Invoice Number

Self-Hosted | v4/Legacy
1

Hi,

how can I generate an invoice number as YYYY-MM-DD?

Thanks

2

If you’re self hosting you could change the getNextInvoiceNumber() function in app/Models/Account.php to return date(‘Y-m-d’)

3

It works!

return ‘RE-’ . date(“Ymd”) . ‘-’ . $number;

Thank you

4

Added a feature request.
https://github.com/hillelcoren/invoice-ninja/issues/407

I will try to work on this issue if I find time.

5

That would be great, thanks!

6

Sorry for hijacking this here but I am new and I would like to know how this can be done on a hosted solution with invoiceninja. We would like to auto add the current year to the invoice number example MHCi/2015/123456. I get the first bit (MHCi/) can be added at invoice settings along with the invoice number (/123456). What about the YYYY, in my above example, how can I do that?

Thank you in advance

Daniel

7

For now you’d need to add the year under the invoice settings and remember to change it.

In an upcoming release we’ll be supporting this in the app.

8

Hi,

what variables for “Custom invoice number generation” are available now? I can’t find any docu.
I have version 2.4.5.

Thank you in advance

9

Go to /settings/invoice_settings, “Invoice Settings”, and in the right block “Invoice and Quote Numbers”, you can switch (the radio button) from “Prefix” to “Pattern”. You then have a “?” icon in the input field on the right. Click on that, and you get a modal dialog with all the options.

Does that help?

10

Yes, thank you