In late May 2026, Xero will cease to provide access to the Legacy Expense Claims endpoints.
Nicolas Emmerich
We’re pleased to announce some major improvements to the OdataLink logs architecture.
We are pleased the announce the recent addition of a new option to the Model. The OData Client Compatibility option fine tunes the OData Feed as different client have different implementation of the OData standard.
Prior to this option, OdataLink would auto detect the client requesting data (whether Excel, Power BI, Tableau, Data Factory or other) and would make slight changes to ensure the OData feed was compatible.
This option now allow you to force it to work a specific way. This was primarily added as it was not possible to detect customers who used Solver to pull data.
We’ve been hard at work writing a few new tutorial articles to help explain how you can control how accounts appear on reports and dashboards.
One set of tutorials explain how you can create a mapping table to add additional rows to your Profit and Loss, and Balance Sheet Reports for both Power BI and Excel.
We are pleased to formally announce that MYOB report templates for both Excel and Power BI are available for download.
These templates are the first step to transition some users from BudgetLink and ExcelReportLink over to OdataLink. There will be many more to come in the next few months.
In March 2025, we’ve updated the Xero Accounting models, Xero Assets models and Xero Projects models to include an additional Page Size setting.
Configuring this setting can increase the performance of the OdataLink OData feed for Xero. This in turns makes Excel, Power BI or others refresh faster.
In March 2025, we’ve released a major improvement to OdataLink’s OData Feed.
The model’s Cut Off Date settings allows you to control how older historical data is provided by OdataLink.
In November 2024, OdataLink added one of the nicest quality of life updates for logging into OdataLink for Xero users.
Most of the time, if you are using Xero, you will be jointly logged in with Xero while using OdataLink. This button leverages this fact by allowing you to piggy-back on your already existing Xero login and credentials.
Simply put, it basically allows you to login to both apps at once using your Xero credentials.
Even while we were building it, it didn’t sound that impressive. But in a world of 2FA and MFA, it makes accessing either OdataLink or Xero a breeze.
We’ve been busy this past month, and we’re excited to share our latest updates with you. Here’s what we’ve been up to!
Xero Practice Manager
We are in the last stages of connecting OdataLink with Xero Practice Manager and finalising the associated documentation! You can either add this integration to your existing account or start a new trial.
Stay tuned for more details in the coming weeks, or feel free to contact us if you would like to be a part of the testing phase.
Additional legacy endpoints for Xero
We added the ability to download the legacy Expense Claims endpoint for Xero. While Xero discontinued this functionality in 2018 in favour of their new (sic) Invoices functionality, we still have a few customers that use it and needed to access the underlying data.
Enhances to the Xero Projects endpoint
Some customers requested the ability to filter the Xero Projects endpoint.
The Projects endpoint can now be filtered for:
- multiple project ids
- a single contact id
- a single status
September was mostly focussed on adding additional functionality for Xero.