Answers.Body: <p>It will not restart automatically, the requirement to restart from 1 (with a year somewhere in the invoice number?) is depending on countries AFAIK :-)</p>
  
  <p>So what you need to do first thing in the new year is navigate to  Administer>CiviContribute>CiviContribute Component Settings and update the invoice prefix (and the credit notes prefix if you need that too).</p>
  
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Answers.Text: I don't think there is likely to be any country specific requirement for this, but that its something that an organisation may set as policy. I certainly would not reset as its good accounting practice to have invoice numbers unique, but using the prefix is a good way to achieve what you want.
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Answers.Text: Thank you for your answer. In our country the invoice numbering restarts every January.
  
  Is there a way to reset it manually?
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Answers.Text: See my answer above? That is how to do it manually :-)
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Answers.Text: I tried but updating the prefix does not activate the invoice numbering reset
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Answers.Text: There won't be any way to reset the actual Contribution ID as that is the database row value and hence has to be unique
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Answers.Text: Hello, thank you for your answer. We are try to find a way to reset the invoice number, not the contribution ID, even if currently the first value is generated by the second, which also creates potential holes in the billing
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Body: <p>We have activated the contribute form within our CIVI.</p>
  
  <p>We wondered: with the arrival of the new year, when there will be the need to restart from 1 with the invoice numbering, do we have to do some operation or will the system restart automatically?</p>
  
  <p>Regards</p>
  
Tags: <civicontribute><invoice>
Title: Civicrm invoice number reset
ThreadText: # Civicrm invoice number reset
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-12-12)
  
  We have activated the contribute form within our CIVI.
  
  We wondered: with the arrival of the new year, when there will be the need to restart from 1 with the invoice numbering, do we have to do some operation or will the system restart automatically?
  
  Regards
  
  **Tags:** civicontribute, invoice
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-12-12. Score: 1
  
  It will not restart automatically, the requirement to restart from 1 (with a year somewhere in the invoice number?) is depending on countries AFAIK :-)
  
  So what you need to do first thing in the new year is navigate to Administer>CiviContribute>CiviContribute Component Settings and update the invoice prefix (and the credit notes prefix if you need that too).
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: I don't think there is likely to be any country specific requirement for this, but that its something that an organisation may set as policy. I certainly would not reset as its good accounting practice to have invoice numbers unique, but using the prefix is a good way to achieve what you want.  
  > **username_0**: Thank you for your answer. In our country the invoice numbering restarts every January.  Is there a way to reset it manually?  
  > **username_1**: See my answer above? That is how to do it manually :-)  
  > **username_0**: I tried but updating the prefix does not activate the invoice numbering reset  
  > **username_3**: There won't be any way to reset the actual Contribution ID as that is the database row value and hence has to be unique  
  > **username_0**: Hello, thank you for your answer. We are try to find a way to reset the invoice number, not the contribution ID, even if currently the first value is generated by the second, which also creates potential holes in the billing  
  
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