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How to deal with refunds and chargebacks?

Refunds of Company Expenses



In these cases, what happens is that the company that offers you a product or service makes a refund to you, but there is no invoice to prove it.

For example, imagine you buy flight tickets, and the airline cancels the flight one day later. In that case, they would not issue an invoice because they did not provide the service, even though they have made the refund. Therefore, you must mark this bank movement in Companio as "This is a refund."

Refunds and Chargebacks From Customers



Unfortunately, all businesses will experience chargebacks or will need to make a refund to a customer.

After a refund or a chargeback, you may not be sure what to do with the accounting. You charged the customer and issued an invoice, but the order was cancelled or refunded, or the chargeback occurred, and now that money is not in your account. So what should you do with the invoice?

If you have already uploaded the invoice to the platform, no problem, you just have to issue a credit invoice to offset the refund or chargeback.

Whether it is a refund or a chargeback, the situation is the same: there is an initial payment from the customer, for example, €100, and you issue an invoice to the customer for €100, with the invoice number xxxx, which was paid to your company bank account.

Later, there is a chargeback or you refund all or part of the money to the customer. In both cases, you will issue a "credit" invoice. It is similar to a normal invoice but in negative numbers, and takes VAT or VAT into account if necessary.

If the refund is total, you’ll create an invoice with a different invoice number, yyyy, but with exactly the same customer data (name, address, registration code if it were a company, etc.), for €-100. You must specify "invoice xxxx refund" or "invoice xxxx chargeback" as the subject or item of the invoice.

If it was a partial return, for example, €20, you will issue an invoice for -€20.

Please note that if you applied VAT to the original invoice, the VAT must be added to the credit invoice. So if the invoice was €100 + €22 VAT (22%), if you return a total of €24, €20 is the subtotal and €4.4 is VAT, you will specify it on the invoice of credit. This means:

Subtotal: -20€
VAT (22%): -4.4€
Total (VAT included): -€24.4

After creating this credit invoice, you just have to upload it to the Companio platform.

Updated on: 09/01/2024

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