Dealing with Negative Invoices

Owned by Stephen Abela
Last updated: May 22, 2020
1 min read

There are certain occasions, which albeit quite rare however the user ends up having a negative invoice which they have to post.  However this is not possible within NAV/Business Central, but there are still options available 

Step-by-step guide

When dealing with a negative invoice, our aim is to transfer the negative amounts which would lead to have a total of:

  • 0 value
  • positive value.

In order to do so we are presented with two options:

  • Creating a credit memo which is an exact replica of the invoice  (using the copy document)
  • Transferring the negative lines only (using the transfer negative line functionality)


When using the copy document, one must pay extra attention towards the quantity figures as they must be reversed in order to reflect the different nature of the document (from invoice to credit memo)