Crediting a customer

[Derek Atkins]

Quoting Graham Leggett <minfrin at sharp.fm>:

> Nigel Titley wrote:
>
>> I've got a customer who has overpaid. His cheque has been credited 
>> and reconciled. I now need to make a credit back to his account and 
>> write him a cheque. I can't think of a way of doing it. I've tried 
>> making a negative payment to his account but this isn't allowed, and 
>> I've tried raising a negative invoice and neither is this.
>>
>> Any thoughts on how I can do this?
>
> I have resorted to hacking the XML directly(!).
>
> At some point I will have some time to hunt down the piece of code 
> that stops you having a negative invoice value and removing it, 
> because as it stands now, no customer can ever be refunded, and no 
> vendor can have goods returned to them.

That check is in place for a reason.  PLease go read the bug report
tied to that changeset before you remove it willy nilly.

Credit Notes need to be added as a separate thing.

> Regards,
> Graham

-derek

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