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How to give customers credit in QuickBooks Online: Credit memos

by Intuit • Image Alt Text 185 •
Image Alt Text Updated 8/5/2026 01:47

You can use QuickBooks Online to issue credits to your customers. You might want to do this to reduce what a customer owes on an invoice, or to write off the balance of an invoice you’ll never receive, like bad debt. This video will go over how to record a credit memo, send it to a customer, and then apply it to an invoice.

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