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Zoho People: Reject an Application for Leave in Deluge based on Criteria
Zoho People

Zoho People: Reject an Application for Leave in Deluge based on Criteria

This article documents how to stop an employee from applying for leave when already 80% of their team have already booked the same date off. My brief was: Check the department this employee belongs to Search for employees of the same department (team members) who have booked the same days off (ie count holiday clashes)...

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Zoho Deluge - Connect to Xero API
Zoho Deluge

Zoho Deluge - Connect to Xero API

This is an article to document a standalone function which generates an access token from within Zoho CRM so you can access your Xero instance. There are 3rd-party API libraries and SDKs out there but as usual with financial technologies (fintech), I don't trust them. Here's how to do it in pure Deluge with a Zoho CRM...

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Zoho Deluge: Push Item to Shopify API
Zoho Deluge

Zoho Deluge: Push Item to Shopify API

The following is a script template that I can quickly adapt for Zoho and Shopify integration. This will take an item from Zoho Inventory and post it to Shopify. How? Pretty quick to do in Zoho Deluge but first you need to go register the app in your client's Shopify store:

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Xero API: Standard PHP/cURL Create Invoice
Xero

Xero API: Standard PHP/cURL Create Invoice

This is an article documenting a generic script that can be used to push an invoice to the demo Xero environment. Following the steps below will connect you to the Demonstration environment of Xero at no cost to you the developer. How? Similar to my ZohoAPI script the process is: Start with a HTML form to add your clie...

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