New Invoicing - Keep leading carriage returns and spaces in description field
The 'new invoicing' option automatically removes any leading carriage returns and leading spaces in the invoice description field.
This did not occur in the classic version and wonder why it was introduced.
To enable the details of the invoice to be easily read, it is sometimes necessary to separate line items on the invoice and to indent the actual description.
Can this 'feature' be removed?
Gary Young
shared this idea
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Jayne Smith
commented
New Invoicing hasn't got all the features of Classic as yet and one area that needs reviewing is the option to add blank lines before the first line in the Description Box, and after the last line (there may only be one line). If you are using bespoke invoice templates and have more than one page with T&Cs, then the ability to better space out information in the Description Box, so it looks neat and tidy when in PDF, is important. It's very unprofessional looking if the T&Cs are starting on the same page as the invoice, and although we can add spaces inbetween the lines now, it's not always great to have massive gaps between lines. When there's only one line, it's impossible to sort it out.
Please can you add this ability in New Invoicing, how it currently is in Classic Invoicing? Or, don't retire Classic just yet!
Thank you -
Sze Ying Tan
commented
The spacing within the Description box on the invoice is permitted and will be accurately reflected in the PDF.
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Gary Young
commented
With the new invoicing option, the line item descriptions (when not using a stock item) are changed from what is actually entered. With all the other complaints about the new invoicing, this is being ignored.
I have raised this ERROR in all the other issues regarding the new invoice entry, so decided to raise it as a separate issue.
How can a software company change what is entered?
Basically the software is doing an automatic 'Trim' of all details entered on each line which eliminates the ability of the customer to format an invoice how they want.
That is beyond arrogant.... -
Gary Young
commented
With the removal of the classic invoice option and only being able to use the new invoicing option in September, how can you format the item description of an invoice with the way this new function works.
To format it so that it is readable means that it looks very UNPROFESSIONAL with full stops or some other character to ensure that the formatting remains as required.
Can the truncation of the description of spurious characters just be made optional rather than it being forced on everyone?