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I logged a case with Xero support because as I would type new invoice numbers over the default numbers it would revert back to defaults or insert them in the middle of the numbers I was entering.
This turns out to be an issue caused by autosave and the advice was to wait until the autosave finishes. Who has time to pause for a few seconds on each invoice when you have hundreds to enter? Now if I don't check every invoice number I end up with a lot of errors.
Autosave is total overkill when most of my invoices are one line only.
It slows everything down and massively impacts my work-flow.
I didn't switch to new invoicing until I absolutely had to due to the loss of functionality. Now Xero needs to be fixing these things that are deficiencies in the software and looking after us long-term users.

Please Xero listen and fix it - make autosave optional.

You're so correct - all Xero does is totally ignore any suggestions by users!

It is insulting.

I can not believe how thick skinned they are.

I agree. Another issue I've now found - I do batch invoicing based on groups and in some cases there are up to 47 in a group. You would think that creating draft invoices for them would only include that group e.g 22 which are the current ones in that group, instead stupid Xero says there's 42 and then when you create them it gives a message saying sorry but 20 from your group couldn't be created but no link to click on to see what ones they are. This didn't happen in classic as I've done my invoices this way for a few years now.

Example of what see now - it also now doesn't even do them in alphabetical order but in invoice order instead which it used to in classic if I remember rightly and made it easier to check I had all the current.
I'm lodging it as a case but suspect they won't do anything since they aren't really fixing any of the issues we are all complaining about any way.

Auto-save is f---ing annoying!

1. I have many drafts that come in and they are expected to be ready for review already; when auto-saves are happening and someone goes in to mess around on something or just doesn't finish and then a draft is saved, it causes confusion!
2. if i'm working and change the invoice number, it then tries to autosave, but then if the invoice number is taken - it gets reset. it did this multiple times as i was trying to copy the format over from another invoice, and then went to another screen to copy the information i was going to replace, only to discover what i had just copied disappeared due to autosave finding a 'conflicting invoice' (which there wouldn't be because i wasn't ready to save!)

I've taken to adding a note to every single invoice I send - It's a note saying what date, what time and to whom I sent the invoice. There's no other way to legally show that I have already sent an invoice to a client - on more than one occasion mostly.
On top of that, I save the emails for invoices in a folder - if I need to resend an invoice to a client, I resend the email sent to me in the first instance. These workarounds seem to be the only way to keep the records straight.

When is auto save going to become optional , it causes me issues daily,

Please start listening to your customers Xero !

at least give us a genuine reason for this to be mandatory for all users !

Any progress on this?
At this point I'd take this over reducing the grid size if I was forced to make a choice. The permanent auto save is an absolute nightmare, and the fact that there is no back/undo option is beyond bonkers

The whole autosave is ridiculous - who ever came up with the idea should be fired!!
It's a nightmare when having to use the history for Debt Collection purposes or even just proving when, where and to who the invoice was sent just to get payment for an overdue invoice. I use the history quite a bit in this case especially when we don't get advised that someone has left the company but the emails still go through.

Attached is the auto save notes for one invoice. 6 Pages. The number of useful entries would fit on less than one page. I should not have to filter through this much to get to the required information.

More mess Xero.

Please give option to disable autosave in invoices.
Show us that you are listening.

I would like to turn off as well or have the ability to revert/cancel an invoice to its original state. If you make a change or a mistake, there is no undo button. Now there is no way to know what was in a field before you started making changes.

This is critical. It can't be that difficult to disable this.

disable autosaving or give option to do so. This is causing all kinds of issues. Are you even listening?

How in the F do we look up pricing or back out of doing an invoice when the situation changes or all details are not at hand... then you end uop potentially billing it twice - this is the biggest **** up of an idea ever... pretty sure I voted against this when you first pushed the new invoicing on us ... i actually HATE this new invoicing with a passion.. ten years a user of XERO and I can say this is the bigges backward step i have ever seen

What can i say? That hasn't been said by the thousand of disgruntled users since this new invoicing was available. 7 years in the making I would be asking for a refund.

This blows my mind - 8 pages of comments going back to July 2023; haven't read them all but I have read a lot and none of the ones I have read are positive. And yet autosave remains. Really Xero?

XERO - you used to be the best software provider - listening and reacting positively to customer's suggestions. So good that we recommended you to all of our customers. Now, to be frank, you operate with complete indifference to your customers, focusing solely on maximizing revenue at the expense of service and integrity.

Please bring back the old Xero who would have made the autosave setting optional as soon as they saw the number of user complaints.

This auto-save function screws up creating invoices so badly as it floods the 'history' with useless commits, creates fake drafts that have to be manually deleted, etc.

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Please remove this auto-save function

As long as I only have one line for an invoice I don't put the customer in until I've finished getting everything else in so it doesn't save it but I'm dreading this when I have to do my batch invoicing based on membership tiers as there's a lot in some of them. I know that isn't going to work for a lot of users though and they need to get rid of the autosave altogether and let us save a draft like in classic.
Bad enough it takes longer just to do one invoice to make sure everything is correct before I save it, then to look at the history and see of the useless "edited" entries when nothing was really done except I clicked into it is a real pain.