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Thank you!

We currently have 2 templates for invoices, but will add more in the future.

Serial no's are consecutive and you can set when to start the series, so if you're at 888 now, just punch that in and we'll increment on that.

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Can you then reset that (skip) if you manually need to invoice a client because of some special requirements?

Yes sir - So that if you've sent 5 invoices via another system, you can bump it and have it restart there. This is under your Profile, but you're the 2nd person to ask so I might move it into the Create Invoice Dialog.

Thanks for poking :)

When I was starting out as an independent consultant, I'd manually increase invoice numbers by a semi-random number (instead of +1), so it looks like I had many invoices/clients. Later I switched to a less predictable invoice format like "20220111-01".

I don't know if fudging invoices numbers was helpful, but I'm pretty sure that sending "invoice+1" to the same client several times in a row is never positive signaling for independents (at best, it's neutral if no one looks, but it could be negative).

I recall doing the same some 15 years ago :) I'll add a setting for increments which can be an int or Random. It won't be viable everywhere, but some will hopefully find it useful.

It is a good idea if your tax aythority and law like it.

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