Invoice corrections
Overview
Because a finalised invoice is immutable, every correction arises as its own document. This page collects them all.
Two kinds:
| Kind | When |
|---|---|
| Full reversal | the invoice was wrong as a whole |
| Partial correction | only part was wrong — a line, a quantity, a price |
The overview carries two figures: number of corrections and corrected volume. Both are uncomfortable and therefore useful: a rising correction rate says more about the quality of invoicing than any satisfaction survey.
Core tasks
Review corrections. The list shows number, kind, original invoice, reason, date and amount; filtering is by kind and status.
Read the reason. The reason is the field that later explains why a correction happened. Without it, a correction is a booking without a story.
Jump to the original invoice. Every correction leads back to its original — the way to understand the case in full.
Fields in detail
This page has no input mask of its own — it lists what came out of invoices. You create a correction on the original invoice; here you see the result.
| Element | From | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Number | the brand's number range | The correction's own document number. It is not the number of the original invoice — a correction is a document in its own right. |
| Kind | cancellation or credit note | Cancellation voids an invoice entirely, credit note refunds part of it. The difference decides whether the original receivable disappears completely or in part. |
| Original | the corrected invoice | Which document the correction refers to, as a jump to it. |
| Reason | correctionReason of the correction | Why it was corrected. This is what an audit will look for — which is why it also appears on the document. |
| Document date | date of issue | When the correction became a document. |
| Amount | total of the correction | Shown negative, because it reduces the receivable. |
Filtering is by kind; the header shows count and total of the corrections in the period — the figure accounting wants to see first.
Settings & permissions
- Module
module.invoicing. - Corrections do not arise here but in the invoice detail view through reversal + credit note
or invoice correction. This page is the overview.
invoicing.invoice.cancelto reverse,invoicing.invoice.viewto see.- Every operation appears in the audit log — with actor and timestamp.
FAQ & troubleshooting
Correcting a margin-scheme invoice with several batch lines. The invoice correction takes over the lines of the original including their link: every correction line carries the batch and the proportional purchase price of exactly its original line (§ 25a UStG). Lines you add to the correction have no link — with several batches of the same item the booking batch then warns, because the purchase price is not unambiguous.
The list is empty although something was reversed. Check the kind and status filters. A reversal always creates a document — it cannot be missing.
I need a correction but not a full reversal. Then a partial correction is the route; it is created in the invoice detail view.
The reason is missing on older corrections. It cannot be added afterwards — the document is closed. For future cases: set the reason properly when creating it.
Can a correction be undone? No. It is a document like the invoice itself. A mistake in a correction is cleared by a further correction.