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  1. New Invoicing - Option to switch Autosave off

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    Not in pipeline  ·  AdminKelly Munro (Community Manager, Xero) responded

    Hi community, as mentioned in my last post we want to keep you looped in on changes around autosave.

    Our product team has continued to focus attention on how we can make invoicing faster and more responsive to improve our customers' experience.

    We've now optimised autosave to require less processing power, leading to faster invoice loading and saving.

    While we don't have any plans to remove autosave, there is the possibility that we would make updates to improve experiences related to autosave in the future - I've provided links below to ideas that have been raised and remain open for consideration;

    Thanks again for all your feedback and sharing with us in the forums here.

    Updated 10 Sept 25

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    Suzanna Rose commented  · 

    (a) i need the option to turn autosave off (it creates too much edit history, and it automatically allocates a new XERO generated invoice number. I REALLY hate that.

    (b) for users who elect to turn autosave off, please update the background programming NOT to autosave the incremental invoice number generated by XERO. 99% of the time I override this with my own generated invoice number. I'm not happy for the the solution to be that I have to enter my own invoice number first (although that works, it's not intuitive - I want to work left to right.)

    Maybe this will happen by default if you implement the option for users to turn autosave off? But the biggest problem for me with this autosave feature is the way it increments the XERO invoice number each time. I need to track those XERO invoice numbers and use them sequentially for non-core business purposes. It is OK for XERO to suggest the next incremental XERO invoice number, but if I override it during input (at whatever point, before I hit approve), please do NOT increment on the next invoice. Please offer that same XERO invoice number.

    Suzanna Rose supported this idea  ·