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The option to toggle Autosave on or off for individuals or organizations doesn't seem like it should be a difficult feature to implement given the very obvious and apparent need for it.
At a very minimum what would be useful is a Change Log in the History and Notes.
I often here my staff having issues when a change to an invoice is made by mistake, accidentally removed an item, line, description or changed a value and then BOOM you have no way to revert or undo the change thanks to the overzealous Autosave.
A meaningful history of changes, or an added feature for version/revision history would be a welcome addition.

Just had a call from Xero, after adding comments to the case I had raised about this. She is raising a complaint for me, around the new invoicing issues, including autosave not being an option yet. Not sure this will have any impact, but it might be worth everyone raising individual cases & asking them to raise a complaint. Maybe if they get hundreds of complaints they will start to get the message about not releasing something that's inferior to what it's replacing!

There is so much wrong with the autosave function in new invoicing and it needs to have the option to switch it off.
- You have to wait every time you move to the next field because autosave is in progress, wasting time.
- It creates an enormous amount of meaningless history lines making this a joke and very difficult to find actual information that is useful.
- Because of auto save you can't open a dummy invoice have a play with pricing then delete it because it automatically allocates a number. The only way to do this now is to have a permanent draft invoice that will never be used, which is ridiculous.

MAKE THE AUTO SAVE OPTIONAL !!!

Do we have any way of turning autosave off in invoicing yet? This is causing so many problems for us - as is the lack of delivery note facility from quotes, rather than invoicing. Xero has many great functions but the constant lack of offering features that have been asked for countless times is making me rethink my software choice. I have to change my payroll software this April so seems a perfect time to also change accounting software! Come on Xero! Sort yourself out!!!

There still seems to be no progress towards making the draft invoice auto save "feature" optional !!

The autosave function causes way more problems that it saves.
It auto saves even after a name is put in. Or one line item.

I could see how very large businesses with complex invoices might need it.
But an invoices takes 2 minutes to make. So why does it need to auto save it?

Add a feature to turn it off. Ive just got heaps of blank invoices in my system now

Have customers complaining that some invoices are doubled-up this month. One could claim user error, but it shouldn't be this easy for my team to make mistakes. The real cause... autosave creating copies of previous month's invoices, which someone then sent in the end of the month rush. One has been voided as it was clearly an error, creating more problems, which wouldn't have happened if a) autosave had been off and/or b) the classic had stayed on overnight. Now talking to my accountant about moving our 4 businesses off Xero - March/April would be the best timing after all.

I cannot believe after reading all these comments that Xero have still not responded, especially as users are now threatening to move their business away. Doesn't that make this a priority?

Xero, your customers need to be able to TURN OFF AUTOSAVE if we want to. It is rubbish, leads to errors & makes a nonsense of the "history" of an invoice.
This needs to be implemented BEFORE you force us to use the degraded programme that "new invoicing" is.

Xero Support just advised me to switch back to Classic Invoicing!!! I Just found yet another thing in New Invoicing that doesn't work properly - Unbelievable!
Beware some of the placeholders in New Invoicing do not work. I've been sending out Jan invoices, but the message header says 'Feb invoice' - because it is rubbish!
I think the fact that people are resorting to swearing, expresses the level of frustration of being moved to a totally inadequate and time consuming alternative. I am really trying to give New Invoicing a go, but every time I do, it fails. I hate autosave, not only is it better to manually save when you're done, but also it's quicker. I have to actually wait for the autosave to kick in before I 'print' the invoice, or it misses the last thing I entered - utterly ridiculous & timewasting.
I also signed up to the research panel, but no-one has bothered to ask my opinion - just a PR exercise I expect, sadly.

please turn off auto save ,,, it's f#@king frustrating!!

New Invoicing - Option to switch Autosave off
This feature is now costing us time and money. I really do not understand why this can not be implemented. WE DO NOT WANT OR NEED THIS FEATURE!!

XERO WILL YOU PLEASE START LISTENING TO US AND PUT THIS RIGHT.

Less than 30 days until classic invoicing is removed, and no response from Xero on this.

The most recent update email links to this page https://central.xero.com/s/article/Xero-new-invoicing-releases

... which has no mention of the ability to turn off or opt-out of autosave.

We are now working to switch away from Xero, as we can't bear the enormous fiscal risk of human error that is baked-in by this new 'feature'.

What a crazy backwards step. Disappointed for our feedback to fall on deaf ears after more than a decade working with Xero.

Some sort of response from Xero would be nice. So people understand what their options are (ie move to a software with less headaches - a few come to mind)?

Xero - where is this at??? Are there any plans to resolve by 27 February?

This is clogging up my downloads folder - we deal with 100's of clients every month and it is causing us much more admin time than we would expect - I can't see why this feature is useful when we deal with so many clients - the download folder is really only useful if we were one business not an accountancy practice!

Can Xero please advise users if they have any intention of offering the Option to switch Autosave off as so many of its users have suggested.

The auto save feature is really annoying and seems to lag - at times I am having to re-enter the information 3 times as it reverts back to the original (invoice number, for example).

Surely this auto-save bug/oversight in new invoicing is going to be fixed before 27-Feb??!!??

I had assumed the outright hatred of this was the reason new invoicing was delayed from Dec 2024, but didn't see it mentioned in an update email today...

Every time I copy an invoice without changing to classic first it causes issues and drives me crazy with lost time having to re-draft again.

I've just about had it with this autosave stuff. I have far better things to be doing with my time, at the moment, than dealing with stupid software and/or the idiotic implementation of so-called "new" updates.

Either get rid of this Autosave feature or give us the option to turn the blasted thing off.

Thanks to this (or the forced revert to "new invoicing"), I've just completely lost YET ANOTHER HOUR OF F***ING WORK!!!!

I'M SO SICK OF MY TIME AND MONEY BEING WASTED BY YOUR SOFTWARE DOWNGRADE!!!

Agree - possibly it might be useful for some others but definitely not me. Why would you save a change to the invoice when you have not reviewed it yet. This action should initiated by the user not the system.