A lot of people miss the fact that you can start invoices at whatever number you choose.

To do so, just visit your invoice “Details” tab. There you’ll be able to enter anything, like INV-012340.

The system will try to intelligently increment whatever you’ve entered when you create your next invoice.

I noticed this when I was poking around, very, very nice. One thing to note though, if someone puts a space between the dash (I had named an invoice “DOR – 175”), it breaks the link when you e-mail the invoice to a client and the “last invoice used” drops back to 0000001 or whatever. I’m just chilling on the free version while I poke around, but figured this would be worth mentioning to you.

Thanks for the heads up. This is fixed in development and will be live by 2/5/08

Greetings,

While it is very handy to have the intelligent incrementing of invoice numbers, is there a way to reset the numbering system? I prefer a YYYYMMxx number system, like 20080501 through 20080599.

At some point, however, I must have entered extra digits, so the numbering now starts far too high, like 20080322812.

flatcat’s “bug” may have been a “feature” to me, in allowing me to reset the default invoice number to a lower number.

Is there an alternate method to do this, when the numbering goes awry? Thanks!