How do you write off a sale from a prior year for which the order was never shipped and the order was never paid for. It's not a bad debt.

Enter a current year credit memo reversing the sale and apply the c.m. to the invoice.

If it had been shipped but not paid for this would be a bad debt expense 

Or if you are Cash Basis no matter what you do, leave it alone, delete/void, with no offset or do the above, it will not change your P&L for last or this year.

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