Hi There are duplicate sale invoice numbers created when we have two staff who enter a sales invoice from different pcs at the same time. For example on PC1, User ABC creates new sales invoice whilst at the same time on PC2, USER XYZ creates new sales invoice. Then either user ABC or XYZ finishes …

This happens because the invoice numbers are allocated when the sales invoice is begun, not when it is finished and the user clicks Create. Manager searches for the highest existing number in the database and increments the count by one. If two users happen to be working on new invoices at the same …

Considering Manager is a multi-user software, I still think it’s a good idea to prevent same invoice number being entered twice (or at least prompt a warning message). Many other accounting software does it. Quite a common human error.

You might want to check the forum before posting. This topic was addressed less than an hour ago at How can i prevent duplicate record of customer, supplier or inventory item? - #3 by hasan87abc .

This issue has been fixed. [image] [16.3.73] Reference number is now generated when document is saved In previous versions, when you clicked New Sales Invoice button, the invoice number was assigned to sales invoice before it was actually saved. [image] Thi…

Duplicate sales invoice numbers created

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Duplicate sales invoice numbers created

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