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Hello, everyone! Welcome back to our series. It's the holiday season, marking a time when businesses witness increased demand for products and services, leading to a significant boost in sales. This also presents an opportunity for businesses to engageZoho Books API Documentation shows the returned Expense ID as numeric, but the API actually returns a string.
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Not for the first time my bank feeds are broken, they appear to be connected but no transactions are coming through since 31st Jan. I have contacted support and await a reply. Anyone else have the same issue? I feel the route cause needs addressing.Item sales account via api
Hey everyone, I’m making an invoice using the create invoice endpoint on the api. Is it possible to set a sales account in the line_items attributes?bank reconciliation screens no longer indicate what transactions you have matched to the bank statement
I'm trying to reconcile a november bank statement. I used too be able to mark the transacions as I matched them (manually) Now it just tells me the number of matched but no indicator of which ones. Can some one please help? thank youCustomization in PDF templates for custom modules
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