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Hi @Ryan Switzer,

We completely understand your frustration—deleting an invoice in Xero and losing all visibility into its history is a real concern, especially when it comes to audit integrity and compliance.

That’s exactly why we built Control-C.
✅ Control-C captures every invoice version—including drafts, approved invoices, edits, and yes, even deleted invoices.
✅ We preserve the full invoice content before deletion, so you can always retrieve what was lost—even if it’s no longer visible in Xero.
✅ Our immutable backups mean you can view, export, and audit any invoice as it existed on any day, giving you peace of mind that nothing is ever truly gone.

In your case, where the invoice was deleted and you needed to reference it later, Control-C would have retained the last known version of that invoice, including its line items, contact details, and status. You could have pulled it up instantly—even if it was deleted in Xero. See the attached screenshots.

We’re also rolling out near real-time versioning, so changes and deletions are captured within minutes, not just daily.

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Essential to have an undo button like in most business apps these days.
Save and close and then reopening is cumbersome, as is having to reenter information at silly o'clock at nights or on a weekend, when I'd rather be sleeping.

Xero - less needless data reentry = more beauty sleep = way more happy Xero customers.

I accidentally deleted a line on a draft repeating invoice today (I had some in-month additions added for the client), I went back to drafts to reopen the generated invoice and it had already autosaved. An undo button to quickly restore a line seems like a no-brainer. To be able to revert to the original version of the invoice would also be good.

Saving changes to invoices while amending is very frustrating. I have just tried to remove one line from a draft invoice and managed to remove the one below as well. Now I don't have the info to reinstate it.

It would be great to have an undo option and be able to choose to save manually

My case is similar to other users on this thread. I created a multi-page invoice with descriptions for hourly tasks, essentially a month long timecard, and intended to make a copy to retain only the client information and skeleton of the invoice format. Halfway through I realized that I was editing the original invoice not a copy - tried to exit and not save the changes to find out Xero had autosaved everything I accidentally deleted. I can see the edits in History and notes, so the data has to be available. Please allow us to access it!

Let us type date in too!!!

I typed a 3 page invoice, made a mistake and it was all gone. Being able to undo would be amazing.

Just got bitten by this today - went searching for the cancel/undo option only to find everything had been auto-saved and there was no way back.

Great idea.

I'd also add there's little point in having changes saved when an invoice is in draft - it's not approved yet so this detail is a waste of time.

When writing quote or invoice and filling in description of item there needs to be an undo feature added to the form or window to allow for human error by accidently erasing data with keyboard input, possibly a bulit in undo button to the invoice or quote to prevent inputed data lost before the document is saved

Today I've opened an invoice and was in the process of changing a line in it. Then I've changed my mind and decided to leave the line in the invoice. In the meantime I removed the product code associated with that line and Xero autosaved the invoice in the middle of this, so now the line does have description, price, account, discount, quantity, but doesn't have its product code. Is there a way to REVERT the invoice to a previous autosaved point (specifically, a point where that line had the code)? This will save my time since if I must rewrite the whole line to restore the product code in it I'll have to add again all the other parameters (q.ty, account, price, discount, description, since as we all know when you reselect a code of a product the whole line will be overwritten by the default parameters of the coded item). That's why many don't like autosave. Autosave is not absolutely a good thing and there should be a way to deactivate it or at least to revert the autosave log to a previously saved point.

With Auto save, there is no way to correct a mistake. Xero needs to have a GO BACK option, so that mistakes can be corrected without having to redo the entire invoice.

We sent an invoice to a customer that had the bank details for payment added into Xero incorrectly on our end. Error has since been corrected, but customer has the initial Xero-generated invoice with the incorrect details. When I view the invoice in Xero now, it shows the correct bank details. Is there a way to find/see the invoice that was sent with incorrect details?