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Change numbering format for invoices and credit memos

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December 11, 2018
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To easily identify invoices and credit memos we used to create the prefix CR- for credits and QB would remember and sequentially create new Credit Memos with the prefix (e.g. CR-100, CR-101, CR-102) and leave the invoices alone. The credit memos would continue with the CR prefix and the invoices without a prefix. At some point this stopped working and now wants to put the CR in front of invoices. Is there any way to get the numbering to be different and accept the letter prefix for just the credit memos?

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Best answer by SkinnyRaven

To be honest I did not realize this until your post. It appears credit memos use the same number sequence as invoices. So if your last invoice entry was 4000 and you generate a credit memo the number would autopopulate as 4001. I can see where adding CR- to the credit memo number would also change your invoice number as well. When or if this was changed from previous versions I cannot say.

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SkinnyRavenAnswer

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To be honest I did not realize this until your post. It appears credit memos use the same number sequence as invoices. So if your last invoice entry was 4000 and you generate a credit memo the number would autopopulate as 4001. I can see where adding CR- to the credit memo number would also change your invoice number as well. When or if this was changed from previous versions I cannot say.

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mac2itAuthor

Yes that's exactly what's happening. Maybe it happened in one of the R updates because I thought it worked previously in our 2012 edition. May we should have kept the sequential numbering for everything as they originally had it. Iterestingly, the estimates work fine with our ES-### prefix and don't get mixed up with the invoices or credits.

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Anonymous

Your original method should still work. Try creating a new invoice and use IN as a prefix. save and close and see if the next invoice starts with an IN.

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mac2itAuthor

Thanks for the reply. It doesn't seem to work any more. I just opened invoices after doing a credit and the first invoice had the CR prefix and the next sequential number based on the Credit Memos.

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cblades

Has there been any progress on this? For our business, it would be extremely valuable to have different numbering sequences for Invoices and Credit Memos. Our CM's do not follow the same sequence as our Invoices so we manually have to change the sequence every time we wish to enter a Credit Memo. This often causes future invoices to be created in the wrong sequence not matching our standard convention which is very frustrating and confusing for both customers and our A/R Team.

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Giovann_G

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Hello, cblades.

I understand your point. Your business needs to have separate numbering sequences for invoices and credit memos. As of right now, the same numbering sequence is used for invoices and credit notes.

You can manually change the sequence when creating an invoice or credit memo. Before saving the transaction, please verify that the number adheres to your company standard. This will prevent confusion for your customers and the A/R team.

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nlee1079

This is a huge issue for me as well. The fact that QBO using the same number sequencing for two very different items is extremely frustrating. We can not have invoices and credit memos run on the same number sequence. Please fix this asap.

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