{"id":33134,"date":"2025-09-12T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T12:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=33134"},"modified":"2025-09-17T15:31:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:31:40","slug":"refunding-a-prepayment-to-the-client","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/kasutusjuhendid\/refunding-a-prepayment-to-the-client\/","title":{"rendered":"Refunding a prepayment to the client"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What to do if a client has made a prepayment, but some or all of it needs to be refunded? There&#8217;s currently no automatic way to do this, but here are some suggestions on how to proceed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-accordion su-u-trim\">\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-fancy su-spoiler-icon-folder-1 spoiler-green su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span><strong>This is a recurring client and you want the transaction to be linked to the client<\/strong><\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<ul>\n<li>When a prepayment is received from the client, record it under <strong>receipts <\/strong>(Operations -&gt; Receipts). It doesn&#8217;t matter whether you enter it <a href=\"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/kasutusjuhendid\/payments-receivables\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">manually<\/a> or import 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> to the client must also be added under <strong>receipts.<\/strong> It cannot be done through bank import and must be entered manually. Select the client and the correct bank account (if there are multiple), enter the refund date, and record the refunded amount<strong> with a minus sign.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now you have both a positive and a negative receipt, which need to be cleared from the sales ledger.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If an invoice has been issued to the client within the same financial year, you can link both receipts to that invoice. If the invoice is already marked as paid, first remove the original linked receipt from the invoice. You can do this by clicking the chain link icon in the &#8220;<strong>Receipts<\/strong>&#8221; section of the invoice view. Once the original receipt is removed, you can re-link the receipts by choosing <strong>Mark as paid<\/strong> from the <strong>Actions<\/strong> menu, then link the negative receipt (<strong>1<\/strong>), the positive receipt (<strong>2<\/strong>), and finally the correct payment (<strong>3<\/strong>) to the invoice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01_ettemaksu-tagastus-eng.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-33147\" src=\"http:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01_ettemaksu-tagastus-eng.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"965\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01_ettemaksu-tagastus-eng.png 965w, https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01_ettemaksu-tagastus-eng-300x118.png 300w, https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01_ettemaksu-tagastus-eng-768x303.png 768w, https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01_ettemaksu-tagastus-eng-50x20.png 50w, https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01_ettemaksu-tagastus-eng-920x363.png 920w, https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01_ettemaksu-tagastus-eng-600x237.png 600w, https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/01_ettemaksu-tagastus-eng-320x126.png 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 965px) 100vw, 965px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you issue a partial refund, you\u2019ll probably create an invoice for the remaining amount, and the refund can be linked to that invoice. It is important to remember to link the refund (the negative receipt) first.<\/li>\n<li>If no invoice has been issued to the client within the current year, we recommend creating a sales invoice dated the same as the prepayment receipt and linking the prepayment to it. Then, on the refund date, create a credit invoice based on the previously added invoice and link the refund to the credit invoice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spoiler su-spoiler-style-fancy su-spoiler-icon-folder-1 spoiler-green su-spoiler-closed\" data-scroll-offset=\"0\" data-anchor-in-url=\"no\"><div class=\"su-spoiler-title\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\"><span class=\"su-spoiler-icon\"><\/span><strong>If it\u2019s not important for the prepayment and refund to appear in the client\u2019s report<\/strong><\/div><div class=\"su-spoiler-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p>If it\u2019s not important for the transaction to appear in the client\u2019s transactions statement (a one-time client, not saved in the client base), both the prepayment and the refund can be entered simply as a <strong>financial transaction<\/strong> (Accounting -&gt;Transactions) or via bank import.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>If you have any additional questions, please 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":[963],"ht_kb_tag":[864,865,863,692],"class_list":["post-33134","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-sales","ht_kb_tag-prepayment","ht_kb_tag-receipt","ht_kb_tag-refund","ht_kb_tag-sales-invoice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/33134","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=33134"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/33134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34552,"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb\/33134\/revisions\/34552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_category?post=33134"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.simplbooks.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht_kb_tag?post=33134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}