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Credit a customer back

Raise a credit note when a job shrinks or the customer changes their mind.

What this is for

A credit note is how you give money back on paper. It goes to your accounting software as a real credit note — not an invoice with a minus sign — and it puts the credited items back on the job so they can be billed again if the work returns.

Step by step

  1. 1

    Open the job and go to the Accounts tab.

  2. 2

    Start a new invoice and choose Credit as the kind.

  3. 3

    Enter the amount you're crediting and send it to your accounting software as usual.

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Tips & gotchas

  • →A credit note ignores the job's billing strategy — you can raise one whether the job was billed as a deposit, in stages, or all at once.
  • →Crediting an item puts its balance back, so the item can be invoiced again later.
  • →A credit note is paperwork only. To send the money back to a card, use Refund a customer.

Related guides

Refund a customerSend money back to the card it was paid on.Write off money that isn't comingClose out a debt a customer is never going to pay.The money side — POs, dispatch & invoicingThe money side of a job: customer PO, supplier POs, dispatch and invoices.