tags:
  - Authentication
  - Tenants
  tags_raw:
  - OAuth
  - Tenants
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/guides/oauth2/auth-flow
- aid: xero-accounting:xero-accounting-accounts-api
  name: Xero Accounting Accounts API
  description: The Accounts API from Xero Accounting — 3 operation(s) for accounts.
  humanURL: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/accounting/overview
  baseURL: https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0
  tags:
  - Account
  tags_raw:
  - Accounts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/xero-accounting-accounts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/accounting/overview
  - type: OAuth 2.0 Guide
    url: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/guides/oauth2/overview
- aid: xero-accounting:xero-accounting-banktransactions-api
  name: Xero Accounting BankTransactions API
  description: The BankTransactions API from Xero Accounting — 2 operation(s) for banktransactions.
  humanURL: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/accounting/overview
  baseURL: https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0
  tags:
  - Bank Transactions
  tags_raw:
  - BankTransactions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/xero-accounting-banktransactions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/accounting/overview
  - type: OAuth 2.0 Guide
    url: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/guides/oauth2/overview
- aid: xero-accounting:xero-accounting-banktransfers-api
  name: Xero Accounting BankTransfers API
  description: The BankTransfers API from Xero Accounting — 1 operation(s) for banktransfers.
  humanURL: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/accounting/overview
  baseURL: https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0
  tags:
  - Bank Transfers
  tags_raw:
  - BankTransfers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/xero-accounting-banktransfers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/accounting/overview
  - type: OAuth 2.0 Guide
    url: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/guides/oauth2/overview
- aid: xero-accounting:xero-accounting-batchpayments-api
  name: Xero Accounting BatchPayments API
  description: The BatchPayments API from Xero Accounting — 1 operation(s) for batchpayments.
  humanURL: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/accounting/overview
  baseURL: https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0
  tags:
  - Batch Payments
  tags_raw:
  - BatchPayments
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/xero-accounting-batchpayments-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/accounting/overview
  - type: OAuth 2.0 Guide
    url: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/guides/oauth2/overview
- aid: xero-accounting:xero-accounting-contacts-api
  name: Xero Accounting Contacts API
  description: The Contacts API from Xero Accounting — 1 operation(s) for contacts.
  humanURL: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/accounting/overview
  baseURL: https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0
  tags:
  - Contacts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/xero-accounting-contacts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/accounting/overview
  - type: OAuth 2.0 Guide
    url: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/guides/oauth2/overview
- aid: xero-accounting:xero-accounting-invoices-api
  name: Xero Accounting Invoices API
  description: The Invoices API from Xero Accounting — 1 operation(s) for invoices.
  humanURL: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/accounting/overview
  baseURL: https://api.xero.com/api.xro/2.0
  tags:
  - Invoices
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/xero-accounting-invoices-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/api/accounting/overview
  - type: OAuth 2.0 Guide
    url: https://developer.xero.com/documentation/guides/oauth2/overview
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/xero-accounting-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/xero-accounting-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/xero-accounting-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/xero-accounting-scopes.yml
- url: https://blog.xero.com/feed/
  type: Blog
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/xero
- type: Website
  url: https://www.xero.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.xero.com/documentation
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.xero.com/pricing
- type: Signup
  url: https://developer.xero.com/app/manage
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/XeroAPI
- type: OpenAPI Specifications
  url: https://github.com/XeroAPI/Xero-OpenAPI
- name: MCP Server
  url: https://github.com/XeroAPI/xero-mcp-server
  type: MCPServer
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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