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Have you received a payment from a customer that you need to void? Maybe the customer accidentally paid twice, or perhaps the customer requested a refund. Assuming you use Quickbooks Payments, you can easily void payments from customers or other business contacts in just a few simple steps.

Steps to Voiding a Payment in Quickbooks

To void a payment in Quickbooks, log in to your Quickbooks Payments account and click the “Processing Tools” menu at the top of the homepage. You should now see a list of several options. From this list, select “Reverse a Transaction.” On the next screen, you’ll see a list of all your payments that have been processed.

Depending on how many payments you have, you may need to filter this list to find the specific payment that you want to void. You can use the filtering options combined with the “Search” function to narrow down the payments. After locating the specific payment, click it and choose “Submit.” Quickbooks will then void the payment so that the customer isn’t charged for it.

Steps to Partially Refunding a Payment in Quickbooks

Using the aforementioned method, you can easily void a customer’s payment in Quickbooks. But what if you only want to void part of a customer’s payment? Fortunately, Quickbooks supports partial refunds for payments. To do this, you’ll need to log back in to your Quickbooks Payments account, followed by selecting the “Processing Tools” menu and then “Reverse a Transaction.”

Once you’ve found the transaction for which you’d like to issue a partial refund, select it. For the “Amount” field, enter the amount of the payment that you want to refund. If it’s a $100 and you want to issue a $50 refund, for instance, enter $50 in the “Amount” field. When finished, click “Submit.”

Quickbooks will then ask you if you’d like to proceed with the full refund. Since it’s a partial refund, click “Cancel,” after which you can enter the amount of the partial refund — the same amount from the previous step — in the available field. When finished, click “Continue.” You can then either email or print the receipt confirming the partial refund.

In Conclusion

Voiding payments is a regular occurrence when running a business. Unless your business operates exclusively on cash, you’ll probably encounter instances in which customers need to be refunded. With Quickbooks Payments, you can void payments and partially refund payments.

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