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Create and refund account credit for clients

Add credits, refund credits and apply credits to invoices.

How-to

Create a credit

Overpayment

You can add credit as an overpayment from an invoice, or create a payment without assigning it to an invoice.

Screenshot of the invoice payment section showing the overpayment option to create account credit

Credit from payment

Enter a payment directly from the Payments page without adding it to an invoice to create a credit.

Screenshot of the Payments page showing a payment entry without an invoice assigned to create account credit

Regardless, the credit will show as a new payment.

Screenshot of the Payments list showing the new credit payment entry

Display account credit

The account credit is displayed on the client record.

Screenshot of the client record showing the account credit balance displayed

Pay for an invoice with account credit

Click Pay, then Pay with credit and apply the credit amount.

Screenshot of the invoice Pay menu showing the Pay with credit option

Enter the credit amount and click apply. You can see which payments created this credit to ensure that you apply the correct credit.

Screenshot of the Pay with credit modal showing the credit amount field and which payments created this credit

Refund a credit

You can see the history of the credit by clicking view.

Screenshot of the Payments list showing the View option to see credit history

If the credit has been used to pay invoices, its history will show here.

Screenshot of the credit payment history view showing which invoices the credit was applied to

You can make a partial or full refund on a credit by clicking on the payment page and clicking Refund credit.

Screenshot of the payment page showing the Refund Credit button

Select the amount to refund, the refund date and then click refund.

Screenshot of the Refund Credit modal showing fields for refund amount and refund date
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