# GetPurchaseOrders

Allows you to retrieve purchase orders.

**Note:** When you retrieve multiple purchase orders, paging is enforced by default. 100 purchase orders are returned per page.

### Properties <a href="#properties" id="properties"></a>

**Authentication**

Authentication values used to connect to the Xero server.

**Purchase order id / number**

You can retrieve an individual record by specifying the PurchaseOrderID or the PurchaseOrderNumber.

**Modified after**

A UTC timestamp (yyyy-mm-ddThh:mm:ss) . Only records created or modified since this timestamp will be returned e.g. 2009-11-12T00:00:00.

**Date from**

Filter by purchase order date (e.g. 2015-12-01).

**Date to**

Filter by purchase order date (e.g. 2015-12-31).

**Status**

Filter by purchase order status (e.g. DRAFT).

**Page**

To specify a page, specify a page parameter e.g. 1. If there are 100 records in the response you will need to check if there is any more data by fetching the next page e.g 2 and continuing this process until no more results are returned.

**Order by**

Return items in a specific order. See Order by filter.

**Return options**

Select how the data is to be returned.

Possible values are:

* Only the first item.
* The first item or an empty item.
* All the items one by one.
* All of the items at once.

### Output <a href="#output" id="output"></a>

**Return type of PurchaseOrders**

A list of purchase orders or a single purchase order depending on the selected *Return option* (see above).

### Links <a href="#links" id="links"></a>


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