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# Create and Apply Standalone Credit Memos

Create individual credit memos to efficiently provide credits to your customers. Apply these credits to the relevant customer invoice.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions with <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.revenue_licenses_areas_and_features.htm&amp;release=264.0.0&amp;type=5">the Revenue Cloud Advanced license or the Revenue Cloud Billing license</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d216367e74 ">To create and apply credit memos:</td>

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## Create Standalone Credit Memos

1. From the App Launcher, find and select **Credit Memos**.
2. Click **Create Credit Memo**.
3. Enter an account name.
4. Select **Draft** as the status.
    
    You can create a credit memo in both draft and posted status.
5. Select the credit memo effective date.
6. Choose a tax strategy to define your tax calculation approach.
    - To skip the creation of tax lines, select **Ignore**.
    - To manually specify a tax amount, select **Manual Override**.
    - To compute tax lines by using a tax treatment, select **Calculate**.
7. If your tax strategy is Calculate, select a tax treatment.
8. If needed, provide a description for the credit memo.
9. Select the ID of the product that are creating the credit memo for. If the product isn't in your Salesforce org, enter the product name.
    
    Either a product ID or product name is required to create a credit memo.
10. Enter the credit amount.
11. If your tax strategy is Manual Override, enter a manual override tax amount.
12. Select the currency of your credit amount.
13. If needed, enter the billing and shipping address.
14. Click **Create**.

The credit memo generation is initiated, and you'll receive a notification after the credit memo is generated.

If you create the credit memo in ‌draft status, obtain the necessary approvals and click **Post Credit Memo**. After the credit memo is posted, apply it to the required invoice.

## Apply Standalone Credit Memos to Invoice or Invoice Lines

1. From a posted credit memo, click **Apply Credit Memo**.
    
    The system uses the [default credit memo](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.billing_setup_additional_features.htm&language=en_US) flow to retrieve invoices associated with the same billing account as the credit memo.
2. Enter the credit amount you want to apply from the available credit memo balance, and select the required invoice.
3. Click **Apply**.

The system automatically applies the credit to the invoice or invoice line based on the [credit application level](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.billing_setup_credit_memo_features_enable.htm&language=en_US). If the total amount of the invoice lines exceeds the credit memo amount to be applied, the system applies the credit to matching invoice lines in descending order. If the invoice line amount is higher than the remaining credit, a partial credit amount is applied to the invoice line. You can view the remaining credit balance from the Balance field on the Credit Memo record. The Balance field isn’t available by default and you can [add it from Page Layouts](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=platform.customize_layout.htm&language=en_US).

Alternatively, you can apply credit memos by using [Apply Credit Memo API](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.revenue_lifecycle_management_dev_guide.meta/revenue_lifecycle_management_dev_guide/connect_resources_credit_memo_apply.htm) or [Apply Credit Memo Line API](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.revenue_lifecycle_management_dev_guide.meta/revenue_lifecycle_management_dev_guide/connect_resources_credit_memo_line_level_apply.htm).