What Happens When I Cancel an Invoice?

When an invoice is cancelled, all billing processes associated with the invoice are reversed. The invoice cancellation routine cancels the entire invoice. The transactions return to unbilled status (the Billed flag is set to "N"), and a credit memo is sent to Accounts Receivable using the invoice number as the cross-reference number and the invoice type as the cross-reference type.

Since Invoice Cancellation (BR21.1) cancels both preliminary and final invoices, it reverses out transactions that have been processed by Invoice Calculation (BR120), Invoice Print and Interface (BR121), Billing Import (BR521), Single Invoice Calculation (BR19) and Invoice Control (BR45).

For invoices with prorated adjustments that were canceled and have not been finalized, the invoice displays a status message "Prorated adjustments not updated". This indicates that the prorated adjustments are not yet recalculated and updated. This message is informational only.