Working with Customer Credit Notes

    

Topic: Sales

Overview


You can use the Customer Credit note (sometimes referred to as a Credit Memo) in four ways:

 

When you want to allow your Customer to buy goods or services from you for the amount specified on the Credit Note on a future date. You might do this as a gesture of goodwill or as compensation.
When you have sent an Invoice containing an incorrect amount to your Customer. Think of the Customer Credit Note as a 'negative invoice'.
When the Customer returns goods you would raise a Credit Note to adjust your accounts and confirm receipt of the goods by sending a copy of the Credit Note to the Customer.
If your Customer is unhappy with some or all of the products and services you have invoiced them for, you would raise a Credit Note for the amount both parties agree to be deducted from the original invoice.

 

In all cases you should send a copy of the Credit Note to your Customer.    

 

Prerequisites


Using salesorder.com the basics

Entering Line Items

Working with Transactional Documents

Working with Items

 

Entering and Editing


Creating a new Customer Credit Note

See Creating new Transactions and Entering Line Items for the basic information. A Customer Credit Note can be created directly from the Customer (in a similar way to a Sales Invoice), or alternatively from a specific Sales Invoice. To create a Credit Note from a Sales Invoice simply follow the usual procedure for creating a related Document detailed in Creating related Documents.

 

Related tasks and information


Configuring Transactional Documents

Entering Billing/Shipping addresses

Creating related Documents

Working with Payments from Customers (Money In)

Working with Customer Refunds

Printing Documents

Working with Emails

Transaction Audit Trail

Working with Sales Opportunities

Working with Jobs

Working with Memos

Working with Classifications