For e.g. in Financial year your invoicing series was 1,2,3.. then in new financial year you will start new series from 1.4.19 which can be following: 01/19-20 02/19-20 03/19-20 ....
In GST era we don't use same serial numbers in invoice. So, it's required different serials / sequence...
Ex : in case we use serial in FY 17-18 as 01, 02, 03, 04... then we don't use the same 01,02,03,04.... in FY 18-19. But, we can use any prefix or suffix serials as Your convenience... like
GST/01, GST/02, GST/03.... or INV/01, INV/02, INV/03.... or any