Overview: What are we talking about?

In Gingr, you can easily issue full or partial refunds on retail items, packages, services, tips or store credit. This can be done from the owner's profile or from the completed transactions page.   

This article includes:

• Understanding Refund and Void Options
• Refund a Retail Item, Package or Service
• Refund a Store Credit Purchase
• Refund a Payment Only
• Adding a Refund Reason
• Refund Reasons Report

Helpful Hints: Before you begin.

• Processing refunds requires that the user permission for Can Process Refunds/Returns be enabled for the user. This can be enabled from Left-hand Navigation: Reports and More Icon » Groups.
  
  
• For Payment Only Refunds specifically, the user permission for Can Process Payment Refunds must be enabled for the user. This can be enabled from Left-hand Navigation: Reports and More Icon » Groups.

• Credit Card refunds: if you use Gingr's integrated credit card processing, the credit card used for payment in the original transaction will be refunded automatically. If you do NOT use Gingr's credit card processing, you will have to refund the customer's credit card through your credit card processor.
  
  
• Exchanges and Credit on Account: if the customer wants to be refunded and buy something else, you can choose to refund the money to the Store Credit payment method, which will apply the refunded amount as a credit on their account. That credit can be used later to purchase other items or services.
  
  
• Important! The Refund Reason report will only display refund reason information for returns placed prior to April 2nd, 2020, and returns placed prior to that will display as “No Reason” on this report.

How to: Understand Refund and Void Options

There are three different ways that an invoice can be managed: line-item refunds/returns, payment-only refunds, and voids. Each is used for different circumstances.

• Line-item Refunds: Line-item refunds, which are done from the middle, line-item portion of the invoice, indicate that the customer will no longer owe you for the service/item. This keeps the invoice closed and removes the charges from your revenue reporting. 
  
  
• Payment-Only Refunds: Payment-only refunds, which are done from the bottom payments portion of the invoice, indicate that the customer still owes the business for the services/items. It is used when the original payment was not actually collected, the customer needs to pay at a later date, they need to pay with a different method, or there is an overpayment. This refunds the money paid but not the line-item itself. 
  
  
• Voids: Voids, which are performed on certain services/items from the middle, line item portion of the invoice, indicate that the charge was in error. This indicates that the customer doesn’t owe the business and closes the invoice to further action. This is useful for when the wrong pet was checked out, the reservation did not occur, or circumstances when a customer has not paid but you need to close the invoice to payment. Voiding functions to entirely remove the charge from your revenue reporting, remove reservations from the animal profile/calendar/reports, and close the invoice to any payment. You will be prompted to refund the payment if any.
  For more information about voids see our article on Voiding Invoices. 

How to: Process a refund or return.

Refund a Retail Item, Package or Service.

In cases where a pet parent needs a refund on an invoice, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to the Owner Details page » Invoices tab and locate the invoice that needs to be refunded. Click the Info icon to view the invoice.
   
   
   
   
2. Select the item(s) you would like to refund by checking the Refund Item checkbox to the left of that item. Once you have selected an item to refund, a Refund Item(s) button will appear at the top of the invoice. Once all items have been selected, click this button to proceed with the refund.
   
   
   
3.  From the refund details window, you will complete the refund in two steps: 
   
   Step 1: Choose the details of the Refund Items. 
   
   Here, you will indicate if the item should be Returned to Inventory, enter a Return Reason, and enter the Amount to refund.
   
   
   
   Important! The total entered here is pre-tax. If the item being refunded is taxable, Gingr will refund the tax automatically.

Step 2: Select the Payment Method(s) to refund.

Here, you will indicate which of the applied payment methods to place the refund to, and the Amount. Click the Add Refund Method to add more refund payment methods. If you are refunding to more than one payment method, and you wish to refund all of the tax charged to a particular payment method, then select Refund Tax on that payment method. If you do not select anything, then any tax charged will be proportionally refunded across all refund payment methods.

Important! You cannot select to refund to a credit card if a credit card was not originally charged.

4. Once you have confirmed that the totals between Step 1 and Step 2 match, click the Process Refund button to complete the refund. 

Refund a Store Credit Purchase

If a customer purchased store credit and needs to have that credit refunded, then there are a couple of things to be aware of:

• Store credit can only be refunded from an invoice where store credit was purchased. 
• You can only refund as much store credit as the customer currently has on their account. 
• You cannot refund store credit to a credit card unless a credit card was originally used to purchase the store credit. 
• Refunding store credit follows the same process as a normal refund and will remove the refunded store credit from their account.

Refund a Payment Only

This option allows users with the Can Process Payment Refunds permission enabled to refund only a payment off of an invoice without affecting the invoice charges. This is great to handle scenarios where the invoice charges are correct, but then something went wrong with the payment (disputed CC charge, bounced check, the incorrect credit card used at checkout, etc.), and allows the user to open the invoice back up to accept more payment. It is possible to refund the same payment more than once as long as the total amount paid is not exceeded.

Important! Refunding a payment only without refunding items will reopen the invoice and result in payment due from the customer. Please ensure that you intend for the customer to still owe on the invoice before using this method.

 

1. On the invoice display select the refund checkbox to the left of the payment you would like to refund.

2. Select the red button to refund payment.

3. In the popup window confirm the refund payment method and amount. You can refund any amount up to the amount paid for the selected payment method, and you can refund to any payment method (exception: you cannot refund to an integrated payment method unless the original charge was for that method).

Once the refund is processed, the refunded payment will be listed on the invoice and on reporting. The invoice will open back up to allow for further payment.

 

Adding a Refund Reason

Refund reasons are a great way to keep track of why refunds occur. You can add different Refund Reasons to select from by following these steps.

1. Navigate to Left-hand Navigation: Admin » Refund Reasons. 

2. Click the +Add Refund Reason button.

3. Add a new reason and click the Save button. 

Generating the Refund Reasons Report

The Refund Reasons report will show you the complete breakdown of refunds and the reason for the refund.

Important! The Refund Reason report will only display refund reason information for returns placed prior to April 2nd, 2020, and returns placed prior to that will display as “No Reason” on this report.

1. Navigate to Left-Navigation: Reports & More » Reports » Refund Reasons. 

2. Enter the date range for your search.

3. Select the appropriate Refund Item Types: Reservations, Services, Open Line Items, Retail, Package Credit, Credit Card Tips.

4. Select the specific Refund Reasons for your search. 

5. Click the Generate Report button. 

The report is comprised of two sections: Summary and Details. The Summary section shows the totals of all refunds by specific item and refund reason. The Details section shows you the specific transactions.