Sales
To reverse a customer payment
The payment you want to reverse should be displayed.
- Choose Reverse Payment from the Edit menu.
Note: If you see Delete in the Edit menu but you want to reverse a transaction
After a few moments, a transaction in the opposite amount of the payment -- a reversing transaction -- will be displayed in the Receive Payments window.
- If you want, you can make a few changes to the transaction (such as the date and the memo), but you can't change the amounts that are associated with it.
If you're reversing a payment from a previous accounting period, consider assigning a date from that period to the transaction you just created. This will allow your reports for that accounting period to reflect the proper amounts.
- Click Record to record the reversed payment.
If the payment you reversed was originally used to fully pay a sale and any discounts for prompt payment applied to the sale, a message will appear. If you receive this message, continue to step 4.
If no prompt-payment discount message appears, continue to step 5.
- Display the discount in the Receive Payments window. (A discount is recorded as a Sales Journal (SJ) transaction. Look for the discount transaction using the Card or Invoice tab of the Find Transaction window.)
- Choose Reverse Payment from the Edit menu, then click the Record button to reverse the discount.
- If the payment you reversed was recorded on a bank deposit of undeposited funds, continue to step 6, otherwise, you're finished.
- Click Prepare Bank Deposit from the Banking command center to open the Prepare Bank Deposit window.
- If the payment hasn't been recorded on a Prepare Bank Deposit transaction; that is, the original payment still appears in the window: Select the payment reversal (a negative amount) and the original transaction from the list of payments by clicking the Deposit column.
If the payment has been recorded on a Prepare Bank Deposit transaction; that is, the original payment doesn't appear in the window: Select the payment reversal (a negative amount) from the list of payments by clicking the Deposit column.
- Click Record.
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