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Comment by Ap0c | Hacker News Reader

Why would you not use an accounting package like Xero to manage this?

Xero is an accounting app, and it has a ton of features. This is a simple API to validate money movements, it can be used as one of the pieces to build a dedicated accounting, billing, and other systems if existing solutions like Xero doesn't work for you. It's general-purpose, where Xero is more a dedicated app for accounting.

Thanks for the insight. Appreciate it.

Xero user here. Would leave in a second if I could. Why:

- Next to nothing in terms of expense graphs.

- Terrible API for polling for alerts based on reports.

- Saving custom reports not really a thing.

- Mobile app is hot garbage.

- Bank feeds drop a lot.

- My accounting firm not a fan.

- One light blue skin forever, like being relegated to a blue hell.

- Integrates with things like Zapier & Integromat, but not deeply.

- Parsing JSON reporting via Integromat is pure pain.

This is interesting! I heard a lot of complaints about the Xero API, it has low rate-limits and you need some workarounds to push data in at a fast enough pace. Definitely not the system to be used at scale.

One thing that is in the roadmap is to bring data from Xero so that you can interact with it in Decimals. It should give you a much better API, and we make sure it's going to get synced in the background. Let me know if this is something you might be interested in getting early access.

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