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

[75volvo at comcast.net]

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From: Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> 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"
This would make absolute sense if this was an available option however no "sub-accounts" to "liabilities" show up.  So the question really is how to make this choice an available option.
> 
> > 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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