How do I Create an RMA to Refund the Customer their Money rather than Fixing and Returning the Product?

  1. You need to process as an RMA without a return shipment and move the goods to finished inventory.  This will debit inventory and credit COGS.  Also, it will debit AR and credit returns.
  2. Write a manual check to the customer (setup as vendor) and post to a GL clearing account.  This will credit cash and debit the clearing account.
  3. You now need to do a manual packing slip and invoice posted to the clearing account to debit AR and credit the clearing account for the dollar value.  The clearing account will net to 0.
  4. Finally – do an AR offset to removed the AR credit and debit for the customer.