{"id":26856,"date":"2024-11-11T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2024-11-11T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=26856"},"modified":"2025-09-17T15:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:46:08","slug":"advance-payment-to-the-supplier-and-its-return","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/kasutusjuhendid\/advance-payment-to-the-supplier-and-its-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Advance payment to the supplier and its return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to do if you have made an advance payment to the supplier, but it is partially or fully returned? Currently, there is no &#8220;one-click&#8221; solution for this, but here are some recommendations on how to proceed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-note\"  style=\"border-color:#9bd98e;\"><div class=\"su-note-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"background-color:#b5f3a8;border-color:#ffffff;color:#333333;\">This involves a long-term business partner, and you want the cash flow to be linked to the supplier.\u00a0<\/div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>When you make an advance payment to the supplier, record it under <strong>payments<\/strong> (Operations -&gt; Payments). It doesn&#8217;t matter whether you add it <a href=\"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/kasutusjuhendid\/payments-receivables\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">manually<\/a> or save it via <a href=\"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/kasutusjuhendid\/importing-bank-transactions-in-xml-or-csv-format\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bank import<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>refund<\/strong> received from the supplier should also be added under <strong>payments.\u00a0<\/strong>However, it cannot be saved through bank import; you need to add it manually. Select the supplier, the correct bank account (if you have multiple), the refund date, and enter the received amount with a <strong>minus<\/strong> sign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now you have positive and negative payments that need to be cleared from the ledger.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you&#8217;ve received an invoice from the supplier within the same financial year, you can link both payments to the most recent invoice. If the invoice has already been paid, remove the payment from the invoice. You can do this in the &#8220;<strong>Payments&#8221;<\/strong> section within the invoice view.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/01_tarnijale-tehtud-ettemaks-ja-selle-tagastus.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26857\" src=\"http:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/01_tarnijale-tehtud-ettemaks-ja-selle-tagastus.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"875\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/01_tarnijale-tehtud-ettemaks-ja-selle-tagastus.png 875w, https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/01_tarnijale-tehtud-ettemaks-ja-selle-tagastus-300x66.png 300w, https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/01_tarnijale-tehtud-ettemaks-ja-selle-tagastus-768x169.png 768w, https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/01_tarnijale-tehtud-ettemaks-ja-selle-tagastus-50x11.png 50w, https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/01_tarnijale-tehtud-ettemaks-ja-selle-tagastus-600x132.png 600w, https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/01_tarnijale-tehtud-ettemaks-ja-selle-tagastus-320x70.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 875px) 100vw, 875px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once the original payment has been removed, you can re-add the payments by selecting <strong>Mark<\/strong> <strong>as<\/strong> <strong>paid<\/strong> from the <strong>Actions<\/strong> menu. This allows you to link the added <strong>negative (1)<\/strong> and <strong>positive (2)<\/strong> payments, along with the correct <strong>payment (3)<\/strong>, to the invoice.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02_tarnijale-tehtud-ettemaks-ja-selle-tagastus.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26860\" src=\"http:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02_tarnijale-tehtud-ettemaks-ja-selle-tagastus.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"847\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02_tarnijale-tehtud-ettemaks-ja-selle-tagastus.png 847w, https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02_tarnijale-tehtud-ettemaks-ja-selle-tagastus-300x131.png 300w, https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02_tarnijale-tehtud-ettemaks-ja-selle-tagastus-768x335.png 768w, https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02_tarnijale-tehtud-ettemaks-ja-selle-tagastus-50x22.png 50w, https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02_tarnijale-tehtud-ettemaks-ja-selle-tagastus-600x261.png 600w, https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/02_tarnijale-tehtud-ettemaks-ja-selle-tagastus-320x139.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 847px) 100vw, 847px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you receive <strong>a partial refund<\/strong>, it likely means you received an invoice for a portion of the amount, and you can then link the refund to this invoice. It\u2019s important to remember to link the refund, i.e., the negative payment, first.<\/li>\n<li>If the supplier has not issued an invoice within the current year, we recommend creating a purchase invoice dated with the advance payment date and linking the payment to it. On the refund date, create a credit note for the added invoice and link the refund to the credit note.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"su-note\"  style=\"border-color:#9bd98e;\"><div class=\"su-note-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"background-color:#b5f3a8;border-color:#ffffff;color:#333333;\">If it\u2019s not important for the advance payment and refund to appear in the supplier transactions report.<\/div><\/div>\n<p>If it\u2019s not important for the cash flow to be traceable from the supplier card report (for a one-time purchase, not saving the supplier in the database), you can simply enter both the payment and the refund as<strong> financial transaction<\/strong> (manually in Accounting -&gt; Transactions\u00a0or during the bank import process).<\/p>\n<p><em>If you have any additional questions, write to us at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:support@simplbooks.ee\">support@simplbooks.ee<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht_kb_category":[964],"ht_kb_tag":[],"class_list":["post-26856","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-purchase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/26856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26856"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/26856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27540,"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/26856\/revisions\/27540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_category?post=26856"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_tag?post=26856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}