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How to manually refund a paid invoice of one of your members in Stripe

All of the payments you receive are securely created and processed in your Stripe Account that you set up when you activated payments in coapp.

In order to be able the manually refund a payment you need to have access to that Stripe account.

To refund a paid invoice by creating a credit note, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to Billing > Invoices from the Dashboard

  2. Find and select the paid invoice you want to refund

  3. On the invoice details page, click the overflow menu (⋯)

  4. Select the option to create a credit note

  5. Choose which line items to credit:

    • Discount a fixed amount from an invoice line item

    • Discount a quantity from an invoice line item

    • Add a custom discount line item with a description, quantity, and unit price

  6. Specify how to apply the credit note for the paid invoice:

    • Create a refund: Refund the invoice's charge back to the customer's payment method

    • Link a refund: Link an existing refund for the invoice's charge

    • Credit the customer credit balance: Credit the customer's balance, which automatically applies to their future invoices

    • Credit outside of Stripe: Credit the invoice for an amount made in an adjustment outside of Stripe (such as cash or cheque)

  7. Review the credit note details and confirm

Important notes:

  • When you create a credit note with a refund amount, Stripe attempts to refund the invoice's most recent payment

  • The sum of all credit notes issued for an invoice can't exceed the total amount of the invoice

  • For paid invoices, the sum of the refund, credit, and out-of-band payment amounts must equal the credit note total

  • Credit notes aren't modifiable once issued, but you can create multiple credit notes per invoice

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