Reverse posted prepayment and credit memos

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We had a customer use a third party to pay for invoices. They asked for a dummy credit we could send them so they could zero out invoices on their account. 

To do this, I was instructed to create a prepayment (as a positive amount) and then a credit memo for the same amount. The idea was that we wanted to zero out the two with each other, so the customer couldn't come back and use it later, or have it sitting in the aged invoice report and never get used. 

We used the prepayment to wash the credit memo out, but this has since created a negative balance in cost of goods sold (the CM item code used was "*M" - miscellaneous). 

Is there a way to reverse posted CM's and prepayments? Or an easier way to reconcile the cost of goods sold balance? 

Input is appreciated. 

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  • 0 in reply to Kevin M

    Agreed. I said as much and issued a debit memo to clear out the incorrectly issued CM. This did not clear out the 'positive' prepayment amount that remains in the aged invoice report (though this is thankfully now the only problem that remains). I have seen on the forum about how to reverse a traditional prepayment, but am not sure if the same steps would apply if the PP amount appears as a positive number in the aged invoice report. 

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