diff --git a/core/src/main/java/google/registry/config/RegistryConfig.java b/core/src/main/java/google/registry/config/RegistryConfig.java
index bfa4f09bf..20073108a 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/google/registry/config/RegistryConfig.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/google/registry/config/RegistryConfig.java
@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ public final class RegistryConfig {
     @Provides
     @Config("defaultShouldPublishInvoices")
     public static boolean provideDefaultShouldPublishInvoices() {
-      return true;
+      return false;
     }
 
     /**
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/google/registry/env/production/default/WEB-INF/cron.xml b/core/src/main/java/google/registry/env/production/default/WEB-INF/cron.xml
index 034a18780..58a6e6de5 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/google/registry/env/production/default/WEB-INF/cron.xml
+++ b/core/src/main/java/google/registry/env/production/default/WEB-INF/cron.xml
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@
   </cron>
 
   <cron>
-    <url><![CDATA[/_dr/cron/fanout?queue=retryable-cron-tasks&endpoint=/_dr/task/generateInvoices&runInEmpty]]></url>
+    <url><![CDATA[/_dr/cron/fanout?queue=retryable-cron-tasks&endpoint=/_dr/task/generateInvoices?shouldPublish=true&runInEmpty]]></url>
     <description>
       Starts the beam/invoicing/InvoicingPipeline Dataflow template, which creates the overall invoice and
       detail report CSVs for last month, storing them in gs://[PROJECT-ID]-billing/invoices/yyyy-MM.