Once you print or email, the invoice number is used.  That's the way the program works.  There may be workarounds but I haven't looked into any.

Why wouldn't you want a new number?  You just created an invoice and emailed it to your client.  That client is going to pay that invoice in the future, using that number.  If you reuse that number for another customer, how are you going to find which invoice is being paid by that original client and keep your books up-to-date?  When you do move to the new year you are going to have to record that invoice and using the printed/emailed invoice number is the best way to do it for audit trail purposes.

Also, which year end are you still having problems with.  For example, if your year end was Oct 31/21 (2021) are you still trying to figure out that year end or the year end for Oct 31/20 (2020)?

The program is designed to allow you to post into two fiscal years, whichever is the current year and the previous fiscal year.  If you are trying to figure out and finish 2020, then you do not want to move forward to 2022 unless you really have to.  Finishing 2020 after moving the session date to 2022 fiscal year is difficult at best.

If you are trying to finish 2021, then I don't see a major problem with moving to the new 2022 fiscal year and finishing up 2021 later.  Many people have to do payroll, pay vendors, etc. and can't stop their bookkeeping.  We have 6 companies with year ends next Tues.  For one company payday is Wed.  We can't stop at year end.

Thanks Richard.  I have been logging the invoices so I don't have any problems with positing any November entries - which I have plenty of to do

What I actually do is send the invoices to myself and pdf edit the date since it's still stuck on October 31st.

I'm afraid to close my October 31st y/e since the bank reconciliation is off by A LOT and my understanding is when you close off the year it closes all the total and this will be a problem since the bank doesn't reconcile.

Any other suggestions?  Cheers!

You didn't go into the details I did with dates so I am going to assume your issue is with the Oct 31, 2021 year end and the bank rec is only off in Oct 2021.  However, even if the bank rec is out and you are still trying to reconcile Aug 2021, then Sep, then Oct, my suggestion is still the same:

Richard S. Ridings said:

If you are trying to finish 2021, then I don't see a major problem with moving to the new 2022 fiscal year and finishing up 2021 later.

You have to finish the complete year end (including adjusting journal entries) before you move the session date to Nov 2022.

LLC said:

my understanding is when you close off the year it closes all the total

I don't know what this means "all the total".  I do bank recs 6 months into the previous year to complete a year end at times while my session date is in the next fiscal year.

I am going to suggest that you make sure you take a backup of your company file before you go to Maintenance, Start New Year, Fiscal Year.  This will allow you to then start the new year and post a couple of entries in the new 2022 year as well as post a couple of entries into the previous 2021 fiscal year so you can see how it works and if you don't like it or you need to go back because you messed up something, you can restore your files and start the year end process over.

Oh, and get your bank recs done so you know how much money you have and if there has been any fraud on your account(s) :)

I will give it a try.

Thanks again!!