Classify negative invoices

The task "Classify negative invoices" appears when Stripe has sent one or more invoices with a negative amount and nobody has decided yet what they are. There is one task per project; it states how many cases are open.

What happened

A negative Stripe invoice credits your customer's balance. Rechnungskit opens a case for it and suggests whether it is a price reduction or a service of the customer such as a commission. The suggestion comes from your rules (line text contains …) and from the customer's original invoice. Rechnungskit creates no document of its own; the Stripe invoice stays the document.

Why Rechnungskit stops here

A price reduction lowers your revenue and the VAT. A commission is an expense, and claiming input VAT on it needs an invoice from the customer. Which of the two applies is in your contract with the customer, not in the word on the invoice. That is why a person always confirms.

How to resolve it

1. Open Invoices → Negative invoices.
2. If the suggestions are right, leave the cases ticked and click "Accept suggestions".
3. Open cases marked "Unclear" or with an unclear tax case via "Review and confirm", choose the category and tax case, and confirm.
4. For a commission from a German business, tick "The customer's invoice or a self-billing document is on file" only if you really have it. Only then does the export book input VAT.

Your tax advisor can decide the same cases in their access. Everything about categories, timing and accounts is in Negative invoices from Stripe.

When the task goes away on its own

As soon as no case is open, the task closes. When a new negative invoice arrives, it comes back.

Related settings

• Settings → DATEV, tab Negative invoices: rules and timing of the correction
• Settings → DATEV, tab Revenue accounts: the accounts of the rows neg_reduction_* and neg_commission_*

This page is not tax or legal advice.