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Returns

Returns

Purpose and when to use this record

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At a glance

  • Identify it by: Date Created, and Refund Status.

  • Check its business context: Sale, Customer, and Warehouse.

  • Why care: Customer, warehouse, quantities, prices, tax, payment, and fulfillment represent different parts of the transaction. Review each before treating the sale as complete.

  • Why care: Treat posted, processed, paid, reversed, and edit-locked states as controls—not ordinary descriptive fields. Confirm the source transaction before changing any state that the screen permits you to change.

Before you begin

You need the Brisk permission for the action you are taking on returns. If a Create, Edit, or Delete control is awaitingabsent, workflowdo review.not work around it with another user’s account; ask an administrator to review your role.

Create a recordreturn

Brisk Returns create screen displayed with fictional documentation-demo data.
The Returns create screen in the Brisk documentation demo.

TheCreate evidencea packetreturn identifiesonly after confirming that the viewsource document or operational event has not already been entered.

  1. Select the business context first: Sale, Customer, and sourceWarehouse.

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  2. Enter the required identifying and operational values: Date Created, Balance To Refund, and Tax To Refund.

  3. Review Refund Status, and Edit Locked deliberately; these choices control availability or workflow rather than merely describing the record.

  4. Save the return, then confirm Date Created, and Refund Status on its detail page before continuing.

After saving: Confirm returned quantities, taxes, fees, tender, and Total Refunded before marking the refund complete.

Delete a return

Delete this return only when it was entered by mistake and no downstream history depends on it. Use a reversal, void, credit, counter-adjustment, or status correction for thisa action.real Confirmevent user-facingthat stepslater beforechanged.

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Before confirming, check for related Inventory Records, Return Invoice Applications, Return Payments, Returned Items, and Transactions. Brisk may refuse deletion when another record depends on this page.one; resolve the duplicate or use the supported correction workflow instead of breaking the trail.

On the confirmation page, verify Date Created, and Refund Status. After confirmation, return to the Returns list and make sure only the intended return was removed.

ViewReview recordreturn details

The evidence packet identifiesUse the viewdetail page as the shared record of what this return currently means. Verify Date Created, Total To Refund, Refund Status, Total Refunded, and sourceEdit locationLocked before relying on it for a decision.

Follow Sale, Customer, and Warehouse to determine whether the issue is on this action.return or on one of those linked records.

Next check: Confirm user-facingreturned stepsquantities, taxes, fees, tender, and Total Refunded before approvingmarking the refund complete.

Edit an existing return

Edit this return to correct or complete the same source document or operational event; use the supported reversal or follow-up workflow when the business event itself changed.

  1. Open the detail page. Compare Sale, Customer, and Warehouse with the supporting document or approved request.

  2. Recheck Customer, Date Created, Total To Refund, Refund Status, Total Refunded, and Edit Locked, plus the remaining screen fields. These values are most likely to change customer totals, tax, payment, fulfillment, and receivables.

  3. Save the change, return to the list, and confirm that the return now appears under the expected Refund Status, and Edit Locked.

After the change: Confirm returned quantities, taxes, fees, tender, and Total Refunded before marking the refund complete.

Find and review recordsreturns

Brisk Returns list screen displayed with fictional documentation-demo data.
The Returns list screen in the Brisk documentation demo.

The evidence packet identifiesUse the viewReturns list to find the correct record before opening or changing it. Compare Date Created, and sourceRefund locationStatus. Records with similar names or numbers can still belong to different Sale, Customer, and Warehouse.

  • The initial order emphasizes Id. Select a column heading when you need a different comparison.

Open the return whose Date Created, and Refund Status match the task. If it is missing, clear the list filters and recheck Refund Status, and Edit Locked rather than creating a replacement immediately.

Fields and business rules

Brisk stores 11 user-relevant fields for this action.return, Confirmincluding user-facing3 stepslinked-record selections and 1 controlled-choice field. Create and edit screens may hide calculated or workflow-managed values from this full reference.

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FieldRequiredWhat it controls
SaleNoLinks this return to the selected sale; verify the relationship before approvingsaving.
CustomerNoOptional customer for ad-hoc returns.
Date CreatedYesDate and time recorded for date created on this page.

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YesThe evidencebalance packetto identifiesrefund thevalue view and source locationrecorded for this action.return.
Tax beforeTo approvingRefund Yes The evidencetax packetto identifiesrefund thevalue view and source locationrecorded for this action.return.
Restocking FeeNoThe restocking fee value recorded for this return.
Total To RefundNoThe total to refund value recorded for this return.
Refund StatusNoThe refund status recorded for this return. Available values: Complete, Pending, Draft.
Total RefundedNoThe total refunded value recorded for this return.
Edit LockedNoWhether the edit locked option applies to this return.
WarehouseNoUsed for returns that are not linked to a sale.

What happens next

Confirm user-facingreturned stepsquantities, taxes, fees, tender, and Total Refunded before approvingmarking thisthe refund complete.

Common mistakes and troubleshooting

  • The record will not save: Recheck Date Created, Balance To Refund, and Tax To Refund and any message beside the field. A required related record may also be inactive or unavailable to your role.

  • The record saved but is not available where expected: Recheck Refund Status, and Edit Locked, then clear the filters on the destination list. A saved record can still be inactive, unpublished, locked, unapproved, or in the wrong workflow state.

  • The values look right but the result is wrong: Open Sale, Customer, and Warehouse from the detail page. Correct the specific relationship that is wrong instead of forcing a total or status to compensate for it.