New Invoicing - Retain Invoice Number when leaving the entry screen
This is an extremely basic feature that must be fixed (in my opinion, a bug). If I create a NEW invoice, but then do not approve it or save it as a draft, and simply close the browser or the session times out) the invoice number that had been temporarily allocated to this invoice is now lost. The next time I open Xero and input a new invoice, it skips that number and uses the next number. This is ridiculous behaviour as consecutive invoice numbers are critical to many companies.
To fix this, whenever a new invoice is started, the invoice number allocated must be the next sequential number, irrelevant of how many other times an invoice had been started, not completed. The logic is ALREADY there to not let a user save an invoice with the same number as a previous, so if 20 new invoices are attempted to be created at the same time, they still couldn't save them with the same number.
John Baxter
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Lisa Collis
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When we type in our unique invoice number on new invoices. We find that Xero revert the number back to the default number provided and we have to re-type our unique number again. Please fix.
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Dominic Germana
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In my opinion, it would be even better to not assign invoice numbers at all until the invoice is approved, per this suggestion:
https://productideas.xero.com/forums/939198-for-small-businesses/suggestions/46830625-invoices-add-invoice-number-when-invoice-is-appr