Transaction Numbering

This article covers how HandiFox Online forms numbers for transactions (e.g. Invoices or Purchase Orders) and what settings affect them.

Many of you have asked why our numbers look like this and if there is a way to change them, so we decided this topic warrants a separate article.

It is worth noting that the web app and the mobile app have different patterns for transactions numbers, and different settings are responsible for how the numbers look.

The Web App

For most transaction types, the numbers generated in the web app can have three distinct parts:

1. The prefix, which is constant for all transactions of the given type. By default it is an abbreviation of the transaction name followed by a dash (e.g. "SO-" for Sales Orders).
2. The number proper, which by default starts at 0 and increases with every new transaction of this type. This is the only mandatory part.
3. The suffix, which is also constant for each transaction type. It is empty by default.