The invoice numbering system is archaic and remains at the old 8 aphanumeric length.
I had hoped that v15 had changed this but have found out [from a post this morning ] that this has not changed.
Leading zeros for invoice numbers that are considered by MYOB internals as a number seems outdated.
ie 00000001 is silly -when I pay this invoice is the ref number 00000001 or 1
I know why it occurs - because this number is an alphanumeric - but if it looks like a number smells like one and increments like one MYOB will treat it as one.
Hence the auto system
And if you remove the leading zeros MYOB puts them back - but remove them and put an A in the number as
A1 or 1A and MYOB doesnot add back the zeros.
However with a max of 8 alphas - if we need to make provisions [sensibly] for Credit Notes and re-sssues then we shorten our allowable numbering system.
ie. lets say we have an invoice 12963 which would be stored and printed as
00012963
And we need to create a credit in full - can't be 00012963CN as that is 10 characters.
So we remove 2 leading zeros and put 012963CN - and the number becomes very different to 00012963
So instead of using numbers we add an A and make it
12963A - and MYOB permits this and stores it as "12963A" and alphanumeric
Now we can issue a credit note 12963ACN and a re-ssue 12963B - and these will sort correctly in MYOB 1 after the other - so the book keeper can see at a glance CN and re-issues relating to the original 12963A - goodaccounting procedure.
However - we now limit the numbering system effectively to 99,999 invoice numbers before restarting.
Please MYOB rethink this archaic invoice numbering system - make it 16 at least. - perhpas have 2 fields - a number and an alphanumeric!
The Doc - and yes a tick box to include or exclude leading zeros
