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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 🙏🏼

(a) i need the option to turn autosave off (it creates too much edit history, and it automatically allocates a new XERO generated invoice number. I REALLY hate that.

(b) for users who elect to turn autosave off, please update the background programming NOT to autosave the incremental invoice number generated by XERO. 99% of the time I override this with my own generated invoice number. I'm not happy for the the solution to be that I have to enter my own invoice number first (although that works, it's not intuitive - I want to work left to right.)

Maybe this will happen by default if you implement the option for users to turn autosave off? But the biggest problem for me with this autosave feature is the way it increments the XERO invoice number each time. I need to track those XERO invoice numbers and use them sequentially for non-core business purposes. It is OK for XERO to suggest the next incremental XERO invoice number, but if I override it during input (at whatever point, before I hit approve), please do NOT increment on the next invoice. Please offer that same XERO invoice number.

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.

I would like to be able to turn off autosave. We use the invoice to do mock invoices to check our sell price etc and we would normally just delete once the exercise is completed and the invoice number is still there for use next time. Now we have to delete the whole thing which isn't ideal at all.

We should have the option to turn on or off autosave, it doesn't seem right that the choice isn't ours.

Agreed - there is no up side to this function for us, only negative

The auto save in the new Invoicing is creating a problem with us having to delete multiple draft Invoices -
Staff are often called away from their desk and with their draft autosaving and another Staff member raising it on another login
Is there a way that we can go back to a draft only being created when we press save

Autosave is broken!
Why is it even on by default?
Who used for this feature?
Just opening a daft invoice apparently classifies as an edit in "New Invoicing"!

Programming Autosave #101, Before implementing Autosave, implement versioning and versioning rollbacks.

Give us the option to turn off Autosave, this is causing so many issues.

the auto save function is annoying because you can easily loose data from misclicks.