Creating a credit note

Select the entry Create voucher in the context menu on the Overview tab in the Invoicing.

The automatically pre-assigned voucher type Invoice will appear in the mask Voucher header data. Select Credit note through the dropdown menu.

An additional field appears → Correction for invoice.

The field Correction for invoice is optional and only to be used for a correction of an invoice.

→ It is explained separately → Correction invoice and Invoice layout.

The Allocation automatically changes to Expenses.
These are settings in the basic data for the financial accounts department due to the fact that a credit note uses different impersonal accounts as an invoice.

The other data for the credit note are recorded in the voucher items as if it was a collective invoice.
Valid billing codes must be present for all credit note files.

The voucher type Credit note is displayed in the voucher overview:

It is subtracted as an expenditure from the result in the account sheet:

Allocation of credit notes for special account types

When using the account type G or when using alternative debtors and creditors in adr_t with account type = G or general settings of a mixed current accounts, the allocation REVENUE is used for receivables if this credit note corrects an invoice.

The allocation is read from the settings in the basic data COMPANY → FINANCIAL INTERFACE → Accounts/Allocation tab → field Allocation outgoing invoice.

ATTENTION: If an allocation change is activated, the allocation selected by the user is accepted.

→ Field Change in account assignment in Accounts/allocation tab in FINANCIAL INTERFACE.

The allocation is only read from the basic data COMPANY for mixed accounts if no allocation change is activated. (fibustamm_t.kontierung...)

Credit notes

Creating a credit note

Allocation of credit notes for special account types