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Best Practice On Resolving Duplicate Invoices

Learn how Rechargly handles duplicate invoices when a customer makes a double payment, ensuring proper reconciliation in your accounting system.

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Written by Alex Millar
Updated over a month ago

We create a duplicate invoice to resolve double payments within your accounting platform.

Accounting systems require every incoming payment to be linked to an invoice. If a customer pays twice, the first payment marks the original invoice as "Paid," leaving the second payment with nowhere to go. To fix this, we create a copy of the original invoice with a letter "B” appended at the end so the second payment can be properly justified and tracked in your ledger.

The Resolution Process

  1. Notification of Failed Reconciliation If our system detects a reconciliation failure, you will receive a direct message from our team or an auto-generated email from reconciliations@rechargly.com.

  2. Confirmation Required Please reply promptly to confirm that the transaction was indeed a double payment. We cannot proceed without your confirmation.

  3. Creation of the "B" Invoice Once confirmed, our team will run an internal process (code) to generate the duplicate invoice (e.g., INV-1001B). We will notify you once this has been successfully completed.

  4. Handling Credits Since the customer paid twice, you now have a credit balance. You can do this over on Rechargly by adding a negative custom charge on the next invoice. Please refer to this article as your guide.

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