Invoice reversal use cases

Case I: Reversing invoices without discount items or negative items

You want to reverse an invoice with two regular invoice items and their taxation items, and the amount of each item is positive.

For example:

In this use case, no matter which option you set the Create credit memos mirroring invoice items billing rule to, the credit memo created during invoice reversal is as follows.

Case II: Reversing invoices with negative items

You want to reverse an invoice that contains an invoice item with a positive amount, an invoice item with a negative amount, and their corresponding taxation items. 

For example:

In this use case, no matter which option you set the Create credit memos mirroring invoice items billing rule to, the credit memo created during invoice reversal is as follows.

Case III: Reversing invoices with discount items

You want to reverse an invoice that contains an invoice item with a positive amount, a discount item, and their corresponding taxation items. The specific implementation might be different according to the option of the Create credit memos mirroring invoice items billing rule.

For example:

In this use case, if you set the Create credit memos mirroring invoice items billing rule to Yes or Yes but do not create for zero balance invoice items, the credit memo created during invoice reversal is as follows. The item "Discount credit memo item 2" of the Discount processing type.

If you set the Create credit memos mirroring invoice items billing rule to No, the credit memo created during invoice reversal is as follows. The item "Credit memo item 2" of the Charge processing type.

Case IV: Reversing invoices with zero-amount taxation items

You want to reverse an invoice with two regular invoice items and their taxation items, and the amount of each taxation item is zero. The specific implementation might be different according to the option of the Create credit memos mirroring invoice items billing rule.

For example:

In this use case, if you set the Create credit memos mirroring invoice items billing rule to Yes, the credit memo created during invoice reversal is as follows.

If you set the Create credit memos mirroring invoice items billing rule to Yes but do not create for zero balance invoice items or No, the credit memo created during invoice reversal is as follows.

Case V: Reversing invoices with all zero-amount items

You want to reverse an invoice with two regular invoice items and their taxation items, and the amount of each invoice item or taxation item is zero. The specific implementation might be different according to the option of the Create credit memos mirroring invoice items billing rule.

For example:

In this use case, if you set the Create credit memos mirroring invoice items billing rule to Yes, the credit memo created during invoice reversal is as follows.

If you set the Create credit memos mirroring invoice items billing rule to Yes but do not create for zero balance invoice items or No, invoice reversal is not allowed.

Case VI: Reversing partially paid invoices

You want to reverse an invoice that is partially paid. 

The invoice originally with the total amount of $132 contained two invoice items and their corresponding taxation items, and each item had a positive amount. Later, you applied a payment with the total amount of $12 to invoice item 2 and taxation item 2. 

For example:

In this use case, no matter which option you set the Create credit memos mirroring invoice items billing rule to, invoice reversal is not allowed.