Usage

Case 1: When you return to a supplier some products, and you have not yet received the bill from the supplier

1. Go to Purchases > Purchase > Purchase Orders > Create.
2. Choose a supplier and add a product whose Control Purchase Bills is On received quantities, and input some quantity to purchase.
3. Confirm the purchase order.
4. Go to Shipment > Validate > Apply so as to receive the quantities ordered.
5. Press the button Return.
6. In the wizard Reverse Transfer set Quantity to the quantity to be returned. Press Return to complete the wizard. IMPORTANT: You have to mark “To refund (Update SO/PO)” check before pressing the button.
7. On the return picking press Validate > Apply.
8. Go back to the purchase order. You will notice that the field Returned Qty is now the quantity that was returned.
9. Press the button Vendor Bills to create the vendor bill.
10. The proposed vendor bill will be proposed for the difference between the received and the returned quantity.

Case 2: When you return to a supplier some products, and you have already received a bill from the supplier.

1. Go to Purchases > Purchase > Purchase Orders > Create.
2. Choose a supplier and add a product whose Control Purchase Bills is On received quantities, and input some quantity to purchase.
3. Confirm the purchase order.
4. Go to Shipment > Validate > Apply so as to receive the quantities ordered.
5. Go back to the purchase order. Press the button Vendor Bills to create the vendor bill.
6. The proposed vendor bill will be proposed for the quantity received. The Billing Status is now ‘No Bill to Receive’
7. Go to the original incoming shipment
8. Press the button Return.
9. In the wizard Reverse Transfer set Quantity to the quantity to be returned. Press Return to complete the wizard. IMPORTANT: You have to mark “To refund (Update SO/PO)” check before pressing the button.
10. On the return picking press Validate > Apply.
11. Go back to the purchase order. It will have Billing Status as ‘Waiting Invoices’. You will notice that the field Returned Qty is now the quantity that was returned.
12. Press the button Refunds to create the vendor refund bill.
13. The proposed vendor refund bill will be proposed for the quantity that is to be refunded.
14. If you back to the purchase order, you will notice that Billing Status is now ‘No Bill to Receive’, even when the quantity ordered does not match with the quantity invoiced, because you did return some products.

Remark: If you accept that you will not claim for a refund for the quantity returned to the supplier, just leave without checking the mark “To refund (Update SO/PO)” on the return dialog.

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Credits

Maintainers

This module is maintained by the OCA.

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This module is part of the OCA/account-invoicing project on GitHub.

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