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From Pat at Xero Support 29 Oct 24: Hi Scott

I want to make it clear that it is not our intention to remove the autosave feature or make it optional. We've got some very interesting feedback on autosave on quotes, which is yet to be implemented. If you're interested in seeing the sentiment from users around the lack of the autosave feature for quotes, feel free to have a read through the comments on the product idea.

Any chance this will be fixed (ie a no autosave option) before it's forced on us in 20 days' time.
Doing end of month invoicing now and autosave is frustrating & screwing things up. Resorting to Classic for October but November...?

Totally agree. Can throw off the numbering system for invoices, you might not know a draft invoice is there (even though it displays 'Draft invoice saved') and you can end up with lots of unfinished drafts.

We, and I, see lots of (unhappy) Xero customers here with their (and my) VERY good reasons for turning off Auto-Save. I run Xero courses here in Albury, and yesterday's class all agreed there should be an option to turn it off.

I echo the request to turn off auto save, I prefer to save my changes myself when ready & not have the long audit trail that happens when it keeps auto saving.

I use copy invoice facility but that requires minor amendments (such as desc, lead ref & amount) but each time it auto saves & leaves a trail in notes of each tiny amendment I make. I always switch back to classic as it gets on my nerves.

At one point I wanted to preview an invoice & auto save was lagging behind slightly so my change didn't show, other times it's super quick so it saves before you really want it to.

Prefer ability to turn it off please so I can control how often it saves.

YES! Firstly, I actually really like the auto-save feature, as some afternoons our internet gives up for an hour or so.
BUT, I can't count how many times I've been interrupted and thought I copied the invoice then wind up completely clearing that customers one only to find out I never copied it and have now lost the info. This means a lot more work going back through papers to re-create the original invoice (hopefully we haven't lost income from this).

Please Xero, if you can't turn it off (or don't want to) at least create some sort of 'undo' feature to avoid these kinds of mistakes happening!

VERY inconvenient that draft invoices auto-save. I usually create invoices by copying from an existing invoice. The first auto-save happens even before I've typed the invoice # I would like to use rather than the one Xero likes to allocate. the continual auto-save also creates a massive history trail which makes it then difficult to see my history of actual changes.
Since at least February 2024, users have been requesting that auto-save be either removed or made optional. Will this happen before the legacy version (without auto-save) is removed??

VERY inconvenient that draft invoices auto-save. I usually create invoices by copying from an existing invoice. The first auto-save happens even before I've typed the invoice # I would like to use rather than the one Xero likes to allocate. the continual auto-save also creates a massive history trail which makes it then difficult to see my history of actual changes.

Come on Xero pay attention to your users. This is a critical option to prevent lost work and you haven't even acknowledged it with over 250 votes

So many unwanted blank or half invoices are being created and throwing off the invoice numbering - need to either be able to turn this off or have it not save when exiting.

I edit invoices and will close to reopen to the last time 'I' saved. I understand that some users prefer auto save. But how could this be implemented without the considering the user who don't. Always need on / off option.

Its just getting worse..... I was just raising a 4 line invoice in classic (i only use classic as new is not fit for purpose).

When I finished entering all the info, I pressed APPROVE and thought I was done.

But then my production called me and said they cant find my invoice. After hunting for it, I found that my invoice had somehow converted itself into an autosave draft in new invoicing format; and was in the draft folder, MISSING 2 LINES !!!

No idea how or why this happened, but now I'm going to have to check every single "approved" invoice, every time, to make sure it has actually saved in the proper way, with all of it's lines intact.

XERO - please stop screwing around with our lives!

Please turn this off or give us the option to use. its useless in its current form

I cannot use the new Invoicing due to this feature. Please turn Auto save OFF.
We use the Invoice as a job card, entering daily times, materials and details from which 3 of us manage the job until invoicing. Auto save disrupts this ideas phase by saving when not wanted and losing data.
Please get rid of it.

A year on and still no option to switch this off? or have I missed something?

Yes, yes, yes! I'm in agreement with both of these points.

Please listen to your customers Xero, and fix the problem with Autosave. It is slowing everything down, and as previous writers have said there should be a check button that you can uncheck if you do not want autosave. Also when entering a customer's name, we cannot see what we are typing as the box is obscuring the view and if we have misspelt the customer name a new customer is automatically saved which is soooo annoying. Please Fix This!!!

Creating too many drafts which then have to be removed. Also cannot change the contact once started...if you mis-type it creates a new contact which is then going to sit in contacts and keep coming up when typing in future....please can we remove auto save....or at least have an option to turn it OFF!!

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!