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I second all the previous posts - please allow us to set our own default and then have other options in a drop down box.

We don't email invoices so just want to approve invoices.

Agreed! We need this to be customisable!

The default approve feature in new invoicing is 'Save and email' but if Xero is purely a record of a company, not their main source of operation then this feature is inconvenient.

Can there be a setting to change this button to one of the options available e.g. 'Approve & add another' be the button that shows, not by clicking the drop down menu first.
If it is setting then it is completely customisable depending which of the current drop down items the user wants to show as the main button.

This would save a couple of seconds per invoice which would save hours when entering a lot of invoices.

Please make this work for everyone Xero! As suggested again and again, simply allow the user to set their invoice approval function to what best suits their business - Approve / Approve and PDF / Approve and Email. Please action this urgently :)

Can we have the option to set to default buttons/selections when completing an invoice please?

I do not need to email all of my invoices yet have to click through to select just approve.

This is a small thing in the grand scheme but when processing lots of invoices it is another thing that slows the process down, along with the 'too many clicks/tabs' issue.

Hopefully the new invoicing can be updated so it is a smooth process like the old style for tabbing and clicking through.

In old invoicing it was one step. Maybe add buttons for other options and ditch the drop down menu.

We want the same please. The default should be Approve. Not Approve and Email.

I have two clients who enter their sales invoices manually and don't need to send them to clients. They both HATE the new invoicing and although I am trying to encourage them to get used to it, it is a hard sell. The extra time to add the contact and approve and email is of no benefit to anyone. We need the option to unselect these options.

Yes, a selectable default would be fantastic as it can then cater for everyone

Approve & view next button is what works best for massive invoices to review and approve.

After reading a lot of the comments, it looks to me like many of us use the keyboard in preference to mouse in a lot of cases. Surely less clicks makes more sense. I'm also irritated that it takes double the amount of tabs to go through from entering your Contact through to Item.

I still need the option to Approve and then Email please as I have an overall reviewing process prior to bulk emailing

99% of our customers are one-offs and we don't need to save their names therefore have a generic name "customer" and we don't save an email for the invoices we produce as the customer rarely needs one. This Approve and Email button is wasting our time as we have to select Approve in the drop down box for every invoice. If we select Approve and Email it brings up a second box asking for an email address.

Please fix this to enable the user to select what the default button in the list should be. Maybe have it as a backend setting

The Approve and email option is causing huge scope for error. Changing the default from Approve was unacceptable. Please change this back asap. Also why move the button to the top of the screen - do you ever ask the user their work flow or only the tech geeks? This change has added several extra key stokes per invoice. Also the date function with two clicks to choose a date is going backwards in efficiency and not forwards.

Each company will have its own preference, therefore, we should be able to make our selection as a default. My preference is Approve and Print PDF, because I want to send my invoice with my completed work in an email to my client so they can see the value of what they are paying for.
I would also like to set up a default which removes that annoying pop-up that says "Contact defaults have been applied". Hilariously, Xero thinks that the workaround for that is to remove each contact default !!! Yeah, right.

Our invoices get sent out in batches by accounts, from among the ones the various managers have approved. There can be different timings, or email address customising needed, but if 'Approve and Email' is the default, then the ability to do that is lost. Training each and every manager to manually select 'Approve' instead of 'Approve and Email' for each and every invoice they have to approve is simply not going to work.

We need the approve only button as default. We have a 2 person setting up & approving of invoices. Too easy for mistakes to be made by the person initially setting up the invoice with the end result the customer gets an incorrect invoice emailed out in error.

Another vote here for this idea. It wasn't broke, but Xero fixed it anyway :-(

Totally agree a button just to approve is needed. We dont email invoices out until goods have been dispatched from the warehouse which can be days or weeks after the initial orders comes in when the invoice is generated.

Yes, I do not email invoices from Xero so choosing what I have as a default would be very helpful for us.