[GNC] Bills with Refund Entries

Derek Atkins derek at ihtfp.com
Thu Mar 26 21:25:20 EDT 2026


A credit note is a separate entity and not part of the bill.  It is not 
considered a payment, but rather a credit to their account.  An owner 
report (customer / vendor report) will show the running total.
Enjoy!
-derek
Sent using my mobile device. Please excuse any typos.
On March 26, 2026 21:10:26 Jediator <jediator at artemisspace.com> wrote:

> I noticed when creating an itemized bill with refund entries (with
> negative item amount), the refund entry shows correctly on the vendor
> report after rendering the refund transaction against the bill.
> However, the refund entry doesn't get included in the running total of
> the bill as shown in the Printable Invoice report.
>
> Could this be a bug? or entering a refund/negative amount in a bill
> isn't a correct practice?  I didn't want to create a separate credit
> note for the refund but want to include the refund entry/entries in a
> single job bill.
>
> I am running GNC version 5.14 on a Mac with Postgresql as the back-end
> database.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!
>
> -- ND
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