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Came here after trying the new "improved" invoicing and found I lost a tonne of data. My invoices get created by a quotation program when they are accepted and when there are only a few line items being invoiced each month I copy to a new invoice and delete the invoiced items off the original. Just made a mistake and deleted 20 incorrect lines, but where I used to be able to just hit refresh to reload the origianl, autosave made that very much permanent for me.
Xero really sucks these days

We use a different sequence of invoice numbers for our three different services: decorating, landscaping and garden maintenance. We are getting missing numbers by changing the details each time.

When I save, close and then reopen my draft invoice a number 1 appears in the qty column when it still needs to be blank as in the original version. I use draft invoices as large product templates so I then have to delete all the ones to keep my template and customer invoice correct.

i would suggest you go back to the classic invoicing, new invoicing is **** and missing functionality

I agree with comment made by Margaret Zdunek

On a few occasions I have had to stop processing an invoice to leave it for another day because of lack of information but because it saves automatically the invoice has been generated. I then go to raise another invoice and it gives me the next number. This never used to happen with the old style invoicing. I now have gaps in my invoice numbers. I need to be able to just get out of invoicing without using a number. Also sometimes I go into a draft invoice to try out a revised pricing model but because it saves automatically I now have to print the draft before the changes so that I can revert back to the original pricing once finished.

Ive gone back to the old version until September! Hopefully someone may decide to let us toggle it on and off.

I use cut and paste into my invoices and if I don't change the invoice number quick enough it auto savs as something else and I have to start again! Too time consuming!

I too would find it difficult to continue with Xero if this isn’t fixed. PLEASE DO NOT DISCONTINUE OLD SYSTEM. let the users decide what they would rather use. There is too much wrong with new invoicing and it is being hurried through with no choice

The autosave feature should be chosen by the user if they wanted it on or off. This is so frustrating when you are splitting Invoices or have progress invoices in your drafts. Also no option to cancel data entered and go back to the original invoice if a human error occurred, and lets be real ....they occur so if it doesn't get looked at by xero techs and give the option to turn off then their must be better accounting systems that offer all features ..... who made the decision to put this feature in their in the first place "seriously" !!!

Autosave is a useful feature but I wasn't aware it was on, so made some temporary changes to an invoice then exited WITHOUT saving, and then found I had lost the original invoice

Must be something that can be toggled by the user

Autosaving means that the history of an invoice where all I had to do was:
- import the on-billable expenses,
- import what went on the last invoice,
- copy the text from the last invoice's line items to the new invoice's line items,
- fix the line item quantities and values,
- delete the imported lines from the last invoice, and
- send the invoice
looks like the attached screenshot. Cluttered.

I want to disable Xero from autofilling my tracking categories on invoices. I regularly invoice a client but the invoice tracking category differs regularly. I'm sick of having to correct the autofilled tracking category to the correct selection.

There also appears to be a bug in this area. When I delete/amend the invoice tracking category that has been autofilled and then alter any part of the line item it reverts the tracking category to whatever it was originally, which is really annoying me.

this has caused my organisation major headaches now at the end of the financial year and is costing us money to fix.

Please make autosave an option, having it may be useful for some users but not for others, making it optional would provide a solution for everyone,

It does not suit my business. It makes my job so much harder and it causes mistakes.
We should be able to choose the option.

We do not want auto save either. There should be the option to turn it on or off.
Or there should be the option to cancel the changes made.
I would also like the approve button to be the default rather than approve and email. I prefer to email invoices out in batches. Too time consuming doing one at time.

Autosave is NOT a feature that we want. I regularly open an invoice just to check a price or give a customer a quick verbal quote over the phone so that I don't have to do maths in my head. Autosave means I will have at least 20 or 30 false draft invoices saved every day that I do not want, and I will now have to allocate time to separating them from the real drafts i do want, and delete off the false ones.

I don't like this not being toggleable. Too many drafts lingering around and if you delete them, you've already incremented the invoice number.
Why are most of these "improvements" lately not improvements but new quirks?

Petition for Xero Executives Regarding Alleged "Improvements"

https://central.xero.com/s/question/0D53m00009n36b9CAA/petition-for-xero-executives-regarding-alleged-improvements

Not happy at all with autosave because I can't go back to my original invoice. This needs to be optional.
We have been with Xero for years and years but I think we will need to explore other options. There are sooo may features that other platforms have but Xero doesn't. i think its time for Xero to move with times as well. Does the Xero team ever seriously ask us (their clients) what "we" really need????

Needs to have the option to "turn off" autosave or UNDO actions. The history doesn't even allow you to view the previously saved versions so there is no way to track changes. This is incredibly frustrating and causing major issues.

The auto save is making it impossible to update details in the reference field from repeating invoices. I have been trying to get support to take this seriously since 22 Dec 2022! Now we are about to be forced to use new invoicing. This is such an issue for my day to day work that it may be the last straw for me and Xero.