การจัดการใบลดหนี้และการคืนเงินบางส่วนในใบแจ้งหนี้

Sometimes a finalized invoice is wrong: an overcharge, a service issue, or a goodwill credit. Credit notes are how you adjust invoices cleanly.

A refund moves money back to the card. A credit note documents the adjustment on the invoice and can either refund or apply credit to the customer balance.

You should not delete a finalized invoice. A credit note preserves the audit trail required for tax and accounting compliance.

You can credit an entire invoice or just specific line items, supporting partial corrections.

Create a credit note against an invoice via the API or dashboard.

A credit note can refund the amount or add it to the customer's credit balance for use on future invoices.

Credit notes automatically reverse the proportional tax that Stripe Tax calculated, keeping your tax reporting accurate.

If part of an invoice was paid outside Stripe (bank transfer), credit notes support an out-of-band amount so the records still balance.

Stripe generates a downloadable PDF credit note you can send to the customer alongside the original invoice for a clean paper trail.

Credit notes appear in revenue and reconciliation reports, so your net revenue figures already account for the adjustments.

For a one-off charge, a plain refund is fine. For anything tied to an invoice with tax and accounting needs, use a credit note.

You learned to adjust invoices with credit notes:

• Credit notes keep an audit trail; never delete finalized invoices
• Full or partial, refund or credit balance
• Tax is reversed automatically
• They flow into reconciliation reports for accurate net revenue