I want to supress the leading zeros so my invoice numbers are significantly shorter - but another thread on this site revealed that they cannot be deleted - why not???
My suppliers and customers punch the entire number into their systems and they do not fit their field and create confusing references on their documentation....help!
Regards
Joe Trimboli
"Leading Zeros in Invoice and Purchase Order and any other form generating application"
Yep, me too. I have just upgraded to MYOB from another (ad-hoc) accounting program which was heaps easier to edit stuff like this. All of our invoices to date have been 4-digit numbers, and now from MYOB we are getting all these zeros. So that we hardly recognise our own invoice numbers anymore.
I too am amazed at this, not only to drop the leading zeroes but have the ability to put at the front of your invoice a default character field, such as SZAXXX (XXX being the invoice number)
I have voted for the change and urge others to do so as well
Simon
Please can every one vote for this so we can get some action!
Most programming languages and no doubt including the one AR is written in offer the ability to "Suppress Zeros", I'm struggling to believe that MYOB haven't enabled this.
It makes printed forms and screens look totally ugly.
It is perfectly do-able I'd say that someone just needs to spend the time to find out to do it.
Such a basic feature but yet makes the product look "cheap and nasty".
It seems that it has been mentioned in the general forum as well on a few occasions.
http://community.myob.com/t5/Sales-and-purchases/Leading-zeros-in-invoice-numbers/m-p/30261#M801
Joe,
I agree - and we should have the option of pre-fixing the autonumbering with letters - either by way of a custom field on the form or as part of the invoice number. We use AccountRight V19 and Liam advised that it is part of the AccountRight program. He also suggested I put it in the Ideas Exchange in the hope that in later versions it becomes adopted. It's great that other people are getting annoyed with the zeros. You don't mention what version you are using.
