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Yes please make this an option, it stuffs up my invoice numbering, slows the whole process of entering in the details.

Now takes me twice as long to enter in an invoice which cost me time and money

Autosave is a real issue.

Come on, XERO, we all know how simple it is to have an ON/OFF setting in the defaults.

Please make this happen to help users!

I assist a client with their bookkeeping; he sends notes from harvest, which I refine and move lines around until they're in the format he requires. When I'm fininshed with one section, In the classic invoicing, I'd save and continue edit and check totals etc. - If there's an error I'd simply cancel and go back into the draft and it would carry on where I'd left off from my last save. now it saves over potential errors and it takes longer to fix up mistakes or look for them. I have to print a pdf of the draft and work from there, but this doesnt always show the item code and tax excl amounts so it's actually not a great solution. PLEASE LET US TURN OFF AUTO SAVE!

Autosave in every field is an OVERKILL!

As it was discussed in the community, just do a reminder option "you have an unsaved job" with two options to save or cancel when you are closing the tab in the browser.

Also, please restore "a beautiful" history of classic invoicing. We need to have just two lines: invoice was approved and invoice was emailed instead of 5 lines:
Invoice Sent
Edited
Edited
Invoice Unsent
Approved

The most bizarre is to see unsent when you click the Approve & email button.

Gggggggrrrrrrr, why aren't Xero listening to their customers?!?!?!

I mean I'm no IT guru but surely it can't be that hard to have an option where if you want Autosave on, then you turn it on and if you seriously don't want it on (like me) you should be able to toggle it off in the settings???

I am actually getting so fed up with this bloody autosave and the fact that we're not getting a response from Xero!

Our company has spent hours setting up the product codes, in such a way that the most common product we invoice out, shows up first and if I need to select the product below it, if I'm not fast enough in selecting a line below the first one, before Autosave kicks in, I end up clicking on the option to create a new bloody Product Code so I feel like it's a race between me and Xero so that this option doesn't get the chance to see the light of day!

Aaaaaaaannnnd if I type in the wrong customer name by accident, obviously, Autosave creates a whole new contact. I hate to think how many of these so called new contacts I have had to Archive because of this issue.

When is Xero going to respond to this, what seems like, simple fix???

I concur with all that has been said. This could be a useful feature but it completely kills my monthly invoice which is 200 lines long - old invoicing system handled it without issue. Now I'm going to have to start splitting the invoice into 4 or more just to get it completed. Such a waste of time. An option to turn it off would be ideal.

Auto save on invoicing is unnecessary and should be turned off. time wasted when you've made a mistake and you need to cancel all the drafts and the work put the sequential invoice numbering which gets screwed up as well.

It just slows down data entry and loading a draft invoices takes forever! Please turn this off. It is not required.

If I decide not to complete an invoice or quote and close it, then I will have no wasted numbers. Only when I save the number will stay just like the invoices 🧾 did in the beginning. So please don’t do auto save it’s not needed. If you send it then yes it should save but otherwise no. Please make it our choice. Can I change it please 🙏🏼

Autosave is a pain. Either get rid of it or let us turn it off. I just created a 12-line invoice and because this stupid system needs to autosave each time I enter or change data in a cell of field, I now have a file history on the invoice that is 35 lines of useless drivel. What a joke!

Not only does it save things that you don't need, it makes the process slower as it won't register the 1st time you click into a field, or the second, or event he thrid sometimes. Copy and pasting into a field is 50% success too depending on it you click in correctly and Ctrl+v...

Seriously took me twice as long as it should have to make this invoice.

I seriously hate "new" invoicing in it's current form and capability.

And option to copy to po.

Be told by (Natascha - Support specialist) to vote here again.
As Xero will not be fixing the bugs I've reported with Autosave.

Agree with all the comments - remove autosave immediately.
Not sure why it has not been done so already with all the negative feedback.

I am having constant issues with the auto save causing invoice to freeze.
The only way forward is to refresh the page and loose all the entered data.

This happens for almost every line that is inputted.

Please, remove the auto save function.

Its an utterly useless feature for us.

IMO, Xero are not wanting to deal with larger office based businesses going forwards but focus on small peripatetic businesses like gardeners, plumbers and electricians that wander from job to job and house to house and rely on flakey 4G service on the mobile app. They create an invoice on the fly at a customers house so Autosave on the mobile app means they dont forget to save it.

Anyway please scrap it.

I already didn't like Autosave as it causes such a slowdown in operation but now that I see it logs each and every time you change something it makes the file history utterly stupidly verbose and completely useless.

Seriously, either give us the option to turn it off or get rid of it completely. I cannot state strongly enough how dumb it is.

Please give us the options to turn auto save off. It saves all changes/errors in the 'History/Notes' log before the invoice is complete.

I was not finished typing the Customer in the Customer field when it saved and created a new client.

What is the point suggesting excellent "business features" when Xero can't even respond. Seriously, without looking at every comment, straight away it is very clear that the majority of people who voted are in favour of having an

OPTION TO TURN AUTOSAVE OFF!!!!!!

There has been XERO RESPONSE to this, what I believe, to be a simple solution to so many of our invoicing issues/delay!

Completely agree with others on this post. Auto-save isn't helpful to our organisation at all. We really need a option to disable autosave.

We have trialled the new invoicing template and we sometimes have over 100 lines for one invoice - with Classic invoicing this didn't seem to be an issue. However, with the auto save on the new invoicing template it is very, very slow at loading the invoice as it is saving each line as it comes over. It would be nice to have the option to switch Autosave off.