Understanding Credit Notes
Generating Credit Notes in Digitail helps manage product returns efficiently, ensuring accurate records and client credit management. This guide covers the essentials of creating, managing, and utilizing credit notes.
What is a Credit Note
A Credit Note is issued when a product is returned or can be created for ad hoc purposes from the Health Card.
Ad-hoc Credit Notes
Ad-hoc Credit Notes can be used to pass a credit on a client's account. This credit will increase the client's credit balance.
Some reasons for passing this credit, include:
Referral or Loyalty bonuses
Disputed charges for services or products
Reversing the dispensing fee for returned products
Use the 'Issue Credit' button from the Health Card to initiate this process.
Thereafter, enter the required details and complete.
The credit note will be available for printing and email from the Credit note Report or the Client Credit Balance Tracking modal.
Product Returns Credit Notes
Credit Notes generated from a product return detail the return, including product information, return date, and available credit amount. The credit calculation considers discounts, taxes, and fees from the original sale, and can be refunded or applied to another sale. Issued credit is added to the client's Credit Balance.
Find out more about Product Returns here.
Credit Note Statuses
Credit Notes can have three statuses:
Open: Full value of the credit note is available for use.
Partially Applied: Part of the credit note value has been used.
Closed: Full value of the credit note has been utilized.
The status of a Credit Note depends on the amount of credit available for the client.
Credit Note Preview
You can access the Credit Note Preview from the original sale by clicking on the icon next to the Credit, allowing you to review details and process any necessary changes or refunds.
Credit Note Report
To view all credit notes issued during a specific period, access the Credit Note Report. This report includes client information, status, values, and taxes for all credit notes within the selected timeframe.
You will require the appropriate permission to view this report.
Credit Notes are an important part of the return process and post-sale/transaction adjustment process.
📌 Credit notes facilitate a secondary transaction to adjust or offset the initial sale.
This is the recommended workflow. Manually adjusting historical sales affect financial reporting.
Remember, Credit Notes have three different statuses, and the Credit Note Preview can be accessed from the original sale. If you need to view all the credit notes issued, you can access the credit note report.