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Payment received emails for Refunds

Jessie O. shared this question 8 years ago
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Just noticed that payment received emails are sent when a refund is added into the payment area, which may be confusing for some customers. Is there anyway to disable the email from being sent when a negative amount is applied?


I know there are other work around like preventing auto-emails, but im specifically interested if this is something that can be done.

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If you are refunding, you should reduce the total such that with the refund the event is paid in full without a balance due. Otherwise there will be many other issues in addition to the email going out, such as it showing unpaid, improperly skewing your stats, etc.

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I am referring to full refunds.

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i just gave this a little more thought and wanted to elaborate.


I am referring to the auto-email that gets sent once a payment has been made. It is being sent out for every transaction in the payment table including negative amounts. So if we issue a refund which is recorded on the payment table, the customer gets a "we received your payment" email.

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Ok, I see what you are saying, Yes, we can have it ignore any payments less than zero. With full refunds, you should move the lead to a cancelled status that is set to not send emails.

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Thanks, that will help alot. We currently move them back to cancelled status, but don't want to lose the function of auto-emails so they get the reminder email next year.

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I agree with the zero and less.


We enter our tax exempt numbers for our clients in payments also and they get a receipt for a 0 payment when it is only an entry for us. So a setting for zero or less would solve that issue for us too.


We have had a few clients call already and ask why did they get a 0 payment receipt when they made xxx payment and we have to explain and then they are ok, but it does confuse them at times.

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After additional thoughts.. Maybe the don't send 0 or less receipts could be added in the Auto Email section to allow each user the ability to do what "they" want to do.

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