How To Create A Credit Note In Quickbooks

Credit note is a way to create and get credit by which customers can reduce the balance on their next invoice. Credit note is a more preferable choice by customers, instead of a refund.

There are various ways to create and apply credit notes in Quickbooks. You can create a credit note immediately to reduce the balance or you can create a delayed credit note to use in the future. First, you should know what is credit note, so let’s take a quick look at what credit note is:

What Is A Credit Note

Everybody commits errors on occasion, and the invoicing system is no special case. This is where credit notes come in. Credit notes are authoritative archives, very much like solicitations, that enable you to counterbalance a generally given receipt, either in full or to some extent.

Giving a credit note basically permits you to erase how much the receipt is from your monetary records, without really erasing the actual receipt. This is huge, on the grounds that erasing solicitations might be unlawful in nations where organizations are legitimately expected to keep up with solid review trails, like the UK, the US, Australia, and New Zealand.

What Information Should You Include On A Credit Note

The general configuration of a credit note is basically the same as that of a receipt or citation. Be that as it may, dissimilar to solicitations specifically, the arrangement and construction are less severe.

A credit note ought to incorporate all important data for administrator and recording purposes for both you and your client. Here is a rundown of the fundamentals:

• Date of credit note issue
• Credit note number
• Customer reference number
• Payment terms
• Contact details
• Reason for issuing the credit note

Likewise, you ought to plainly state at the highest point of the report that it is a credit note, not a receipt, to try not to misjudge on the client-side.

In the event that the first receipt included VAT, you’ll have to give a matching VAT credit note, which mirrors the subtleties of the receipt, including the sum before VAT.

Step To Create & Apply A Credit Note in Quickbooks

To create & apply a credit note to get the benefit of a reduced balance, you can refer to these steps.

STEP 1: Create a credit note:

• Select + New.
• Select Credit Note.
• Now, select the customer name in the Customer dropdown.
• Enter the credit note details such as date & amount.
• Now, select Save & Close.

STEP 2: Apply the credit note to an invoice:

• Select + New.
• Select Receive Payment.
• Select the customer name in the Customer dropdown.
• Now, go to the Outstanding Transactions Section & select the Credit Notes you want to apply.
• In the Payment column, enter how much of the credit you want to apply for the open invoice.
• Leave the Payment method, Reference no, Deposit to, and Amount received fields blank.
• Fill out the rest of the form including the Payment date.
• After applying the credit note, make sure the total is correct.
• When it’s done, select Save & Close.

Steps To Create And Apply The Delayed Credit in Quickbooks

Delayed credit is created to use the credit note in the future to reduce the balance. Now, here are the steps to create and apply the delayed credit.

STEP 1: Create a delayed credit:

• Select + New.
• Select Delayed Credit.
• Select the customer name in the Customer dropdown.
• Enter the details such as Date & Amount.
• Then, Save & Continue.

STEP 2: Apply the delayed credit to an invoice.

• Select + New.
• Select Invoice.
• Select the customer in the Customer dropdown.

Now, you can see a window with all the delayed credit. If you don’t see this, select the small arrow next to the Invoice Balance Due.

• Find the delayed credit and select Add.

This adds the credit as a line item to the invoice.

• Now, fill out the rest of the invoices.
• Select Save & Close. 

Note: Also you can pull up the Transaction List by Customer report, it will show us all the customer’s transactions including the credit note.