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Undo a mis-keyed sale

Wrong package, wrong family, wrong price. Voiding erases the sale completely — and only works while nothing has been used.

Billing & payments Finance, senior staff 3 min read

Voiding is for a mistake made at the counter minutes or hours ago: the wrong package, the wrong child, the wrong price. It erases the sale as though it never happened.

Voiding is not for a family leaving. They paid, they used some of it, and they are owed the rest as credit — that is cancelling. Voiding a real sale removes an invoice your books expect to see.

What voiding removes

Everything the sale created, in one go:

had displaced one

Who can do it

Voiding is restricted to senior staff, because unlike cancelling it cannot be undone.

1. Open the package and choose to void

ScreenshotThe void option on a package

2. Read the preview

The preview lists exactly what will disappear. Check the invoice number against the one you meant to void — this is the last point at which it is reversible.

ScreenshotThe void preview, listing the invoice, payment and package to be erased

3. Confirm

The sale is gone. The child's earlier booking, if the mistaken sale replaced one, is put back.

When the system refuses

Voiding is blocked whenever erasing the sale would leave something inconsistent:

class that really happened, and removing it would make the books disagree with the register.

made to vanish.

with once; dealing with it twice would return it twice.

In all of these, cancel to credit instead — it handles the unused part and leaves the used part alone.

Related: Cancel a package and return the value · Invoices, payments and credit notes.