How do I set the Invoice Number that Quicken will increment?

Question

I have always entered "N" in the invoice number field to get the next incremental invoice number.  I use pre-printed invoices that already have numbers and this time the new pad of invoices has a number lower than the last one.  My new invoices start at 097451.  Quicken always brings up 861451 even though I have entered my new numbers starting with 097451.  Where can I re-set this so it will be the number I want?

mshiggins · Accepted Answer

Try entering the new invoice number without the leading zero (97451).

In my tests, Quicken accepts an invoice number with a leading zero (and displays that invoice number in the register transaction with the leading zero), but Quicken does not "reset" the invoice number seed when the invoice number has a leading zero preceding numeric characters.

I believe that is because: While Quicken allows both numeric and non-numeric invoice numbers, non-numeric invoice numbers do not (cannot) reset the invoice number seed. By convention we do not precede numeric values with leading zeros; so when Quicken sees "097451", it assumes that is non-numeric.

-JP

graeagle55 · Accepted Answer

That worked!

Thanks so much for your help!