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I mean a short term solution for this if you are struggling so hard is the ability to CTRL+S or press the save and stay on the same screen.
I agree with James Rowe's sarcastic but accurate post. There is a balance between saving, losing your train of thought while it changes screen then going back and getting frustrated because there are so many things you can click on teh screen that open in the same page and delete your ENTIRE $60,000 QUOTE!!!
Nobody does the same quote as well the next time

Oh, Xero. You've outdone yourselves yet again. Working on a quote? Sure! But why finish it when you can experience the thrill of losing everything!

AUTO-SAVE! AUTO-SAVE! AUTO-SAVE! – you know, that fancy feature every piece of modern software (and their dog) uses? Not for you guys, though. Nah, let’s stick with the ol' “press save or perish" method. Keeps us on our toes!

No auto-save? What a bold move! Revolutionary, even. Why auto save when you can invoke a roller coaster of emotions every time I switch screens or—dare I say it—press "save"? Because nothing says "productivity" like losing an hour's work to... well, nothing.

Let's talk heartbreak, Xero. Picture this: One glorious hour away from my children, crafting the quote of the century. Everything’s going swimmingly, my creative juices are flowing like a river—click, click, click, I'm a quoting machine! I hit return, and BOOM! Xero, in all its wisdom, sends me off to create a new product. And just like that, my masterpiece vanishes into the digital ether. Auto-save? Nah, who needs that when we can just guess what we lost, right?

I can already feel the panic creeping in whenever I start a new quote. Do I save after every line? Every breath? Maybe after every blink, just in case! Because nothing screams "reliable" like a system that doesn't save your work... unless you beg it to, repeatedly.

And now, today’s pièce de résistance: I was really in the groove, adding items like a man possessed. Oh, what a quote it was becoming! The detail! The precision! And then, bam, Xero pulls a fast one, shoves me into the abyss of creating a new product—and my beautiful work? Lost to the abyss because, once again, NO AUTO-SAVE!

Honestly, it’s almost impressive that Xero, a tool I pay £550 a year for, can't manage to include a feature that free software nailed decades ago. Google? Pfft, what do they know? Auto-saving people's work... as if!

Let me be serious for just one second though, Xero. What exactly am I paying for? Because at this point, I’m thinking my subscription fee is going to fund a cutting-edge time-travel feature—where I get to go back and re-do all my lost work.

So please, spare us all the heartache. Frame this email, hang it proudly, and remember: This was the moment. The moment you finally realised that AUTO-SAVE is not some mythical creature. It’s real, it's useful, and it's about time you got on board.

Autosave to save me business time!!!!!!!

Stop letting your customers risk loosing all their hard work.

This needs attended to urgently please.

I agree with this massively.

I have just lost another 2 hours of my life and valuable calculations down the drain due to me forgetting to save.

Autosave is in almost all other online applications, please make this a feature that can be accessed as it feels like the app is very much in the dark ages without it.

Now im off to work having wasted a moring on this xero app.

Yes please!!! Auto save for quotes DEFINITLEY!!!!! Too many times we loose data

We have just lost a large amount of quoting work. We press save continually and it still disappears. AUTOSAVE IS NEEDED! We are loosing so much time with Xero shutting off and logging out and not autosaving the quote work.

No Autosave for quoting is a real issue and should be a function that is added to the software. Several times now we have lost hours of quoting work in the blinknof an eye. Sometime it is not clear why it has happened and othertimes it is accidental click of a button. You can't retrieve it from anywhere, leaving extreme amounts of stress for the creator. Please add automatic saving to all the software areas, even if it is in settings tonturn on or off as a user.

Lost hours of quoting this evening and this has happened several times now. Incredibly frustrating amd disappointing it is not a function that secures the work.

Read those comment shared and its exactly what i had experienced and gone thru.
Been disappointed and ******, to have to re-type all those details calculation.
Hope other new user, doesnt had to get thru this nightmare.

Look forward to have this fixed....

just lost whole day of work because of that.. pleas fix it.
Autosave seems so obvious!!!!

I cannot believe this is still not a function in Xero, how many times have I accidently clicked on something which takes me off of the quote and lost hours worth of typing and calculations.
Once, I kid you not I had been typing up a quote over 6 hours and we got a power cut...

This is would be a great feature! Our computer shuts it's self down and we loose everything. Autosave on quotes would save us lots of time.

Yes, similar experience here. Also, having tabbed across the page, an error opens, then when the error is closes, the quote closes also.

I can't understand how this isn't already a thing.
I've lost HEAPS of time because of this and it is so frustrating.
Sometimes I even just write it as an invoice and then "copy to quote" at the end.

I've lost business due to not submitting a quote in time because it got lost.

Absolutely, I've wasted so much time trying to remember what I wrote in the quote when it didn't autosave. Seem archaic not to. I'm considering other accounting software..

Yes Please, Same deal, I have many lines in my quotes, and yes if you hit a wrong key, come on Xero make it simple for us please.