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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.

I wish to have auto-save turned off as well. If I want to save an invoice, I'll save it. Also if I've made a change that I no longer wish to keep, then there's no way of going back, there's no version history, and the description in the comments tells me nothing. Most unhelpful. Auto-save has to go.

With 100's of people in support of this, why will XERO not implement it?

It is a real anoiance to have it and it is a simple default that can be set up in the set up.

I think XERO really ignores these suggestions/pleas for improvements, which is an insult to all users.

Auto-Save is horrible, & makes an utter nonsense of the history & notes. It is IMPERATIVE to have an option to turn this off.
Microsoft have this as an option for word & excel, so it is clearly possible to do.
This definitely needs to be implemented before we are forced to move to the awful new invoicing programme.

Completely lost on the thinking behind this one. NONE of my clients want it, nor do many other people as per below and feedback elsewhere.

At least make it optional because, for now, it is just causing more "Classic invoicing will be retired on 27 February" headaches and possibly providing nothing to anyone?

It should be off by default, and those who want it (if anyone) can switch it on if they so desire.

auto save is a fat waste of time , forever getting job cards with the wrong names or invoice numbers on them ,,,, very frustrating !!

I hate the autosave function. We are forever getting drafts created and abandoned, meaning I have to sort them all out. It especially seems to happen when people are copying from a previous invoice - from the 10 I had to sort out the other day, 6 of them were from copying previous invoices. I vote for an option to switch it off, or just don't have the feature in the first place. I have advised all my users to switch back to classic invoicing while they still can, which feels counter-productive.

+1 I'm now reverting to using a spreadsheet to avoid the very slow and buggy autosave. Xero has become a productivity killer. Fix it.

Unnecessary invoices are being created regardless of whether I chose to select save options, very frustrating.

Same is happening with contacts.

Autosaving should be an optional feature ideally.

Auto save is ridiculous. Ive had to re-do so many invoices due to it being slow and not saving. Its beyond frustrating

The user should have the rights to save a DRAFT invoice it shouldnt be done automatically based on the examples listed here. If Xero are intent on keeping this new feature can you please at least have an option to revert back to previous. Thank you.

The new invoicing interface has an autosave feature but it doesn't save quick enough and overrides information like the invoice number in between the saves. Please can the auto-save function be togglable off as invoicing now feels clunky and slow. Also means you have to delete the invoice every time you open up the invoicing.