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Connect your app to Xero

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The short version

You can connect your Lovable app to Xero, a cloud accounting platform, to work with your financial data like invoices, payments, and reports. This lets you build apps for things like tracking outstanding revenue or creating invoices.

Anyone building an app that needs to read or manage accounting data from Xero.

Do this, in order

1
Sign in to Xero's developer portal and create a new app.
You need your own Xero app to get the special codes (Client ID and Client Secret) that Lovable uses to securely connect to your Xero account.
2
Set the 'Redirect URI' for your Xero app to exactly 'https://api.lovable.dev/workspaces/connectors/standard/oauth/callback'.
This specific address tells Xero where to send users back after they've given permission for Lovable to access their data.
3
Enable the specific permissions (scopes) your Lovable app will need on your Xero app's configuration page.
If you don't enable these permissions in Xero, Lovable won't be able to ask for them, and the connection will fail.
4
Copy your Xero app's Client ID and generate and copy its Client Secret.
These are the unique keys that prove your Lovable app is allowed to connect to Xero.
5
Go to the 'Connectors' section in Lovable, select Xero, and click 'Add connection'.
This starts the process of setting up the connection within Lovable.
6
Give your connection a display name and paste the Client ID and Client Secret you copied from Xero.
This tells Lovable which Xero app to use and helps you identify this specific connection later.
7
Review and select the permissions (scopes) your Lovable connection will request, making sure they match what you enabled in your Xero app.
This ensures Lovable only asks for the data it needs and that Xero will allow those requests.
8
Choose who in your Lovable workspace can use this connection.
This controls who can build apps using this Xero connection and access its data.
9
Click 'Connect', sign in to Xero if prompted, choose the organization, and click 'Allow access'.
This final step authorizes Lovable to access your Xero data through your Xero app.

Paste this into your project

I need to connect my Lovable app to Xero. I've already created a Xero app and have my Client ID and Client Secret. I've also set the redirect URI and enabled the necessary scopes. Please guide me through the steps to add this connection in Lovable, including how to configure it and set permissions for my workspace.

Words decoded

Client ID: A unique identifier for your Xero app, like a username for your app.
Client Secret: A secret code for your Xero app, like a password, that proves it's really your app trying to connect.
Redirect URI: A specific web address that Xero uses to send you back to Lovable after you've given permission for Lovable to access your Xero account.
Scopes: Specific permissions that define what kind of data your Lovable app can read or change in Xero, like 'read invoices' or 'manage contacts'.
OAuth: A secure way for one service (like Lovable) to access your information from another service (like Xero) without needing your password, using temporary tokens instead.

Where people get stuck

Not setting the 'Redirect URI' in your Xero app to the exact address provided, which will cause an 'Invalid redirect_uri' error.
Not enabling all the necessary permissions (scopes) in your Xero app that your Lovable connection requests, leading to a 'Requested wrong apps scopes' error.
Sharing your Client Secret publicly, as it functions like a password for your Xero app.
Expecting the Xero connector to support per-end-user Xero logins; each connection is for a single Xero account.
Selecting Xero's broad 'umbrella scopes' instead of the more specific, granular scopes.

The short version, steps, decoder and prompt on this page are written automatically from Lovable's own documentation and can lag or misread it. The official page is always the authority.