Credit Note

Issue a credit note if you need to make any sort of correction on an already finalized invoice

Updated over a week ago

In case of an error, cancellation, or any similar event on an already finalized invoice, you can issue a credit note to keep your books clean. Invoices can be credited fully or partially (in case only some part of it needs to be credited).

To create a credit note, go to a Finalized invoice, click on the more options icon in the upper right corner, and select the Create credit note option:

๐Ÿ’ก A credit note cannot be created for Draft invoices

A draft credit note will be created for the entire invoice amount that is not already credited by another credit note.

You can now modify the credit note before finalizing it to partially credit the remaining invoice amount:

You will notice that all line items on a credit note have quantity as a negative value. This results in all amounts on the credit note having negative values as well.

Each credited invoice has a link to the credit note. Click on the link to access the credit note quickly:

Each credit note will have the link to the credited invoice in the same place:

Like the invoice, the credit note will not be taken into any calculations before it is finalized.

When finalized, the credit note should be sent to the client, just like the invoice:

If there is a credit note linked to an invoice, that invoice can't be deleted or modified. To delete or modify the invoice, you should first delete the credit note linked to it:

Credit notes in invoice views

Credit notes are the same object as invoices in reports. This means that you will find them when you navigate to the Invoices on a budget or in the main navigation.

In the image above, you can see the invoice and the credit note that I have created in the previous steps. I have credited the entire invoice, and the amount of the credit note is a negative value, so the invoice and the credit note make the total amount of 0 EUR.

'Amount credited' is a new field and it only displays credited value on invoices. Credit notes can't be credited, so their 'Amount credited' will always be zero.

'Amount paid' will also always be zero for credit notes, as your clients will never make payments against them.

'Amount unpaid' will decrease by the value for which the credit note was generated. When the credit note matches the invoice amount, the entire invoice amount will be written off, and the 'Amount unpaid' will be reset to 0.

Credit notes in budgets

A credit note will affect your invoiced amount on a budget as displayed in the image below:

On this budget, I have invoiced the entire budget amount but then issued a credit note for that entire invoice.

Because the invoice was credited, it will show that no amount is invoiced on the budget and that the entire budget amount still needs to be invoiced.

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