I appreciate your response.  I've been waiting for some incoming data required to create an invoice from a recurring that should arrive over the next few days.  Kept meaning to just set up a test but never got to it.  This tells me if I create, then nav to the invoice in the customer record and edit and then send, this should then allow the last created date to update.  You're right though, a definite band aid workaround.  So, I'll leave it at this. The QB community creates a valuable connection with other users. I'm entirely grateful to all who are willing to work together to see if we can come up with the answer for each other.  Though we can't fix it we can definitely find some workaround that helps.

Lisa