Giving money back to a customers and automating invoice descript & price.

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting 75volvo at comcast.net:

> I have collected sales tax from my customers and happily it turns out 
> in my business I am not required to do this.  I want to give it back 
> by crediting their next invoice but I don't understand how to setup 
> an account to show during the invoicing to properly reduce the 
> liability:sales tax account.
> When creating the invoice "liabilities" shows in the "income account" 
> selection and if I choose this and put a negative number in the "unit 
> price" it seems to reduce the "liabilities" account but does not 
> directly reduce the sales tax account.

Right, choose "Liabilities:Sales Tax", not "Liabilities"

> As an aside my service is a subscription service and almost every 
> month the invoice would read exactly the same (description and unit 
> price).  Is there anyway to automate this part of the invoice process?

Unfortunately there is no automated invoicing at this time.

> James

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-derek

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