[freeside-devel] cust_refund?

[ivan]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 12:00:52AM -0800, Jason Spence wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> I'm doing work on creating a proration system for Freeside.  I'm a
> little confused on the role of cust_refund (as opposed to
> cust_credit).

Accounting is fun.  Think "bill" vs. "payment".  A bill is to a payment as
a credit is to a refund.  Also, a bill is to a credit as a payment is to a
refund. 

cust_bill - an invoice, the declaration that a customer owes you money.
cust_pay - a payment, the transfer of funds from the customer to you

cust_credit - a credit, the declaration that you owe a customer money. the
              equivalent of a negative cust_bill record.
cust_refund - a refund, the transfer of funds from you to the customer.
              equivalent of a negative cust_pay record.

HTH

>  I can't seem to find a place in the code where
> cust_refund objects are created, only a place where they are printed
> (in cust_main.cgi).  Can someone enlighten me?

Current web interface doesn't have a way to create refunds.  The hooks are
in htdocs/edit/cust_credit.cgi and htdocs/edit/process/cust_credit.cgi.
Since a refund corresponds to an actual trasnfer of money to the customer
- either via a credit card transaction, cutting the customer a check, or
handing them cash - creating a cust_refund record should be integrated
with your internal methods for doing such a thing. 

-- 
meow
_ivan